Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Libertarian supporters of an ‘Ellis Island’ type of immigration-control system are receiving a lesson in the fallacies of their system. They imagine an immigration-control system in which the federal government is vetting every foreigner and rejecting only the few ‘bad’ ones. What they fail to understand is that once federal officials are given the power to determine who comes into the United States, that power is inevitably going to be abused by encompassing ever-growing groups of innocent people. That’s, in fact, what happened with the Ellis Island system … Starting out with rejecting people who had tuberculosis, the Ellis Island immigration-control system was gradually expanded to encompass ever-growing groups of people, including anarchists (which ought to concern so-called anarchist libertarians, including those who favor government immigration controls and a border police state), prostitutes, mentally impaired people, people who might become public charges, and Chinese.” (03/13/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/03/13/trumps-use-of-immigration-controls-to-destroy-free-speech/