I've always felt that to understand someone's perspective you have to understand their views on a number of issues. Only through looking at their views in aggregate can you begin to understand where they are coming from and why. In doing this, you're able to contrast their views with your own and broaden your perspective.

This page contains articles I find interesting as well as a series of numbered posts which I have written. Taken together, these form a synthesis of my views on a number of current issues (and yes, the numbered posts are ordered in such a way as to reflect their relative importance to me). Although I am not registered with either party, I tend to have a distinctively left slant. After reading my posts, consider the issues again in terms of the tradeoff between individual freedoms and economic freedom. (Check out the multi-axis spectrum linked in the left sidebar.)

Submit your comments to these posts - I look forward to hearing your views and responses. Whether we agree or disagree is irrelevant. The dialog is what matters. Our form of government relies on having an interested electorate and the very fact that we are discussing our views on these important issues perpetuates its success.

(9) Illegal Immigration

Lock down our southern borders by any means necessary. Legal immigration and illegal immigration are two completely different topics.

My position on this topic is three fold:
1) Abolish birthright citizenship immediately;
2) Set a date and close our southern borders down - if that requires a solid physical fence, so be it;
3) For illegal immigrants who are already here however, especially those with children who were born here, we have to take a compassionate position and allow a path to citizenship.

Just in case someone is tempted to send hate mail invoking the "give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses" quote and trying to confuse / complicate this issue by arguing that this country was founded by immigrants, let me remind you that we're talking about two completely different topics. No one is suggesting that we close our borders to legal immigration.
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Anonymous said...

Outlined like a true lawyer, ha. Why close the southern borders so quickly, if you do who is going to do all the work that Americans currently are too good to do? Funny how we as Americans look down on the basic jobs and would rather be on unemployment than fill one of those jobs. Crazy, when you have people willing to do it but they first have to cross a border and then have to deal with the American staring at them as if they stole their job...interested in your take....

September 8, 2008 11:55 PM

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