Is the Post Un-American?

More Misinformation from the Media:

While there are undoubtedly instances of terrible crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants—as there are by authorized immigrants, and green card holders, and it goes without saying citizens—they are hardly the rule. In fact, young immigrant males are incarcerated at roughly half the rate of native-born Americans. Illegal immigrants, like legal ones, are generally law-abiding and extremely hard working. – Trump Sticks with un-American Immigration Plans, Washington Post Editorial, 9/5/16.

Fact Check: This editorial is a long screed against President Trump’s proposals to enforce U.S. immigration laws. And just what is “un-American” about enforcing laws that the American people have enacted through their elected representatives? Is it the Post’s view that Americans are un-American, or that democracy and our country’s rule of law are un-American? Maybe the Post is less than fully American for suggesting these things. Without immigration laws we have no control over who comes to our country and what they might decide to make of it. In that situation we have no country we can truly call our own.

As one example, we have immigration laws in order to screen out foreign criminals. As a consequence, it may be that legal immigrants have a lower crime rate than natives. This might be the basis of the Post’s claim about fewer “young immigrant males” being incarcerated. But that claim seems to conflate legal immigrants with illegal immigrants, as the next sentence definitely does by stating that both groups are “generally law-abiding.”

Let that assertion sink in. People who willfully break our immigration laws are “generally law-abiding.” With this statement, the Post’s editors are revealing their true premise, namely, that immigration laws are so insignificant that they should not even be thought of as laws. Once again, this surely implies that our citizenship and our country are meaningless too.

But is it true that illegal aliens are less likely than natives to commit crimes for which they are arrested and incarcerated? The truth is that the data available do not provide a definitive answer. Still, significant evidence indicates that illegal aliens are more crime-prone in terms of arrests and incarceration.

Furthermore, they commonly break a number of laws—in addition to illegal residence—which seldom result in arrests. And these are not victimless crimes. They harm American workers by taking jobs they are not authorized to take while depressing the wage levels of those jobs. They benefit from social programs intended for American citizens.

About half of them are paid under the table at their jobs. As they pay no federal or state income taxes, they are practicing the crime of tax evasion. And when they do pay those taxes they often get refunds from the government. Illegal aliens consume much more in services than they pay in taxes.  Almost all illegal aliens use fraudulent IDs, some of them stolen from American citizens—which causes those citizens extreme inconvenience.

The Post’s editors don’t seem to have much concern about citizens, as is typical of America’s elite classes and the journalists who express their viewpoints. Thus some of these pundits deemed it controversial when President Trump stated that America should put Americans first. For a patriotic Americans it is hard to understand why such a statement would be controversial. A disturbing but reasonable explanation is that those who find it controversial aren’t patriotic.

 

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