Sunset Park mass murder suspect Mingdong Chen is the best reason of all to ditch the blinders and open our eyes to our immigration problems.
The illegal Chinese immigrant is believed by police to have slaughtered his cousin’s wife and four children with a meat cleaver last week because he was jealous of their good life. Cops said Chen’s chilling confession seethed with rage, but not a jot of remorse. Just the type of person we want among us, right?
The galling slayings demand an urgent U-turn on the immigration autobahn that seeks to create legal inroads for illegals, however problematic the route.
Our liberal immigration policy ironically caters to the Chens of the underworld. America was built on the backs of immigrants who scorned handouts and were proud to do their part for their adopted land, but illegal immigrants are turning it into the world’s largest welfare state. Lawmakers, who care more about their next vote than the future of this country, are aiding and abetting them.
The Gang of Eight immigration-reform bill is a sweet piece of legislation for illegals, but a bitter pill for legal immigrants. It would allow undocumented people who arrived before Dec. 31, 2011, and racked up to three misdemeanor offenses — including, but not limited to, assault, battery, identity or document fraud, and tax evasion — to apply for legal status. But people who arrived here legally could face up to $100,000 in fines, 15 years in prison, or be tossed out of the country for the same offenses. The gross inequality is a black eye for a land that fiercely upholds civil rights.
Illegals in California can now practice law, apply for driver’s licenses, hide their status from cops, and sidestep reprisals from employers based on their citizenship, under eight new bills passed last month to expand the illegal immigrant footprint in the Golden State.
The benefits of illegal immigrants — if any — are more than absorbed by the expense of harboring them. Increasing numbers of undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Central America are giving birth, burdening hospitals, and costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. An estimated 70 percent to 80 percent of the 10,587 births at two Texas hospitals in 2005 were born to people who came here illegally.
Unchecked immigration is hazardous to our national security, too. More than half of the 48 Islamic radicals convicted or linked to U.S. terror plots in the last 10 years were illegals or miscreants who solicited illegals for fake IDs, notes the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
Lax immigration laws give rise to mocking attitudes. And the illegal immigrants attending an immigration law hearing in North Carolina last year proved the point. They burst into laughter, when the president of a legal immigration advocacy group spoke about the many North Carolinians whom illegal aliens had killed.
Lawful immigrants are America’s strength, but illegal immigrants have become its weakness, leaving decent, law-abiding, tax-paying Americans to pick up the slack.
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