John is rightly concerned about the long wait for permission to legally immigrate. Good. There should be almost none but the border guards need time to identify undesirable and dangerous people. A permit system provides time for immigrants to be investigated in their home country before they spend time and money to travel to America. The current system, as Stossel reported can take 13 years or more which is ridiculous but the solution is not to speed up the Visa process; it’s to restore the free market. Can that happen? Not likely. Why?
An American elite has been preaching the values of Marx since the late 1800’s. Marxism is “in the air” so restoring the free market is almost impossible. Because the welfare state imposes penalties on powerless people who become unwitting victims of the government, the borders need to be shut, sealed and guarded otherwise the private citizens of America will continue to be punished by an illicit set of principles that are opposed to personal Liberty.
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