A CINO Speaks Her Mind

The Quote Below—More Misinformation from the Media

“For many mixed status immigrant families — like mine — this post-election period is a time of growing anxiety and fear about what else Donald Trump may do to harm immigrants before he leaves the White House. . . .

“And Trump’s track record also gives us good reason to worry about what could come. From his first moments in office, Trump has used executive action to advance his racist anti-immigrant agenda. . . .

“I grew up in the United States undocumented, first arriving in 1998 at 13 when my parents fled poverty and violence in Quito, Ecuador. . . .

“But after more than 20 years of living in this country, I became a US citizen. My citizenship application was approved, and I was able to petition for my parents, who after waiting for more than a year, were granted green cards this month. . . .

“I voted in my first presidential election this November.

“My vote for Biden was a vote for my immigrant parents, for my brother and for all of the other immigrant families impacted by Trump’s hateful agenda of deportation, detention and family separation.

“And many young undocumented immigrants who couldn’t vote nevertheless played a big role in the months leading up to Election Day, mobilizing their communities to vote for Biden. . . .

“With the stroke of his presidential pen, Biden can do many things to empower and protect immigrants, including several measures he has supported during the campaign trail like reversing all of Trump’s anti-immigrant executive orders; halting all deportations  (Biden has said that he is in favor of doing this temporarily, but it needs to be a lasting measure); . . .

“Immigrants, mostly of color — because of systemic racism and an immigration system built to criminalize them — are being held indefinitely in these facilities for minor violations.. . . .

“We need [Biden] to be the President who rebuilds and leads an America where all people, including immigrants, can live freely and with dignity — an America where all immigrants become equal partners in making this multi-racial democracy better for everyone.” — What Sort of immigration Policies Will Trump Try to Cram in? Families Are Anxious and Looking to Biden, Christina Jimenez Moreta, CNN, 11/30/20. [Link]

Fact Check on Above Quote: Moreta, a former illegal alien, describes herself as a “citizen.” A better name to describe her would be CINO (Citizen in Name Only). Despite her naturalization she shows no sign of assimilating to our country’s core values, most notably respect for law and the rule of law. It doesn’t seem to have crossed her mind that our immigration laws reflect the will of the American people through their elected representatives.

Moreta seems outraged that those laws would inhibit her, her relatives, or anyone else from doing whatever they please. By calling for an end to deportations, she is calling for open borders, which is an invitation to mass migration from around the world. Moreta says her parents came here illegally to escape poverty and violence. Can she not consider that massive immigration would overwhelm us and create those same conditions here? Evidently not. Her obvious bitterness toward this country seems to blind her to the consequences of her viewpoint.

While Moreta remains unassimilated to the values that built America, she seems quite assimilated to the ideologies that are now tearing it down, most notably the politics of victimhood and the playing of the “race card.” In her mind, immigration control has nothing to with the common good or national interest of our country. She sees it as a “hateful” conspiracy of “systemic racism” against “people of color.”

Failure to enforce our laws and impose reasonable limits on immigration will impose more people like Moreta on America. Even as illegal aliens, as she noted, they can play a “big role” in “mobilizing votes.” And if they get the right to vote through amnesty, many of their ballots will be at the expense of loyal and genuine citizens.

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