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Warped Terminology on Open Borders

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2024
If government is not “under the law,” citizens will be under the federal boot. Apathy over arbitrary power exemplifies the rising political illiteracy. If people don’t recognize the peril of government violating its own laws, is American democracy beyond redemption?
– James Bovard, Last Rights [2024]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
February 20, 2024
Warped Terminology on Open Borders
Seeing the large number of immigrants illegally entering the United States, proponents of immigration controls decry what they label the “open border” between the United States and Mexico. I live in Virginia. I sometimes enter Maryland by crossing the bridge that spans the Potomac River, which forms part of the border between the two states. There is no border-control station at which Maryland …
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