That thereâ??s an inevitable conflict between â??Invadeâ?? and â??Inviteâ?? in terms of domestic terrorism is something that the Kennedy brothers never figured out. Teddy Kennedy sponsored the 1965 immigration expansion act three years before his brother was assassinated by an immigrant. (Sirhan arrived in the United States in 1957 and had gone through the assimilation process, enrolling in the same junior high school and junior college that my father, now 92, attended a generation before. Fat lot of good assimilation did us.)
The Kennedys grew up in an era of restricted immigration, so itâ??s understandable that they didnâ??t grasp the inverse relationship between â??Inviteâ?? and â??Invadeâ??.