Adding to the case for mandatory birth control

My co-blogger makes a great point:

The welfare state isn't just social policy; it's culture. Immigrants coming here can have no rational expectation of loafing; the children of loafers are habituated to it from childhood.

Getting loafing class members born on our side of the invisible map line from loafing at our expense is going to be harder than shutting off the tap; we should be able to wean those born on the other side immediately, without fear of violence.

So, assuming that welfare state concerns are cause enough to shut the border, then sterilizing the poor is a far more urgent need. After all, loafers born here are "habituated to it from childhood," while immigrant loafers are just making a utility calculation. Telling people in line for concert tickets that the price just went up causes an outcry; telling people who have been told from birth that they have a right to those tickets will cause a riot. Clearly, in the interests of social harmony and fiscal responsibility, every welfare check must come with a tubal ligation/vasectomy.

Of course Bryan doesn't want to close the border, but I think it's important to emphasize where this sort of thinking leads and how inescapable the dichotomy is. Demanding closed borders pretty quickly forces you to reveal yourself either as a chauvinist or as a eugenicist.

Historically of course anti-immigration and pro-eugenics sentiment have been closely intertwined; the connection I am making between the two is less something new and more about reminding the anti-liberty, anti-humanity closed border crowd about some of their old alliances.