Kathryn: With all due respect to your correspondent from Heritage, what does Yalta have to do with controlling America’s borders? In any case, as of one of the authors of the 9/11 Commission’s staff report on “terrorist travel” (i.e., immigration controls) said in the Washington Times today, “All this would do would be to open up another loophole for people to get into the country at a time when we have yet to secure our borders against possible threats.” The casual approach to border control by supporters of this change is clear from the comments of Dan Griswold of Cato, who said “I guarantee you the president was not talking about Saudi Arabia.” Maybe not, but why wouldn’t “Saudi” Arabia qualify? Isn’t it our ally? Once we start loosening the rules for visa waiver, there will be no way not to include the Saudis and Kuwait and the UAE, because anything else would be Islamophobic.
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Mark Krikorian is the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
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