12/07/2020
Once upon a time, children — long, long ago — we had institutions we called "insane asylums" for crazy people. That was before we became progressive and humane. Nowadays we give crazy people their freedom, so they live on the streets, pick up a drug habit if they didn’t already have one, harass normal citizens, and occasionally cut the throats of little children playing in the park. Thank God for progress!
We no longer have insane asylums, of course. Instead we have asylum insanity.
The essence of asylum insanity is permitting people to settle permanently in your country if they can offer immigration officials a sufficiently persuasive hard-luck story. Giving them permanent residence is the "asylum" part of "asylum insanity." The "insanity" part is setting the bar for "sufficiently persuasive" absurdly low.
The sheer amazing concentrated essence of asylum insanity in Britain was captured by a headline in the London Daily Telegraph, December 4th. You need to know that Priti Patel, right, is Britain’s current Home Secretary, approximately equivalent to Attorney General. OK, headline:
Murderers and rapists could be barred from claiming asylum as part of Priti Patel’s crackdown on immigration.
You could carve that onto Britain’s tombstone.
Are our own asylum rules as insanely suicidal as Britain’s? If they are, let’s take what comfort we can in reflecting that not even a Biden administration packed with swivel-eyed America-haters could make them any worse. Could it …?
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