Michael Huemer's Views On Immigration

Huemer and Immigration, Question #1 “Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law”, that quote is from a novel called Breathstrokes of a Gadfly by E.A. Bucchianeri and I believe that it would follow along incredibly well with Michael Huemer’s view on Immigration in the United States. Huemer himself says this “My argument is that U.S. immigration policy is fundamentally unjust.” (Huemer, 153). Huemer believes that the government has no legitimate claim to restricting immigration, and he argues it with his three points, first: it is wrong to knowingly impose severe harms on others, by force, without having a good reason for doing so, second: The U.S. government, in restricting immigration, knowingly and coercively imposes severe harms on millions of human beings, thirdly: The U.S government has no good reason for
He believes that a government should protect the three fundamental rights that every human being has and any laws that impede on these rights are unjust. Huemer concludes that not only the immigration policy is morally wrong but so is the U.S. government, but my problem with his argument is that I do not believe a body of individuals such as a government is not morally wrong. The world we live in is constantly unfair and when looking at from its deepest level there is nothing we can do about it. It is a known fact that some people are born better off than others it is a basic sociological concept. Individuals a born and they are dealt a hand of cards, and they’re life is what they make out of it with those cards that they were dealt. Some would say that those who are better off should help those who were not born in a well to do society, but it is not morally