NY Times: 'If we'd let Tamerlan become a citizen despite being an Islamist and beating his girlfriend, he wouldn't have blown up the Marathon'

In an article whose lead author is Deborah Sontag, the New York Times argues that if only the US had allowed Tamerlan Tsarnaev to become a citizen, despite being an Islamist and beating his girlfriend, he would not have perpetrated the Boston Marathon terror attack.

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