{"id":1757,"date":"2011-05-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/2011\/05\/31\/immigration-and-liberal-hypocrisy\/"},"modified":"2021-07-04T06:28:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T06:28:52","slug":"immigration-and-liberal-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/31\/immigration-and-liberal-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration and Liberal Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"

IMMIGRATION AND LIBERAL HYPOCRISY<\/a><\/h1>\n

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by\u00a0<\/span>Jacob G. Hornberger<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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May 31, 2011<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s give credit where credit is due: When it comes to hypocrisy, liberals can be just as two-faced and duplicitous as conservatives.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re all familiar with conservative hypocrisy. The favorite mantra of conservatives is: \u201cPrivate property, free enterprise, and limited government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, the favorite programs of conservatives are: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public schooling, education grants, community grants, corporate bailouts, protectionism, empire, torture, the drug war, the war on terrorism, and all sorts of other things that violate the principles of \u201cfree enterprise, private property, and limited government.\u201d<\/p>\n

What about liberals? Their favorite mantra is: \u201cWe love the poor, needy, and disadvantaged.\u201d In fact, their favorite invective that they love to hurl at libertarians (who favor the dismantling, not the reform, of all welfare-state programs) is: \u201cYou just hate the poor, needy, and disadvantaged.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, according to\u00a0this article<\/a>\u00a0in Sunday\u2019s\u00a0New York Times,\u00a0<\/em>the Obama administration has initiated a fierce crackdown on businesses that hire illegal aliens.<\/p>\n

But get this: They\u2019re going easy on the immigrants, just deporting them instead of charging them with any crimes. Instead, they\u2019re going after the American businessmen who commit the dastardly crime of hiring these poor people.<\/p>\n

The most recent example involves Chuy\u2019s Mesquite Broiler chain in Arizona, which is popular among consumers for its Mexican food and margaritas. The feds busted the place and charged the restaurant\u2019s two owners, Mark Evenson and his son Christopher, with crimes entailing a possible 80 years in jail.<\/p>\n

Only one of the 42 illegal aliens caught in the raid was charged with a crime, one unrelated to the raid. The others were detained on civil charges, which usually involve deportation, detained as material witnesses against the Evensons, or permitted to remain in the United States to legalize their status.<\/p>\n

Why the differentiation in treatment?<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t the answer obvious? Unlike conservatives, liberals love \u201cthe poor, needy, and disadvantaged.\u201d This way, they can say to themselves, \u201cWe\u2019re helping the poor by sending them home rather than putting them in jail, like Bush and his conservative cohorts were doing. We\u2019re punishing the evil, greedy, profit-seeking, bourgeois, swine of capitalist pigs who are exploiting the oppressed workers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like I say, rank hypocrisy! Hurting people in the name of helping them. How do you get more two-faced than that?<\/p>\n

Those illegal aliens had entered into a mutually beneficial arrangement with Chuy\u2019s restaurant. Both sides had struck a negotiated deal in which the immigrants were performing labor services in exchange for an agreed-upon wage. Both sides were happy with the deal, given that they both voluntarily entered into it.<\/p>\n

What better way to help the poor, needy, and disadvantaged than to let them have a paying job in the private sector, especially compared to forcing them to return home to a life of guaranteed poverty? When they\u2019re free to accept gainful employment in the private sector, they make their own money, much of which they send back home to help the poor \u2014 e.g., spouses, children, parents, and grandparents.<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s not forget: The money that is being used to pay the immigrants\u2019 salaries belongs to the owners, not the government and not to society. Since it\u2019s their money, the owners have the moral right to do whatever they want with it, including giving it to anyone they want, including immigrants who are working for them.<\/p>\n

Of course, given the liberal mindset that everything belongs to society and, therefore, subject to confiscation and redistribution, it shouldn\u2019t surprise anyone that the concept of private ownership of property is anathema to liberals.<\/p>\n

What business is it of government to interfere with private work relationships that have been voluntarily agreed upon between employers and employees?<\/p>\n

Answer: No business at all.<\/p>\n

What have Obama and his liberal cohorts accomplished with their vicious raid on Chuy\u2019s restaurant.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve hurt the immigrants, who now no longer have a job and are being forced to return to Latin America to suffer dismal economics conditions.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve hurt the owners, who must now spend tens of thousands of dollars in attorney\u2019s fees and possibly spend years in a federal penitentiary for committing the dastardly crime of using their own money to hire some of the poorest people in the world.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve hurt customers of Chuy\u2019s restaurant, given the good chance that restaurant operations will be disrupted and possibly ended by the federal assault on its private property and economic enterprise.<\/p>\n

Why can\u2019t the feds simply leave people alone? Because despite their two-faced mantras, liberals, like conservatives, are consumed with destroying the lives and happiness of people who are simply trying to better their lives and the lives of their families through voluntary contracts and economic activity.<\/p>\n

Jacob G. Hornberger<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education. He has advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on Fox News\u2019 Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows and he appeared as a regular commentator on Judge Andrew Napolitano\u2019s show\u00a0<\/span>Freedom Watch<\/em>. View these interviews at\u00a0<\/span>LewRockwell.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>and from\u00a0<\/span>Full Context<\/a>. Send him\u00a0<\/span>email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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