17-year-old Arthur Mkoyan is the perfect example of the American dream in action. He’s an Armenian student in California, valedictorian of his high school, and hoping to study medicine. He is also facing deportation procedures. In order to prevent the deportation, Sen. Diane Feinstein has introduced a bill to keep him here.
Doug Mataconis of Below the Beltway says:
“If there was ever a case where simple human justice required an exception to be made, this is it.”
I agree, but I think it more than adequately demonstrates the Bearing Drift motto:
“Conservative. Because government will ‘f’ it up.”
A little commonsense and decency in the ol’ immigration bureaucracy would be nice. And, by and large, U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement gets it right. In this case, they’re wrong.
