A question about immigration and immigrants, legal and otherwise

From the BBC:

Controversial Somali-born Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali has said she will resign after admitting she lied on her asylum application.

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Ms Hirsi Ali came under pressure to resign after a Dutch television programme last week broadcast details of her falsified, 1992 asylum application.

In the documentary, Ms Hirsi Ali said that when she arrived in the Netherlands she said she had come straight from Somalia, whereas in actual fact she had lived in three different countries in the interim.

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Dutch media has reported that Ms Hirsi Ali will go to work for the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, in Washington.

So, a Somali immigrant Member of Parliament is kicked out of the Netherlands for falsifying her asylum papers. In other words, she was an illegal immigrant. But she can come to this country to go to work for the American Enterprise Institute, and nobody is going to raise a question as to her immigration status?

I guess it really is OK if you're a Republican.