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Category Archives: Immigration
Requiring Immigrants To Buy Insurance
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Singapore does just this for the legions of guest workers from the Philippines, Indonesia and so on who work there on employment visas. Employers are required to put up a security bond for $5,000 to … Continue reading
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The Case For Immigration Insurance
Steve Sailer writes: In the United States today, however, there are lots of ways to make money off immigration by privatizing profits and socializing costs, but very few ways to make money pointing out how immigration is hurting the general … Continue reading
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The Trumpening
Comments: * My thoughts on the Frum piece, as they occurred: – tribalism (fissures) within the parties mirror the more lurid colour-coding of America race-wise, under Obama, doesn’t it? – immigration… as now constituted looks a lot like slavery; elites … Continue reading
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Rabbis: Mideast Christians Deserve U.S. Refuge
The rabbis don’t bother to argue that this immigration will be good for America. That argument does not come up in their essay. That does not interest them. What does interest them? “Success in dealing with the first wave of … Continue reading
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America and the Nexus between Free Speech, Minorities and Refugees
Rabbis Abraham Cooper and Yitzhock Adlerstein write: US Attorney General Loretta Lynch infuriated many Americans when she told a Muslim gathering that the Justice Department would “take action” against individuals who “lift the mantle of anti-Muslim rhetoric.” Lynch, the highest … Continue reading
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Islam and the West: An Irreconcilable Conflict?
Pat Buchanan writes: “I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, is sending a message to Muslims here … and … around the world, that there is a ‘clash of civilizations.’” So said Hillary Clinton … Continue reading
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Syrian Refugees Bringing Flesh-Eating Disease into U.S.?
Pretty sure my hippy friends are already busy crafting a homeopathic remedy that will keep us safe. From Breitbart: JERUSALEM – There is a risk that Middle Eastern refugees entering the U.S. could be infected with a flesh-eating disease that … Continue reading
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White Dutch Men Storm Site Of Planned Asylum Center
“Deputy justice minister Klaas Dijkhoff responsible for managing Holland’s intake of refugees, called the protestors ‘un-Netherlanderish’.” Comment: The elites are at war with their own nations yet still presume to define the national identity. Comment: “Riot in Netherlands. 2,500 rioters … Continue reading
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Dutch Men Drive Out Refugees
Comment: A bunch of politicians in Gedermalsen, Netherlands got together with a bunch of Muslims to discuss building a giant “refugee” complex for them. Out of a total population of 10,000 for the town, about 2,000 very able-bodied young Dutch … Continue reading
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Syrian educational system: “The Jews are cancerous”
Stephen Steinlight writes: “Further proof, if any were required, why the LEADING ROLE taken by Jewish organizations to bring tens of thousands of putative “Syrian” “refugees” to the United States (there is no way to ascertain how many are either … Continue reading
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