Trump’s new immigration rule exposes the current system as a global welfare scheme
by Eddie Scarry
Has anyone checked to see if CNN’s Dana Bash still has a job after accurately reporting on the Trump administration’s new immigration rule?
The White House announced Monday that it was instituting an awaited rule that bars immigrants from legal permanent residency in the U.S. if they need or are likely to need welfare assistance. On Tuesday, Bash was able to calmly and precisely describe the purpose of the new rule, even while looking back at the pack of wolves sweet guests who joined her on the panel.
“The president has said he wants to move the legal immigration system to a merit-based system,” Bash said on New Day. “What he means by that is people who can come and have money, people who can come and live without needing the assistance of the U.S. government.”
Wow, a normal person might say to themselves, do we really bring in hundreds of thousands of foreigners each year needing millions of dollars in food and housing assistance courtesy of the American taxpayer?
Why yes, normal person. Yes, we do.
You could almost hear CNN viewers around the country holding their breath to see if Bash would be dragged off set by her hair for not doing the standard CNN thing when discussing any new Trump proposal, which is for the correspondent to knit their eyebrows, look solemnly at the camera and question whether America’s moral fabric can survive yet another assault.
Not to worry, though. Bianna Golodryga and John Avlon were there to show Bash how it’s done.
Golodryga said it was “absurd” to put a standard in place that says “people can’t just come and rely on our safety net.”
Avlon took a page out of his colleague Jim Acosta’s book and cited the poem on the Statue of Liberty, as though the monument were a governing text rather than a foreign import that requires tens of thousands of tax dollars each day to remain vital (just like most of our new immigrant arrivals!)
“What this new policy does,” said Avlon, “is say, [get the f— out].”
Minor correction: What the new policy says is, if you’re an immigrant unable to contribute to American society rather than suck it dry of its resources, then GTFO.
Nothing exposes the Democratic Party’s and the national media’s position on immigration like their fire-breathing defense of any and every poor person’s right to come to the U.S.
They have no such right — unless they jump with children across the Rio Grande into Texas and claim asylum, and then yes, they have that right. (Thanks, Democrats!) Otherwise, entry into the U.S. should be the greatest privilege the Earth has ever seen.