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The Failed Drug War Does Not Equate to “Open Borders”

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2023
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

– Judge Learned Hand

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October 4, 2023
The Failed Drug War Does Not Equate to “Open Borders”
Yesterday, I pointed out that the thousands of immigrants who are illegally entering the United States along the U.S.-Mexico border does not signify that U.S. officials have suddenly and unexpectedly adopted the libertarian position of open borders. Instead, the flood of illegal immigrants shows that America’s decades-old system of immigration controls, whose aim is to prevent illegal entry into the United States, continues to be one gigantic miserable failure.
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