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Which Way for U.S. Immigration?: Keep the Borders Open |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Jacob G. Hornberger |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 1,812 Words, 11,292 Characters |
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In times of crisis, it is sometimes wise and constructive for people to return to first principles and to reexamine where we started as a nation, the road we've traveled, where we are today, and the direction in which we're headed. Such a reevaluation can help determine whether a nation has deviated from its original principles and, if so, whether a restoration of those principles would be in order.
It is impossible to overstate the unusual nature of American society from the time of its founding to the early part of the twentieth century. Imagine: no Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, income tax, welfare, systems of public (i.e., government) schooling, occupational licensure, standing armies, foreign aid, foreign interventions, or foreign wars. Perhaps most unusual of all, there we...
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...which our founders had ever dreamed of.
The current crisis provides us with an opportunity to reexamine our founding principles, why succeeding generations of Americans abandoned them, the consequences of that abandonment, and whether it would be wise to restore the founders' moral and philosophical principles of freedom. A good place to start such a reexamination would be immigration.
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