why do we not have a system in place to check the mental condition of immigrants entering the United States ?

Question

if the south korean immigrant and his family been checked more closely for the mental condition of their son and loyalty to the united states mabe the massacre of americans could have been prevented. why is america so politically correct we are unable to protect our own borders and its citizens.

Answer 1

That might be considered insulting!

Also, sometimes some people can see mental conditions as a point of view.

Not every country sees mental disorders the same way as the US.

This example has more to do with underestimating someone in particular, and just not acting soon enough to do much to prevent it from happening.

BTW, no one can be certain of what any one person plans to do.

Answer 2

Oh, please. He was only about 7 or 8 years old when his family came to the U.S.

He was a U.S. citizen - home grown.

You can thank Ronnie Reagan for the fact that this wingnut head-case was walking around. Mr. Reagan wrote off many of the laws about committing mental patients against their will and without their permission. He also closed many of the mental facilities and kicked those folks out on the street - all in the name of "human rights" and cutting the budget.

Prior to those actions; Mr. Cho would have been locked up in a mental facility where he could no longer be a "danger to himself and others".

Answer 3

How exactly do you propose that the US govt screen immigrating infants for evidence of mental illness?

Do you want to put the kid down on the floor with rubber ducks, barbie dolls and copies of Nietzsche's writings and see which the infant chooses? -- kind of like how they try to find the reincarnated Dalai Lama?

You are certainly aware that Seung Hui was 8 years old when he came to the US. Even though he was still an LPR, it appears that he would have been eligible to naturalize and gain US citizenship at the time of the incident.

Mental illness, without evidence of treatment, is already a class of inadmissibilty to immigration to the US. See INA 212(a)(1)(A)(iii)(I) (link below)

A better question would be, what with confidentiality of mental health treatment, how could DHS ever remove an LPR under this prong of inadmissibility; and even if DHS had such information, would it be politically expedient for DHS to attempt removal on this basis? ...I NEVER see such cases in the immigration courts.

~Schmegicky

Answer 4

Good question! But are you aware that that kid had been here since he was 8 years old? I think that some sort of task force should be in place to make sure that people who are not American citizens are not a danger to those of us who are. I agree that there is too much political correctness, which causes major problems.

Answer 5

The question on the visa application form says:

Have you ever been afflicted with a communicable disease of public health significance or a dangerous physical or mental disorder, or ever been a drug abuser or addict? Y/N

(answering yes does not automatically signify ineligibility for a visa)

Applicants that choose yes, ussually are required to provide medical proof of their treatment to guarantee that they will not be a threat to US public..

Answer 6

greater often than not by employing crossing the border in countless factors. Yeah it is misguided and a offender offense. yet evaluate: i understand this is a mild project, and the regulation is the regulation. properly, slavery exchange into as quickly as the regulation, so exchange into denying women persons balloting rights, and enable's no longer forget approximately, the holocaust whilst awful exchange into by employing the regulations of the time thoroughly criminal. i'm no longer asserting that the regulation is misguided necessarilly, No functional man or woman can assume this u . s . or every person to maintain this is borders open to exceptionally much every person without awaiting disaster. even if there's a distinction between good regulations and prejudice, and this is uncomplicated to blind ourselves with that. There are ethical and criminal implications to each little thing. If we owe an obligation to a fellow human, hiding in the back of "this is the regulation" would not absolve every person. Ask the guards at Buchenwald. @ chief, this is not very severe high quality to choose an entire "they" form of folk from the strikes of one man or woman. there's a be conscious for that and this is not a exceptionally one.

Answer 7

There is, and I'm sure he met the criteria at age 8 when he arrived here.

Answer 8

we do have a system for that. and PS...that guy had lived in the US for OVER FIFETEEN YEARS. (since 1992 i believe) did you ever think whatever went on in his brain occured while he was HERE?

Answer 9

You are right and may I add what a sad word if is

Answer 10

I WAS SHOCK THAT IT WASN'T THE UNUSUAL WHITE MAN during THE KILLING!!!