Wissam Allouche and the Touchy Problems of Immigration

Parties on various sides of the immigration in the United State have largely primarily on issues surrounding Hispanic immigrants because there are a lot of them and numbers get attention. Human Rights Watch, for example, created a handy-dandy checklist for the Senate version of the immigration bill, including what it calls "Creating immigration law enforcement that... focuses on genuine threats to national security." [Emphasis added] National security, however, is unmentioned, as the HRW concerns itself with: rules for detaining and imprisoning immigrants; rapid prosecutions on the southern border; preventing the use of excessive force; racial profiling; prosecutions of "immigrants who are particularly vulnerable," and easing the "difficult process" of obtaining asylum. The "genuine threat" to national security is inability of the U.S. Government to vet potential immigrants, the lack of transparency in certain countries regarding the activities of people who lived and worked there,...(Read Full Article)

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