September 7, 2015 Why so much violence at the West Indian American Day parade? Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Why so much violence at the West Indian American Day parade?

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

Link: “The shooting topped a violent night in Brooklyn in the hours before the start of the borough’s annual West Indian American Day parade, which has been marred by violence in years past.”

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The Origins Of ‘Nazi’

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

From Wikipedia: The term “Nazi” was in use before the rise of the NSDAP as a colloquial and derogatory word for a backwards peasant, characterizing an awkward and clumsy person. It derived from Ignaz, being a shortened version of Ignatius, a common name in Bavaria, the area from which the Nazis emerged. Opponents seized on this and shortened the first word of the party’s name, Nationalsozialistische, to the dismissive “Nazi”.

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Rabbi: Refugees a sign of unraveling world order

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman write:

The promise of Tahrir Square is but a distant memory as the largest Arab nation is now led by a president whose goal is economic growth and stable security. Otherwise, the region is a total mess.
There is:
– The virtual collapse of the “post-Petraeus” Surge, precarious Iraqi State, concomitant with the rise of ISIS. Will a unified Iraq survive? Not if the Kurds are given a say. As for Christians, they no longer have a say, as the world stood by as historic Christian communities were ethnically cleansed.
– The unraveling of our alliance with Afghanistan’s Karzai regime.
– The emboldening of Iran-backed terrorists along a “Shiite arc” stretching from Iraq to Yemen.
– The panic of the Gulf States, directly adjacent to Iran with weakening U.S. support, and the rise of the Houthi insurgency on Saudi Arabia’s border with Yemen, the very country the Obama Administration once touted as an anti-terrorist success story.
– The collapse of Libya into chaos following the U.S. “leading from behind” anti-Qaddafi coup. That move was largely engineered by Europeans who, ironically, sought to prevent the refugee exodus that they ultimately made much worse.
– A feckless U.S. policy in the Horn of Africa that has brought no peace to Ethiopia-Eritrea or Somalia, with terrorist atrocities spilling over into Kenya and Nigeria.
And now, Europe finds itself confronting a tsunami of refugees that evokes memories of the millions of displaced persons at the end of World War II. The crisis in Europe is caused, not only by people seeking a better economic future as on our southern border, but by masses fleeing failed states, internecine violence, civil war and terrorism; people so desperate that parents are literally casting their children onto the waters with the protection of little more than bulrushes.
Refugees from Afghanistan flowing into Pakistan and Iraq, refugees from Syria (some 2 million) flowing into Turkey, Jordan and beyond, refugees from Lebanon fleeing Beirut’s fetid streets, refugees from Libya becoming Mediterranean “boat people,” refugees from Somalia and Eritrea adding to the outflow. You can read their faces and body language: these are people who see no future nor hope of change.
If they survive the stormy crossing, their reception is barbed wire or trains to nowhere in Hungary or Slovakia where neo-fascist politicians promise to give refuge only to “Christians.” Germany is their new promised land, with Chancellor Merkel desperately trying to piece together a continent-wide response.
This is a seminal moment for the European Union. It needs to show real leadership, vision and cohesiveness—but don’t hold your breath.

I don’t see why any of these developments should terribly trouble people in the West so long as our borders are secure and illegal immigrants are not allowed to pass. The West does not need more Muslims and it does not need unskilled low-IQ laborers. As for the tragedies the Arabs create, thus it has always been. You can’t have a prosperous society when your average IQ is 85.

I agree this is a “seminal moment for the European Union.” It needs to protect its borders and its heritage. The goy should not lose heart. He should not be discouraged by slurs of fascism. Just as Israel primarily gives refuge to immigrants who are Jewish, so too Europe should primarily select immigrants who fit in with its heritage.

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Progressive Rabbi Wants To Reframe Immigration Discussion Away From Costs & Benefits To Host Country

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the rabbi’s blog: “Rabbi Neil Janes is Director of the Lyons Institute and member of the rabbinic team of West London Synagogue. He is working towards a PhD in Jewish Thought through Haifa University. Lecturer at the Leo Baeck College in Rabbinic Literature and adjunct faculty member of Hebrew College, Boston where he instructs about teaching rabbinic literature. He also has a BA in Psychology and Education from Cardiff University. A trustee of the British Friends of Leo Baeck Education Centre, Haifa. He is a leading voice for progressive Judaism in the UK, he has appeared on radio, television and in the press.”

Rabbi Janes writes:

We need to reframe our conversations about refuge, sanctuary, asylum. I’m desperate for a discourse that is not reductive of human life to the financial cost to our economy. Put like that, what our councils and our government (successive governments really) bank on is that the issue of refugees is so sufficiently toxic and the financial self-interest so sufficiently strong that any real change in the way that they speak about individuals seeking safety is political suicide.
We must find new ways of discussing the issues. One that does not lose sight of the human plight.
We need to demand that our politicians take brave decisions to protect the fragile human lives that are endangered. That means a readjustment – not least to say in spite of pressures on our infrastructures, we will house the vulnerable and protect them. We will give them all we can for a new lease of life.
But more than that I ask – are we personally willing to step up, to offer people a home in our home? Can we find the time, resources and interest to save people who are different to us. Can we personally offer sanctuary in our homes, even whilst we offer a societal sanctuary.

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Japan Doesn’t Want Refugees

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

It’s a shame that Western nations are not as homogenous as Japan.

Eamon Fingleton writes: As Third World migration increasingly dominates the headlines in the European Union and the United States, the rich nations of East Asia have been keeping heads their down. With good reason. True to their ultra-strict immigration policies, they have been admitting virtually no refugees.

South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China are at one in shunning almost all asylum seekers, no matter how deserving they may be. But even by East Asian standards, Japan is remarkably stone-hearted. It accepted a mere six asylum seekers in 2013 and eleven in 2014. Its admission rate seems particularly remarkable when compared with Australia’s. Australia after all is remote from the sources of the refugee problem. By contrast many troubled nations – Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma, for instance – are relatively speaking in Japan’s backyard. Yet Australia last year granted visas to 6,501 refugees.

For those who are keeping score, the remarkable thing is how successfully Japan has escaped international censure. Not to put too fine a point on it, Japan is the Teflon nation of global diplomacy. Nothing seems to stick. No matter how disappointingly it falls short of international expectations, it is rarely held to account.

The pattern was set long ago in trade policy. Already by the early 1970s, Japan had become notorious for constantly promising market opening measures that never materialized. Yet this did nothing to discourage American and European officials from negotiating further trade treaties that were in their time declared to represent a definitive end to Japanese mercantilism.

In Japanese refugee policy as in trade, a key factor is a little-noticed genius for public relations. But this is for the most part not normal public relations. Rather, the Japanese establishment pursues the sort of negative strategy that Howard Hughes adopted when he spent millions keeping his name out of the papers. On the one hand Japan ensures that its true policies remain as little publicized as possible; on the other it promotes various forms of tokenism to spike the guns of potential critics.

It helps that most Tokyo-based foreign correspondents are in the establishment’s pocket. This applies in particular to those who have lived long term in Japan. Meanwhile for the most part more recent arrivals are so pole-axed by culture shock that they have to be babysat at all times by their research assistants (almost all of whom can be assumed to be on message in serving Japan’s national agenda).

…Another factor is believed to be a concern to avoid diluting Japan’s societal homogeneity. Again Japanese leaders rarely if ever comment frankly but it can be assumed that in common with their counterparts elsewhere in East Asia they hold that a nation works best when it is least fractured by religious, linguistic, and ethnic differences.

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Rabbis Helping Refugees

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

For self-interested reasons, Jews in Europe and America have often sided with the fringe against the core (Steve Sailer).

Every Major American Jewish Organization Including The Orthodox Union And Agudath Israel Supports Immigration Amnesty.

Israel is run to benefit the majority of its citizens — the Jews. From the perspective of Jewish law, there is no room for non-Jewish citizenship in Israel and a Gentile should not be appointed to any leadership position, not even over water carriers.

I put “Rabbi refugees” (without quotes) into Google News to see what would come up:

Former UK Chief Rabbi Calls for ‘Generosity’ Towards Refugees
Haaretz-14 hours ago
Former British chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks has called on the European Union to assist the refugees currently flooding the continent, writing that …
Story image for rabbi refugees from The Guardian
Refugee crisis: ‘Love the stranger because you were once strangers …
The Guardian-21 hours ago
The influx of refugees overwhelming parts of Europe is a massive crisis, but it is at just … Jonathan Sacks was chief rabbi from 1991 to 2013.
Love the Stranger Because You Were Once Strangers
Arutz Sheva-8 hours ago
Explore in depth (3 more articles)
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow: Israel Can Take in Some Syrian Refugees
Arutz Sheva-19 hours ago
Leader of the Tzohar rabbinical organization and member of the Helsinki Ethics Committee, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, said on Sunday morning that …
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow: Israel Can Take in Some Syrian Refugees
Arutz Sheva-19 hours ago
Leader of the Tzohar rabbinical organization and member of the Helsinki Ethics Committee, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, said on Sunday morning that …
Story image for rabbi refugees from The Guardian
UK must emulate Kindertransport to aid refugee crisis, says Lord …
The Guardian-Sep 3, 2015
UK must emulate Kindertransport to aid refugee crisis, says Lord … the humanitarian crisis engulfing Europe, the former chief rabbi has said.
Lord Sacks urges Britain to take in 10000 refugees in a …
International-Jewish Chronicle-Sep 4, 2015
Explore in depth (10 more articles)
Story image for rabbi refugees from Jewish Chronicle
Rabbi Mirvis promises ‘special initiative’ from community to help …
Jewish Chronicle-Sep 4, 2015
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has called on the Jewish community to act “positively” to alleviate the plight of refugees in Europe. “Right now there …
Story image for rabbi refugees from Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS
Donetsk rabbi opens summer camp for Ukrainian war refugees
Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS-Aug 9, 2015
Pinchas Vishedsky, the refugee rabbi of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, has organized a free summer camp for internally displaced Jews …
Story image for rabbi refugees from New York Times
Treatment of Migrants Evokes Memories of Europe’s Darkest Hour
New York Times-Sep 4, 2015
Rabbi Frolich was especially struck by the lies used to manipulate the … for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Story image for rabbi refugees from The Times of Israel
PM: Israel not indifferent, but ‘too small’ to take in refugees
The Times of Israel-18 hours ago
Refugees flash victory signs and wipe away tears as they arrive at the main train … Meanwhile, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, a senior member of the …
Story image for rabbi refugees from RFI
Thousands stage pro-migrant rallies as French politicians debate …
RFI-16 hours ago
The demonstrations were part of a wave of sympathy for refugees from … France’s Chief Rabbi Haïm Korsia called for a complete change in …
How we can help Syrian refugees: compassionate Londoners …
Evening Standard-Sep 4, 2015
The Syrian toddler is one of more than 2,600 refugees who have drowned … station to mark it,” says Rebecca Birk, a rabbi at the synagogue.

I can find no results of rabbis speaking out for the necessity of Gentiles to maintain their culture and cohesion by resisting this immigrant onslaught just as Israel’s government is protecting the Jewish state (“Netanyahu says Jewish state must protect itself from influx of ‘illegal immigrants and perpetrators of terrorism’”). Why shouldn’t Gentile nations protect themselves from illegal immigrants and perpetrators of terrorism?

From my perusal of the news, it appears that no rabbis publicly side with the core (European Christians) against the fringe (blacks, asians, homosexuals, trannies, Muslims, etc). If the core ever gets its act together, they might do something very nasty in retaliation for organized Jewry siding with the fringe against the core. A whole lot of Jews may be thrown into a death pit for the destabilizing actions of its leaders against the ethnic majority.

I can find only one example of a rabbi calling for Israel to take in Syrian refugees.

The rabbis instead line up on the side of Jews maintaining their borders and cohesion and strength while pushing for multi-culturalism and open borders for the goyim.

It is completely against Israel’s interests to take in Muslims who hate it just as it is equally against Europe’s interests to take in Muslims who hate it.

Here are some of the more egregious examples of rabbis requesting Europe to commit suicide:

* “Around the [75th] anniversary of Kindertransport, lots of us went to Liverpool Street station to mark it,” says Rebecca Birk, a rabbi at the synagogue. “Many of my members owe the survival of relatives to the kindness of people in offering them shelter. We felt it was a Jewish imperative to work with this country, which has been fantastic in the past in recognising the benefits of opening its doors, to help them.”

* From The Independent:

Jewish community leaders have written to David Cameron to ask him to reconsider Britain’s policy on refugees and migrants trying to reach the UK from northern France.
Senior rabbis including Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner and Rabbi Herschel Gluck OBE have signed the letter, which says that Jewish “experience as refugees is not so distant that we’ve forgotten what it’s like to be demonised for seeking safety”.
The religious leaders express “dismay” at the Government’s response to the situation and its characterisation of British residents as “victims”.
The letter was organised by the Jewish Council for Racial Equality.
“The Jewish refugee experience is still a vivid memory for many in our community,” said Dr Edie Friedman, the council’s chief.
“The Government’s failure to even consider helping those fleeing conflict and persecution today shames us as a nation. Rather than shut ourselves off from the world, it is vitally important that we work with the rest of Europe to create safe and legal routes for refugees to claim asylum.”
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, Senior Rabbi of Masorti Judaism UK added: “The Torah teaches that God loves the refugee and stranger, ‘giving them bread and clothing’. Can we then do any less?”

Nowhere in this article do the rabbis call for Israel to take in more such refugees. Let the goyim commit suicide, Jews want to live.

I wonder how many Europeans are waking up to the fact that a number of rabbis want to swamp them with unwanted refugees?

* Rabbi Joshua Stanton writes:

The issue of immigration is capturing heightened attention around the world. A wave of immigrants, including many refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Libya, is finding its way through the Balkans into Europe. Others are crossing the Mediterranean in rickety boats, which all too often sink. In Austria, more than 70 bodies of dead immigrants were found in the back of a truck.
In the United States, Donald Trump is seizing headlines with plans to deport illegal immigrants, and other presidential hopefuls are responding by redoubling their own rhetoric or decrying his plans. In a time of economic uncertainty, it is not surprising that immigration has become such a symbolically potent issue for “haves” who likely fear becoming “have-nots.” Many of us privileged to live in developed countries fear the prospects of being “overrun” by immigrants who could weigh down our economies — even when robust studies actually show just how much immigrants add to our standards of living. We may find ourselves motivated by fear rather than facts, by subconscious desires rather than conscious good will.
Immigrants have come to symbolize social change. In times of great insecurity and flux, it is easy to fall prey to the classic logical fallacy post hoc ergo propter hoc, the idea that because one event takes place after another, it was caused by the other. Even though immigration is taking place in some regions at an unprecedented rate, it is entering our consciousness even faster, because we are looking for simple reasons to explain very complicated trends. Immigrants are vulnerable targets, and blaming them enables us to avoid addressing even more complex issues (like globalization, currency exchange rates, prison reform, gun violence prevention, educational policy, social welfare policy, and taxation).
The Torah takes a radical stand on immigration — and compels us to take a radical stand as well. We cannot simply judge immigrants. We must in a sense become them for a moment, through ritual practice, so that we can more fully feel their pain and comprehend our own privilege. Though obviously not a position paper on contemporary immigration policy, the Torah is most certainly a call to empathy — and to awareness of how easy it is to become callous to the plight of those so fearful that they are willing to do anything to flee their countries of origin.

Here is the position of Agudath Israel: “Finally, in the area of immigration, Agudath Israel urges that American borders continue to be open to Jewish and other refugees who seek to come to the United States after escaping from oppressive political environments. The United States is a nation of immigrants and has long been distinguished by its generosity toward refugees from all across the globe. It is essential that such generosity continue to be maintained in today’s era of international volatil ity. Agudath Israel accordingly opposes any efforts to impose caps or quotas on refugees seeking safe haven in the United States. Agudath Israel further supports the provision of welfare benefits to needy non-citizen immigrants.”

By contrast, Rabbi Mayer Schiller said in 1999: “The State of Israel poses a problem for Jews living in the diaspora. A Jew living in America, France or England but yet somehow says I am an Israeli or a Zionist, that creates a tremendous amount of tension. Herzl envisioned Zionism as Jews leaving Gentile nations and going to live in Israel, not staying in France and England and saying I am a Zionist. Jews living in America, England, France, etc, have three moral possibilities: They can be loyal citizens, they can be Zionists which means to leave [for Israel] or they can adopt the Neterui Karta position of non-involvement in the affairs of the nations.”

Europe must defend itself and its heritage by all means necessary, even if it takes writing numbers on the arms of immigrants prior to shipping them off by trains. Jews don’t constrain themselves from doing what they need to do to preserve their own people by memories of those Jews who assisted in communist genocides. The goyim must be strong and not allow themselves to be intimidated by slurs.

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The Jerry Lewis Holocaust Film

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* The (probably unreleaseable) Jerry Lewis film w/ the Holocaust setting is reputed to be tonally and substantively divergent from Benigni’s liberal-sensitive movie (which, oddly enough, no one today watches or talks about, other than to mock his Oscars behavior). The problem in the former case seems to be more that it’s just a tacky flick rather than specially taboo-violating in some way.

Documentaries aside, I am aware of no financially successful cinematic or literary work taking the Nazi internment/genocide regime as its main subject that was immune to withering accusations of dastardly anti-Jewish sentiment by someone. That includes Schindler’s List, Maus, The Pianist, Apt Pupil* (*n.b. a Stephen King short story reinterpreted by Bryan “Cabana Boy” Singer), Everything Is Illuminated, Sophie’s Choice, even the pedestrian NBC miniseries about the Warsaw ghetto uprising; I would not be surprised if Judgment At Nuremberg had its incensed critics at the time.

Like the JFK assassination, the 1960s civil rights movement, or any depictions of Jerusalem-area public executions ca. 2000 years ago, it seems impossible to handle this subject in a conventionally acceptable way, or at least without the cranks flocking to it. I remember in the mid 90s believing that, as older generations passed away, these historical episodes (perhaps not the 33 A.D. one) would lose their grip on the public imagination and come to be seen from a more equanimous perspective. That has not happened (if anything we’re going in the opposite direction). Witness Natalie Portman reaping the whirlwind recently for, not unreasonably if yet somewhat clumsily, questioning if the WWII Jewish genocide deserved any pride-of-place over more recent, apparently ho-hum genocides in sub-Saharan locales. I don’t even think the “genocide” benchmark is what’s fueling it. These historical-fiction strands whether they’re from Nazis or slave auctions or lone gunmen clearly still serve some purpose, remaining useful to someone.

* Jews have had an outsized influence in the leftist white guilt movement. Some Jews defended Israel and Jewish ethnic sovereignty while demonizing similar white countries. The white leaders who crusaded against South African white sovereignty were largely Jewish.

But beyond that, you are right. Netanyahu and his ilk have zero animosity towards whites and West Europe. And while his job is to defend Israel, I suspect he’s very sympathetic with white Europe. Many regular Jews are equally horrified by what is happening. Jews are prominent among immigration critics like Ilana Mercer and Ben Shapiro.

* I don’t mind Jews asking themselves the question “is it good for the Jews?”. What I object to is that so many Jews reflexively try to shout-down and/or stamp-out any gentile who asks if something is good for for us.

* 1. Muslim immigration to France means you need airport-style security at every synagogue, Jewish school and community center. And still you live in fear.

2. The goyim in America have been very good to us. The least we can do is preserve their country for them.

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Burning Man & Race

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* This Burning Man etc has a big plus for the normal hetero white guys. No blacks and other brothers of color to distract and attract the white women.

The exact opposite going on in Germany as their gynocracy welcomes in 800,000 horny Syrian and sub-Saharan asylees to compete for their fraulein’s hearts.

* Rename it “Burning White Man” and they will come.

The Twitter account @ghettohikes is a hilarious series of tweets about the unfamiliarity of most black folks with nature, highly recommended.

* Who came up with the idea that we all have to like the same stuff? That was never what was intended by people who called for equality in the ’60s. No one was questioning why blacks weren’t into “Sgt. Pepper” and James Brown had few whites in the audience.

As an Italian-American, I could care less about drinking. But my Irish-American friends seem to like it a lot. Gee, do you think there’s a reason the country is full of Italian restaurants and bars with Irish names? Could it be we’re different? And if so, should there be measures to “correct” that in the name of equality?

* I think the simplest explanation still is that most blacks don’t like hanging out in overwhelmingly white places or submitting themselves in any way to white cultural dominance. That explains why blacks don’t go to Burning Man, barely attend overwhelmingly white MLB games since its integration (when baseball was probably blacks favorite sport pre-integration), were barely to be seen in the new city urban downtown park I recently visited (which had little to do with what would be termed ‘camping’, but consisted of such non-nature-y activities as swings, water games, paved river trails, etc.) despite the fact they make up 50% of the city.

The main times I can think of when blacks are in large numbers with whites at large public gatherings is when blacks are the center stage performers: basketball, football, music, etc.

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PETER HITCHENS: We won’t save refugees by destroying our own country

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Peter Hitchens writes:

Every one of the posturing notables simpering ‘refugees welcome’ should be asked if he or she will take a refugee family into his or her home for an indefinite period, and pay for their food, medical treatment and education.
If so, they mean it. If not, they are merely demanding that others pay and make room so that they can experience a self-righteous glow. No doubt the same people are also sentimental enthusiasts for the ‘living wage’, and ‘social housing’, when in fact open borders are steadily pushing wages down and housing costs up.
As William Blake rightly said: ‘He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.’
Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can’t get to. Most of the really successful civilisations survived because they were protected from invasion by mountains, sea, deserts or a combination of these things. Ask the Russians or the Poles what it’s like to live without the shield of the sea. There is no positive word for ‘safety’ in Russian. Their word for security is ‘bezopasnost’ – ‘without danger’.

Thanks to a thousand years of uninvaded peace, we have developed astonishing levels of trust, safety and freedom. I have visited nearly 60 countries and lived in the USSR, Russia and the USA, and I have never experienced anything as good as what we have. Only in the Anglosphere countries – the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – is there anything comparable. I am amazed at how relaxed we are about giving this away.
Our advantages depend very much on our shared past, our inherited traditions, habits and memories. Newcomers can learn them, but only if they come in small enough numbers. Mass immigration means we adapt to them, when they should be adapting to us.
So now, on the basis of an emotional spasm, dressed up as civilisation and generosity, are we going to say that we abandon this legacy and decline our obligation to pass it on, like the enfeebled, wastrel heirs of an ancient inheritance letting the great house and the estate go to ruin?

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This Refugee Influx Will Elect Immigration Restrictionists

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* You can be sure that these young and sexually frustrated Muslim men are going to unleash a wave of crime, violence, sexual assault, and anti-semitic attacks. When that happens, the frog will leap out of the pot and right-wing parties will come to power. Ironically, this movement of refugees is excellent for anyone that supports immigration-restrictionism.

This may not be obvious now, but it will in the next few years.

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