Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
No, it is “providing for the common defense”.
Note that word "common." That means it applies equally to all of us.

But if I want to hire someone to work in my factory, or rent an apartment out to them, or sell my house to them, and you won't let me, whoever's interests you may think you're defending, they aren't mine. So it isn't the "common" defense.

That is unless you understand the word "common" to be something that sweeps together all of us as individuals into a collective with its own interests that are distinct from the interests of the individuals comprising it. If this is what you mean, then you're illustrating precisely what I said in the quote you tried to contradict, and showing that your own version of immigration restrictionism does exactly what I said. My property isn't my own as an individual, but is the common property of the nation, naturally then to be managed ultimately by the government.