Danielle Pletka
Role at the time: American Enterprise Institute senior fellow and opinion writer
Mixed or conditional
Responding to
Did ICE Detain an Entire Family for What Eissa Hashemi’s Mother Did?
"Americans don’t believe in corruption of the blood. But neither do they want to provide a home to terrorists, enemies of the U.S., kleptocrats or their progeny."
Why we used this label
The column combines an express rejection of corruption-of-blood reasoning with support for scrutinizing or excluding the progeny of hostile foreign actors, and it characterizes a blanket ban as potentially excessive.
Danielle Pletka, “These Relatives of Foreign Thugs Called America Home. No More.” (opens in a new tab)Opinion column paragraphs discussing Hashemi’s family and the concluding qualification
Pletka’s authored opinion column supports attribution of her mixed position. Its claims about the family and immigration policy are not treated as independently established facts.