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Category Archives: Immigration
‘Limit the number of migrants allowed to enter Germany,’ Jewish leader tells Merkel
Jerusalem Post: The leader of Germany’s Jewish community is calling on Chancellor Angela Merkel to impose limitations on the number of migrants being granted asylum in the country. In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, Josef Schuster, the … Continue reading
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An Argument For Not Allowing In People From The Middle East?
Scientific American: New research by Trevor Foulk, Andrew Woolum, and Amir Erez at the University of Florida takes that same first step in identifying a different kind of contagious menace: rudeness. In a series of studies, Foulk and colleagues demonstrate … Continue reading
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Donald Trump Hits Hillary Clinton For Hypocrisy on Border Walls
Is Donald Trump reading Steve Sailer? From Breitbart: Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is calling out Hillary Clinton for supporting a protective border wall around Israel while also opposing a protective wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. “It is clear that … Continue reading
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Ilya Lozovsky: I’m a Russian-born American Jew. My people’s rejection of Syrian refugees breaks my heart.
He can’t conceive that there might be any other perspective but his own. Any other viewpoint is bigoted and racist. From the WP comments section: * Maybe it’s because no one thinks or ever thought that the Jewish refugees from … Continue reading
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Massive Migration Of Low-Skilled Labor Into America Hurts Blacks Most
Steve Sailer writes: Harvard labor economist George Borjas has written a study pointing out that wages in Miami among high school dropouts got hammered by the Mariel Boatlift. The Wage Impact of the Marielitos: A Reappraisal George J. Borjas ABSTRACT … Continue reading
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The Left and the Attack on Paris
Dennis Prager writes Nov. 17, 2015: The left’s reactions to the terror attack on Paris are in keeping with its tradition of getting almost everything wrong. Take Bernie Sanders, for example. At the Democratic presidential debate, one day after the … Continue reading
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Invite The World, Invade The World
Comments: In a way, the policy of INVITE is linked with INVADE. If West goes for INVADE but not INVITE, it sends the message that the West is at war with the Muslim world. It turns into an issue of … Continue reading
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There Are Serious, Unbigoted Reasons to Be Wary of a Flood of Syrian Refugees
Ian Tuttle writes for National Review Nov. 18, 2015: Among politicians and their clingers-on, journalists, nothing takes hold like a bad historical analogy. Thus as politicians — 29 governors chief among them — call for a halt to our Syrian-refugee-resettlement … Continue reading
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Jewish Journal Of Los Angeles Going All Out For More Muslim Immigration Into The West
I feel like you can just take a glance at someone and get a feel for their politics. “Howard Seth Cohen is a local actor, artist, and activist. He created “72 Virgins” a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that fights xenophobia one … Continue reading
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Jewish Journal: #IAmMuslim
Rob Eshman, editor of the Jewish Journal, writes: The campaign to keep Syrian refugees out of the United States represents a complete lack of faith – not just in Syrian refugees, and not just in the department of Homeland Security, … Continue reading
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