I Can't Understand Borderists
Jun. 30th, 2015 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marjaerwinThey assert that nation-states have the "sovereign right" to restrict immigration.
Where is this "right" supposed to come from?
Why is their government supposed to have the authority?
This just doesn't make any sense. Though there are a lot of disagreements about rights, rights are supposed to be something that people have and institutions might protect those rights, or help people exercise those rights, or all too often violate those rights, but rights aren't something that powerful institutions just have, because they have power.
Though nation-states have the sovereign might to hurt people, that doesn't give them the right.
There's no proportionality and no connection between the restrictions border controls impose on immigrants and other travellers and the protection of anyone's rights or protection from invasive pests [zebra mussels, etc.].
They also often assert that everyone should have to go through E-Verify for everything, especially employment. E-Verify discriminates against anyone with incomplete or inconsistent documentation. Given how often the bureaucracies screw up, how often they have conflicting rules, how rarely government offices are accessible for those of us with disabilities, etc. there are a lot of us with these problems for a lot of reasons. I was born in this country, and I have inconsistent documentation both because of bureaucratic screw-ups, and because of transition, and because of disabilities. E-Verify is not due process.
Where is this "right" supposed to come from?
Why is their government supposed to have the authority?
This just doesn't make any sense. Though there are a lot of disagreements about rights, rights are supposed to be something that people have and institutions might protect those rights, or help people exercise those rights, or all too often violate those rights, but rights aren't something that powerful institutions just have, because they have power.
Though nation-states have the sovereign might to hurt people, that doesn't give them the right.
There's no proportionality and no connection between the restrictions border controls impose on immigrants and other travellers and the protection of anyone's rights or protection from invasive pests [zebra mussels, etc.].
They also often assert that everyone should have to go through E-Verify for everything, especially employment. E-Verify discriminates against anyone with incomplete or inconsistent documentation. Given how often the bureaucracies screw up, how often they have conflicting rules, how rarely government offices are accessible for those of us with disabilities, etc. there are a lot of us with these problems for a lot of reasons. I was born in this country, and I have inconsistent documentation both because of bureaucratic screw-ups, and because of transition, and because of disabilities. E-Verify is not due process.
