Ron Paul Sums Up His anti-Wall, anti-Mass Deportation Views on Immigration
08/21/2015Ryan McMaken
Not surprisingly, during the 2012 election, Ron Paul was the only
laissez-faire candidate when it came to immigration. The Democratic candidates, naturally, wanted more subsidies for immigrants (in the form of welfare and citizenship benefits)
while most of the other GOP candidates called for a variety of taxpayer funded, authoritarian schemes such as national ID cards, border walls, more police, and regulations on employers and entrepreneurs.
Ron Paul took a more humane and consistent approach and refused to support more government surveillance or more wall building. At the same time, of course, he also advocated for reducing or ending subsidies for immigrants, since, as with products and services, and laborers of all types: if you subsidize it, you'll get more of it.
In this video, Paul and Daniel McAdams discuss Paul's views on immigration in light of the current debate over immigration.
On Trump's plan to round up and deport 15 million people:
Ron Paul: How practical do you think this would be to round up 15 million people without any consideration for due process?
McAdams: You’d essentially need a police state because you’d practically have to be going to go door to door almost, because they don’t keep track of these people.
Ron Paul: I think it’s impossible.
On building a wall and controlling labor:
Daniel McAdams: When we worked on immigration in your office, you were generally friendly with people who wanted some controls on the border. But
we ran into terrible troubles with the extreme on [the conservative] side which wanted an authoritarian state here. They wanted "E-Verify" which means every American would have to prove he has a right to work in his own country. And then there's the wall they want.
Ron Paul: You’ll need a really efficient wall and a coast guard that goes up and down the coast blowing boats out of the water…The idea of building walls around the country, I think it’s a joke.
I could never take a position that we need more barbed wire to solve this problem.
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