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Category Archives: Immigration
Fences Are Good For Every Nation Seeking To Stop Illegal Immigration
Steve Sailer writes: You may be wondering why Syrian and Iraqi refugees are pouring into Europe rather than into, say nearby Saudi Arabia. Well, Saudi officials planned ahead. Although the Israelis are the most renown anti-immigrant border fence builders, which … Continue reading
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on BBC Newsnight about the European refugee crisis
Rabbi Sacks says Europe must take in these Muslim refugees because Holocaust. He doesn’t say anything about Israel needing to take in these refugees. He pushes diversity on the goyim while keeping the benefits of cohesion to Jews. I’m not … Continue reading
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Can Columba Bush Speak English?
Listen to her struggle to speak comprehensible English while reading a short speech. Steve Sailer writes: The most fundamental issue in politics is “Whose side are you on?” Jeb, who is not a particularly slippery individual, has given us much … Continue reading
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If you had to choose between 500 Syrian or African refugees dying at sea or moving on to your block, which would you choose?
Mashable: “If this photo doesn’t make you care about the refugee crisis, nothing will” I don’t care about Syrian refugees and I don’t care about African refugees and I don’t care about Mexican refugees. I don’t expect these people to … Continue reading
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Should Israel Take In Syrian Refugees?
That’s crazy, right? Why would the Jewish state want to take in enemy aliens? Well, does not the same reasoning apply to the West? Why would any Western countries want to take in Muslims, who are famously hostile to the … Continue reading
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NYT: Encouraging Presidential Campaigning in a Single Language Is “Divisive”
Steve Sailer writes: “Jeb dividing his campaigning up into two separate languages is, of course, not divisive, it’s diverse! As we all known, divisive and diversity are antonyms. Therefore, people like Trump who encourage unity of the American political information … Continue reading
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Report: More than half of immigrants on welfare
Story: More than half of the nation’s immigrants receive some kind of government welfare, a figure that’s far higher than the native-born population, according to a report to be released Wednesday. About 51% of immigrant-led households receive at least one … Continue reading
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The MSM’s Ho Hum Reaction To Demographic Displacement
Comments to Steve Sailer: * I love the New Yorker’s cartoons, but I’ve long had the impression when reading its articles that I’m spying on some Upper West Side conversation that wasn’t meant for me. I get the strange feeling … Continue reading
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Australia & Israel Show How To Deal With Illegal Immigrants
Let’s follow their example. Operation Sovereign Borders breaks people smugglers: Not one boat has reached Australia in the past year August 6, 2015 7:00am Daniel Meers The Daily Telegraph The success of Operation Sovereign Borders has forced Opposition Leader Bill … Continue reading
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Is birthright citizenship the right policy for the U.S.A. today?
John Derbyshire tackles Linda Chavez’s NY Post op/ed: We have changed our collective mind about all sorts of things that our Constitution and laws once allowed—most notably slavery, of course. Perhaps we should change our minds about this. Is birthright … Continue reading
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