Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and his fellow socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are peddling a dangerous lie that ignores economics, history and reality.
No one knows for sure how long the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic in China will last and how seriously it will impact other countries, but there are encouraging signs that suggest the epidemic will be contained in several months.
The New Way Forward Act would allow people who have committed serious felonies in other countries to move to the U.S. legally. It would make it nearly impossible for federal immigration officials to detain immigrants, no matter how potentially dangerous they are.
We still have a chance to prevent coronavirus from becoming an epidemic in America, and even a narrow shot at heading off a pandemic. Achieving this will require drastic changes from the Chinese Communist Party, whose secrecy and paranoia are responsible for the rapid growth of this epidemic.