Even if you end the welfare state & abolish minimum wage laws, immigrants will still pour into this country. Someone on this forum posted a statistic a year ago that something like... a billion people around the world would seriously consider moving to America. We would basically be swarmed by a bunch of people who don't understand Anglo-Celtic culture, won't speak english, will vote for big government policies, will vote for politicians (Democrats) who will restore minimum wage and the welfare state, etc... It would be even worse in an Anarcho-Capitalist society, where Nationalistic ethnicities would form together and build their own governments and align with their homeland. I could easily see the ethnocentric Chinese and Mexicans doing this.
This country would go to hell in no time. Granted, Ron Paul never came out and said he supported open borders, but I know RP fairly well. He is way more radical than he leads on... and he always hinted he was pro-immigration.
He needs to go back to his 2007/2008 ideology. Take the troops out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Europe, Japan and put them on the Mexican-American border. This asterisk card bullshit is never going to work. It's basically open borders.
Just look at California. It was a Tea Party year and the Republicans got their ass kicked. Even my so-called Liberal state of Massachusetts went to the Republicans this year. These Hispanic immigrants, legal & illegal, just vote Democrat. I read a statistic where something like 70% of them said will ONLY vote for a Dem. Our country has a serious problem. And it's not just an illegal immigration problem. It's an IMMIGRATION problem. Until this is addressed, I don't know if I can support RP like I did before.
And yeah, yeah I know ending the War on Drugs, government handouts, farm subsidies, and welfare would solve a lot of problems. But consider the fact that..
A) This won't happen unless there was a major crisis and the American people were ready for Libertarian radicalism.
B) This still doesn't change the voting habits of the immigrants. Who, like I pointed out before, generally vote for big-gubmint Dems.
C) They're still an alien element in our society, and diversity leads only to racism and tension. How are immigrants benefiting our society? We need to take a much more conservative approach to the immigration issue like what Denmark is doing. They're only allowing in immigrants who will benefit their nation and assimilate.
D) What about the American nation? If we had open borders in a Libertarian society, all of our unique cultures would evaporate basically overnight, as the immigrant hoards flooded into every state. Southern culture? Gone. New England culture? Gone. It reminds me of when Ben Franklin was complaining about the German immigrants coming into to America. And they were actually good at assimilating and looked & acted generally like the English/Scots-Irish population. They even had the same religion. Just imagine what Ben Franklin would say today...
E) Even if we lived in an Anarcho-Capitalist, Anarcho-Socialist, Mutualist, or whatever stateless society-- immigrants will still retain a huge loyalty to their motherland. Chinese immigrants will more likely form a new [voluntary] government on American soil and seek alliance with their homeland. Mexicans will try to fulfill their La Raza fantasies and do the same. The idea of Anarchy is simply impractical.
