Sahar Khodayari set herself on fire.
Sahar Khodayari set herself on fire in protest, rather than be jailed for the crime of attending a soccer match in Iran as a woman. As she lay dying, the courts affirmed her sentence.
Where was your outrage in September?
100 protesters, no older…
I’m a Republican, and it’s become hard to talk to my friends about the issues that matter to me. Politics should be a contest of ideas, but instead it sounds more like a late-night talk show; a popular comment lacking real substance, personal accusations at the expense of anyone who…
For Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the border crisis is all about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Every step of the way, she has recklessly positioned herself as the focal point of this humanitarian crisis. …
In January, when 47,980 illegal immigrants were apprehended at our southern border, it was a manufactured crisis. 5,107 were unaccompanied children.
In the words of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer, “This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis…”
In February, when…
Dear Shayna Lavi and Viktorya Saroyan,
Thank you.
On May 14, San Francisco State University Arab and Muslim Ethnicities Professor Rabab Abdulhadi told students in a UCLA anthropology class that Jews who support Israel are white supremacists.
This vile brand of anti-Semitism, marketed as thinly veiled anti-Zionism, has infected classrooms…
Part 10: On DACA and a Path to Citizenship
No single component of immigration reform can stand on its own and succeed — policy changes must be comprehensive and holistic.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) participants should be given a one-time path to citizenship, but ONLY after there remains…
Part 9: We Must Secure the Border.
Immigration reform does not exist in a vacuum, and every change has a consequence — every action has a reaction. The scales must be balanced, and the solution approached holistically. Let’s say we’ve been successful in achieving moral immigration policy reform this far.
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Part 8: The Perverse Incentives of Our Asylum Laws
No moral immigration policy reform can exist without a drastic overhaul of our asylum infrastructure.
The asylum system is broken, and our laws have an immoral consequence — they have effectively created an open border, incentivizing a dangerous journey and the…
Part 7: The Immorality of our Current Immigration Policy
As we begin to dive into the morality of our current immigration policies, let’s review and establish our framework.
- We are morally obligated to provide aid when we can (an obligation we must seek to maximize), but it is not…
