{"id":21200,"date":"2019-03-08T08:51:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=21200"},"modified":"2019-03-08T08:51:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:51:13","slug":"the-myth-of-racist-border-security-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/03\/08\/the-myth-of-racist-border-security-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth Of “Racist” Border Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On March 6, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen testified<\/a> before the House Committee on Homeland Security on the subject of \u00a0\u201cThe Way Forward on Border Security.\u201d Some of our elected representatives asked helpful and insightful questions and offered useful information about the border crisis and our broken immigration system. Others preferred to ask \u201cgotcha\u201d questions, take swipes President Trump, offer misleading emotional claims, or simply lecture or even berate Secretary Nielsen. One such exemplar \u2013 although one representative of much of the left\u2019s narrative on immigration \u2013 was Representative Al Green (D-Texas).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The  congressman\ndid not take the opportunity to ask the head of the DHS any questions (unlike,\nsay, Rep. Lou Correa, a fellow Democrat from California, who asked many probing\nand intelligent questions). Nor did he seem particularly interested in anything\nSecretary Nielsen had to say or the details of the border crisis. Instead, Mr.\nGreen chose to grandstand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He began his moralizing sermon by reading Emma Lazarus\u2019 famous poem, \u201cThe New Colossus\u201d (\u201cGive me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses\u2026\u201d.), which advocates of open borders frequently quote to rationalize the failure to secure the border. Then, Green unequivocally accused President Trump, Secretary Nielsen, and Americans supporting common-sense immigration reforms of racism and white supremacism. The real <\/em>reason the administration and so many Americans believe there is a national emergency on the southern border, Green alleged<\/a>, is that they fear that America has \u201cexceeded\u201d its \u201ccolor quota.\u201d In other words, immigration reformers are racist white supremacists concerned only with keeping out \u201cpeople of color.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The representative from Texas was apparently\nday-dreaming or napping when Secretary Nielsen (and several other members of\nCongress) laid out the numerous threats stemming from our failure to secure the\nborder, including the potential of our system being overwhelmed, the\nrecord-breaking amounts of drugs flowing in, the numbers of migrants being\nraped or otherwise facing violence along their journey north, and the national\nsecurity implications of an open border. Perhaps he simply does not follow the\nnews very much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also seems that Rep. Green thinks that lighter-skinned aliens attempting to sneak into the country are somehow waved through and given a free pass by the Border Patrol. Any Border Patrol agent \u2013 including the approximately 51 percent of agents who happen to be Hispanic<\/a> \u2013 could have quickly disabused Mr. Green of this delusion had he only bothered to speak to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his quest to indict immigration reformers as racists, Congressman Green ignored the fact that minorities \u2013 especially African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and other minorities \u2013 are among the biggest victims of unchecked illegal migration<\/a>. This is one of the reasons why the late Civil Rights leader and a fellow Texas Democrat, Representative Barbara Jordan,<\/a> vigorously championed bipartisan immigration reform in the spirit of the American national interest. This is something that our legislators should consider revisiting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On March 6, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security on the subject of \u00a0\u201cThe Way Forward on Border Security.\u201d Some of our elected representatives asked helpful and insightful questions and offered useful information about the border crisis and our broken immigration system. Others preferred to ask \u201cgotcha\u201d<\/p>\n

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