A National Homeland Destroys Liberty And Private Property By Jacob G. Hornberger!!
(2018-05-09 at 19:31:35 )

A National Homeland Destroys Liberty and Private Property by Jacob G. Hornberger

One of the favorite arguments that proponents of immigration controls use to justify their position is the national-homeland concept. They say that the United States of America is a national homeland and, therefore, that the federal government legitimately wields the omnipotent power to determine who enters the nation and who does not.

Comparing the nation to a private homeowner, they assert that since a private homeowner does not leave his door open for the world to enter, neither should the federal government leave the door to the nation open either.

There are two big problems, however, with the national-homeland argument.

First, the United States of America is not a national homeland. That is what Nazi Germany was. The United States of America is instead a nation based on the concepts of individual liberty and private-property rights.

Second, freedom and private-property rights are both destroyed by the concept of a national homeland.

In a society based on individual liberty and private-property rights, I have the right to invite anyone I want into my home. That is because it is my home, not societys, not the governments, and not anyone elses. That is what freedom of association is all about - the right to associate with anyone one wants, even if everyone else does not like it.

That is what the old saying, "A mans home is his castle" is all about. It means that a person is free to do whatever he wants in his own home, so long as his actions are peaceful and consensual. (In other words, a person is not free to murder someone in his home.)

Thus, under principles of freedom and private property, a person has the fundamental right to invite a Guatemalan, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Egyptian, or Englishman into his home. No one, including his neighbor or a government official, wields the legitimate authority to use force to prevent him from associating with anyone he wants in his own home. Again, that is because his home is his castle. He owns it. It belongs to him.

Does this mean that such invited guests have the right to walk invited into a neighbors home? Of course not. The neighbors home belongs to him. If he does not want such people to walk into his home, he has the right to exclude them. But he has no right to interfere with other peoples decisions to invite whomever they want into their home.

The same holds true with respect to a persons business. It belongs to him, not to society, government, or anyone else. As such, a business owner has the right to invite anyone he wants to work there. That is because it is his business - his private property - his castle too. If he chooses to hire Guatemalans, Mexicans, or other foreign citizens, that is his right. That is because it is his money and his business. Who he hires is his business.

The national-homeland argument holds that the state can prohibit people from crossing the international border to prevent them from going to the home or business of an American citizen. Thus, the national-homeland concept destroys the rights of individual liberty and private property.

And here is the kicker: Once a nation goes down the national-homeland road, there is no stopping. Once the state is considered in charge of the national homeland, then the state effectively wields omnipotent control over the entire homeland, just as it did in Nazi Germany.

How can any business owner complain about government control over his business, including through minimum-wage laws, OSHA regulations, and all the rest? How can he complain about government control over activities within his home, such as ingestion of drugs? As the German people learned, under the national-homeland concept the government ends up wielding omnipotent control over peoples lives, property, and economic activities, even if legal titles to homes and businesses are nominally left in the names of homeowners and business owners.

Our American ancestors clearly understood this principle, which is why the United States had a system of open immigration for more than 100 years after the country was founded. They understood that a system of individual liberty and private-property rights is irreconcilable with the concept of a national homeland controlled by an all-powerful federal government.

With the horrible exception of slavery and smaller exceptions, such as tariffs, they chose a society based on freedom and private property rather than one based on the concept of a national homeland.

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!