Telegram Archive - week 8, 2026
- 2 minutes read - 347 wordsFollow up article by Peter Schwartz, “Immigration Standards”, Substack.
The very first principle pertaining to this issue is that rights are the product, not of one’s place of birth, but of one’s nature as a human being. … There should be no legal barriers to traveling into America that don’t apply to traveling within America.
Nonetheless, facts exist in various parts of the world—facts that warrant certain inspection of incoming foreigners—which do not exist in the U.S. There are countries, for instance, that are strongholds of jihadism. These are places where Islamic law dominates, where children are taught that non-believers must be killed, where people are trained in methods of terrorism, where mosques and madrassas continually preach “Death to America.” Accordingly, immigrants coming from such regions may be temporarily stopped and questioned by U.S. authorities, because there are reasonable grounds for suspicion.
Harry Binswanger answers (HBL #208377): And what is the questioning going to be? “Do you hate America?” “Do you plan on murdering infidels while you are here?”
Police are properly trained to question suspects about concrete facts related to a crime that has been committed, not about convictions or intentions. There is no police work to be done for the hundreds of people from Islamic states going through JFK airport daily. Each person from an Islamic state is a free, self-directing individual not complicit in the crimes committed by others who come from the same culture.