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Category Archives: Immigration
JTA: For Jewish groups, Syrian refugees are a reminder — not a threat
I don’t know a single Jew in my real life who wants more Muslims in America. I suspect most Jews in America and in the West don’t want more Muslims around. Yet Jewish elites through the major Jewish organizations keep … Continue reading
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A Nation Of Immigrants
Who can forget this stirring book, solicited by the ADL in 1958 and written in the president’s name. According to Wikipedia: The book was originally written by Kennedy in 1958, while he was still a senator.[1] It was written as … Continue reading
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Hineni: Here I am for immigration reform
It’s important to know who’s destroying our country. By Abby Levine in 2013: When I was 21, I was an undergraduate at Yale University, living a typical college life. When my grandfather Irving was 21, he left his Lithuanian home … Continue reading
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Steve Sailer: Dept. of Not as Reassuring as the NYT Assumes
From Steve Sailer: Ever since the Paris Massacres, the establishment has mounted a campaign to convince Americans who follow the news that our memories of terrorist incidents are all wrong. One ploy is to emphasize a technical distinction between refugee … Continue reading
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Ann Coulter: Importing Terrorism And Other American Values
Ann Coulter writes: Americans keep being hectored to take “refugees” from terrorist-producing countries because to do otherwise would be “a betrayal of our values,” as President Obama said on Monday. The rise of Donald Trump reminds us of the popularity … Continue reading
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Jewish Groups Push For More Islamic Immigration
Nathan Guttman writes for the Forward: Since the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris by the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, Republican presidential candidates, led by Donald Trump, have mainstreamed everything from proposals for registering Muslims nationwide to … Continue reading
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The Jewish Journal Wants To Bring More Muslims To America
Danielle Berrin writes the Jewish Journal cover story: On Nov. 19, less than a week after the deadly series of terrorist attacks in Paris, Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS, the 134-year-old refugee resettlement organization, was summoned to the … Continue reading
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Germany Cannot Reject Refugees
Here is a translation of a German news report: Germany cannot afford to reject refugees, says Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of German Jews (Zentralrat der deutschen Juden). It (Germany) has brought “evil” upon others and is indebted … Continue reading
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ADL: Once We Were Strangers Too: The Jewish Responsibility to Welcome Refugees
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, head of the ADL, writes: Just as anti-Semitism was behind America’s denial of refuge to Jews in the 1930s and 40s, Islamophobia undergirds much of the anti-refugee sentiment today. It was wrong then, just as it is … Continue reading
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WP: In 1968, a British politician warned immigration would lead to violence. Now some say he was right.
Washington Post: Enoch Powell had long been known as a firebrand politician, unafraid to speak his mind and be provocative. A former classical scholar, few doubted his intellect, and his military service during World War II spoke to his bravery. … Continue reading
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