Immigration officials arrest 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy after surgery

[DavidB.]

The left has to choose. Either you have universal healthcare or you let the whole world into the country. Can't have both, not in the long run. But emotional stories about children always work wonders for the immigration lobby.

[DavidB.]

I'm not sure whether I qualify as a leftist, but I believe that the nation-state is the polity in which mankind functions best: social cohesion and solidarity are highest because people care most about those who they perceive to be most similar to them. This means only these countries can become full-fledged welfare states in which every member of society, no matter one's background, can aspire to become who and what they want to be. In order to maintain this necessary social cohesion and solidarity, immigration has to be limited, and newcomers have to have similar cultures and values. But my argument is not only consequential: I think nations have a right to preserve their own cultures.

I do feel guilty about bad living and working conditions in the third world to the extent that "we" in the West are guilty of creating or sustaining them, but I do not feel guilty about the existence of borders and strict immigration policies and I do not think hard borders are an "aberration" at all.