I see,… and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the States, and the consolidation in itself of all powers, foreign and domestic; and that, too, by constructions which, if legitimate, leave no limits to their power… It is but too evident that the three ruling branches of [the Federal government] are in combination to strip their colleagues, the State authorities, of the powers reserved by them, and to exercise themselves all functions foreign and domestic.
– Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Branch Giles [1825] |
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March 13, 2025
Trump’s Use of Immigration Controls to Destroy Free Speech
Libertarian supporters of an “Ellis Island” type of immigration-control system are receiving a lesson in the fallacies of their system. They imagine an immigration-control system in which the federal government is vetting every foreigner and rejecting only the few “bad” ones. What they fail to understand is that once federal officials are given the power to determine who comes into the United States, … |
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