Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 5, 2009

The ongoing economic collapse has prompted many unskilled foreign workers to stay home. Now that the problem of illegal immigration is abating, we should focus our efforts on reining in the increasingly feral immigration enforcement bureaucracy.

Capitalizing on public overreaction to the problem of illegal immigration, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, has assembled 100 heavily armed SWAT teams that carry out pre-dawn armed raids in search of illegal immigrants. Those raids are conducted without judicial warrants; the ICE strike teams carry so-called ?administrative warrants? issued by their own commanders.

In addition to their routine violations of the Fourth Amendment, these strike teams are notoriously indiscriminate in their use of force. On more than a few occasions, they have swept up American citizens in their eagerness to fill enforcement quotas.

Immigration is a problem that will largely solve itself. The same isn?t true of the problem posed by the ICE department?s goon squads.

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