Anyway, in the minds of the Clinton administration and the Republican Congress, Cuban communism isn't all that bad. After all, the Cuban people have free education and health care, and no one is exploited by evil, greedy, profit-seeking capitalist swine like Bill Gates and Michael Milken. For the past few years, there have been a small number of libertarians who claim that immigration controls are a legitimate exception to the libertarian philosophy. One of the amusing parts of all this is the reaction of the libertarian controllers to the concept of repatriation. They are too ashamed to publicly admit that they fully support, endorse, and embrace the forcible repatriation into communism of defenseless, penniless immigrants who have risked their lives to seek a better way.
Repatriation is, of course, the logical consequence of immigration controls.
In the ideal world of the libertarian controllers, there would be officials of the U.S. Immigration Service lined up along a wall that would run all along the southern border of the United States. As Latin Americans tried to cross, they would be warned to stay away and if they persisted, they would be shot for violating the law. It is these uncomfortable alternatives that always bring silence to the libertarian who calls for immigration controls. Of course, this isn't the first time that the U.S. government has engaged in repatriation. Recall when Adolf Hitler offered to let Jews out of Germany.