Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 28, 2010

Supporters of the new Arizona immigration law, which permits police to demand identity documents from anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant, insist such measures are necessary in order to deal with an unprecedented crisis.

An estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants reside in Arizona, many of them arriving during the past decade. During that same period, the rate of violent crime has fallen 19 percent, and property crime has dropped by 20 percent. Since the real estate bubble burst in 2007, immigration ? both legal and illegal ? has declined sharply both in Arizona and nation-wide.

We should capitalize on this trend by abolishing welfare subsidies for illegal immigrants (and for everyone else, while we?re at it). We should also call off the so-called War on Drugs, which is a price support program for Mexican narcotics cartels.

This wouldn?t solve the problem outright, but it would help reduce it to manageable size.

If the "solution" is a police state, the "problem" is one we can probably live with.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.