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Category Archives: Immigration
Social Justice
Letters to the Fort-Worth Star Telegram: * Your Nov. 22 editorial (“Syrian refugees and terrorists are not the same”) said that “Jews must have cringed at the memory of times in their history … when they were required to wear … Continue reading
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ZOA Chief: Don’t Accept Syrian Refugees ‘Because They Hate Israel and Jews’
From Haaretz: Annual gala of Zionist Organization of America, featuring Sheldon Adelson, breaks into wild applause over far-right views and the prospect of a Republican president. NEW YORK – The United States should not accept any Syrian refugees, Zionist Organization … Continue reading
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What Did Americans Say About Jewish Holocaust Refugees?
From Haaretz: Back in the 1930s and ’40s, the fear was of Nazi and Communist infiltrators sneaking in along with the refugees rather than the ISIS militants or Mexican criminals that some fear today. JTA – They were called “so-called” … Continue reading
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The Visa Waiver Program
BY COLEEN ROWLEY AND GEORGIANNE NIENABER: All the hyped political angst regarding the possible resettling of a few thousand Syrian refugees stands in stark contrast to the relative lack of congressional concern about the equally, if not more inherently problematic … Continue reading
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THE BAD-FAITH ANALOGY BETWEEN SYRIAN REFUGEES AND JEWS FLEEING NAZI GERMANY
James Kirchick writes: The flood of refugees fleeing war in Syria, and the heated opposition to their resettlement in Europe and America, have inspired comparisons to the plight of European Jews who attempted to escape Nazi clutches over seven decades … Continue reading
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Steve Sailer: National Immigration Safety and Quality Board vs. the Farook Family
Steve Sailer writes: “An idée fixe of mine is that there should be an independent National Immigration Safety and Quality Board to investigate spectacularly screwed-ups results of the immigration process and issue advisories on how the system can be reformed … Continue reading
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Jewish Organizations Lose Their Minds On Immigration
The insane and ever-booming communal demands for more immigration are in a small part an attempt to get Trump to lash out at Jewish orgs doing this. He won’t though, and they are tantrumming that he won’t give them more … Continue reading
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Mark Zuckerberg Funds Destruction Of America
Mark Zuckerberg and George Soros have a lot in common, such as hatred for Western civilization. From Politico: Zuckerberg immigration group launches 2016 reform blitz Fwd.us is renewing its push to overhaul immigration laws after a failed effort two years … Continue reading
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Their Rabbinic Letter Means: ‘Please Kill Me And Please Kill My People’
A tiny number of radical but influential Jews have a hatred of the West so deep (a tribal addiction not limited to Jews) that they will stop at nothing to destroy it. These organized activist Jews want to flood the … Continue reading
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The Collapse Of Japan
Steve Sailer writes: “As we all know, Japan is an economic black hole with a stagnant, aging, unvibrant population. Except as various graphs by Jason Bayz suggest, Japan has been doing a pretty good job keeping the Japanese at work.” … Continue reading
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