The Man on the White Horse
It’s no surprise to me that so many people who live on or near the U.S.-Mexico border, including Democrats, voted for Donald Trump for president. Whenever there is ongoing, never-ending chaos and crisis, people look to “the man on the white horse” — that is, the dictatorial “strongman” — to bring “law and order” and “stability” to the situation.
For at least 80 years, there has been ongoing, never-ending, perpetual crisis and chaos along the border. With each passing decade, it has gotten worse and worse. Notwithstanding the border police state that has arisen over the decades to address the crisis and chaos, in the past few years there have been waves of illegal immigrants and people seeking refugee status crossing the border and entering the United States. In other words, massive chaos and crisis. Trump and his Trumpsters call the illegal immigrants and refugees “invaders” and “occupiers,” much like when the U.S. military unleashed massive death and destruction with its invasion and occupation of Iraq.
To deal with this crisis and chaos, U.S. officials have responded in predictable ways: by building a Berlin Wall along the border, forcing refugees to remain in Mexico to await their status hearing, separating children from their parents, refugee camps, private hotel rooms, meals, concertina wire, U.S. troops, and more.
And all that is on top of the decades-old police-state measures to deal with the ongoing, never-ending, perpetual crisis and chaos — that is, the highway checkpoints, the warrantless searches of ranches and farms, boarding of Greyhound buses to check people’s papers, federal prosecutions for hiring, transporting, harboring, or caring for illegal immigrants, roving Border Patrol checkpoints, and more.
What many people do not realize — and oftentimes do not want to realize — is that all this crisis and chaos is rooted in America’s immigration-control system itself. That’s because the system is a socialist system, in that it is based on the socialist principle of central planning. As the free-market economist Ludwig von Mises observed, socialist central planning produces “planned chaos.” What better term to describe America’s ongoing, never-ending, perpetual immigration crisis than “planned chaos”?
Consider, for example, those hotel rooms that have people so upset. What else are U
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