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Blaming “Open Borders” for Immigration-Control Failure

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2023
But no senate nor civil assembly can be under such natural impulses to honor and justice as single persons. For a majority is no-body when that majority is separated, and a collective body can have synteresis, or divine ray, which is in the mind of every man, never assenting to evil, but upbraiding and tormenting him when he does it: but the honor and conscience that lies in the majority is too thin and diffusive to be efficacious; for a number can do a great wrong, and call it right, and not one of that majority blush for it.
– Sir Walter Raleigh, Discourse on War in General [1614]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
October 3, 2023
Blaming “Open Borders” for Immigration-Control Failure
During my entire life I have watched immigration-control advocates try valiantly to make their immigration-control system work. I’ve always been bemused because no matter how much failure the government has experienced, immigration-control advocates have never given up hope that some day their immigration-control system will finally — finally! — work.
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