Judge Napolitano "Immigration is a right."

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Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney was stunned on Monday to hear that former New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew Napolitano believed the federal government had no right to restrict immigration.

While discussing the latest plan for immigration reform, Napolitano doubted Republicans would “do the right thing” by expanding the freedoms of immigrants.

“If Stuart Varney & Company were a real company, lets say you were a small manufacturing company, you made widgets in northern New Jersey, you should be able to hire whoever you want,” Napolitano, the senior judicial analyst for Fox News, said. “As long as the person obeys the law and pays taxes what business is it of the federal government where they were born?”


“This is the natural law, a natural right,” he added. “Rights come from your humanity. It doesn’t matter where your mother was when you were born.”

Varney remarked that Napolitano was “way out there on this one.”

Napolitano added there was “nothing unconstitutional” about Obama refusing to prosecute and deport undocumented immigrants brought into the country as children. He warned Republicans were making a political blunder by continuing to oppose efforts to reform immigration policy.


Raw Story (http://s.tt/1z43t)

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/...ocks-fox-host-immigration-is-a-natural-right/

 

[XTreat]

For the record I agree with the judge on this and I am glad he laid it out there. Immigration will never be controlled by armies or police forces or drones or machine gun nests. The economy will always control the border. Cheap labor is a good thing and market forces will decide when cheap labor is needed.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Bullshit.

There is no right to become a citizen of our country. There are all kinds of people who have followed our laws who are waiting in line to become citizens and we now are going to grant amnesty to those who broke our laws?

I firmly disagree with the Judge.

 

[Confederate]

Love the Judge but I completely disagree with this.

There is no right to violate US sovereignty, you do not have a right to go wherever you want. Citizenship is also not a right.

 

[rp08orbust]

Love the Judge but I completely disagree with this.

There is no right to violate US sovereignty, you do not have a right to go wherever you want. Citizenship is also not a right.

There is no "US sovereignty", there is only individual sovereignty, and no government has any right to violate it.

 

[BAllen]

The judge is way off on this. The reason being, that everything else in the market is manipulated, so the economy will not be able to determine the best wages. Someone needs to show him that clip of lawyer firms that teach companies how to cheat Americans out of high tech jobs. And he needs learn about the over-inflated housing market. You can't leave labor wide open without fixing the other things in the marketplace. Plus they drain the resources of our country. With millions out of work, there is no reason at all to allow any more immigrants.

 

[XTreat]

Who said anything about a right to citizenship?

 

[CaptUSA]

The Judge is once again absolutely right. However, there is a problem.

In our current system of entitlement governance, you can't have the type of immigration the Judge speaks of without causing serious damage. If we return our system back to one based on natural law, then the Judge would be correct.

How many of us want to become "undocumented"?!

 

[itshappening]

There's no right to walk into another country and become a citizen.

total B.S!

 

[rp08orbust]

There's no right to walk into another country and become a citizen.

You have a right to walk anywhere you want without trespassing on private property.

I agree, though, that no one has a right to citizenship. But at the same time, non-citizens have the same natural rights as citizens.

 

[otherone]

the Judge is not talking about "citizenship".

 

[LibertyEagle]

As long as the welfare state exists, this should be a non-issue.

Get rid of the welfare state and birthright citizenship and THEN we will talk. Until then, NO!

 

[XTreat]

I don't support immigrants getting welfare handouts exactly the same amount as I support citizens getting handouts.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Cheap labor is a good thing

There are already 12-20 million illegal aliens in this country. How many more do you think we need for prosperity?

 

[XTreat]

For those of you who disagree what is your proposal for removing the immigrants and stopping them from coming in?

Should we borrow the money from china or the Fed to fund this?

 

[LibertyEagle]

I don't support immigrants getting welfare handouts exactly the same amount as I support citizens getting handouts.

They aren't "immigrants"; they are ILLEGAL ALIENS.

 

[XTreat]

There are already 12-20 million illegal aliens in this country. How many more do you think we need for prosperity?

You left out the part where I said the economy controls the border. If the market has a demand for unskilled labor then they will find a way to get here to provide it. I am sure at some point there is a high enough wall you can build to make it cost prohibitive, but until then the market will rule.

 

[fisharmor]

Bullshit.

There is no right to become a citizen of our country. There are all kinds of people who have followed our laws who are waiting in line to become citizens and we now are going to grant amnesty to those who broke our laws?

We've been over this ad nauseum. There is nothing constitutional about the laws to begin with. You need to ridiculously stretch the meaning of the word "invasion" in order to make your point. Blah blah. Please come up with a coherent argument about why the laws are valid, which doesn't simultaneously destroy any other original intent interpretation of the constitution that you actually DO believe.

However I do agree with you that they have no right to become citizens. That is not the issue. I do not care if you prevent them from voting. I do care that you have created two classes of individual rights, based on nothing more than a total "living document" interpretation of the constitution.

I firmly disagree with the Judge.

And I support him now more than ever. He can obviously read and process English sentences.

 

[XTreat]

They aren't "immigrants"; they are ILLEGAL ALIENS.

I support illegal aliens getting handouts exactly as much as I support citizens getting handouts.

 

[fisharmor]

There is no right to violate US sovereignty, you do not have a right to go wherever you want.

Then I take it you are also in favor of sobriety checkpoints?
The TSA is A-OK, because we have no right to travel?
Shall we implement similar measures at train stations and bus stops?

How about we pass a law requiring citizens to register travel outside their home city?
It's about the only thing from 1984 that I haven't seen seriously considered recently, so congratulations: the liberty movement is responsible for figuring out how to make Orwell's predictions more complete.