It became quickly apparent that Acosta was out of his depth, as Miller gave him a brief tutorial on the history of America’s immigration policy. My favorite moment came when Miller responded to the lazy retort of Acosta — What policy am I advocating? — by saying: “unfettered immigration.” That’s exactly what he is demanding. Acosta in effect wants the Statue of Liberty renamed the Statue of Open Borders, with perhaps a worthy poetic successor to Emma Lazarus made head of the INS.
Acosta was too much of a dummy to grasp Miller’s point — that liberty and open borders can’t coexist, with the loss of that liberty hitting the poorest, including legal immigrants, the hardest.
The policy of unregulated immigration espoused by Acosta translates into an even larger group of “huddled masses” yearning to be free — to be free of the chaos, economic insolvency and crime that follow a mindless immigration policy.
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