Wisdom of Robert Higgs

Jim Babka in a Facebook post remined us of the following.

Mexican migrants to the USA didn’t create U.S. imperialism, war fascism, the New Deal, or the military-industrial-congressional complex. They didn’t ratify the Sixteenth Amendment, create the Fed, or enact Medicare and Medicaid. They didn’t build up a ruinous public debt, pass the USA PATRIOT Act, or maintain a torture facility at Guantanamo. They didn’t turn the local police into Rambo wannabes with SWAT teams and armored vehicles. They don’t scoop up and record everything you write on the Internet, say on the telephone, or post on Facebook.

Why then are people so afraid that letting Mexicans enter the USA to work will lead to a loss of freedom, rather than afraid of the red-white-and-blue-blooded Americans who have already stripped them of nearly every liberty their forefathers enjoyed and who are eager to crush every liberty that remains? – Robert Higgs 7/7/13 yet seemingly timeless.