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| Victor Davis Hanson: The Subordinate Citizen |
| 2022-06-16 |
| [ZeroHedge] I recently led a group of about 100 citizens on a tour of Israel for nearly two weeks. Before returning to the United States, all participants had to indicate their vaccination status and take a COVID-19 test for reentry. Anxieties swept the group as Israeli testers swabbed them. Anyone testing positive would have to delay his or her return. That quarantine would entail spending thousands of dollars in finding scarce hotel accommodations, additional living expenses, and rebooked airline tickets—depending upon the length of the mandatory sequestration. Contrast this to the tens of thousands of foreign nationals now mustering to cross illegally into the United States this summer. They follow the already 2 million who’ve entered the country unlawfully since Joe Biden became president. Does any foreign national worry about being tested for COVID-19, much less fear being turned away if he tests positive or lacks proof of vaccination? Or do we scrutinize far more carefully U.S. citizens entering their own country legally than we do noncitizens crossing our borders unlawfully? For that matter, the government is still determined to fire thousands of federal workers and U.S. military personnel who have refused the new mRNA vaccinations. Most citizens who declined to be vaccinated feared that the injections were dangerous to their health or ineffective in preventing COVID-19 infections, and that they wouldn’t necessarily lead to herd immunity. Are 2 million unvaccinated foreigners arriving unaudited from impoverished countries less of a threat during the pandemic than fully audited American citizens employed by the federal government? Why would we fire unvaccinated Americans but welcome equally unvaccinated noncitizens? The Biden administration blasted Trump’s southern border wall and canceled all further funding. Yet Biden just appropriated $40 billion to Ukraine to ensure it doesn’t lose its border war against Russian aggression. That’s a tiny percentage of the federal budget. But the aid is full of symbolic irony nonetheless. The multibillion-dollar appropriation would have more than covered the completion of the entire southern border wall. An outside observer might conclude that the U.S. government intends to uphold the universal idea of national sovereignty, internationally recognized borders, and the security of citizens inside its own country—as long as they’re not American citizens. |
| Posted by:The Walking Unvaxed |