OPINION
It’s not racist to screen out migrants who’ll be a burden
By Jonathan S. Tobin
August 12, 2019 | 8:32pm | Updated
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Last week’s mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, has sent public discourse about immigration off the rails.
It has allowed radicals to frame as racist normal law enforcement activities and immigration rules. We saw this in New York recently, with anti-ICE protesters stopping traffic on the West Side Highway and holding sit-ins at an Amazon store to protest the company’s compliance with immigration rules.
In the left’s telling — and it’s increasingly hard to distinguish the hard left from the soft — the administration and those who support it are no better than the insane white nationalist who committed the El Paso atrocity.
Similar hysteria has greeted a new Trump administration regulation governing legal immigrants’ access to public welfare. The New York Times depicted the new rule as part of an effort by the president and his hard-line immigration adviser, Stephen Miller, to “shift” the demographic makeup of newcomers to the country.
Under the new rule, those who are in the country legally will have a more difficult time obtaining green cards or gaining citizenship if they received food stamps, housing assistance, Medicare or other public benefits.
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2019/08/12/sorry-but-its-not-racist-to-screen-out-migrants-wholl-be-a-burden/
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It isn’t surprising that those who advocate open borders and wish to abolish ICE would also oppose public-charge laws. But it ill behooves those who claim to champion the rights of immigrants to take a stand that essentially demands that Americans to go along with prioritizing the needs of newcomers.
To maintain America’s pro-immigration consensus, immigration must be seen as about opportunity — not welfarism.
Jonathan Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.org and a contributor to National Review. Twitter: @JonathanS_Tobin
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