A short answer for the Amnesty advocate at your Thanksgiving Dinner
I wrote this for a friend for her use last week:
Our parents and grandparents came into the country legally. It only makes sense that immigrants should be screened for contagious diseases (like Ebola) and disabilities that will render them a public charge. It is estimated that 41% of our current illegal alien population is on some form of welfare.)
Also, we live in dangerous times. Don't the American citizens deserve to know that we aren't letting in violent felons (whose countries would be happy to see the backs of), gang members (MS13), drug runners and drug smugglers, and terrorists? Terrorists are clever, and they will see this weakness and exploit it. In fact they already have. Minnesota has become a seedbed of Somali-born terrorists with US Passports.
It is fatuous to contend that a nation has no right to further its own interests in its immigration policy. Countries are not charitable institutions. Charity is private individuals and private groups helping the unfortunate. Institutions are places we put crazy people like Paul Krugman to keep them from bothering people or (God forbid!) contributing to the formation of immigration policy.
When Thomas Jefferson wrote
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false." ~Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:225 \
he had newspapers like the New York Times in mind.
Our parents and grandparents came into the country legally. It only makes sense that immigrants should be screened for contagious diseases (like Ebola) and disabilities that will render them a public charge. It is estimated that 41% of our current illegal alien population is on some form of welfare.)
Also, we live in dangerous times. Don't the American citizens deserve to know that we aren't letting in violent felons (whose countries would be happy to see the backs of), gang members (MS13), drug runners and drug smugglers, and terrorists? Terrorists are clever, and they will see this weakness and exploit it. In fact they already have. Minnesota has become a seedbed of Somali-born terrorists with US Passports.
It is fatuous to contend that a nation has no right to further its own interests in its immigration policy. Countries are not charitable institutions. Charity is private individuals and private groups helping the unfortunate. Institutions are places we put crazy people like Paul Krugman to keep them from bothering people or (God forbid!) contributing to the formation of immigration policy.
When Thomas Jefferson wrote
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false." ~Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:225 \
he had newspapers like the New York Times in mind.
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