I have to disagree with Mr Hornberger. Land is taken to house illegal immigrants. Stolen money (taxes) is used for housing, food, medical care, transportation. During WW II the Soviet Union had a strong presence in Mexico (Leon Trotski was assassinated in Mexico). It has been suggested “terrorist” types are freely crossing our Southern border. Perhaps if we had spent the last 130 years building free market relationships, raising everyone’s standard of living, instead of overthrowing, assassinating and invading (see War Is A Racket by General Smedley D. Butler) we might not be in this situation.

Even as a dumb kid I used to think wouldn’t it be better if the other countries in our hemisphere were in good shape and on our side – just in case.

by Jacob G. Hornberger

The so-called “border crisis” is a massive failure because it does not allow property owners to defend their property.”

Alas, Ferguson has it wrong. Private property owners on the U.S. side of the border have the right, both legally and morally, to defend their property from trespassers. 

A writer at Substack named David Ferguson writes:

Robert Frost once wrote “good fences make good neighbors.” Very true. Isn’t there any private property on the U.S. side of the border? Doesn’t a property owner have the right to defend his justly obtained property? How about hiring private police to keep intruders from trespassing on your property? The so-called “border crisis” is a massive failure because it does not allow property owners to defend their property.”

Alas, Ferguson has it wrong. Private property owners on the U.S. side of the border have the right, both legally and morally, to defend their property from trespassers. 

I know this from personal experience. I grew up on a farm outside Laredo, Texas, a city on the U.S. Mexico border. Our farm was adjacent to the Rio Grande. Under the law, we had the right to keep trespassers, whether American or Mexican, from entering onto our property without our permission … with one exception.

That exception was the U.S. Border Patrol. Under America’s immigration police state, it had the omnipotent, totalitarian, police-state power to trespass onto our property without a search warrant whenever it wanted, and there was nothing we could do about it.

The reason that immigrants cross onto private property is because of America’s system of immigration controls, which makes it illegal for foreigners to enter the United States without official permission. Since it is very difficult and time-consuming (i.e., years) to secure such official permission, immigrants find ways to illegally enter the United States, which lots of times entails crossing the border at unusual places and, in the process, trespassing onto people’s private farms and ranches in the quest to head north. 

If the United States had the libertarian system of open borders, there would be no more trespasses onto private property because now immigrants would be free to cross borders normally like human beings. They would be using cars, buses, planes, motorcycles, trains, or any other means of transport, without fear of being busted for doing so. There would be no more reason to be trespassing onto private farms and ranches on the way north.

Ferguson has it right when he says that the “border crisis” is a “massive failure.” But he has it wrong in asserting that it’s a “massive failure” because “it does not allow property owners to defend their property.” 

The reason the immigration-control system is a massive failure is because it is a socialist system, in that it is based on the socialist principle of central planning. Any socialist system is inherently defective. That means it cannot be fixed, no matter what “comprehensive immigration reform plan” is adopted. Moreover, as we continue to witness, an immigration-control system comes with death, suffering, and the destruction of liberty through an immigration police state. 

The only system that works is a free-market system, which necessarily means the libertarian concept of open borders. It’s also a moral system, given that it comes with life, liberty, vitality, peace, harmony, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Letter: Blumenfeld tells well owners they now must pay for their own water

by 24Richie

You think you own your home and land? Refuse to pay taxes and you will find out whom is the real owner.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-07-20/california-wants-you-pay-state-using-your-own-water

By Ken Kurson

Legend has it that Jed Clampett “was shootin’ at some food / When up through the ground come a bubblin’ crude.”

The Beverly Hillbillies’ transformation into instant millionaires illustrates one of the oldest conceptions in the western world: What’s on your land belongs to you. This idea predates the founding of America. If you find gold in your backyard, that resource belongs to you.

California wants to change that.

A source near San Diego has shared with California Globe a shocking letter that’s quietly being delivered to owners of private wells.

“California is marching toward a world where those with wells on their own property will be required to put a meter on them and pay the government,” writes the source. “Because in their world, the government owns everything and we’re just renters.”

The letter is signed by Natalie Stork, the Chief of Groundwater Management Program Unit 1, and was sent in late July on the letterhead of California Water Boards, under the authority of Gov. Newsom and Jared Blumenfeld, Secretary for Environmental Protection. Buried beneath the bureaucratic acronyms GSA and SGMA (Groundwater Sustainability Agency and Sustainable Groundwater Management Act) is an extremely aggressive conception of government authority and its dominion over private property.

The letter reads, “Landowners whose property is within an unmanaged area and contains an operating ground water extraction well must report the volume of groundwater extracted from the well. The groundwater extraction volume must be reported as a monthly total. In addition to pumping volumes, reports must include the location of the well and the place and purpose of use of the groundwater. Groundwater extraction reports are not due to the state water board until February 1, 2023. However, if you are required to report, the report must include pumping volumes for each month between the date of receipt of this letter and September 30, 2022.”

This is not merely a bureaucratic hassle. There are fees, of course. The base filing fee is $300 per well, which all extractors are required to report. Then there’s an additional fee of $10 per acre foot with a meter, $25 per acre foot without. Tardy filers face a late fee of 25% per month.

California Globe reached out to Ms. Stork and SGMA to inquire how widely this letter was sent and where the State Water Resources Control Board derives the right to charge well owners for water on their own property. This story will be updated to include her comment if either responds.

Meanwhile, the ramifications for property rights are enormous.

See the rest here

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