{"id":2019600,"date":"2023-09-01T16:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-promises-comprehensive-immigration-reform-sowell-warned-against-this-buzzword-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T16:27:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T20:27:47","slug":"biden-promises-comprehensive-immigration-reform-sowell-warned-against-this-buzzword-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-promises-comprehensive-immigration-reform-sowell-warned-against-this-buzzword-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden vows &#8216;Comprehensive Immigration Reform&#8217; despite Sowell&#8217;s earlier warning."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-promises-comprehensive-immigration-reform-sowell-warned-against-this-buzzword-years-ago%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2019600&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Few figures in conservativism \u200care more revered than Thomas Sowell<\/h2>\n<p><em>A \u200dfree-market economist, \u200bsocial theorist and philosopher, Sowell\u2019s work has spanned decades\u2064 and\u2064 influenced\u2064 generations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sowell wrote a nationally syndicated column,\u200b authored dozens of books and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/history-the-left-erased-the-founding-fathers-helped-obliterate-slavery\/\" title=\"Leftist historians have erased the crucial role of the Founding Fathers in abolishing slavery.\">dazzled television audiences time<\/a> and time again with his common sense, anti-intellectual approach to \u200dpolitical and cultural\u2064 issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The following story is part of The Western Journal\u2019s exclusive series, \u201cThe Sowell Digest.\u201d Each issue \u200bwill break down and summarize one of Sowell\u2019s many influential works.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Political buzzwords always conceal truth<\/h3>\n<p>In fact, they often \u200bcarry the \u200bprecise opposite meaning of the impression they convey. Thus, defending \u201cdemocracy\u201d nearly\u2063 always entails something authoritarian.<\/p>\n<p>The same holds\u200d true for \u2063the word \u201ccomprehensive\u201d when applied to immigration\u2064 reform. In May,\u2064 for instance, the\u2063 White House released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2023\/05\/11\/statement-from-white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-on-house-democrats-reintroducing-president-bidens-comprehensive-immigration-reform-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> on \u201cHouse Democrats Reintroducing President \u2063Biden\u2019s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Eight years ago, Thomas Sowell delivered what amounts to a standing rebuke of such \u201ccomprehensive\u201d plans.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2015 opinion piece that appeared in newspapers across the country, including\u2063 the Palm\u2062 Springs (California) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/2015\/11\/21\/sowell-stop-delaying-borders-security\/76128890\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Desert Sun<\/a>, \u2063Sowell exposed the problem with calls for \u201ccomprehensive\u201d immigration reform.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The fatal flaw of &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; immigration reform<\/h3>\n<p>First, he noted\u2063 that the guilt for failing to secure the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/illegal-migrants-mexico-assault-border-patrol-agent-us-canada-border-chief-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">border<\/a> rests with the entire political establishment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth \u2062Democrats and Republicans are responsible for failing to take control of\u2063 the borders,\u201d Sowell wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-promises-comprehensive-immigration-reform-sowell-warned-against-this-buzzword-years-ago\/\" title=\"Biden vows 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform' despite Sowell's earlier warning.\">border security involves practical problems<\/a> with immediate solutions. Thus, it amounts to a matter of \u2062will.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn\u2064 all the years that have been spent\u200c talking \u2062back and forth about every conceivable immigration policy \u2014 and some that are inconceivable \u2014 we\u2062 could have built the biggest fence\u2062 of all\u2063 time,\u2064 backed up by electronics, boots \u200con\u2063 the ground and whatever else it takes,\u201d Sowell wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The political \u2064establishment, however, has delayed securing the border until it can find answers to every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/illegals-defeat-locals-turn-former-high-school-shelter-despite-judges-ruling-massive-outcry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immigration<\/a>-related question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, many have been pursuing the will-o\u2019-the-wisp called \u2018comprehensive\u2019 immigration reform,\u201d Sowell wrote. \u201cIn other words, we \u200care supposed \u200bto do everything \u2064all at once, like Obamacare. How well did that turn out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Therein lies \u2062\u201ccomprehensive\u201d immigration \u2062reform\u2019s fatal flaw. \u2062We cannot\u2063 do anything, its\u200c proponents say, \u2062unless we can do everything.<\/p>\n<p>Sowell then \u2062rightly observed that\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fbi-trying-track-illegal-migrants-brought-us-isis-tied-smuggler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">border security<\/a> need not wait on \u201ccomprehensive\u201d reform. On the other hand, \u201ccomprehensive\u201d reform \u200dcannot occur without border security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are\u200b very\u2062 serious and complex questions to be \u200cconfronted\u2062 before immigration \u200dissues are laid to rest\u2063 by \u200bnew laws\u201d Sowell acknowledged. \u201cBut none\u200d of that stops \u2063us from taking control of the borders now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed,\u200b \u201cif the \u2063border is not secured, it does not matter what kind of immigration policy we have \u2014 or think we have \u2014 because people will cross the borders\u200b when they want to, regardless of \u2062what the policy turns out to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Eight years later, Sowell\u2019s \u201ccomprehensive\u201d buzzword translation still rings true. In \u2062practice,\u200c attempting to do everything means accomplishing nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Worse \u200cyet, decades of inaction on this front have raised plausible suspicions. It appears that those who argue for all-encompassing immigration reform as a precondition to \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-reveals-1-priority-retakes-white-house-biden-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">border security<\/a> in fact have\u200b deliberately inverted the meaning of the word \u201ccomprehensive.\u201d They\u200c tell us that \u2063they plan to do everything because they plan to do nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Political buzzwords have that truth-inverting quality. \u201cComprehensive\u201d means \u201cnothing \u200dat \u200ball.\u201d \u201cDemocracy\u201d means \u201csurrender your rights and freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Small\u200d wonder\u2062 that professional liars love their buzzwords.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-promises-comprehensive-immigration-reform-sowell-warned-buzzword-years-ago\/\">Biden\u200c Promises &#8216;Comprehensive \u2063Immigration Reform&#8217;: Sowell\u200c Warned Against This Buzzword Years \u200bAgo<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>conservative icon Thomas Sowell, a respected economist, philosopher, and social theorist, has left an indelible mark on generations. With a nationally syndicated column, numerous books, and captivating TV appearances, his practical, anti-intellectual perspective on political and cultural matters has earned him widespread admiration and reverence in conservative circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":2019601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2019601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}