LINK: We make use of a new data source – matched birth records and longitudinal student records in Florida – to study the degree to which student outcomes differ across successive immigrant generations. Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic immigrants in Florida perform differently on reading and mathematics tests, and whether they are differentially likely to get into serious trouble in school, to be truant from school, to graduate from high school, or to be ready for college upon high school graduation. We find evidence suggesting that early-arriving first generation immigrants perform better than do second generation immigrants, and second generation immigrants perform better than third generation immigrants. Among first generation immigrants, the earlier the arrival, the better the students tend to perform. These patterns of findings hold for both Asian and Hispanic students, and suggest a general pattern of successively reduced achievement – beyond a transitional period for recent immigrants – in the generations following the generation that immigrated to the United States.
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* If this Guardian piece was an intentional parody a la Onion, i.e. someone saying “the recipe for a happy U.S. is a place with 88% whites and 1% blacks”, everyone would be screaming from the top of their lungs that you can’t be so racist, oblivious and insensitive. But apparently if you are the Guardian you can be as oblivious as you like, so long as you take snipes at the Donald.
* This is hilarious. Boulder is absurdly expensive, rabidly leftist/socialist, and looney bin crazy. You can stroll the main pedestrian shopping drag downtown, buy a $500 ski parka, then catch a $500 fine if you spark up a cigarette (but not a joint) outside (or even in your own car). Trustafarians abound (like in Vail). Traffic is horrible. Not too long ago you could swiftly escape to a more authentic hippie culture up the canyon in Nederland, but lately that too has become increasingly trustafarian. Every other storefront is selling wildly overpriced “art” or crystals and related new age crap from white people in dreadlocks.
From my perspective, the only redemption comes from ripping down the canyon with no opposing traffic in a sports car (i.e. Left Hand Canyon), but Boulder is far from the only place in the Colorado Rockies where there are spectacular enthusiast driving roads. That pretty much leaves us with the overwhelmingly white and low crime population and springtime rafting.
* Boulder IS awesome – even if you don’t subscribe to the left wing politics of the place, it’s got nature in spades, safety, lots of smart people, and decent culture and dining. Of course as Steve points out, the author glaringly omits the key characteristics of who lives there and who doesn’t, because readers might accidentally think that high concentrations of educated white people tend to result in really high quality of all around living as opposed to vibrant diversity all over the place being the highest good.
I’d probably toss Madison, Wisconsin in there as well – love it and could live there even as a huge political outlier because everything else about it is pretty great.
* It has 100K people, with a university that enrolls 30K students. Probably half the city is either attending the university or employed by it.
In other words, they don’t have to actually produce anything, and are completely subsidized by the government and rich parents sending money to their kids. Of course it’s a nice place to live.
* It’s worth noting that almost all of the non-whites in the Boulder census are students obtained by U. Colo. diversity incentives. I’ve never seen a nonwhite outside of the campus, or Pearl Street mall. And when I’ve seen them, they are surrounded by crowds of adoring dreadlocked trust fund millennials who appear desperate to have some of that cool blackness rub off on them.
* “It has been voted the US’s brainiest city, its happiest city, the country’s foodiest place and the number one city for health.”
Why is Boulder more brainy, happy, & healthy than Ferguson and San Bernardino for example? Isn’t diversity suppose to be our strength?
* I’ve always felt like the best place in the world to live would be a liberal city inside a conservative state & country. Like Boulder, or Austin.
In a small, concentrated group, lefties can really contribute to quality of life: They tend to produce good food, coffee shops, music scenes, a literary element, etc…
The trouble is when they get to be in charge of the larger society. Then they ruin everything.
* Boulder is also the home of Soldier of Fortune magazine and Paladin Press, publisher of such titles as Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors.
* Jim Goad has said that whenever White Liberals call him a racist, he responds by saying he lives in 75 percent Black Stone Mountain, Georgia and than he asks them what percentage of their neighborhood or suburb that they live in is Black?
Stone Mountain would scare the shit out of most White Liberals, especially since most Blacks in Stone Mountain are lot less Whitewashed than Obama in how they speak and dress. Stone Mountain has a lot of World Star Hip Hop culture.
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NEWS: Disturbing news out of South Fort Myers High School in Lee County, Fla., has parents stunned and sad.
Police have been notified of a bathroom incident that was supposedly recorded and distributed on Snapchat in which a 15-year-old girl had sex with multiple male students after school — and it could have been as many as 25.
This was the number of students who were identified as going into the bathroom at the time the incident took place,FOX 4 reported.
The girl has admitted to having sex with multiple guys.
Parents and students alike relayed their shock. Eric Struble, a father to two 15-year-old girls, could only muster four words.
“Shock. Disbelief. Concern. Sad,” he said.
Petislin Cadeau, an 18-year-old student, asked a particularly pertinent question during an interview with FOX 4.
“Like, how did it happen? Like, where was everybody at?” he said. “I heard a video was around, but I never really saw it or anything. It just like circulated around.”
He said he’d heard members of the football team were involved.
MORE: Shortly after the story broke, an Instagram video surfaced that appears to be edited with real and fake coverage of the story (though nobody has confirmed if it’s real, fake or something in between) and features alleged members of the community saying that the 15-year-old girl in question is not the only member of her family to engage in similar acts.
One interviewee in the video claims, “Her momma did it, her grandma did it.” Adding, “Nasty, they all got caught f***ing in classrooms.”
The video appears to be a fake, but the slut shaming of a 15-year-old and the women in her family — while holding the two dozen boys involved in the incident to no responsibility — is very real. See the viral video that has the internet LOLing over this sad story:
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Chaim Amalek writes: “To be fair, it is not as though non-orthodox rabbis are the only clerics in the West who have embraced this cause. There are plenty of Christian pastors who have as well, and the sympathy of the RC clergy for men who have sex with men (and boys) is well known.”
“Is it proper for white males to exclude migrant penises from their rectums? I say it is not, that such exclusionis but a form of homophobia from which springs every other sort of hatred in the world. Also, if you won’t happily let a Somali immigrant fuck your 12 year old daughter, you are a racist.”
“Asians are going to beat the pants off of the Jews in the next generation. Like orthodox Jews, they embrace family and race, but also secular learning and hard work. None of this liberal Jewish racial nonsense for them. In terms of competing for the best that goymerica still has to offer, they represent the best of both orthodox and secular Judaism, without the impediment of Torah and rabbis to slow them down.”
As Jews our responsibility is to embrace the gender identity of each individual not only in our communities but in society at large. That means repealing transphobic legislation like North Carolina’s HB2.
North Carolina’s controversial “Bathroom Law”, which stipulates that in government buildings, individuals may only use the restroom that corresponds to the gender on their birth certificates, continues to make headlines. Proponents of the law, known officially as HB2 “The Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act,” claim that it is about safety, preventing men from “claiming to be transgender” just so that they can enter a women’s bathroom and invade their privacy. But over 200 local, state, and national organizations that work with assault victims claim that there is nothing to support the fears of these lawmakers. And none of the 18 states that have nondiscrimination laws that protect transgender rights has seen an increase in public safety issues because of these laws.
The fight over the law hit a tipping point when the Department of Justice determined that HB2 violates the Federal Civil Rights Act and gave North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory an ultimatum to ensure that the state would not comply with the law. North Carolina didn’t budge, and instead sued the government. The Justice Department responded with a lawsuit of their own, with Attorney General Loretta Lynch describing the battle over this law as the civil rights struggle of this era.
But the fight over HB2 is more than a civil rights struggle; it’s a human rights struggle. And as Jews, we have a particular imperative to treat it as such.
As Jews, we have an obligation to see each individual as made in God’s image. Each individual is unique and created differently. We are not God, and therefore, it is not for us to put parameters on the divine nature or image of another person. Rather, we should honor each individual as divine, regardless of one’s gender identity. Even the rabbis of the Talmud understood that we do not live in a gender binary system. We find six different gender identities in the Talmud. This Talmudic precedent suggests that we should not only acknowledge one’s gender identity, but also celebrate it.
Some Jewish institutions are starting to implement policies in line with this thinking. Last year, the Union for Reform Judaism passed a resolution that “affirms the right[s] of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals” and “urges the adoption and implementation of legislation and policies that prevent discrimination based on gender identity and expression.” Similarly, the Conservative Movement’s Rabbinical Assembly is in the process of voting on a resolution that affirms its commitment to fully welcoming, accepting and including people of all gender identities in Jewish life and general society. These statements understand our commitment as Jews to honor each individual. Last June, I wrote that ensuring that all can use the bathroom in our institutions “is as integral to the sacred nature of the building as is creating a transcendent prayer space.”
These statements reflect an understanding of the importance of making sure that our sacred communities and sacred spaces are welcoming of everyone. But our obligation as Jews to embrace the gender identity of each individual does not end with our institutional buildings and programs. We have an obligation as Jews to build a society that is just as inclusive and accepting as the communities we set out to create.
Judaism teaches that pikuach nefesh, saving a life, supersedes everything else in Jewish law. A study by the Williams Institute think tank shows that 41 percent of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals have attempted suicide. This number is substantially greater than the overall suicide rate of 4.6 percent in the United States. The way society has treated transgender individuals makes them feel as if there is no place for them in this world. Denying them the basic human right of going to the bathroom, as North Carolina has attempted to do, only reinforces this feeling.
But embracing all and creating inclusive communities can have the opposite effect. A recent study out of the University of Washington suggests that transgender youth that are supported and accepted by family, friends, teachers, clergy, and society as a whole are no more anxious or depressed than other children their age.
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Daily Mail: Man featured in Time cover story on immigration reform is sentenced to 15 years in prison for child porn and sexually exploiting boy with brain cancer
Roy Naim, 32, was featured in 2012 story ‘We are Americans’
Federal agents found porn depicting boys as young as 9 on his computer
He also admitted to viewing and downloading porn for multiple years
Naim was found out after the arrest of a Louisiana child porn producer who fooled boys into thinking they were video conferencing with teen girls
One of the victims was a teen boy with a brain tumor who attended a summer camp for children with cancer, where Naim was a counselor
A New York man who was once featured in a Time magazine cover story about immigration reform has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for possession of child pornography.
Roy Naim, 32, who was featured in the 2012 story titled ‘We are Americans…just not legally’, was also convicted in 2014 for attempted exploitation.
Federal agents found porn that depicted boys as young as nine years old performing sexual acts on Naim’s computer. He admitted to viewing and downloading the porn for multiple years.
They were led to his Brooklyn home after arresting suspected child porn producer Johnathan Johnson, who fooled underage boys into thinking they were video conferencing with teenage girls and then recorded the acts.
The videos were posted on a website called and was sent to others through email, according to New York Daily News.
One of the victims was a teenage boy who was suffering from a brain tumor. He had attended a camp for children with cancer, where Naim worked as a counselor.
Johnson was sentenced to 21 years in prison.
Naim, who immigrated to the US with his family when he was three years old, was named the ‘Jewish face of the immigration reform struggle’ after he appeared in the Time story.
It was the first time Naim made his undocumented status publicly known.
‘My being public protects me because America loves stories,’ he told The Forward in 2013.
‘And when we hear about a good person — a person who is nice, who cares — we don’t want him deported; we want him in this country.’
Naim will be deported to Israel after completing his sentence.
‘I failed as a human being,’ Naim said in court. ‘The pain of this young victim and his family…I cannot imagine what they’re going through and I’m the cause of all this.’
Naim had been molested by an older cousin when he was 11 years old and struggled with his ‘urges’ in the Orthodox Jewish community, court papers revealed.
He later became the only member of his family not to gain citizenship in the US.
Both were brought up during Naim’s sentencing by Brooklyn federal judge Nicholas Garaufis.
‘He lives in a community where his urges, his needs, sexually, are more than frowned upon. Maybe some of the people in this room could have helped him and should look in the mirror. You know who you are,’ Garaufis said.
‘His entire family was naturalized but he was left out,’ he added. ‘People should look in the mirror about that.’
Naim faced life in prison without the possibility of parole under his charges, which Garaufis called ‘incredibly excessive and irrational’.
Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence Naim to at least 20 years behind bars.
Instead the judge sentenced Naim to the mandatory minimum time he was required to spend in prison, and said he believed Naim was ‘truly remorseful’.
‘But you have to do more than that,’ he told Naim. ‘You have to come to grips with your evil angels.’
The Jewish Face of the Immigration Reform Struggle
For 25 years, Roy Naim, an undocumented immigrant, led a secretive life. Having no identification papers, he could not drive, rent an apartment or be legally employed. Worst of all, he constantly feared being deported from his home and family. All he did was try to lie low, and somehow get by.
Naim is still undocumented. But in the past year he has been doing anything but lying low. Since June 2012, the young man, who spent his entire adult life in the shadow of society, has appeared on the cover of Time magazine, was featured in a documentary and was interviewed by the New York Daily News. He is constantly on Twitter and Facebook, promoting a new immigration bill that would secure his future as an American.
Naim, 29, an Israeli-born Orthodox Jew, has become the Jewish face of activism for immigration reform.
In many ways he’s an unusual figure among immigrant activists. Three-quarters of the nation’s unauthorized immigrants are Hispanic, along with 11% from Asia, according to a 2009 Pew Research Study. Less than 2% are from the Middle East.
The New York Legal Assistance Group, an organization that offers free legal services, has received 342 applications on behalf of Jewish undocumented immigrants. Many others apply through private attorneys.
“We know there are thousands of undocumented Jews presently residing in New York City,” said Yisroel Schulman, who founded NYLAG in 1990, adding that it works with a network of 150 Jewish, community-based organizations.
Clear data on the number of Jewish illegal immigrants in the United States is not available because most are doing what Naim did for 25 years: living in the shadows of society.
Two Orthodox groups that aid disabled children are downplaying their ties to a prominent undocumented immigration activist who has been accused of downloading child pornography.
Roy Naim was accused on September 18 in federal court in Brooklyn with admitting to agents during a search of his house that he had child pornography on his laptop. According to the criminal complaint, Naim, who was profiled in a June 2012 Time magazine cover story on undocumented illegal immigrants, said that he had been viewing and downloading child pornography for years. He was released September 19, on a $250,000 bond.
In online profiles, Naim claimed he had worked from 2003 through 2008 at Camp Simcha, a camp for ill Orthodox children that was run by the group Chai Lifeline. The profiles said Naim was a “division head” at the camp. Naim also claimed to have worked as a running coach at the Hebrew Academy for Special Children, a network of Orthodox schools for disabled people, and as a motivational running coach at Yachad, an Orthodox service agency for disabled people.
Hank Sheinkopf, an external spokesman for Camp Simcha, said that the camp is in the process of deciding whether to contact people whose children may have been in contact with Naim about his indictment.
“Camp Simcha has had no contact or involvement with this individual for more than five years,” Sheinkopf said of Naim.
Naim has dozens of friends on the social networking site Facebook who describe themselves as having formerly worked at Camp Simcha.
Mayer Fertig, a spokesman for the Orthodox Union, of which Yachad is a constituent agency, said that, to the best of his knowledge, Naim’s interaction with Yachad was restricted to one 48-hour period in January 2010, when he volunteered at a fundraising program.
“This guy, on this one occasion, had a role as a motivational coach,” Fertig said. He added that Naim likely interacted with adults, and not children, during that fundraiser. “We’ve not heard of any problems. We have alerted our staff; our staff is aware of it. If anything were to come to our attention, we’d take any appropriate measure.”
Naim, who is partially deaf, moved to the United States from Israel with his family when he was 4. The Naims overstayed their visas and settled in the country. He remains an undocumented immigrant. Naim was the subject
of a Forward profile earlier this year when he emerged as a high-profile advocate for undocumented immigrants. The profile described Naim as “the Jewish face of the immigration reform struggle.”
Naim did media rounds in June promoting a game
created by the website DoSomething.org
, meant to dramatize the plight of undocumented immigrants.
Richard A. Finkel, Naim’s attorney, did not respond to a request for comment.
According to a criminal complaint filed in United States District Court in Brooklyn on Sept. 18, investigators with an arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security pursuing child exploitation cases found Naim by tracing an email address that had received child pornography from a person in Louisiana. That email address, brooklynfun123@gmail.com
, was traced to Naim’s home. Officers from DHS and the New York Police Department searched Naim’s house September 16, according to the complaint. That day, Naim posted two public messages on his Twitter account. At 2:04 p.m., Naim Tweeted: “Sometimes you try so hard and still get slapped harder. Sometimes you just wanna give it up. It is painful. It hurts.” Four minutes, later Naim wrote: “Giving it up….”
* Not All Jewish Faces For Immigration Reform Are Like That.
* When did “immigration reform” become a euphemism for “let everybody in”?
* When a member of the tribe is facing hard time, they collectively sweep into action. As reported in the Jewish Daily Forward, Sheldon Silver was sentenced in May to 12 years for, “collecting millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks.” The judge received a pile of letters begging for leniency. I wouldn’t be surprised if phone calls are also made – some using a carrot, some threatening a stick.
I wonder what calls were made for the pedo, esp. after appearing on the cover of Time.
* ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ was an awakening movie. IT is about all this.
AS usual the Telegraph is censoring comments.
This is ONLY a child tragedy.
No thinking on race, immigration, invasion, the tribe or other such matters allowed.
* When it comes to #immigration or taking up any cause, the Hebrew words #hineni, I am here, should come to mind.
* It is hard to be a lone visionary, wanting to bring change to a community when the seniors try to bring you down. Yet, you keep pushing.
* One of the most urgent questions to ask daily is “what can I do for someone?”
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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
