{"id":2019607,"date":"2023-09-01T16:30:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T20:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-promises-comprehensive-immigration-reform-sowell-warned-against-this-buzzword-years-ago-2\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T16:32:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T20:32:22","slug":"biden-promises-comprehensive-immigration-reform-sowell-warned-against-this-buzzword-years-ago-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-promises-comprehensive-immigration-reform-sowell-warned-against-this-buzzword-years-ago-2\/","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-2%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=2019607&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 are more \u2063revered than Thomas Sowell<\/h2>\n<p><em>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usa-today-asks-is-math-racist-gets-ripped-online-sign-of-cultural-sickness\/\" title=\"USA Today Asks, \u2018Is Math Racist\u2019; Gets Ripped Online: \u2018Sign Of Cultural Sickness\u2019\">free-market economist<\/a>, social theorist and philosopher, Sowell\u2019s work has spanned\u2062 decades and influenced generations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sowell wrote a\u2064 nationally syndicated column, 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 \u2062time again with his \u200bcommon sense, anti-intellectual approach \u200cto \u2062political and\u2064 cultural issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The following story is part of The Western Journal\u2019s exclusive series, \u201cThe Sowell \u2064Digest.\u201d\u200c Each issue will break down and\u2064 summarize one of Sowell\u2019s many influential\u2064 works.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Political buzzwords always \u200dconceal truth<\/h3>\n<p>In fact, they often\u2064 carry the precise opposite meaning of the\u2063 impression they convey. Thus, defending \u201cdemocracy\u201d nearly always entails something authoritarian.<\/p>\n<p>The same holds true for the word \u201ccomprehensive\u201d when applied to immigration \u200breform. In May, \u2063for instance, the White House\u2063 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\u2063 Biden\u2019s Comprehensive Immigration Reform\u200d Bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Eight years ago,\u2063 Thomas Sowell \u2062delivered what amounts to\u2063 a standing \u2063rebuke of such \u201ccomprehensive\u201d plans.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2015 \u2064opinion piece that \u2064appeared in newspapers across the country, including the Palm 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\u2062 Sun<\/a>, Sowell exposed the problem with calls \u2062for \u201ccomprehensive\u201d immigration reform.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The fatal flaw of &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; immigration reform<\/h3>\n<p>First, he noted 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 Democrats and Republicans \u200care responsible for failing to take control \u200cof the borders,\u201d Sowell wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, \u200d<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, \u2063it amounts to a matter of will.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn all the years\u200c that \u200dhave been \u2062spent talking \u200dback and forth about every conceivable\u200d immigration policy \u2014\u2062 and some that are inconceivable \u2014 we could have built the biggest fence of\u2062 all time, backed up by electronics, \u200dboots on the ground and whatever else it takes,\u201d Sowell wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2062political establishment, however, has \u200ddelayed securing the border until it can \u2063find answers to \u200bevery <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 \u2063will-o\u2019-the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-promises-comprehensive-immigration-reform-sowell-warned-against-this-buzzword-years-ago-2\/\" title=\"Biden vows 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform' despite Sowell's earlier warning.\">-wisp called \u2018comprehensive\u2019 immigration reform<\/a>,\u201d Sowell wrote. \u201cIn other words, \u200cwe are\u2064 supposed to \u2062do everything\u200c all at once, \u2064like Obamacare. How well did that turn out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Therein lies \u201ccomprehensive\u201d immigration reform\u2019s fatal flaw. We cannot\u200d do anything, its proponents say, \u2062unless\u2063 we can do everything.<\/p>\n<p>Sowell then rightly observed that \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fbi-trying-track-illegal-migrants-brought-us-isis-tied-smuggler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">border security<\/a> need \u2064not\u2062 wait on \u201ccomprehensive\u201d\u2064 reform. On the other hand, \u201ccomprehensive\u201d reform cannot occur without border security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are very serious and complex questions\u2064 to be confronted before immigration issues are laid \u200cto\u200c rest by new laws\u201d Sowell acknowledged. \u201cBut none of that stops us from taking control of the borders now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, \u201cif the border is not secured, it does not matter what \u200dkind of immigration\u2063 policy\u2063 we have \u2014 or\u2063 think we have \u2014 because\u2064 people will\u2064 cross the borders when they want to, regardless of what the \u2063policy turns \u200bout \u2064to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Eight\u200d years \u200clater,\u2064 Sowell\u2019s\u2063 \u201ccomprehensive\u201d\u200d buzzword translation\u200d still rings true. In practice, attempting\u200d to do everything means accomplishing nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Worse yet, decades \u2064of inaction on this front have raised plausible suspicions. It appears that those who argue for \u2062all-encompassing immigration reform as a precondition to <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 deliberately \u2063inverted the meaning\u2064 of \u200bthe\u2062 word \u201ccomprehensive.\u201d They tell us that they \u200bplan to do everything because they plan to do\u200b nothing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Political buzzwords have that truth-inverting quality<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cComprehensive\u201d means \u201cnothing at all.\u201d \u201cDemocracy\u201d means\u2063 \u201csurrender your rights and freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Small wonder that professional liars \u2064love \u2063their buzzwords.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-promises-comprehensive-immigration-reform-sowell-warned-buzzword-years-ago\/\">Biden Promises &#8216;Comprehensive\u200b Immigration Reform&#8217;: \u200bSowell Warned Against This Buzzword Years Ago<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western\u2063 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. 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