US Denies Visas For Illness, Overlooks Moral Tuberculosis
The Hill informs us that the State Department is leveraging 'certain medical conditions' to deny immigrant visas. Convenient for a nation that once jailed Japanese-Americans en masse, but not so convenient when your allies – or your own representatives – contract the moral equivalent of bureaucratic leprosy. While migrants face rigorous medical scrutiny, our Congress appears immune to tests for
chronic hypocrisy, influence peddling, or severe lapses in judgment. No one seems to be denying AIPAC lobbyists visas, for instance, even as OpenSecrets.org records show they flood campaigns with millions. One might wonder if the conditions are only 'certain' when they aren't politically inconvenient.