Neglected Victims, Empowered Cartels

Cartels thrive on the criminalization of immigration that allows them to prey on migrants at the border. Written by Agustina Vergara Cid and Onkar Ghate. This audio is created with AI with the permission of the authors.
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[@jhljhl6964]

The world has become a swamp of evil .

[@TheJustinJ]

It has always been a swamp of evil. Just open the book of Exodus some of the earliest written stories about how people treated people. (Not specifically how Egypt enslaved some Hebrews, but also how those Hebrews treated people living in the land they wanted). Hm... sounds familiar. How times change.

[@acctsys]

Borders should only be as open as welfare and cronyism are closed.

[@senorbinario2855]

Can you please make a video talking about the argument of taxes being taken from the USA citizens and given to immigrants? For what I know, that's a temporarily necessary evil, as the current economy is a mixed capitalism that favors unfair business and rich people. The goal is to decrease takes, but only as the last step in an effort to free the economy, and that starts with freeing and helping immigrants, which is what this video advocates. Am I right?

[@pbbrown1963]

I am poor. My prospects for success are poor. Where I live is not free and very dangerous. But if I just rob the bank I can become free and prosperous. I do not think that banks should stop me if I have a good outcome. But the propaganda is that I am bad because I simply want to take what others have. Please understand and empathize with me that I need it. I really do. I see no other choice but to rob the bank. And my need must be demand on the bank and their depositors if I am to have a good outcome. I should not be punished for robbing the bank. It's my only chance for a better life.

[@lennardchan2764]

There's a difference between immigrating and robbing a bank. No one is violating anyone's rights by immigrating.

[@pbbrown1963]

@@lennardchan2764 But the bank robbery is a good analogy. So is taking my spare bedroom without my permission. You cannot come into my house and take a room. Especially if I helped build that house and I own it without any leans. You are not allowed into my house because to win there must be a negotiation. We both must agree that you come in. The matrix of a negotiation is the following: You vote no, I vote no: No deal You vote no, I vote yes: No deal You vote yes, I vote no: No deal You vote yes, I vote yes: Deal made Understand. We are on #3. No deal. You can try to pursuade me to change my vote to yes. And If you do and we go to #4 then you can come into my house and take my spare bedroom. But I must have a say. That is not negotiable. I have a property right to the U.S. and my spare bedroom You do not. Under no law do you have a propwerty right to the U.S. or my spare bedroom. If you think you do then it is incumbant upon you to articulate it and convince me. If you can't then that's the way it goes. Tough luck. But you cannot force yourself into my spare bedroom or the U.S. Understand? Now get out of my spare bedroom and the U.S. or I will use the maximum extent of the law to remove you. Understand? Think about it. -- Paul

[@frederickmfarias3109]

@@Martyk1968Your taxes aren’t paying for migrants or immigrants illegal or legal.

[@marumilan2465]

​@@Martyk1968Objectivists see only taxes as the basis of their problems.

[@frederickmfarias3109]

@@Martyk1968 Thinking is something people often don’t do about this issue.