Ilhan Omar posts racist tweet suggesting Latinos are incapable of succeeding in merit-based immigration system

By Robert Laurie
Published May 29, 2019 at 7:18am

Conservatives have repeatedly made the case that they’re not against immigration. They embrace the notion of people coming to the United States for a better life, but they want it to be done legally. They’d also like to see the US embrace the kind of immigration system we see in much of the rest of the world, where the best and brightest hopefuls are given preference. After all, the more you have to offer, the more Americans would like to see you make a new home in the States.  That only makes sense.
It’s called merit-based immigration, and the faster we adopt it, the better.
Unfortunately, the usual suspects are opposed to it. They claim that virtually any restriction on immigration is an immoral monstrosity that needs to be eliminated post-haste. Yesterday, Ilhan Omar argued that it’s also deeply bigoted.
Why? Because according to a racist tweet she posted – and later deleted – Latinos simply can’t measure up to the rigors of merit-based immigration.

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The implication, obviously, is that if we demand immigrants bring something to the table, we’re attacking Latinos – because Ilhan Omar seems to think they’re incapable of offering anything of value.
Can you imagine the outrage if Herman Cain had posted that? What if that feed was controlled by Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh? How about Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, or any other prominent Republican?
Democrats would be utterly apoplectic. There would be boycotts, recriminations, and calls for resignation.  They would never stop screaming about the inherent racism of that statement. So far, they’ve been silent on this.
Ted Cruz, however, was not.
Ilhan Omar’s position – that you can broad-brush an entire ethnicity as unable to compete – is the real racism. I suppose, given her oft-illustrated propensity for anti-Semitism, we shouldn’t really be surprised by it. At this point, it’s just par for the course.

I guess Nancy Pelosi will have to tell us more about how Omar doesn’t really understand what she’s saying.