{"id":11895,"date":"2019-07-12T09:41:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11895"},"modified":"2019-07-12T09:41:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:41:03","slug":"a-modest-immigration-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-modest-immigration-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modest Immigration Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) believes that American detention centers that house illegal aliens \u2014 over 1 million illegal arrivals during the last six months alone \u2014 are similar to \u201cconcentration camps.\u201d A storm of criticism met her historically fallacious comparisons. Ocasio-Cortez doubled down on her Hitlerian reference by pedantically claiming that she was referencing \u201cconcentration\u201d rather than \u201cdeath\u201d camps, and thus despite sloganeering \u201cNever Again,\u201d with a wink and nod, she was supposedly not suggesting that Auschwitz was quite comparable to America\u2019s border facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She then doubled down again by visiting the border. On the basis of no evidence, she was soon claiming that detained illegal aliens were drinking out of toilets, as well as alleging that immigration officers met her social-welfare activism with rudeness and sexual innuendo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where to start with her abject historical ignorance?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One, America\u2019s detention centers bear no resemblance to concentration camps of the past. Illegal aliens know that there is some chance that, after they enter the U.S. illegally, they may be apprehended and detained. If they really believed the conditions of their detention resembled \u201cconcentration camps,\u201d which historically are scenes of mass death, they would never have come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millions of Russians by summer 1942 were not voluntarily flooding across German lines on the expectation that they\u2019d survive, much less thrive, in Nazi \u201cconcentration camps.\u201d The German public did not pressure the Nazi hierarchy to allow lawyers and counselors into Soviet POW camps. Boer children did not migrate to British territory on the rationale that their detention would be without hazard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/07\/progressive-colleges-can-house-illegal-immigrants-dorms\/\">Read the full article here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) believes that American detention centers that house illegal aliens \u2014 over 1 million illegal arrivals during the last six months alone \u2014 are similar to \u201cconcentration camps.\u201d A storm of criticism met her historically fallacious comparisons. Ocasio-Cortez doubled down on her Hitlerian reference by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-35R","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12677,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-few-cracks-in-the-progressive-wall\/","url_meta":{"origin":11895,"position":0},"title":"A Few Cracks in the Progressive Wall","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The\u00a0contemporary progressive agenda \u2014 of, say, an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, or Elizabeth Warren \u2014 has rarely appealed to 51 percent of the American electorate. 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