Sen. Tom Cotton shreds anti-fact, anti-Trump NYT immigration article

In a strongly worded tweetstorm on Christmas Eve, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., took the liberal bias of the New York Times to task over a fact-challenged article on immigration policy.

On Dec. 23, the Times published a lengthy article criticizing President Trump's immigration agenda. Claiming that Trump was "stoking fears," the Times characterized the views of Americans who support President Trump's immigration policies as "nativist," suggested that the president was somehow attempting to defy the government, got the facts wrong about refugees in several places, and misrepresented a statement Sen. Cotton made to boot.

So Cotton had a "few thoughts" to share:

I have a few thoughts on this story about @realDonaldTrump & his immigration policies... https://t.co/Ap9CLl5EEk

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) December 24, 2017

1. It's a very peculiar view of American democracy to say the elected president is "defying" the unelected bureaucracy. I suspect @nytimes would never run that headline about, say, President Obama.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) December 24, 2017

2. It's not a "nativist view" to say immigration policy should be crafted to benefit American citizens, not foreigners. Slandering "white working-class Americans" with that term is an example of the closed thinking that helped Trump win.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) December 24, 2017

3. Likewise, I did not use, nor would I use, the phrase "anti-immigrant conservatives." Again, you can thank this kind of thinking for Trump's victory, Brexit, Merkel being unable to form a government ... I could go on.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) December 24, 2017

4. The State Department does not set annual refugee numbers under the law. That responsibility belongs to @POTUS alone. State can advise; he decides.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) December 24, 2017

5. Plus, President Obama only increased refugee quota to 110k in final years of his tenure, partly as a result of his disastrous Syria policy. Average actual refugee admissions (not paper quota) is close to where @realDonaldTrump set it this year.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) December 24, 2017

6. And it's plainly better & cheaper to keep refugees in their region than to remove them. I've been to a Syrian refugee camp. They wanted to go home, not go to Europe or US. Besides, we can't possibly resettle every potential refugee out of their region.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) December 24, 2017

7. The way to solve a refugee crisis is not immigration policy, but wise foreign policy. Eight years of feckless foreign policy under President Obama is one reason the world faces so many refugee crises.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) December 24, 2017

8. The "humanitarian program" for Haitians is TPS, or Temporary Protected Status. That's right, the T stands for temporary. TPS covers things like natural disasters, as Haiti suffered in 2010. It doesn't cover living standards lower than US.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) December 24, 2017

9. @realDonaldTrump is right when he calls things like the diversity lottery & chain migration "a joke." That's the exact kind of bipartisan, conventional orthodoxy that he defied in 2016, which contributed in no small part to his victory.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) December 24, 2017

10. And if mass amnesty without real reform, eg, the DREAM Act, were so popular, Dems would've shut down government over it. But it's not, they know it, & that's why they folded & passed a funding bill without amnesty. THE END.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) December 24, 2017

Senator Cotton is a conservative stalwart on the immigration issue in the U.S. Senate. He is the co-author, along with Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., of the RAISE Act immigration reform legislation — a bill that would end the illogical diversity immigration lottery, end chain migration, and prioritize highly skilled, meritorious immigrants who would be the best contributors to American society.

In short, Sen. Cotton knows his stuff on immigration. So when he calls out the New York Times for their B.S., listen up.

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