Month: July 2008

CIS head Krikorian questions the wisdom of bringing Muslim refugees to US

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We recently told you about Mark Krikorian’s new book entitled:  “The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal.”  In an interview on national security Krikorian questioned the wisdom of our policy of taking Muslim refugees.  He asks the same question a Congressman asked me once:  Why aren’t the rich Saudis taking in Muslim refugees?

Krikorian believes the U.S. should insist that other countries take on some of the burden for refugee resettlement. “We should not be taking anybody who can find somewhere else to go. And…if there are Islamic refugees…it seems to me [we] have every right to tell, say, Saudi Arabia – which is empty and rich – that they need to take some of these people and twist their arms a little bit. And we don’t do that,” he laments.

It makes sense to me.

HIV-positive Sudanese refugee convicted in Canada

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A Sudanese refugee with HIV/AIDS has been convicted in Winnipeg, Canada of having unprotected sex with underage girls.  He was found guilty in six cases of aggravated sexual assault.  Hat tip: Josh.

A Winnipeg man who hid the fact he was HIV-positive from his young sex partners has been convicted of six counts of aggravated sexual assault.

Justice Joan McKelvey convicted Clato Mabior, 31, yesterday of two additional counts of sexual touching and sexual interference. McKelvey acquitted Mabior of three additional counts of aggravated sexual assault involving three different victims.

At trial, the victims — one as young as 12 years of age — testified Mabior plied them with booze and drugs and engaged in repeated acts of unprotected sex without ever disclosing he was HIV-positive.

“He knowingly withheld that information from his sexual partners on the basis that in all likelihood they would not have engaged in sexual contact with him,” said McKelvey in a written decision released yesterday.

McKelvey called Mabior a sexual predator who preyed upon young, vulnerable victims.

Meanwhile, I have just returned to news that the US Senate has opened the doors (closed since the late 1980’s) to HIV-positive immigrants.  As soon as I get the full story, I will report it.

Update July 18th:  Full story on the Senate vote here at Blue Ridge Forum.

Humanitarian aid workers murdered in Somalia

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NGO’s (Non-governmental organizations) are considering moving out of parts of Somalia where radical Islamic fighters recently killed several aid workers.  Hat tip: Blulitespecial.   I don’t know what to say except go back and re-read Kevin Myers much criticized article:  “Africa is giving nothing to anyone—apart from AIDs.”  Then read this story which begins:

MOGADISHU, July 13 (Reuters) – Local aid workers in Somalia held crisis meetings on Sunday as anxiety rose over growing insecurity and the unexplained killings of humanitarian staff.

Unidentified gunmen have killed at least three aid workers in the anarchic Horn of Africa country this year and are holding four of their foreign colleagues hostage.

Fears were raised further in the past week by leaflets threatening local NGO workers with death if they did not quit their jobs.

Aid sources said most agencies working in Somalia were discussing suspending operations in Mogadishu and the south.

“It really is the end of the world if we now have to face death just because we are helping poor people,” said a local doctor who asked not to be identified.

Automatic US Citizenship to Chinese babies born on Saipan

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I am really getting off track from refugees, but these Bush supported immigration sneak attacks seem to be coming from every direction these days.  Word is that the Bush Administration will not oppose lifting the ban on HIV positive immigrants we reported on yesterday here.

Now, comes news, thanks to John Derbyshire writing at NRO The Corner, that Chinese women are paying big bucks to give birth on Saipan because their babies will automatically become US citizens.  Read all about it here.

East Africans breaking into Europe, some dying on the way

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I came across this story just as I finished my previous post last night about East Africans entering the US illegally.  What struck me right away in this latest article is that those trying to enter Europe (Spain in this case) illegally are so-called “refugees” from Somalia and Eritrea (two of the 4 countries sending illegals to the US).

A series of tragedies involving migrants off the coast of Spain have raised fears that the summer could see a record-breaking death toll in the region, as refugees embark on increasingly perilous routes in smaller boats to avoid detection.

According to human rights agencies, there has been a sharp increase in the numbers of people attempting to make the sea crossing from North Africa to southern Europe, many of them from sub-Saharan conflict zones such as Eritrea and Somalia.

After a week of disasters and rescues at sea that has shocked Spaniards, authorities have identified the coastal port of Almería as the new favoured destination for human traffickers attempting to avoid increased police patrols and surveillance. A total of 51 migrant deaths at sea has been reported this year, but the actual mortality rate is certain to be far higher, since the bodies of many refugees are never recovered. The Red Cross estimates between 2,000 and 3,000 people die trying to reach Spain every year.

I’m making a new category called ‘Africa’, because we have posted so many times on issues relating to the continent and it looks like there will be no let-up.