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Walter E. Williams is a professor at George Mason University. I am not overly familiar with Williams’ work, but some others have brought it to my attention recently as a result of Williams’ support for the Arizona Law against illegal immigration. I presume that Williams backs the law, since his most recent essay argues that we should “start strict enforcement of immigration law, as Arizona has begun.”

In his essay, Williams also lays out arguments regarding why the popular position on illegal immigration, one that supports amnesty, might be a bit of an illogical contradiction. In fact, Williams’ point of view reflects the sentiment of many African Americans in disagreement with black leadership on the issue.

The professor starts by asking Libertarians – and those who think that illegal immigrants should receive amnesty – whether or not everyone on earth has a right to live in the United States. Many of us would argue that it would be impossible for every person on earth to live in the United States, since our nation can’t sustain that many people. He then goes on to ask who gets to decide which people should live here. Obviously, the answer would be us, U.S. citizens.

Williams goes on to ask what the conditions for living in the United States should be and who has the right to ignore those conditions. Finally, there is the question of how we should respond when those conditions are ignored. Williams had this to say:

“When crimes are committed, what should be done? Some people recommend amnesia, which turns out to be the root word for amnesty. But surely they don’t propose it as a general response to crime where criminals confess their crime, pay some fine and apply to have their crimes overlooked. Amnesty supporters probably wish amnesty to apply to only illegal immigrants. That being the case, one wonders whether they wish it to apply to illegals past, present and future, regardless of race, ethnicity or country of origin.”

Translation of Williams’ argument: Not everyone can live in the United States, and we must set standards for who lives here and how. If people ignore those standards, there should be a penalty. By expecting amnesty for the 10- to- 20-million illegal immigrants currently living in America, we are ignoring the standards and the penalties altogether.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DITTTY2004/ DITTTY2004

    I SAY IF AMNESTY IS GRANTED, WHEN A ILLEGAL GOES TO REGISTER, THEY SHOULD BE FINED, AND IN ORDER TO REMAIN IN THE COUNTRY THEY CAN RECIEVE NO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE FOR A 5 YEAR PERIOD, AND CAN’T GET INTO ANY TROUBLE WITH THE LAW OR GET AUTOMATICALLY DEPORTED NO QUESTIONS ASKED, AND THEY SHOULD BE SENT TO LIVE IN MONTANA, AND CAN’T LEAVE THE STATE FOR 5 YEARS

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pantherg08/ pantherg08

    I have to agree with professor williams, Illegal immigrants should be sent back to their country. I dont believe in wiping the slate clean, when we americans commit crimes we have to answer for them. Illegal immigration is hurting this country and in a recession american workers need to be first, undoc**ented workers need to go back to their counry of orgin whether they be mexican, hatian, asian, russian it dosent matter, more than likely if your not here legaly your not paying taxes meaning your not paying into the system but your taking from it. And im so sick of this myth saying that illegal immigrants are doing jobs we americans wont, thats just simply not true, especially in this recession, the problem is some of those employers are just to greedy, they dont want to pay a living wage. There was a food packaging plant in arizona that had to get rid of its 400 undoc**ented workers, and the next day there was over 700 people to fill those jobs!! Bottemline, illegals need to go!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Calabreezy/ Calabreezy

    “The professor starts by asking Libertarians – and those who think that illegal immigrants should receive amnesty – whether or not everyone on earth has a right to live in the United States. Many of us would argue that it would be impossible for every person on earth to live in the United States, since our nation can’t sustain that many people.” Really? Honestly, brotha.. You’re a terrible writer.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Calabreezy/ Calabreezy

    The Black American politicians who favor amnesty for illegal immigrant Mexicans are well-intentioned yet misguided at best. They need to avail themselves of the facts and details regarding Mexico’s own immigration policy. Foreigners are banned if they pose a threat to “the equilibrium of the national demographics.” If they don’t enhance the country’s economic or national interests or are found to be physically or mentally unhealthy, they’re not welcome. Neither are those who show “contempt against national Mexican sovereignty or security.” Foreigners have to prove that they won’t be economic burdens on society and have to have clean criminal histories. And anyone seeking Mexican citizenship has to provide bank statements proving their economic independence. Marriage and doc**ent fraud is very strictly prosecuted. Foreigners can be kicked out of the country without
    due process, and illegal re-entry after deportation is punishable by 10 years in prison. Mexico’s National Catalog of Foreigners tracks all outside tourists and foreign nationals. A National Population Registry tracks and verifies the identity of every member of the population, who must carry a citizens’ identity card. Visitors who don’t possess proper doc**ents and identification are subject to arrest as illegal aliens. Any pro-illegal alien speech by outsiders is prohibited as well as political speech by foreigners. Central American illegal aliens in Mexico are treated notoriously with harsh punishment. The Mexican government and its interest groups have done an effective job of forming coalitions with left-wing American social justice organizations and have managed to make the issue of undoc**ented Mexican immigration to the U.S. a civil rights
    issue as a opposed to a mere issue of observance of the law.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Calabreezy/ Calabreezy

    What the media conveniently leaves out in its perennial quest to disinform
    and stratify the public is exactly who is benefitting from illegal immigration. If you want to know why any social malady exists despite efforts to curtail or eliminate it, just follow the money. The lobbyists for the manufacturing sector and its corporate interests are one of the chief beneficiaries of illegal immigration. The costs that they cut as a result of hiring illegals while denying unionized workers their right to a fare wage is to the tune of millions of dollars. The prison industrial complex sees unfettered illegal immigration as a source of new revenue for prison construction, while the local police departments are given extra duties as a result of the related drug and gang activity which enables them to jockey for more funding from the city and state budgets. The poorly kept secret in all of this is the North American Union, which is an
    economic, military, and political agreement among the United States, Canada, and Mexico to safeguard each others interests in an organized mutually beneficial fashion. Lou Dobbs spoke of this many times on CNN and eventually got fired for pretty much appearing to be racist, when in fact he was warning Americans regarding the truth.

    This is the latest cynical and insidious tactic that this establishment-controlled media is now using to scare Americans from critical thought. If you don’t support amnesty for illegal Mexican immigrants, then you’re a racist. If you think that there’s a global elite faction of banking families and their corporate minions that control the media, world financies, access to resources, and who dictate wars then you’re a racist or simply paranoid. But facts, are facts. Any theory or contention that can stand up to the scrutiny of intense research and investigation and remain true and unassailable is then no longer just a theory. No matter who is a proponent of it. The governor of Arizona
    may very well be a racist as per her tortured arguments regarding abolishing ethnic studies programs in the high schools, which actually foster pride and understanding of the contributions that many peoples and cultures have made to this nation and to the world, and disproves the notion of white exceptionalism, but her support of mandating the law regarding immigration isn’t what makes her so. We as Black folk need to stand up for our rights and for economic justice for our people, and we can no longer make excuses for our or others’ criminal behavior. Primarily, though, we need to take charge of our own fate and form
    educational and financial cooperatives of all types that will ensure our
    self-sustenance.

    America is a country of great opportunity and great freedoms. But, our beloved country is now under an empowered cabal of monied interests who are seeking to break us and wear us down with social and economic miseries to the point where we give up all sovereignty as individuals and as a country on a whole. They are actively pushing forth an agenda of global currency and governance which will eventually remove every last trace of humanity and freedom from the individual. They are manipulating the masses through false-flag operations and using segments of our population as bait whenever necessary. The average illegal Mexican is seeking a better life, since our agricultural entities are forcing genetically modified crops on them, disabling them from earning the
    living to which they’ve been accustomed for years, and forcing them to flee North into the political trap that ensnares poor low-skilled workers. They need advocacy in the area of attaining legal status, not the enabling of their illegal status. We need to arm ourselves with the facts, so that we can be empowered and ready for the coming revolution. The world is no longer waiting.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/unknown108/ unknown108

    It is hard to get people to see what they rather be blind to, Calabreezy it speaking truth.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ldysoul22/ Ldysoul22

    When amnesty is given to illegals, that is saying, we are rewarding them for bad behavior. I can see it happening because the American government is weak, and will continue to be so until its fullfilment. If someone breaks in your house, will you reward them? also, the American government is corrupted like all others. I fault the government of America because it should have stopped illegal immigration from jump street before this mess came to be what it is. Black politicians agreed with the corrupted president of Mexico. who came here giving a f**ked up speech on what our laws should be here and how we should act. They gave that man a standing ovation. he has some motherf**king nerve when he should be engcouraging his citizens to leave America and come back home to Mexico. Oh, I forgot that illegals here send billions of dollars back to Mexico and other countries of their orgins. That really kicks up Mexico’s economy. That is why I don’t claim any Black politician to be representing me, and I don’t let Black media to influence my mind on who I should vote for. All of them are only greasing their pockets and looking for votes. Blacks need to wake up and stop allowing Black politicians to use them all when they are still below all other races in America on the economic ladder. Illegals immigrants will never stop and will continue to have so much more power other Black America. If Anybody thinks and votes for a polititcian because she/he is Black, and thinks that politician is on her/his side because of such, is sadly mistaken. WAKE UP YOU BLACK PEOPLE AND DEMAND POWER!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Pepper4433/ Pepper4433

    My concern with this issue is: if this illegal immigration act is carried out successfully with many people forced to leave this country, who’s next?
    This act, in my opinion, is a test run to many other laws to follow to limit, elimate factions of a society who prove threatening to the ranking social order.
    Hitler, Pol Pot and let’s not forget the Armenian genocide to which Hitler used as a learning tool to turn the earth into a graveyard. Mexican people or any people who come to this country seek a better life and enrich this country in the process.
    I agree with the doctor, it is all about money. The Mexican workers replaced many blacks in low wage earning jobs and the businesses were content to look the other way however now that these same people are prospering and vote democrat, now they have to go? Really? The jobs that have been abandoned by these underpaid hardworking people are now being handed back to poor black and whites at the cost of working slave wages. So who benefits?
    I think what enrages me is the very people who declare that “illegal” immigrants must leave are themselves illegal immigrants. The only people who have right to this land is the full blooded indigenous people of Ina Maka and no one else, more commonly know as the American Indian.

  • Anonymous

    i totally agree with williams illegal immigration should be stop as soon as possible.

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