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Category Archives: Immigration
Steve Sailer: How’d the Last German Experiment with Importing Muslim Workers Turn Out?
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Universities and open borders crowd argue that mass immigration is supposed to deliver an economic boon and reduce crime. But we often see the opposite. The open borders types don’t even believe they are telling … Continue reading
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Counterpoint: U.S. is wrong place for Europe’s refugees
Roy Beck writes: The United States should not be resettling what would be only a tiny fraction of the current flow of refugees and migrants from the other side of the world. Instead, we should join other nations in providing … Continue reading
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Mass Legal Immigration Will Finish Conservatism
Mark Krikorian writes: Conservative luminaries have been warning that Donald Trump poses a threat to the Republican party and to the political future of conservativism. Charles Krauthammer has called him “political poison.” Fred Barnes says Trump has “made the GOP’s … Continue reading
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Jews Are Going To Teach Muslims To Be Multi-Cultural?
Link: In Germany, IsraAid would use expertise gained from Jordan and Iraq to help at German absorption and trauma centers, with the goal of streamlining the refugees’ integration into society. “The difference between us and other international organizations is that … Continue reading
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Union for Reform Judaism Appeals For International Response to Refugee Crisis: Urgent Plea to U.S. Government Leaders, and Action Steps for North American Citizens
Link: “Difficulty Cannot Be an Excuse for Inaction in the Face of this Humanitarian Crisis” Sept 10, 2015, New York, NY – The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) is urging both international leaders and North American constituents to respond with … Continue reading
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High Noon to Midnight: Why Current Immigration Policy Dooms American Jewry
By Stephen Steinlight April 2004: Among the articles of faith in the waning culture of secular liberalism that has served as an ersatz religion for many mainstream American Jews, the most vulnerable tenet is belief in “generous legal immigration,” the … Continue reading
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Can We Save The West By Bringing In Millions Of Low IQ Muslim Refugees?
Comments to Steve Sailer: * The common argument is that the unconscious Jewish motivation to promote multiculturalism is that a culture that is race blind and full of others will keep Jews themselves from being identified and “Othered” where they’re … Continue reading
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The Gifts Of Islamic Refugees
Comments to Steve Sailer: * The problem of using Orwell as a user manual is that there will always be men outside control of the state. Unlike 1984. That was true even in the Soviet Union. Men are primally driven … Continue reading
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The Real Enemies Of America
Ann Coulter writes: To be sure, not all our beloved refugees are Muslim terrorists. Some are Hutu terrorists. A few years ago, we took in a genocidal Rwandan, Beatrice Munyenyezi, as a “refugee.” Only after Munyenyezi was granted citizenship did … Continue reading
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America Doesn’t Want Any More Refugees
Ann Coulter writes: Among the benefits of Donald Trump’s proposed immigration moratorium is that we won’t have to keep importing hordes of Third World “refugees,” such as the ones currently swarming across Europe. For decades, the United States has taken … Continue reading
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