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Category Archives: Immigration
Ten Jewish groups urge Congress to allow Syrian refugees into U.S.
JTA: While Congress members consider not admitting Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks, Jewish groups argue that ‘turning our back on refugees would be to betray our nation’s core values.’ Ten Jewish groups have sent a letter to Congress members … Continue reading
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SWC’s R. Marvin Hier Uses Tired Holocaust Analogy With Syrian Refugees
This Los Angeles Times article quotes nobody opposed to America taking in more Syrian refugees. It does not mention the moral imperative for the Jewish state to take in Muslims who hate it. How come only Gentile countries have to? … Continue reading
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Wikipedia: ‘Walter M. Brasch, an American Jewish social issues journalist, professor of journalism’
Wikipedia. Walter Brasch compares Republicans to Hitler. Nice. What’s that old internet meme? Anybody who compares his opponent to Hitler has lost the argument. I hope 40 Muslim immigrants move on to Walter Brasch’s block. Israel has taken zero Syrian … Continue reading
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Jews, Muslims & Immigration
If you find poisonous snakes in your bedroom, do you hate the snakes or do you hate the people who put them there? Douglas Murray writes: When the European migration crisis reached its latest peak earlier this year, a Jewish … Continue reading
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Obama actions shield most illegals from deportation even as courts stall amnesty
We know who’s trying to destroy our country. It’s never been more clear. Washington Times: President Obama’s marquee deportation amnesty has been stalled by the courts, but the rest of his executive actions on immigration, announced exactly a year ago, … Continue reading
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Orthodox Union says let Syrian refugees in as House votes for constraints
I heard one Jew gripe about the below: “Think of all the federal security money OU congregations will get after a couple of isolated incidents. Also incidents are good for Kiruv!” WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Orthodox Union joined an array … Continue reading
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How Nearly Seventy Have Been Arrested in America over ISIS Plots in Last 18 Months
Ben Ashford, Daily Mail, November 18, 2015: US authorities have charged at least 66 men and women with ISIS-related terror plots on American soil–including a handful of refugees, Daily Mail Online can reveal. The terror group has set its sights … Continue reading
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How To Save Europe
Steve Sailer writes: Europeans need to adapt their legal system to the nonindividualistic culture of Muslims. For example, the threat of a jail term might not deter a Muslim terrorist who expects to flee back to Syria and/or collect his … Continue reading
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Somalis in America: A Horror Story of Crime, Violence, and Now Terrorism
REPORT FROM 2013: The decision taken in the early 1990s by the US’s former president, Bill Clinton, to import tens of thousands of backward Somalis into the American heartland of Minnesota has turned into an entirely predictable tale of crime, … Continue reading
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Head Cheerleader Banned From Competing After Tweeting an Offensive Comment About Immigrants
Please be respectful: Dr. Dianne Kelly Superintendent 781-286-8226 Email: [email protected] Hannah Orenstein writes for Seventeen magazine: The head cheerleader at one Massachusetts high school has been banned from cheering for the rest of the season after she tweeted an offensive … Continue reading
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