Kim is a bit shocked that Rand Paul doesn’t like ICE. That isn’t anything new, since the Pauls are staunch libertarians, and are therefore opposed to borders and border enforcement. Read the LP platform yourself:
We support the removal of governmental impediments to free trade. Political freedom and escape from tyranny demand that individuals not be unreasonably constrained by government in the crossing of political boundaries. Economic freedom demands the unrestricted movement of human as well as financial capital across national borders.
Yet another reason why I can’t be a libertarian. You can’t get rid of borders until you get rid of government giveaways. An open border cannot coexist with a welfare state. It’s math.
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milton · February 12, 2026 at 10:07 am
You can’t get rid of borders until you get rid of government giveaways.
what does their platform say about government giveaways?
maybe rand paul just has the order wrong.
Pete · February 12, 2026 at 12:04 pm
The age of mass migration has exposed the great flaw in libertarianism: If you have open borders, a whole lot of people who *aren’t libertarian* will come in. Soon you’ll find yourself facing a large tribal collective that wants to take your stuff.
ghostsniper · February 12, 2026 at 3:34 pm
You’re overlooking one thing. Do you have illegal immigrants trespassing on your property? If not, what if they tried to?
The gov’t owns all the land along the borders and does very little to safeguard it. (Put the US military’s on guard along it, like I used to do on the east german border when I was in the army in the 1970’s). Thus, there will always be criminals coming across.
But, if normal people owned the land along the border they would do whatever it takes to keep the criminals at bay or dead.
Michael · February 12, 2026 at 4:05 pm
ghostsniper plenty of Texas ranches are on the TX Mexico border.
SNIP The Roosevelt Reservation is the 60-foot-wide (18 m) strip of land owned by the United States’ federal government along the U.S. side of the U.S.–Mexico Border in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Federal and tribal lands make up 632 miles (1,017 km), or about one-third, of the nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of border. Private and state-owned lands constitute the remaining 67 percent of the border, most of which is located in Texas.[1]
They’re not happy with coyotes transporting people across their lands but it’s miles of distance and even Ranchers have other things to do beside patrol the boarder.
Rick T · February 12, 2026 at 6:38 pm
In the private ownership scenario all you need is one free migration idiot and Katy Bar The Door, invaders will be flowing in thru his open door. The only way to stop him is to twist the non-aggression clause all out of shape to claim his open border is infringing on your rights….
L. Neil Smith wrote fiction.
Pete · February 13, 2026 at 3:13 pm
Sure, you may be able to kill the first couple of drug/human traffickers that come across your land, but then you’ve angered a cartel with access to military armaments. Now you have to form a collective defense with all your neighbors to patrol your borders day and night watching for attackers. And maybe a couple of your neighbors are old women or disabled, so they can’t patrol or defend themselves. Now you all have to patrol their land too.
Since you (presumably) already all have jobs, you don’t have time to patrol, so you pool your money and pay a mercenary company to guard the border instead…so you’ve basically re-invented a mini-country with its own border and army and we’re back to using force to prevent free movement of people anyway.
Might as well just use the nation-state and border patrol that we already have.
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