Michael Goodwin: Colorado attack proves America needs some common sense on immigration stop importing terrorism

During a long-ago spate of police misconduct issues, then-NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly noted with dismay that some of the accused had only recently joined the police force.“It’s frustrating,” Kelly told me at the time, “because we try very hard not to recruit our problems.”It’s a common-sense principle that America has lost sight of when it comes to immigration.From antisemitism to street crime, the nation is bedeviled by an explosion of violence and hate.Even a cursory review reveals that a significant portion of the wrongdoing is being committed by immigrants, most of them here illegally, thanks to Joe Biden’s insane open border policy.A key distinction involves the leaders of the pro-Hamas campus turmoil.

Many are foreign students from Muslim nations legally admitted on student visas, only to turn on America and Israel once they got hereby supporting a terrorist organization.The result is that in both street crime and antisemitism, we have been importing far too many of our problems.The two streams came together in the heinous attack in Boulder, Colo., where Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national, was charged with throwing firebombs at people marching in support of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.Twelve people were injured, some with serious burns.Witnesses said Soliman was shouting “Free Palestine” as he threw Molotov cocktails, and he later said he aimed to “kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead,” according to the FBI.Reports say he was planning the attack for a year and told officials he would do the same thing again if given the chance.Soliman and his family were living in the US illegally — a fact most media accounts didn’t mention.

He arrived in August 2022 on a B2 visa, which is granted for tourism and family visits.It expired in February 2023, according to the Department of Homeland Security, which said he then applied for asylum, and got work authorization permits that also had expired.His...