“American immigration policy should serve the interests of America and Americans. That sounds obvious.” So begins Dan McLaughlin’s cover piece, “America’s Asylum System Is Broken,” in the new issue of NR. Yet “this is not the premise of two major areas of our immigration law as they exist today: asylum and refugee law and Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Each is grounded in humanitarian concern for the interests of potential immigrants, with little thought for American interests.”

Dan explains how we got here: During the Cold War, our humanitarian immigration policy brought in political refugees fleeing communist persecution who were “often the most pro-liberty, pro-democracy people in their societies.” When those immigrants succeeded here, “they undermined the ideological foundations of communism” in the countries they left behind. Today, “TPS systematically prefers people from the most dysfunctional societies of the third world. . . . We are selecting for the people least likely to be........

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