This one, from Texas congressman Louis Gohmert (no relation to Gomer Pyle) needs little context since it’s so laudably insane. Seems that terrorist cells abroad are “gaming” the American immigration system by inseminating terrorist-moms with terror-babies bent on “destroying our way of life.”
That’s good stuff.
Published by Theodore
Theodore Ross is an editor of Harper’s Magazine. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, Saveur, Tin House, the Mississippi Review, and (of course), the Vietnam News. He grew up in New York City by way of Gulfport, MS, and as a teen played the evil Nazi, Toht, in Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. He lives with his son, J.P. in Brooklyn, and is currently working on a book about Crypto-Jews.
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