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9/11 Proved We Need Less Third World Immigration And Instead We Got More

Admitting people from Third World countries where there is instability, hostility, and anti-American sentiment carries risks that no airport scanner can fix.

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As we approach the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks, Americans are still taking their shoes off, throwing out water bottles, and undergoing full-body scans before boarding an airplane. It’s all part of the security protocols Washington established after 19 Muslim terrorists came to the country, hijacked four planes, and murdered nearly 3,000 people.

And while the government changed the way Americans travel in response to the 9/11 attacks, it refused to do the one thing that would have prevented the terrorist attack (and many future ones) in the first place: stop letting in Third World foreigners.

If there was one obvious lesson from 9/11, it was that immigration is a national security threat and admitting people from Third World countries where there is instability, hostility, and anti-American sentiment carries risks that no airport scanner can fix.

In fact, the Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States warned that “border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy” even after the attacks. (Notably, the commission’s final report acknowledged that “in the decade before September 11, 2001, border security — encompassing travel, entry, and immigration — was not seen as a national security matter.”)

Yet, instead of stopping immigration from those parts of the world, Washington decided to do the opposite and actually continue to import more immigrants from those areas, which highlights the problem with the government’s response to 9/11. We may take away water bottles, bolt cockpit doors, and make Americans prove they’re harmless before flying, but we did little when it came to a key culprit: immigration from countries and cultures that produce a........

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