Monday, April 24, 2006

Straw Immigration Man Argument

I hear over and over again that we can't make our rules on illegal immigration too "draconian" because it would be impractical to round up and deport 11,000,000 people.

Using the same argument, should we say that keeping murder and rape illegal is impractical, because it would be impractical to round up all of the murderers and rapists and throw them in jail?

Nobody said we had to go round them all up at once and get rid of them. We just want laws enforced when people break them, and our border security tightened up dramatically.

Just because you can't catch all of the people who are breaking the law doesn't mean you shouldn't keep your laws and enforce them.

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