Excerpted from Angela Morabito’s article for the Washington Examiner – without further comment, because it speaks so eloquently for itself:
Now that Republican leaders are finally addressing chain migration, Democrats and the media have decided that the very name “chain migration” is taboo.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told CNN, “Look what they’re doing with family unification, making up a fake name, chain. Chain, they like the word ‘chain.’ That sends tremors through people.”
Both Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., have claimed the term is racist against Hispanics and African-Americans. However, chain migration brings people to America from all over the world – it’s not confined to one race or even one continent. Democrats sure do hate “chain migration,” but this wasn’t the case until Republicans started talking about ending it.
In fact, Durbin himself confidently name-dropped chain migration when speaking at a Senate Judiciary Hearing last October. At that same hearing, Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, – herself a naturalized U.S. citizen who immigrated from Japan – said the words “chain migration” while discussing her own family’s immigration experience.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., called chain migration by its name in 2007, as did Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., in 1996. None of their fellow Democrats so much as raised an eyebrow. In fact, in 2013, every single Senate Democrat voted in favor of a bill to end the chain migration of siblings.
Fast-forward to the current immigration debate, and Democrats now insist that chain migration is a right – all while objecting to its very name. The New York Times called chain migration a “weaponized phrase.” Politico called it a “myth,” “straight from the playbook of some hate groups.” Salon, of course, falsely claimed that it originated with the Nazis.
Life is so easy when the referees are on your side…
