If Sandy Hook was about gun control the Boston Marathon bombing should be about immigration reform

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Steve Dennis


In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre Barack Obama and the Democrats decided to use the attack to push the gun control legislation which eventually failed in the Senate last week. This legislation would have done nothing to stop criminals from obtaining weapons but rather would have made it more difficult for law abiding citizens to obtain firearms to protect themselves from the criminals, but that did not stop the Democrats from pushing this legislation in the wake of this attack.

With Dzhokhar Tsarnaev now in custody and the crisis over (we think) we are going to hear about the need for increased video surveillance on all street corners in major cities and possibly even an increased police presence in the streets, and this will probably be used to justify the domestic drone spying program which is already in the works. This will be the narrative from both the Democrats and the Republicans alike.

Again the focus will be on infringing on the rights of law abiding citizens, asking them to give up a little more liberty for a little more security and much like the Sandy Hook reaction this is misplaced because the focus should be on our immigration and deportation laws.

We now know that the two Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, where Chechen Muslims (with possible ties to al Qaeda) who were brought to this country as children several years ago and at some point became radicalized. And then there is the mysterious story about the Saudi national student who was in America on a student visa: he was injured in the blast and he was a person of interest under guard in the hospital, his roommate confirmed their apartment was searched, and his family allegedly has ties to al Qaeda, yet after an unscheduled meeting between Barack Obama and a Saudi minister (supposedly on the Syrian conflict) it is being reported that he is being deported due to national security concerns.

At this point we still don’t know the whole story behind this student, but something doesn’t seem quite right here. Personally I think the Boston Marathon bombing is an even bigger story than we are being led to believe, and the fact that three other people are being held for questioning, possibly in relationship to the report that the FBI is tracking a terrorist sleeper cell in the United States, and I think my suspicion has been confirmed.

As the Senate prepares comprehensive immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship, while Bostonians and the citizens of the surrounding towns were ordered to stay in their houses and being subjected to (voluntary?) house to house searches, one has to wonder if it is time to step back from this issue and take a second look at our immigration and deportation policy, with the possibility of tightening up our immigration policy and dropping this whole notion of providing a pathway to citizenship for those who have entered the country illegally.

It is true that these two killers entered and were living in the country legally–in fact Dzhokhar Tsarnaev actually gained citizenship in 2012–but it has been reported Tamerlan Tsarnaev was charged and found guilty of domestic abuse in 2009. He could have been deported at that time, and if it is true that he radicalized his younger brother than this is a great example of why our deportation laws should be followed without exception. It is also being reported that the FBI investigated him for ties to extremist groups two years ago and let him go for lack of evidence, we sadly may now have the evidence the FBI was looking for. It seems as if the warning signs were there and this is an attack which could have been avoided.

If Sandy Hook was about gun control the Boston Marathon bombing should be about immigration reform, after all these were people who apparently took advantage of our lax immigration and deportation laws and after the news that two more men connected to the bombing have been arrested on immigration violations we are left wondering how many people have entered this country illegally over the years and are living in the shadows preparing and planning on how to do America harm, and how many of them would gain amnesty if a pathway to citizenship is approved?We are being told that this may be the new normal in America, but it does not have to be.

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