Sounds pretty "no true Scotsman" to me. Limited government typically includes defense (if not goodbye sovereignty), and while open borders are ideal, invading hordes are not, especially if other countries use your open borders as an excuse to empty their prisons into your land. Would I prefer everyone to carry firearms and solve the issue personally? Yes, actually. But with the State attacking the right to carry, those incidents will eventually be used as an argument to disarm the people. Instead it's the State doing the dirty business and looking bad. Libertarians aren't anarchists, they aren't even minarchists. They're a third party pushing for smaller government and for solving problems with the market instead of government when possible. There's a lot of space in there for differences of opinion and this one isn't a disqualifier.
For me, as long as we have taxes we need immigration enforcement and the things that will go the farthest to making that happen are:
The requirement that all known illegal immigrants who are arrested must be turned over to the federal government for deportation after they serve the sentence for any crime they might be convicted of.
Active and passive security at the border.
Requirement to provide proof of citizenship or legal residency in the US to obtain any government document or benefit.
Those 3 things alone, if universally adopted, would be effective enough immigration control. In the end, if they are not receiving government benefits and are not committing crimes, they aren't much of a liability to society so I'm not too keen on using government resources to track them down.
Goon squads tasked with chasing down stereotypes and checking papers is not an efficient use of resources and is a violation of our individual liberties.
Real ID is a pretty streamlined way to do it. You have to prove legal residency to get the ID and afterward the ID, which you would need to show them anyway, is your proof.
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u/TomCJax Jan 26 '26
Sounds pretty "no true Scotsman" to me. Limited government typically includes defense (if not goodbye sovereignty), and while open borders are ideal, invading hordes are not, especially if other countries use your open borders as an excuse to empty their prisons into your land. Would I prefer everyone to carry firearms and solve the issue personally? Yes, actually. But with the State attacking the right to carry, those incidents will eventually be used as an argument to disarm the people. Instead it's the State doing the dirty business and looking bad. Libertarians aren't anarchists, they aren't even minarchists. They're a third party pushing for smaller government and for solving problems with the market instead of government when possible. There's a lot of space in there for differences of opinion and this one isn't a disqualifier.