Since I’m on the subject of Minnesota Somalis this morning, see this story about how a Supreme Court decision this week helped show us again how Socialist Open Borders advocates, like Somali US Rep Omar, are ignorant of US immigration history.
The Minnesota Democrat was slammed on social media after she tweeted her reaction to a Supreme Court decision in favor of the Trump administration’s new immigrant wealth test.
Omar quoted from Emma Lazarus’s famous poem etched on the Statue of Liberty in her tweet Monday, asking her nearly two million followers to retweet “if your immigrant ancestors wouldn’t be let in if this means tested immigration policy was in place then.”
The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 vote on Monday on the public charge rule***, handing Trump a victory in enforcing the new immigration policy unveiled last August which allows officials to reject efforts to obtain green cards, visas and entry into the U.S. for anyone who might need to rely on public benefits, such as Medicaid and food stamps.
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Omar’s finger-pointing backfired as Twitter users pointed out that when their “immigrant ancestors” did come to America, there were no welfare programs to subsidize their assimilation.
The rule requires immigration officials to assess factors including an applicant’s age, health and assets, while expanding the list of off-limits public services to include Medicaid, food stamps and housing subsidies.
Pregnant women, children, refugees, asylum seekers and certain members of the military are generally exempt.
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Over the years I have often thought, and spoken aloud to others, that the two worst things ever said by an American are Lazarus’s disastrous “Give me your tired, your poor” etc., and Oliver Wendall Holmes’s insane “Better to let a hundred guilty men go free than to condemn one innocent man.” A much better one of Holmes is “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
Over the years I have often thought, and spoken aloud to others, that the two worst things ever said by an American are Lazarus’s disastrous “Give me your tired, your poor” etc., and Oliver Wendall Holmes’s insane “Better to let a hundred guilty men go free than to condemn one innocent man.” A much better one of Holmes is “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”