{"id":14454,"date":"2009-09-18T07:39:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T12:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14454"},"modified":"2009-09-18T07:39:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T12:39:37","slug":"immigration-policy-bass-ackwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14454","title":{"rendered":"Immigration policy bass-ackwards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, President Obama said that if we want to give health care to illegal immigrants, we should have a policy in place to make them all legal, according to the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

President Obama said this week that his health care plan won’t cover illegal immigrants, but argued that’s all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage.<\/p>\n

He also staked out a position that anyone in the country legally should be covered – a major break with the 1996 welfare reform bill, which limited most federal public assistance programs only to citizens and longtime immigrants. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s fine – but my 32 years experience of dealing with US immigration laws and immigration officers tells me that the government is more concerned with immigrants who shouldn’t be here than they are with immigrants who have a legal and moral right to be here. For example, another story in the Washington Times<\/a> about a military widow who is having problems staying here;<\/p>\n

Hotaru Ferschke just wants to raise her 8-month-old son in his grandparents’ Tennessee home, surrounded by photos and memories of the father he’ll never meet, a Marine who died in combat a month after marrying her from thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n

Sgt. Michael Ferschke was killed in Iraq in 2008, leaving his widow and infant son, both Japanese citizens, in immigration limbo: A 1950s legal standard meant to curb marriage fraud means U.S. authorities do not recognize the marriage, even though the U.S. military does. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems to me that the government would go out of it’s way to help a mother and child who, in their short lives have sacrificed more than most citizens will ever sacrifice in their entire lives. But, just like security procedures at airports are designed more to harass average passengers than actually catch potential terrorists, our immigration officers are more focused on harassing potentially legal immigrants than halting the influx of illegal immigrants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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