Don Goldwater is a Republican candidate for Arizona governor. He also happens to be the nephew of Barry Goldwater — Senator, 1964 Republican nominee for president, and the last actual limited-government candidate to run for national office. Regardless, he has thrown gasoline on the already insanely heated debate over illegal immigrants by “call[ing] for the creation of forced labor camps” instead of incarcerating or deporting them, using them “as labor in the construction of a wall and [to] clean the areas of the Arizona desert that they’re polluting.”
The perfect retort kinda wrote itself:
If we’re going to crack down on illegals and arrest them, we shouldn’t just send them to some prison cell and let them live off the taxpayers. We should make them earn their keep: Have them do construction work, pick crops, wash dishes, and so forth.
Oh, wait…
