What kind of messed up crap is this?

Immigration law is really starting to chap my hide. The more I learn about the disarray of our immigration legal system, the more I think that the entire structure needs to be torn down and built from the ground up.

One of the new bits of material I learned this week is that if I were not a citizen of the United States (say I was a citizen of South Africa or something), and I wished to immigrate from Africa to the United States, I would be "inadmissible" to enter the U.S. on account of my political beliefs.

Yes, that's right. The United States - the ostensible birth place of political freedom of speech and the country so devoted to the idea that we enshrined it in the very first amendment to our Constitution - discriminates among potential immigrants on the basis of their political beliefs.

While some of the particulars in the admissibility requirements concerning beliefs are somewhat justifiable (no nazis who participated in genocide, etc.), they seem to be justifiable simply because we don't want to be admitting people who commit crimes against humanity. But what of our prohibition of anyone who subscribes to Marxist historical trending? Join a communist party because you want to and you can't get into the United States. Overly critical of democracy as a political system? Too bad. Have fun back in your old home country because you aren't coming here.

What in the world permits us to encourage homogeneity in our immigration policy when it would be patently illegal if practiced on a citizen?