Aside from tax cuts and a tireless bloodlust for forever wars, there’s one thing Republicans of the bygone Bush era never tire of — the mass importing of destitute foreigners who neocons swear are nothing less than patriotic Americans at heart, just itching for a chance to make a meaningful contribution to a country they so dearly love.
It’s beyond childish. What we’ve learned over the course of decades, but particularly in recent months, is that a substantial portion, if not the vast majority of Central and South American migrants thrusting themselves into U.S. taxpayer care is that they view this country as little more than an apartment upgrade.
They’ve switched neighborhoods, not lifestyles.
And they’ve never pretended otherwise. What do they say when asked why they’ve come? It’s not “To be part of the great American experiment.” They invariably say something like, “I come to work.”
That’s why it’s so nauseating to have outmoded Republicans like Marc Thiessen join the rest of his lame peers in the national media rebuking Donald Trump’s remark that the obscene numbers of impoverished migrants pouring over the Southern border are “poisoning the lifeblood” of our country.
“[W]hen immigrants come here and jump into what we used to call the ‘great American melting pot,’ they can become as American as any of us,” wrote Thiessen this week, somehow without gagging.
To be fair, any non-U.S. citizen should theoretically be able to become an American. We have a naturalization process that intends to allow it
