Near-Suicidal Immigration Policies [VDH]

National Review ^ | 4/25/2013 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Servant of the Cross]

What does it take to get deported? More than you would think.

Deportation has become a near-taboo word. Yet the Boston bombings inevitably rekindle old questions about the way the U.S. admits, and at times deports, foreign nationals.

Despite the Obama administration’s politically driven and cyclical claims of deporting either a lot more or a lot fewer non-citizens, no one knows how many are really being sent home — for a variety of reasons.

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Unless the government can assure the public that it is now enforcing immigration laws already on the books, that foreign nationals must at least avoid crime and stay off public assistance, and that it is disinclined to grant asylum to “refugees” from war-torn Islamic regions and then allow them periodically to go back and forth between America and their supposedly hostile homelands, there will be little support for the current immigration bill.

In short, the Tsarnaev brothers have offered us a proverbial teachable moment about what have become near-suicidal immigration policies.

[Servant of the Cross]

Unless the government can assure the public ....

Bzzzzzzz. The current occupier of the oval office can't assure squat. Based upon his past actions, whatever he says is to be automatically disbelieved.

Ergo ... kill the immigration bill now.

[BlatherNaut]

there will be little support for the current immigration bill

There was little support for Obamacare.

[NonValueAdded]

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In short, the Tsarnaev brothers have offered us a proverbial teachable moment about what have become near-suicidal immigration policies.

[tet68]

VDH Bump.

[Servant of the Cross]

VDH ping

[neverdem]

Thanks for the ping.

[Brad from Tennessee]

The current mess can be traced back almost 50 years to Ted Kennedy.

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20777

[Hardastarboard]

Our lords and masters don’t give a D@MN what happens to us peasants. They live in a protected bubble. They only care about political power, and how to maintain it.