Has the Media Gone Off the Deep End When it Comes to Immigration?
February 8, 2017 By Matt O'Brien 1 Comment
iStock_000066740733_LargeCNN’s Ray Sanchez recently published a piece entitled “Immigration Ban? We Were There Exactly 100 Years Ago Today,” claiming that the Trump administration’s Executive Orders (EO) on immigration are “eerily similar” to the Immigration Act of 1917. It also maintains that they target “some of the same people,” implying that the1917 legislation was simply a jingoistic error.
But is he correct? Not really. First, he mischaracterizes the nature of the restrictions in the 1917 act. Those allegedly “targeted” were, among others, prostitutes and their traffickers, those who advocate the overthrow of the U.S. government by force or violence and anyone who would advocate killing of US officers or officials. Every single one of those classes of aliens is still barred by Section 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), with good reason – they all constitute threats to the national security or public safety of the United States. And they have consistently been barred from the United States for at least the last century. It’s probably safe to say that no one wants to live next door to foreign criminals, terrorists, and human traffickers.
http://immigrationreform.com/2017/02/08/has-the-media-gone-off-the-deep-end-when-it-comes-to-immigration/
