The top Democrat on the House’s immigration committee wants to compensate illegal migrants and also punish American law enforcement officers for enforcing Congress’s immigration laws.
“The people that have been inflicting this harm [on migrants] need to be prosecuted,” Indian immigrant Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said Friday at a “shadow hearing” she hosted. “They need to be brought before us, and they need to be held account [sic] for the trauma that they have created, and we are going to have to have some form of reparation for the kids and the families that have been traumatized through all of this.”
Jayapal’s March 27 comments spotlight the apparent emotional horror that many progressives feel towards the enforcement of United States borders and citizenship rules.
Progressive empathy for illegal migrants — including criminal migrants — has largely replaced the left-wing empathy for poorer citizens, such as industrial workers in the 1930s or many African-Americans in the 1960s.
But this recent redirection of empathy from citizens towards illegal migrants is a fundamental attack on American society — because it rejects the preferential and reciprocal obligations among American citizens.
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