After the attack on two National Guardsmen, it’s time to raise the immigration bar:
It’s long past time America’s immigration optimists and restrictionists came to an arrangement.
For a decade now, these two groups have been locked in an impassioned, sometimes vicious battle over how best to preserve the country they both cherish.
And for the most part, that fight has taken place within the confines of the GOP — the only party ready, willing and able to have an honest conversation about migration and its downstream effects on America’s very character.
On Wednesday, that fight resumed in earnest when Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who came to the United States amid the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from his country, allegedly opened fire on two National Guard troops in Washington, DC.
One of those troops, Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, succumbed to her wounds.
The other, Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, remains hospitalized in critical condition.
Though Lakanwal’s exact motive is not yet known, what is self-evident now is that he never had any intention of becoming an American.
Well, perhaps in the formalistic sense he did.
After all, American citizenship conveys more benefits than practically any other title in human history.
And that’s precisely why the bar for bestowing it upon anyone, from any country, should be high.
Spiritually, though, Lakanwal never would have bled Red, White, and Blue, not even if he had passed a 100 different iterations of the citizenship test. His heart was never in the American creed.
Which brings us back to the aforementioned, hard-fought immigration debate.
On Friday, President Donald Trump weighed in on the matter in characteristic fashion.
“I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover,” announced Trump on X.
It’s a rational sentiment in light of recent events, but not the right prescription.
Over the short term, some kind of de facto moratorium might be in order.
But over the long term, America deserves a sustainable immigration system that keeps the bad apples out, yet also continues to allow it to benefit from the dynamism — as well as the regular infusions of a distinctly American spirit — that the right kind of immigrants provide. --->READ MORE HERE
Afghani lunatic proves we must totally overhaul our immigration system:
Afghan “refugee” Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s alleged murderous rampage in Washington, DC, raises major red flags about America’s hopelessly flawed immigration system — perhaps enough to finally trigger fundamental reform.
The details of whether and how Lakanwal got vetted are (for this purpose) beside the point: The far larger issue is the insane proliferation of programs that admit foreigners, each with different standards for everything — not just for whether the authorities adequately assess the risks.
Having worked with the CIA in Afghanistan, Lakanwal seems to have entered with his family under a “special immigrant visa” program following Biden’s disastrous bugout.
But that’s just one program that focuses on asylum claims; the nation has dozens of systems large and small for legal admission, a jury-rigged patchwork because the politicians keep adding new ones rather than rethink everything.
That the system permits bad hombres like Lakanwal (let alone the various gangbangers and other menaces Biden waved in) to ever step foot on American soil is only one of many flaws: For example, it also blocks rapid entry of people most of us would love to welcome.
The system is indeed broken, but Democrats’ solution — let anyone in, then legalize them — misses the point.
The foundation of the system should be supporting immigration as it benefits America and Americans.
Instead, our decades-old base immigration law heavily favors . . . “family reunification,” which is routinely gamed into “chain migration,” using up the legal slots that could increase, say, the skills of the nation’s workforce.
Add-on programs to address that issue are kludges in their own right: Major companies (and minor grafters) exploit H1-B visas to serve their own short-term needs, with US citizens needlessly displaced by foreigners willing to work on the cheap. --->READ MORE HERE
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