Word: sovereignity
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...pursuit of a new life. The act of crossing the border without papers has become so commonplace—it is estimated that there are 5 million illegal Mexican immigrants in the U.S. at any given time—that many Mexicans see the ability to cross into another sovereign nation’s territory unfettered as a basic right...
...Mexico, there is outrage from the Mexican government and people. However, this anger is absurd and founded on ridiculous notions. Mexican citizens have no right to free movement between Mexico and the United States, and they must recognize that, while this may not serve their purposes, it is the sovereign right of the U.S. to enforce its laws...
...They see the U.S. “as part of our life, our culture, our territory.” This notion, while touching, is rooted in fallacy. Mexican citizens may see the U.S. as their territory, but this does not make it true; the Unites States is a sovereign nation, and part of being a sovereign nation is being able to define the nation’s boundaries. Mexicans who violate these boundaries, whether for good or ill, are violating U.S. sovereignty and essentially flaunting our laws. This might not seem important to the average Mexican immigrant, who just wants...
...money back to their families. This is well within their rights. The important distinction is the legality of the immigrants, and illegal workers have no right to send currency outside the United States because they should not be here in the first place. The U.S., once again as a sovereign nation, has the right to defend its economy, and illegal Mexican workers sending money back to their country clearly harms America by draining capital out of the U.S. economy...
This is why I find the current situation in Iran to be so truly troubling. President Ahmadinejad in particular seems to have been reading his history books; the vocabulary of legitimacy and sovereign rights figure prominently in his pronouncements defending Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. These sort of relativist arguments are plausible on one level—we have nuclear weapons after all—but fall apart when one notes the extreme paranoia and totalitarianism prevalent in the Iranian regime...