What is lawless about humans’ inalienable right to freedom of movement? Before capitalism humans freely roamed the earth without state social security numbers or ID cards to police their whereabouts. Idk what your idea of human order is but if it doesn’t include laws to protect freedom for people to manage who goes in and out of their communities vs ICE/the feds you sound like a cop. These are human beings we are talking about, not flesh bags to be regulated. Garcia was in the u.s. lawfully even if he wasn’t a naturalized citizen.
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But boarder management is exactly the observation that pierces your globalist idealism for “free movement”.
Without order and the ability to defend private property, we have war tribes turning your wife into a prized pelt.
I’m glad you’re seeing the need for some sort of rules-based belonging because otherwise we could not live together and civilization would disintegrate into short time preference crimes of opportunity.
my idealism is internationalist in that the freedoms of citizens from every nation must be protected. immigration should be regulated at the municipality level, not the federal level. people don’t need to be managed in the way you are portraying.
what is globalist is trump’s regime where he weaponizes the state to maintain the remaining bit of u.s. global hegemony. if the u.s. didn’t destabilize the rest of the Americas through regime change and terrorism, people wouldn’t come to the u.s. for asylum in the first place and could safely stay in their own countries.
it’s unfortunate that most u.s. citizens don’t give a damn about how their government and consumption choices negatively affect the lived experiences of people outside their borders.
Nope. Not a fan states and sorry to kill the conversation but I agree with all 3 of your observations: regulate belonging as local as possible, the US has been a bully to SA, most Americans don’t realize or won’t admit their complicity for the acts of their hegemonic empire for which the dollar serves as the soft power spear tip. They just like us. (Lamar reference.)
“The REAL ID Act establishes a national ID card by mandating that states include certain minimum identification standards on driver’s licenses. It contains no limits on the government’s power to impose additional standards. Indeed, it gives authority to the Secretary of Homeland Security to unilaterally add requirements as he sees fit.
Supporters claim it is not a national ID because it is voluntary. However, any state that opts out will automatically make non-persons out of its citizens. The citizens of that state will be unable to have any dealings with the federal government because their ID will not be accepted. They will not be able to fly or to take a train. In essence, in the eyes of the federal government they will cease to exist. It is absurd to call this voluntary.”
-@RonPaul