Franklin Sanders, whom one of our correspondents noted some time ago is “one of the South’s authentic contemporary heroes”, has an instructive vignette in the latest issue of his newsletter The Moneychanger.

Sunday morning, 7:30. Standing on the balcony of a
Chattanooga motel, I glanced down across the driveway. The
door stood open to the kitchen of the restaurant there, where a
small compact car was parked. Five or six Hispanic men
clustered around the car’s trunk, while a Hispanic woman busily
served up food out of the trunk. One by one the jostling men took
their food and paid the woman. Across the front windshield a
large decal read, “Guatemala.” Across the back of the trunk a
decal read, “Vasquez.

It dawned on me that I was witnessing why Hispanics
succeed in America. No, I don’t mean some trite, moralistic
“they work harder than Americans”… the reason Hispanics prosper is because they are willing
to ignore completely America’s stupid laws and regulations.

Sanders is amongst other things a stern economic libertarian, for which he has paid a high price. Here he concerned to argue that these immigrants are simply seizing economic freedoms Americans used have:

you can’t even open your doors without getting a “license”
from the state. A license, of course, is a permission to do
something that is otherwise unlawful. They’ve made it a crime to
work for yourself.

Perhaps Hispanics are… more hardened to tyranny. Perhaps at home they have become so
inured to it that they know how to handle it better…if the police
catch them, well, they worry about that then. They suffer their
arrest, pay their “fine,”…and then go right back to doing what
God gave them a right to do. They make themselves free to
prosper, while we sit in our own self-imposed chains.

Without necessarily going so far, VDARE.com readers can see that he has a point. If illegals can come here, steal free (and superior) medical care, steal free education (superior? Hmm…) often not pay their full taxes, and, if they remit home, effectively hugely boost the real value of their savings because of the lower cost of living there, they face an entirely different incentive structure to the native born. They are actually privileged. Social stress is inevitable

Hat tip GoldMoney’s James Turk in his latest Free Market Gold & Money Report.