QOTD: Laura Ingraham
by digby
LAURA INGRAHAM: This, in my mind, raises all sorts of questions. I mean, again, we don’t know who did this, motivations, all of that. But it is interesting that at this moment — we are considering legalizing or giving regularized status to millions of people. Pretty much none of them have gone through any rigorous background checks, to have a temporary status in the United States.
And we don’t — I just think that there are all sorts of security implications aside from the other arguments on immigration — national security implications that we don’t talk about with enough frankness and I think certitude here. We can’t stop every attack, but my goodness, if we had borders that were shut down and we actually had a proper screening process, maybe we could stop some of them.
Right. Because undocumented workers perpetrating bombings has long been identified as a huge problem in America. It’s a shocking oversight on the part of our law enforcement. We really need to get on that.
Meanwhile, the good news is that we’re on board with thorough background checks on American citizens, right? No? Oh, I forgot, Americans are good and “they’re” evil. In fact, it’s downright unpatriotic to ask Americans to undergo a background check for any reason at all — even if they’re buying weapons for which the only possible use is to kill people.
We all know that God-fearing Americans cannot, by definition, commit acts of terrorism (unless they are left wing, in which case they are communists and therefore not God-fearing) so it’s all good.
Update: Ooops. It looks like Ingraham’s not alone:
Representative Steve King of Iowa, a prominent House conservative, says Congress should be cautious about rushing immigration reform, especially after Monday’s bombing in Boston, where three people were killed.
“Some of the speculation that has come out is that yes, it was a foreign national and, speculating here, that it was potentially a person on a student visa,” King says. “If that’s the case, then we need to take a look at the big picture.”
On immigration, King says national security should be the focus now, and any talk about a path to legalization should be put on hold.
“We need to be ever vigilant,” he says. “We need to go far deeper into our border crossings. . . . We need to take a look at the visa-waiver program and wonder what we’re doing. If we can’t background-check people that are coming from Saudi Arabia, how do we think we are going to background check the 11 to 20 million people that are here from who knows where?”
The kook faction has officially weighed in.
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