The real issue is government bloat, inefficiency, and overreach. Massive welfare programs, public education systems, healthcare entitlements, and regulatory barriers make any large influx of people expensive — not because immigrants are inherently costly, but because the state has built expensive, inefficient systems that socialize costs while privatizing benefits.

Our position is simple and consistent:

• Government should dramatically shrink its footprint so that voluntary economic interactions (including migration) stop being a burden on taxpayers.

• End corporate welfare, occupational licensing, and artificial labor market distortions that distort wages and incentives.

• Abolish or severely limit welfare programs that create perverse incentives for illegal entry.

• Secure borders through efficient, minimal means — not trillion-dollar surveillance states or endless pork-barrel wall projects.

• Let peaceful people work, trade, and associate freely without needing permission from the state.

Fiscal responsibility does not mean better cost accounting of human lives. It means getting the government out of the business of picking winners, subsidizing losers, and turning every new arrival into another excuse for bigger government.

We are not anti-immigrant. We are anti-waste, anti-bloat, and pro-freedom. The best immigration policy is the one that requires the smallest, least intrusive government possible.