Tag: immigration
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Who are the real monsters?
Watching a segment about the U.S. Coast Guard today, I heard an agent describe the immigrant smugglers who bring people from Cube as “ruthless” men who “care nothing for human life.” That may well be true. Yet moments before saying those words, the agent intercepted a Cuban family moments before their attempt to seek a…
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LTE: Illegal Immigration and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Politicians and ideologues insist that illegal immigrants should be deported because they broke the law. But some laws ought to be broken. In 1850, the United States Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act as part of a compromise between Southern slave-owners and Northern abolitionists. The law made it a duty for every law enforcement official…