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A Century of Immigration-Control Failure

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2024
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious entrenchment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding.
– Judge Louis D. Brandeis

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
June 5, 2024
A Century of Immigration-Control Failure
On the 28th of last month, the United States celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Border Patrol. According to the website of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol was established “for the purpose of securing the borders between inspection stations. In 1925 its duties were expanded to patrol the seacoast.” If there is anything everyone in the …
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