Don’t Kill Migrant “Invaders”
For the last few years, advocates of immigration controls have claimed, with all seriousness, that migrants who enter the United States illegally are “invaders.” Whenever I receive an email from them, I give them free legal advice: Don’t kill the “invaders.’
After all, in a war in which one nation has invaded another nation, under international law the people in the invaded nation have the right to kill the invaders. Consider, for example, Nazi German’s invasion of Czechoslovakia. The Czechs had the right to defend against the invasion by killing Nazi soldiers. Or consider the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The Iraqis had the right to defend against the invasion by killing U.S. soldiers. Or consider the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainians have the right to defend against the invasion by killing Russian soldiers.
So, the reasoning goes, since illegal migrants are “invading” the United States, Americans have the right to defend against the invasion by killing the migrant “invaders.”
That was certainly the mindset of 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, who walked into a Walmart store in El Paso in 2019 and killed 23 people and injured 22 others. As far as he was concerned, he was doing what he felt he had a right to do — kill “invaders.” Of course, in his warped mind, the fact that the people he killed, who were predominantly Mexican-Americans, looked like illegal migrants made it okay for him to kill them. A federal court gave Crusius 90 life sentences without the possibility of parole. He is still facing the death penalty under murder charges brought by the state of Texas.
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