Immigration debates have all but\nceased in America because one side of this issue no longer supports the notion\nof a free exchange of ideas based on a mutuality of respect. As Dick Lamm warned in 1985, left unchecked,\nmass immigration would build \u201ca deadly disunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, the disunity has\narrived. The disrespect now visited upon\ngovernment officials and key influentials has spun out of control. It doesn\u2019t change anything, but these\nnarcissistic asshats are free to gloat about it to their friends on social\nmedia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Exhibit A: Students and activists thought that, rather than let him present his keynote address, it was appropriate to hound and bully Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan offstage at a Migration Policy Institute conference on Monday at Georgetown University Law School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
McAleenan is, by any stretch, one of the more moderate voices on immigration policy in the Trump Administration. And, by all accounts, total legal immigration under this president remains at all-time record highs. So is this the right person to abuse in this manner? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Migration Policy Institute is also hardly an organization that supports reduced immigration or better border control. It is overseen by people like Doris Meissner (Clinton appointee) andDemetrios G. Papademetriou, Democrats closely aligned with a liberalized immigration policy. Arguably they have been two people who\u2019ve helped produce immigration crisis the nation currently faces today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
No one at MPI is particularly aligned with FAIR\u2019s views on any immigration policy issue \u2013 to put it mildly. Any quick glance at the video of the exchange shows that Doris Meissner did a very poor job dealing with the situation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The protesters claim they are from \u201cCREDO\u201d \u2013 described as a\nliberal activist group which no one has ever heard of, of course. It is an ad\nhoc<\/em> group formed for just such irritating, juvenile actions. But other\nstudents were also involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In general \u201cliberal\u201d should imply a commitment to truly\nliberal-minded principles most clearly reflected in our First Amendment\nfreedoms. Their position, apparently\ntolerated by the university, is that First Amendment freedoms on college campus\naren\u2019t really about free speech or free ideas \u2013 they are about the freedom to\nonly hear your own point of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Dean of Georgetown Law, William Treanor, opined that this\ndisruption was unfortunate, and that the school is committed to free\nexpression. Clearly more than a few of\nhis students don\u2019t really care what he thinks. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n In truth, maybe these students don\u2019t care what people think.\nBut I wonder what their parents think? \nElizabeth Warren is frantic over the question of college loan debt, and\nI would imagine many parents are too. It\nmust add salt to their wounds to realize that their children are going into\nsuch debt to gain so many worthless life lessons throughout college and\ngraduate school. Lessons such as, you\ncan learn a great deal in life by refusing to hear alternative points of view. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Immigration debates have all but ceased in America because one side of this issue no longer supports the notion of a free exchange of ideas based on a mutuality of respect. As Dick Lamm warned in 1985, left unchecked, mass immigration would build \u201ca deadly disunity.\u201d Well, the disunity has arrived. The disrespect now visited<\/p>\n