Guillermo Jimenez Presents Sheldon Richman
On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by Sheldon Richman, Vice President of the Future of Freedom Foundation. We discuss the current “humanitarian crisis” along the southern border of the United States regarding the influx of immigrants from Central America. We discuss the politicization of the immigration issue, the protests in Murrietta, California, and other cities, and how this can potentially be resolved. We go over the many flawed US policies dealing with immigration, drugs, and military intervention in Latin America that have led to the current situation.
Richman explains why the US government has no moral authority to round people up, house them in “detention centers,” and ship them off to countries that in many cases the United States helped destroy. We round out our discussion with the moral, philosophical, and economic arguments for open borders, and why the answers to the immigration issue can only be found in more liberty and freedom of movement, not larger DHS budgets and bigger walls.
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