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CAPSULE COMMENTARY: “Immigration Policy Hypocrisy”

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“The pure, pristine hypocrisy of Republicans is reflected in the case of Elian Gonzalez. Republican presidential candidates are vehemently protesting the INS’s plans to return the boy to Cuba, suggesting that communism is so horrific that the boy should be permitted to remain in the U.S. rather than be returned to Cuba. Oh, yeah? Well, then why have Republicans for years been supporting the Clinton administration’s involuntary repatriation of Cuban refugees (including women and children) back into communism? The Republican presidential candidates are suggesting that the boy’s father should be free to come here and live with his son. Does this mean that they are now willing to open the U.S. immigration gates to all Cuban fathers (and mothers) who wish to bring their children to the U.S.? Why one and not the others?”

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Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education. He has advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows and he appeared as a regular commentator on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show Freedom Watch. View these interviews at LewRockwell.com and from Full Context. Send him email.