Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
\nTrump\u2019s executive Order on immigration and refugees is causing angst, but not analysis.\u00a0 We need analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>For years, I\u2019ve used the lifeboat analogy to discuss immigration.\u00a0 There\u2019s only so much room in the lifeboat, only so many rations.\u00a0 There are 7,000,000,000 people in the world who want better lives which, for most of them, means coming to the United States.\u00a0 We can\u2019t take them all: they\u2019ll swamp the boat.\u00a0 See, for example, Europe today, and that was only a million immigrants.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Lately, it occurs to me the lifeboat is the wrong analogy.\u00a0 A lifeboat implies a temporary accommodation until help arrives.\u00a0 But the rest of the world is worse off than we are.\u00a0 Help will never arrive.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>The United States is more like a medieval castle when invading armies arrive, everybody heads for the castle and they slam the gates shut. There\u2019s a limited supply of water and food and limited space.\u00a0 Extra people endanger the survival of everyone already there. They close the gates every night, for that reason.\u00a0 Yes, the wolves may eat you, if you arrive late and the gates are already shut for the night; but the gates will not be opened for you in the dark when it’s possible for invaders to slip in.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>In the intelligence world, it’s night right now.\u00a0 Governments collapsed, sources compromised, consulates sacked, refugees and raiders look alike.\u00a0 We can’t tell friend from foe so nobody gets in until daybreak when we can sort them out.\u00a0 Daybreak will arrive when the intel for background checks and deep vetting is strong enough to trust, however long that takes.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Even after our intel improves, we need to choose carefully who we let in because their kids become our new citizenry.\u00a0 Carlos and Maria might be ecstatic to get jobs as gardeners and hotel maids in America, but their kids will grow up watching MTV and wearing Nikes.\u00a0 They won\u2019t be thrilled to take menial jobs.\u00a0 Second generation Somalis are the ones going on jihad, here and abroad.\u00a0 N-th generation Blacks are the ones insisting their lives matter.\u00a0 \u201cGrateful\u201d is not an inherited trait.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Western Civilization, and particularly our constitutional republican form of government as we know it in England and America, is a relatively recent development and a very small part of human history.\u00a0 If that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to preserve in the castle until the Dark Age ends, we need to be very choosy indeed.\u00a0 We need the best, brightest, hardest working immigrants with morals and cultural values most compatible with our own.\u00a0 Reuniting Carols and Maria\u2019s extended family of unskilled laborers is heartwarming, but more unskilled labor is not what the nation needs to prosper.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Trump temporarily halted immigration from countries that sponsor terrorism.\u00a0 I\u2019d go further and impose a temporary moratorium on ALL immigration, ALL refugees, until we sort out our national priorities and institute procedures to ensure new arrivals don\u2019t threaten our national survival.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just for me \u2013 I\u2019ve already lived most of my life in a clean, safe America \u2013 it\u2019s for my grandkids.\u00a0 Do I want them to grow up in Minnesota or Mogadishu?<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
To many on the left, \u00a0the fact that you worked and sacrificed enough to build a place worth fleeing to makes you unworthy of being there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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