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The High Cost of America’s Immigration-Control System

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2025
Yes, there is much evil, much meanness in the world, and the great error of socialists and other reformers is to imagine that through violence, through the theories they develop, humanity will discover how to regenerate itself and enter into an era of endless happiness.
– Elisabeth Leseur

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
May 14, 2025
The High Cost of America’s Immigration-Control System
Given the Trump administration’s use of immigration-control enforcement to engage in a massive assault on civil liberties, the question naturally arises for any American who still wants to live in a free society: Is this immigration-control system worth it? Is a system of immigration controls worth the destruction of the civil liberties of the American people? As longtime readers of The Future of …
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