Michael Badnarik

Last Updated:
September 1, 2004

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Campaign Web Site: www.badnarik.org

Main Campaign Address:

Badnarik/Campagna 2004 Headquarters
Suite 100
6633 Highway 290 East
Austin, TX 78723
Phone: (512) 637-6860
or 1-800-807-7552
Fax: (512) 419-7023

However, send all donations and correspondence to:

Badnarik for President
P.O. Box 140226
Austin, Texas 78714-0226

E-Mail: CampaignManager@badnarik.org

REDUCE LEGAL IMMIGRATION -- opposes

On his website, Mr. Badnarik advocates "open, easy immigration for the peaceful." He is against restricting legal immigration. Below is an extensive excerpt from the "Immigration, Borders, and National Security" page of his website:

"Peaceful immigrants should be allowed to enter the US at conveniently located Customs and Immigration stations, subject only to brief vetting to ensure that they are not terrorists or criminals. They should not be forced by restrictions or quotas to place their lives at risk by crossing the border at remote locations, often under the guidance of ruthless "coyotes" who are as likely to leave them to die as to get them safely across, and to then lead lives of fear of detection, detention and deportation. I do not regard the existence of the social "safety net" as a good excuse for excluding immigrants. The welfare state needs to be eliminated. It would need to be eliminated whether immigration was an issue or not.

"Not only are immigration restrictions bad policy in and of themselves, they make national defense a more difficult task. Immigrants crossing into the US illegally, because they were denied legal entry for no good reason, provide cover, by sheer dint of numbers, for terrorists and criminals. The black market in smuggling humans constitutes a vector for bringing the nation's enemies into our homeland."

To read Mr. Badnarik's full statement on immigration, go to http://www.badnarik.org/Issues/Immigration.php.

CHAIN MIGRATION 

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VISA LOTTERY

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ANCHOR BABIES

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AMNESTY: LONG WORK PERMITS FOR MOST ILLEGAL ALIENS

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IMPORT LOW-SKILLED WORKERS -- supports

Mr. Badanrik believes in allowing in an unlimited number of legal immigrants, certainly many of whom would be of working age.

[For more on how high immigration hurts American workers, click here.] 

To read Mr. Badnarik's full statement on immigration, go to http://www.badnarik.org/Issues/Immigration.php.

HIGHLY SECURED BORDER -- opposes/SUPPORTS

From Mr. Badanrik's web page entitled "Immigration, Borders and National Security":

"As a Libertarian, I reject a conception of national defense that keeps American troops overseas, meddling in the affairs of other nations. Instead, I advocate a national defense which, sans any attack which might require retaliation elsewhere, focuses on the logical area: the nation's borders. As president, I would work to eliminate the Border Patrol and treat border issues as what they are: defense issues coming under the mission and scope of the armed forces. In an age where the equivalent of a large invasion force can be packed into a suitcase-sized box containing nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, no lesser response will do. "

To read Mr. Badnarik's full statement on immigration, go to http://www.badnarik.org/Issues/Immigration.php.

VIGOROUS WORKER VERIFICATION

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FEDERAL AND LOCAL COOPERATION TO REMOVE ILLEGAL ALIENS

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 [For an accurate summary of what the CLEAR Act and the Homeland Security Enhancement Act would do, click here.]

FEDERAL FORCED DOUBLING OF U.S. POPULATION -- supports

Michael Badnarik currently favors policies that will not only change the United States from a country of 293 million people today to 571 million at the end of the century, according to the Census Bureau, but would lead to an untenable cycle of growth.

His support of an unlimited number of legal immigrants would ensure that U.S. population would continue to exponentially increase.

Click here to view a detailed version of the massive population growth being caused by current immigration numbers which this candidate wants to make even larger.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Born August 1, 1954 in Hammond, Indiana, Michael Badnarik has worked as a computer programmer, instructor, and consultant since he first worked for Commonwealth Edison in 1977. He became interested in the U.S. Constitution in 1983 and began a life-long journey in self-study of this founding document of the country he is so proud to call his home. He was put-off by the "politics of politics" until his greater understanding of the Constitution led him to the Libertarian Party and a renewed optimism.

Mr. Badnarik was the Libertarian candidate for Texas House of Representatives (Austin-area) in 2000 and 2002. He made his official announcement as a candidate for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination on February 17, 2003 (Presidents' Day) and won the nomination at the Libertarian Party National Convention in Atlanta on May 30, 2004.

Email Mr. Badnarik about his immigration positions at: CampaignManager@badnarik.org

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