One of the nation’s top immigration experts said the Obama administration’s decision not to institute an Ebola flight ban is reflective of a broader problem—that the country’s political elites do not feel comfortable using immigration law to protect Americans.
Appearing on Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125, Mark Krikorian, the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), told host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that America’s bipartisan permanent political class “don’t really like the idea of keeping people who want to come here out.”
He said the basic problem is that “our political class is not comfortable with the idea of using border controls and using immigration law to protect Americans.”
Krikorian added that this is not specific to the Ebola crisis and mentioned the recent border crisis, involving thousands of illegal immigrants from Central America, and the 9/11 terrorists, who overstayed their visas before attacking the World Trade Center.
He emphasized that “regular, consistent, strict enforcement of regular immigration laws is one of the most important parts of protecting the country,” but “our political class just doesn’t like that idea” because “they really see themselves as citizens of the world.”
Krikorian said it was an open question whether President Barack Obama wants to first and foremost protect the American people “even if that inconveniences foreigners.”
He added that much of the country’s elite, including Democrats, liberals, libertarians, and business conservatives think “border controls are nuisances that they see as needing to be dialed down as much as they can get away with.”
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