A roast of this [every human on earth has the “legal right” to come to the U.S.A.]

Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston, Massachusetts, is going viral for saying that every human on earth has the “legal right” to come to the U.S.A.

 One-word roast:

• Fallacyfest

Two-word roast:

• Rights inflation

Three-word roast:

• Consent isn’t optional
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Full roast:

This reads like someone stapled a “Free Entry” sign to the Constitution and called it jurisprudence. There is no statute, clause, or precedent that grants eight billion people a legal right to enter the U.S.; Congress explicitly regulates immigration, visas, quotas, and admissibility. Asylum is narrowly defined, not a universal passport. Calling it a “legal right” is make-believe law.

This is also swapping moral sentiment for legal entitlement. Negative rights restrain government force; they don’t conscript citizens to provide housing, services, and infinite budget for anyone who shows up. Claiming “every human has a legal right to enter” is like saying every passerby has a legal right to your living room—until it’s your doorbell ringing at midnight.

Fallacies and flubs:

• Equivocation: Confusing human dignity with a positive legal entitlement to enter a specific polity.
• Non sequitur: From “people deserve compassion” to “therefore, they have a legal right to cross this border.”
• False dichotomy: Pretending it’s either open-borders-for-all or hatred/xenophobia.
• Motte-and-bailey: Selling “legal right” as if it exists, then retreating to “well, it should be allowed” when pressed.
• Category error: Treating a nation—with property, budgets, and institutions—as a public park with infinite capacity.
• Appeal to emotion: Trying to override consent, law, and tradeoffs with feelings.

From a pro-freedom, anti-statist lens, it’s worse: unlimited entry under a welfare-regulatory state doesn’t create liberty; it mandates a megastate—registries, surveillance, rationing, tax hikes, emergency powers, and bureaucratic gatekeepers. That’s how you take a bad idea and grow the very authoritarian machinery you claim to oppose. The irony? The people chanting this keep locks on their own doors, live behind HOAs, and hire security for their events—apparently, “everyone’s right to enter” stops at their driveway.

You don’t abolish lines by declaring everyone first in line. You just abolish consent—and grow the state.