You've got to see it to believe it, really, but while the rest of the left is, with perhaps some reason, cheering on President Obama's campaign to make America more immigrant-friendly (as is the Times in a couple of news articles), the Times devotes its lead editorial today to a group of immigrants it wants to keep out of America — doctors trying to flee Communist Cuba.To hear the Times tell it, America is too welcoming to these physician-refugees, and our government should make it more difficult for the Cuban doctors to come here.
The idea that the choice of whether to stay in Cuba or come to America should be left to the doctors, rather than than to the Times, seems hard for the newspaper to stomach. At one point the newspaper does allow that "Many medical professionals, like a growing number of Cubans, will continue to want to move to the United States in search of new opportunities, and they have every right to do so. But inviting them to defect while on overseas tours is going too far." How would they have a "right to do so" when the Times wants to shut down the American program that allows them to do so? Maybe the Times is afraid these Cuban-immigrant American doctors will become Republican voters?