Priorities

In their expression of concern about the potential plight of immigrants who lie on their naturalization papers the editors of the Washington Post have a tiny, little problem. They don’t cite a single example from real life of the abuse they’re concerned about. The case before the Supreme Court they’re commenting on involved a woman who lied about her husband’s likely participation in the Bosnian genocide, which would seem to me a significant fabrication.

Should we have forgiven the Nazi prison camp guards for lying on their applications for naturalization? I would think not. Neither immigration nor naturalization are rights. They are privileges. It does not seem to me to be too much to ask of applicants for citizenship that they tell the truth on the most important form they’re ever likely to fill out.

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  • Guarneri Link

    “They don’t cite a single example from real life of the abuse they’re concerned about.”

    Heh. Lot of that going around too.

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