The birthers just won\u2019t go away, and now they\u2019re transferred their wrath to Desiline Victor, the 102-year-old Miami voter–born in Haiti–whose\u00a0 perseverance in the face of a three-hour waiting line earned her a seat of honor and a shout-out during President Obama\u2019s 2013 State of the Union address.<\/p>\n

It appears that, having lost the battle over President Obama\u2019s birth certificate and citizenship, they\u2019ve selected Ms. Victor as their proxy and next victim.<\/p>\n

Searching for a photo of Ms. Victor to accompany another blog post, I stumbled into something called, \u201cSorry to burst the happy bubble, but\u2026<\/a>\u201d The blogger, who goes by Dr. John,\u00a0 isn’t at all sorry about bursting the happy bubble\u2014the good feeling\u2014near tears for some of us\u2014that we enjoyed when we heard about Ms. Victor\u2019s determination to vote, despite the obstacles placed in her way by Florida’s official voter suppression brigade.<\/p>\n

He quotes President Obama\u2019s speech, citing the line about immigration in which he said that American immigration policy should \u201cattract the highly skilled entrepreneurs and engineers.\u201d<\/p>\n

To which Dr. John replies:<\/p>\n

Like Desiline Victor, right? How much has she contributed to the system? How much has she paid in income and social security taxes?<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to strengthen the economy by importing 80 year olds with no skills and who cannot speak English and who are wholly dependent on the government for support?<\/p>\n

Seriously?<\/p>\n

Or are we merely importing elderly dependent future democrat voters who are willing to wait three hours to vote for their \u201cson?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s pretty uncharitable, as well as unfeeling, xenophobic, politically selfish [I’m assuming that he’s a Republican] and downright nasty.<\/p>\n

Also, Dr. John can\u2019t believe that Ms. Victor, who came to the U.S. in 1989 when she was 79 years old, could have become a citizen without being able to speak English<\/i>. He backs up this line of \u201cthinking\u201d with a citation from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services<\/a>, which states that, to become a U.S. citizen, a person must \u201cbe able to read, write, and speak English and have knowledge and an understanding of U.S. history and government (also known as civics).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>That citation is accurate. However, conveniently, Dr. John has omitted the perfectly legal exemptions\u2014listed farther down in the official website\u2014that may have applied to Ms. Victor. The part he left out states that there are three exemptions from the English language requirement for naturalizations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As we don\u2019t know the details of Ms. Victor\u2019s life and immigration path, it\u2019s rather unfair to imply that she either cheated or got some kind of special treatment, or is\u2014oh yeah, there it is\u2014not actually a citizen and shouldn\u2019t have been allowed to vote at all and must have been one of those imposters who are wrecking America and sapping us of our precious bodily fluids.<\/p>\n

I’m not usually this angry–in print. But I just thought you might want to know.<\/p>\n

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