As I tune into some of the most prominent voices on the American right wing, I keep hearing all about the need to “bring back” jobs to America. The notion of “American jobs”—be that in the form of bringing outsourced manufacturing jobs back home or in the form of maximizing employment for locals and minimizing it for foreigners—is antithetical to meritocratic free-market capitalism and to American life itself.

The American empire is routinely scrutinized for its staggering financial deficits and its tragic toll on human life overseas. Yet, the most enduring and permanent legacy of Washington’s endless wars is rarely debated or discussed: mass demographic engineering. For decades, the foreign policy of the United States has operated as a relentless engine of human displacement. The state projects military power abroad under the guise of spreading democracy or securing global stability, only to fundamentally transform America in the process.

Argentina is probably about a year away from electing another Peronist. And the usual Latin American cycle of economic failure will repeat. 

The problem of immigration enforcement has always been a thorny issue for those who prefer to reduce federal power, rather than expand it. This is why Lew Rockwell, years ago, referred to “the tragedy of immigration enforcement.” The agents of the state encourage immigrants to flood across the border and spend taxpayer’s welfare dollars.