Category: Immigration

Measure OK’d to bar legal status to convicted migrants

Measure OK’d to bar legal status to convicted migrants

The Senate on Wednesday unanimously adopted a proposal to bar immigrants convicted of crimes from getting legal status, endorsing what had been a key sticking point a month ago.

Posted by Svyatoslav Igorevich on Thursday, May 18, 2006 at 06:15 PM in Immigration
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MPs back French immigration bill

MPs back French immigration bill

The French parliament has given strong backing to a controversial immigration bill that will make it more difficult for the unskilled to settle in France.

The bill offers residence permits to highly qualified newcomers from outside the European Union.

The proposed law also requires immigrants from outside the European Union to sign a contract agreeing to learn French and to respect the principles of the French Republic, and makes it more difficult for them to bring their families over to join them.

Posted by Svyatoslav Igorevich on Thursday, May 18, 2006 at 06:11 PM in Immigration
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Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas

Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas

If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what’s next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that’s surfaced in South Texas.

Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to get it, you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible.

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Posted by Svyatoslav Igorevich on Sunday, May 14, 2006 at 08:59 PM in Immigration
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Warped British immigration priorities

If the girl described below had been a Muslim, she would have had no trouble

At 5pm last Tuesday, Eleonora Suhoviy was dumbstruck by four simple words: “We accept this appeal.”  Although the courtroom at Field House, London, resembles a cheap conference centre, the Ukrainian says the moment was, “as theatrical as Kavanagh QC. I couldn’t take it in. I froze. The world froze. It was only when I stumbled into the corridor outside that relief swam over me”.

For 24-year-old Suhoviy the judgment marked the end of a six-year deportation battle with the Home Office. She had moved to Britain from Ukraine with her mother at 13, taught herself English by reading Sherlock Holmes and attended a comprehensive in Lincolnshire where she defied the odds to excel in maths, physics, music and languages.  But though she became the first girl in her school’s history to win a place at Oxford University, on her 18th birthday, Suhoviy was told by the Home Office to get out.  She was no longer a child and was therefore no longer entitled to remain in Britain. Her achievements counted for nothing. She would have to return to Ukraine.

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Posted by jonjayray on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 11:19 PM in Immigration
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The Jewish and Catholic campaign to open America’s borders

An interesting entry by Lawrence Auster on Jewish and Catholic ethnic lobbying in promoting open borders.

Posted by Phil Peterson on Thursday, April 6, 2006 at 05:39 PM in Immigration
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Deja riotu

The French are revolting, and it isn’t just their habit of eating garlic with every meal and having a glass of wine with most. For the past week, Paris has been the scene of vandalism, violence and general mayhem. The Fifth Republic has lost control of its capital, as the gendarmes admit impotence in the face of the rising disorder…

What a difference half a year can make. Last November, we were all shocked at the rioting into which the capital of France descended, and the abject apathy and grovelling which were the government’s response (Pres. Chirac even apologised to the rioters). Now, as the Times reports:

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Posted by Alex Zeka on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at 02:14 PM in Immigration,  Islam & Islamification
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The Bear’s Lair: The economics of migration

By Martin Hutchinson
April 3, 2006

The Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday voted out an immigration bill directly contrary to that passed by the House of Representatives last year; it provided amnesty through a guest worker program for illegal immigrants, but included few significant enforcement measures either on the border or on employers.  Since a “reconciliation” of two bills pointing in opposite directions is likely to be a huge mess, with consensus only on attaching extra billions in pork barrel spending, I thought it worth examining which direction the United States should take.

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Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, April 3, 2006 at 10:18 AM in Immigration
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Teaching diversity

The head teacher at a Berlin school has written a desperate letter to state authorities asking for help.

Teachers were no longer able to cope with the students’ aggression and disrespect, it had become almost impossible to hold orderly lessons, and students were ignoring or even attacking teachers and fighting among themselves.

One teacher complained to the Tagesspiegel newspaper that ethnic Arab pupils were in the majority and were bullying ethnic Turks, Germans and other nationalities. A student who was interviewed warned that pupils were coming to school armed:

Things have been getting worse and worse because people seem to be crazy here. They are bringing knives and weapons to school.

Nor is the problem confined to one school. On March 21st, an Arab student used a mobile phone to call in a gang of up to 15 Arab men to take vengeance on a black student in the Charlottenburg Pommern School. A quick thinking teacher ushered the boy into a nearby room, so the gang picked out another black student and beat him up.

Another recent case involved a female teacher at the Wedding Theodor Plievier School, who was shot at while at a telephone booth near the school. Teachers at this school have also written a letter in which they say that half of the students can’t be educated, and that a majority have no feeling for general standards, values and boundaries.

Posted by Guest Blogger on Sunday, April 2, 2006 at 06:10 AM in Immigration
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Torrents

If there are any readers of MR who have not seen the documentary A Line in the Sand, they are hereby EXHORTED to visit http://www.yggdrasilfilms.com to download it via bittorrent.

KMD
Tancredo
Linder
Minutemen
and so much more . . .

Posted by Søren Renner on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 10:42 PM in Immigration
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California confusion about illegal immigration

Comment lifted from Stephen Frank

Yesterday, the Governor [Schwarzenegger]  in an L.A. Times Op-Ed piece said this, “As our nation begins a national debate on immigration, I propose that we lower our voices and lift our sights. We need a debate that attacks the issue without attacking individuals. And we need a comprehensive new law that respects immigrants and protects our nation. Frankly, the debate in Congress thus far has focused too much on politics and too little on principles. Ever since I first ran for office, I’ve talked about the importance of having a comprehensive immigration policy. Now the moment has arrived.”

The truth is, the debate in Washington has nothing to do with immigration policy. The debate is what to do about those who have violated our immigration laws—illegal aliens. Few are talking about ending legal immigration, few are talking about totally open borders. The legislation, Frist, McCain-Feingold, Kyl, Sensebrenner, all deal with the disposition of those who have entered our nation illegally and now take jobs from honest citizens, employers that use illegal aliens as a means to hold down wages and the overcrowding of our schools and health care facilities by the illegal aliens.

The Governor is mixing two separate, and important issues. The issue today is about those violating our immigration laws, period.

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Posted by jonjayray on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 09:04 PM in Immigration
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Powell’s Last Laugh

(Note: This article is also being published in a college magazine, so I’ve been somewhat more restrained than usual)

It is a peculiar commonplace amongst liberals nowadays to claim that Arabs are never violent by themselves. Generally, it’s allegedly just the burden of poverty, or the burden of Western exploitation, or the burden of Israel’s refusal to disappear that makes our “good friends” get so agitated. How, then, to explain the recent riots, where our British co-citizens of a certain extraction called for “Death to the West” and told “Freedom” to “Go to hell”? They live in one of the most prosperous societies on Earth (with a generous welfare state to boot), are not noticeably exploited by any Westerners, and aren’t precisely suffering under Israel’s yoke.

The pretext for the adorable pantomime we witnessed were several fairly mild cartoons, showing Mohammed with a bomb for a turban or a suicide bomber being told Paradise had run out of virgins, and supposed to criticize the use of Islam as a cover for atrocities. In other words, the insult was slightly less serious than the one delivered to Christians by the Da Vinci Code, and considerably less serious than the sort of slander routinely dished out to Jews by the Arab press! Moreover, these were published by a Danish local newspaper, and until the Westminster government gains the power to censor the Danish provincial press there is literally nothing it can do to counter the complaints raised by the rioters.

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Posted by Alex Zeka on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 04:18 PM in British Politics,  Immigration,  Islam & Islamification
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‘We don’t want Italy to become a multiethnic, multicultural country’

So says Silvio Berlusconi who is running for re-election. Unfortunately he then went on to say, “We want to open (our borders) to foreigners who flee countries where their lives or liberties are at risk…We don’t want to welcome all those who come here to bring about damage and danger to Italian citizens.”

Nevertheless he claims that under his premiership illegal immigration has declined by 51% and according to the New York Times it has now become an issue in the election campaign.

Berlusconi’s allies include the heroic Northern League, a party that puts immigration restrictionism at the top of its agenda.

Posted by Matra on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 03:31 PM in Immigration
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U.K.: When lunacy runs the asylum

You couldn’t make it up. Except that almost every figure about asylum and immigration is made up. Since the Government abolished embarkation controls in 1998, no one knows who is coming in and out of Britain. This week a Home Office minister didn’t even know whether the backlog of asylum cases was 155,000 or 283,500, though he was keen to emphasise the lower number. Even the headline figure of 1,350 people removed a month includes those who are leaving voluntarily, some after taking a 1,000 pound payment euphemistically termed “integration support”. Our machinery is so inefficient that we are reduced to bribing people to leave. How do we know that we’re not just creating a new queue of serial bribe-takers?

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Posted by jonjayray on Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 02:36 AM in Immigration
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Some immigrants are better than others

And no Australian would be surprised by the view that the British won’t work.  An old Australian saying is that “Poms wouldn’t work in an iron lung”.  You just have to know a bit about British unionists to believe it.  Australians on working holiday in Britain also usually find eager acceptance by employers for reasons similar to those described below.  Most of the people with drive have emigrated from Britain long ago in search of their fortune in the USA and the former colonies.  It’s been happening for hundreds of years and the results show

Britain’s lazy and idle workers are being shamed by an army of highly motivated East European immigrants willing to work long hours, according to a report published by the Home Office.  Employers believe that the old-fashioned work ethic of immigrants from former Soviet bloc states may even be persuading Britons to work harder and improve their productivity.  Employers have given warning that some businesses would collapse without being able to hire the immigrant workers, who have flocked to Britain since EU expansion in 2004.

The report concluded: “Migrant workers were considered by employers to have a number of advantages, most notably their work ethic, which employers found more acceptable.  “They were often cited as harder working, more reliable and motivated than domestic workers. Without them, some businesses in the low-skill sector claimed they would not survive.”  More than 345,000 East Europeans have arrived seeking work since the EU expanded to include former Soviet bloc countries on May 1, 2004.

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Posted by jonjayray on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 02:16 AM in Immigration
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Pro-illegal alien march in Chicago

On Friday tens of thousands of people protested in Chicago against attempts by Congress (HR 4437) to control the borders. Protesters carried signs saying “WHO’S THE ILLEGAL ALIEN, PILGRIM”, “EVEN BUSH SPEAKS SPANISH”, and “MINUTEMEN ARE IMMIGRANTS TOO”. See pictures here and here.

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley told the crowd “everyone in America is an immigrant”. At Michelle Malkin’s site there was this quote from Alma Montes of an Aztec dancing group: “As indigenous people, we are not immigrants. ... When we talk about homeland security, we really needed that in 1492.”  But it wasn’t just Hispanics: “This is a ridiculous bill,” said Polish immigrant Paulina Cdnok. “I don’t understand how it got as far as it did, and they’re trying to make this a law—and then at this point it’s a police state.”

Latino businesses also sent workers to the march.  Of course, the US business community in general supports open borders, not just Latino businessmen.

Will the Senate bow to the protesters and business community or the majority of the American people?

Posted by Matra on Saturday, March 11, 2006 at 04:49 PM in Immigration
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Two Sides of the Same Coin:  The Connection Between Legal and Illegal Immigration

An email from Mark Krikorian of CIS:

“Legal immigration good, illegal immigration bad.”  This is often the limit of the analysis underlying debates over immigration in Congress. Supporters of amnesty and guestworker programs often claim that if only illegal aliens were legalized, the problems they create would disappear. In addition, many of the immigration proposals currently being considered would significantly increase ordinary legal immigration; Sen. Arlen Specter’s bill, for instance, would double the number of green cards issued, to as many as 2 million each year.

To add some depth to this superficial understanding of the issue, the Center for Immigration Studies has released a new report, Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Connection Between Legal and Illegal Immigration by James R. Edwards, Jr., Ph.D. Edwards, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute and co-author of The Congressional Politics of Immigration Reform, explores the intertwined histories of legal and illegal immigration and how current immigration policy encourages lawbreaking. The report, available online here , finds the following:

* Legal and illegal immigration are inextricably related. As legal immigration levels have risen markedly since 1965, illegal immigration has increased with it.

* The share of the foreign-born population who are illegal aliens has risen steadily. Illegal aliens made up 21 percent of the foreign-born in 1980, 25 percent in 2000, and 28 percent in 2005.

* Mexico is the primary source country of both legal and illegal immigrants. Mexico accounted for about 30 percent of the foreign-born in 2000, and more than half of Mexicans residing in the United States in 2000 were illegal aliens.

* The level of illegal immigration is severely masked by several amnesties that legalized millions of unlawfully resident aliens. The largest amnesty was the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, which legalized 3 million aliens.

* Amnestied aliens to date have been fully eligible to sponsor additional immigrants. This has contributed to the ranks of immigrants, both legal and illegal (and often both).

Posted by jonjayray on Friday, March 10, 2006 at 07:29 AM in Immigration
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The Sikhs as allies?

And warrior allies at that

I have always liked the Sikhs.  Sikhs were one of the many groups in the very multi-ethnic area where I grew up.  I remember in my early teens how a tall dignified brown man in a blue turban gave me a tract about Guru Nanak (founder of Sikhism).  The name of the publisher of the tract so amused me that I remember it to this day, nearly 50 years later:  The Gurpurb publishing company.

Although Sikhs are sometimes mistaken for Muslims because they wear turbans, Sikhism in fact started out as an Indian alternative to Islam and Sikhs fought the Muslims almost from the inception of Sikhism.  There is a good interview on BNP TV with a British Sikh leader who calls on Britain to stand firm against Islamic pressure.

Posted by jonjayray on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 08:26 AM in Immigration
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard on immigration

In the interview, Mr Howard was upbeat about the immigration program.

Australia crossed two immigrant thresholds in 2003-04, which is the latest year for which Bureau of Statistics tables are available.

The overseas-born population rose to 24per cent - its highest proportion since the 1890s. And the European share of the immigrant total fell below 50 per cent for the first time.

The previous Labor government of Paul Keating had the overseas-born at 23 per cent of the population, and the European component was 57 per cent.

Mr Howard seemed genuinely pleased when the numbers were read out to him.

“Really? I think what it demonstrates is that we have run a truly non-discriminatory immigration policy.”

After slashing immigration in his first term between 1996 and 1998, Mr Howard has steadily ratcheted up the intake to levels that now exceed those under Labor’s Bob Hawke in the 1980s.

As Opposition Leader in 1988, Mr Howard attacked Asian immigration. He has since apologised for the comment and conceded it cost him his job at the time.

His comment in August 1988 was: “I wouldn’t like to see it (the rate of Asian immigration) greater. I’m not in favour of going back to a White Australia policy. I do believe that if it is in the eyes of some in the community that it’s too great, it would be in our immediate-term interest and supporting of social cohesion if it were slowed down a little, so the capacity of the community to absorb it was greater.”

Mr Howard’s latest observations on Muslim culture are not in the same category, because they do not suggest the rate of Muslim immigration should be slowed down in the interests of social cohesion.

(emphasis added)

Link

Posted by Steve Edwards on Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 03:39 PM in Immigration
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Blast from the Past

A well-known “social scientist” defends the ethnic status-quo in Australia, circa 1972. Care to guess his identity?

Among academics there is widespread criticism of Australia’s immigration policies. ‘White Australia’ is definitely a dirty word among much of Australia’s intelligentsia. The defences that one normally hears of Australia’s policy generally come from politicians rather than from academics in the social sciences (see, for instance ‘The evolution of a policy’ by the Hon. Phillip Lynch, M.P.—former Minister for Immigration). In this paper I wish, as both a social scientist and as a conservative, to rebut the usual criticisms made by academics and positively to argue for Australia’s present policy.

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Since Australia’s per capita rate of capital accumulation is second only to Japan’s and since the migrants we already get do have an average level of education higher than that of native Australians, it is evident that, even though it might in theory be possible to do better, we are certainly not doing at all badly already. Even if we were to make a concerted effort to get the cream of Asian society here, this would be at great cost to those societies and would certainly not be permitted by them.

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Pragmatic management has so far kept the proportion of Asians to a level where racism has not evolved. Let not moralists stampede us from this policy into something that can advantage no-one. The misguided compulsions of moralism offer us the prospect of transforming Sydney into another New York. Against this, I advocate enlightened self interest and an Australia not torn by racial tensions. At present I can walk alone at night through the streets of Sydney without fear. I would like to keep it that way.

(emphasis added)

Ray, J J, “IN DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA’S POLICY TOWARDS NON-WHITE IMMIGRATION”, chapter 11 in F.S. Stevens (Ed.) “Racism: The Australian Experience, volume 3”. Sydney: ANZ Book Co., 1972.

Posted by Steve Edwards on Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 03:44 PM in Immigration
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Repeat offender injures five kids but no jail

He’s a poor unfortunate black, you see.  His victims are a lot more unfortunate though.

A drunk driver who injured five children when he drove into a wall at a Melbourne primary school has been handed a three-year suspended jail sentence.  Sudanese refugee Taban Gany, 32, of Doveton, had a blood alcohol reading of .175 - more than three times the legal limit - when his car smashed into the brick wall at Dandenong West Primary School on May 19, 2005.  The bricks crushed a six-year-old boy, whose right foot had to be amputated while an 11-year-old girl received multiple leg fractures.  Another 11-year-old girl needed 35 stitches in her head.

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Posted by jonjayray on Sunday, February 12, 2006 at 09:23 AM in Immigration
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The latest statistics on race in Britain

The number of people in ethnic-minority groups is growing significantly as the white British population continues to decrease, government figures show. England’s non-white population rose by more than half a million between 2001 and 2003 to 7.1 million, with the Chinese community growing at the fastest rate. Over the same period the white British population fell by 100,300 to 42.8 million, according to a report by the Office for National Statistics. The figures suggest an overall decline in ethnic segregation as non-white groups move into almost every area of the country.

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Posted by jonjayray on Friday, January 27, 2006 at 12:14 AM in Immigration
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Rational Treatment of Ethno Secessionism vs Multicultural Accessionism?

The idea that ethnostates are the root of all evil is so embedded in political theory that it is considered axiomatic.  A case in point is Stanford University’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Secession which blithely dismisses “Ascriptivist Theories” of secession as a “Primary Right” with the statement introducing such theories: This approach to unilateral secession has a long pedigree, reaching back at least to Nineteenth Century nationalists such as Mazzini, who proclaimed that every nation should have its own state… this appears to be not only unfeasible, but a recipe for increasing ethno-national conflict… given the historical record of ethno-nationalist conflict, the worry remains that institutionalizing the principle that every nation is entitled to its own state would exacerbate ethno-national violence, along with the human rights violations it inevitably entails.

So I have a question: Has anyone bothered to check—objectively and rationally—to assure themselves that accessionism has a history less tarnished by “human rights abuses”, violence/coersion (state directed violence/coersion/bias on behalf of politically enfranchized ethnicities) and other “inevitable” consequences of accessionism? 

Certainly the origin of the word “racism” as an epithet was with Trostky aka Braunstein during the dawn of the less-than-exemplary Soviet State—with its very accessionist and open anti-nationalism.

Posted by James Bowery on Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 12:33 PM in Immigration
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E. European immigrants are good for Britain

But most EU countries prefer Muslims, of course

Fresh divisions are opening in the European Union over allowing plumbers and other workers from the new member states of Eastern Europe the right to work in the West. A two-year ban on Eastern workers imposed by 12 of the 15 old member states on May 1, 2004 is coming up for review, provoking tensions between the old and new member states. Britain, Ireland and Sweden — the three countries which gave Eastern Europeans the right to work following enlargement — are being held up by the European Commission as proof of the benefits of abolishing the ban….

Mr Spidla’s spokeswoman said: “Member states that have opened up have benefited greatly. There is no doubt about it. The UK, Sweden and Ireland confirm it — jobs haven’t been taken away.”  In Britain the arrival of Eastern European workers has been widely seen as a success, providing armies of construction workers and nannies, and beating labour shortages from dentists to bus drivers. With Britain and Ireland restricting access to the welfare system, there have been very few claims for benefits.  The Bank of England has credited the Eastern Europeans with keeping down wage inflation, a mixed blessing for native workers. Most economists believe that they have helped to fuel economic growth, although some believe they could be responsible for the rise in unemployment….

Opponents of open borders are likely to argue that countries that did not impose restrictions had a far higher influx than predicted. The British Government predicted only 5,000 to 13,000 Eastern Europeans would come, but 175,000 came in the first year alone. Ireland had 85,000 workers from Eastern Europe in the first year.  Countries with strong economies such as Britain and Ireland have been not been disturbed by the new workers but many EU countries have high unemployment, making the issue far more controversial. Fears of the “Polish plumber” boosted the “no” vote in last year’s French referendum on the EU constitution.

From The Times

Posted by jonjayray on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 at 01:11 AM in Immigration
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A humanitarian approach to overpopulation.

I listen to National Public Radio in Chicago, broadcasting from Navy Pier, because it is one of the few radio signals strong enough to get clearly in my office building. It also is a good way to pick up the news, and to listen to Left wing propaganda—their consistency is phenomenal.

I listened a few days ago to a Marc Gold (web site 100friends.com), who does his part to spread progressive egalitarianism around the globe, and of course to personally get tons of publicity for it. Since 1992, he has hit on his friends and associates to donate money, that he then takes and finds some deserving third-worlders to give aid and comfort to. Talk about a cheap way of collecting moral capital. I give him credit though; I couldn’t do it. I have never been the type to hit on acquaintances for money either for myself or some cause—too independent I guess, and I find such practices very sleazy.

But it did get me thinking about how the Right could put together a similar program. As Marc Gold says, “I was shocked to learn that something so important could be accomplished with so little.” In a similar fashion, we could start 100degenerates.com, a similar organization to help save the planet by using relatively small amounts of money to sterilize the poorest of the poor in underdeveloped countries. That would include paying individuals to voluntarily get sterilized, or pay parents to have their children sterilized; whatever gets the job done. After all, we need to save the planet from these cycles of poverty and overpopulation.

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Posted by Matt Nuenke on Saturday, January 7, 2006 at 01:23 PM in Immigration
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The Bear’s Lair: The Latinization of America

The Bear’s Lair’s examination last week of Latin American economies, which concluded that excessive inequality has combined with democracy to leave them trapped in a morass of poor economic policy and minimal growth no doubt left domestically-oriented U.S. readers unmoved.  They should start worrying – there’s considerable evidence the United States is heading in the same direction.

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Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, January 2, 2006 at 10:37 AM in Immigration
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