Is pretty American
The targeted shootings on Wednesday last week of two National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C. were a nightmare. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died after being shot. Her colleague, Andrew Wolfe, 24, is still reportedly “fighting for his life.” The alleged shooter is an Afghan refugee and former CIA battlefield asset admitted to the country under a Biden administration program and given asylum status in April under the Trump administration. He is hospitalized with gunshot wounds sustained during his capture.
When Americans commit mass shootings, as they often do, conservatives offer thoughts and prayers, as they often do, declare shooters mentally ill, as they often do, and warn the left not to politicize the shootings.
But raging xenophobes like Stephen Miller feel no such constraints. He declared that “importing” men, women, and children “at scale” from “broken” countries simply leads to them turning ours into another failed-state hellhole.
X-user Tabitha throws that argument back in Miller’s face:
Ah yes, the classic “importing societies” lecture from the guy whose great-grandparents fled pogroms with nothing but the clothes on their backs and somehow didn’t recreate Tsarist Russia in Pennsylvania.
Funny how that magic transformation worked just fine for the Miller family, but suddenly stops functioning when the skin is browner and the prayers face Mecca.
We need security, yes—but humane, targeted, and blind to race or origin.
Immigrants from “failed states” have lower crime rates than native-born Americans, built more businesses per capita, and many of the Afghans you’re targeting literally risked their lives helping U.S. troops. But sure, keep cosplaying 1924 immigration quotas while pretending it’s about “security” and not demographics. We see you.
NY Times Pitchbot satirizes Miller’s argument that such people are unable to assimilate as Americans. He shot multiple innocent people, didn’t he?
Stephen Miller says Afghan immigrant Rahmanullah Lakanwal was incapable of assimilating to American culture. But a factcheck shows that Lakanwal used a gun to assault and kill multiple innocent people. Four Pinocchios.
He allegedly used a .357 Smith & Wesson.
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