Ecuador’s Ambassador to U.S. states Ecuador’s immigration policy does not help terrorists

Otto Reich and Ezequiel Vázquez Ger’s reckless and illogical column (“How Ecuador’s immigration policy helps al Qaeda”) says more about the authors’ desire to baselessly attack the government of Ecuador than their ability to offer readers any substantial insight into foreign policy.

Reich and Vázquez Ger routinely stumble over irrational arguments in attempts to undermine our country’s burgeoning democracy, but this piece marks a new low, even for them. They attack Ecuador for opening “the floodgates” to nationals from Pakistan and other countries, and accuse our immigration policy of facilitating “transnational criminal organizations and terrorist groups” that want to harm the United States. In their insistence on profiling against Pakistanis, Reich and Vázquez Ger seem to have forgotten that the United States itself is home to hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis and that the Pakistani-American population doubled from 2000 to 2010. Read Article