Day: March 26, 2011

Catholic leaders trying to get refugees out of Libya and to Canada

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This is a lengthy report from a Catholic publication about the condition of the refugee population in Tripoli.  Some refugees were already approved to be resettled in Canada before what Catholic leaders say was a rash decision by the US and allies to begin bombing Ghadafi.   Here is one interesting bit in this article that caught my eye.   Just like Human Rights First, here, the Canadian Council for Refugees wants an expedited process to get African refugees to Canada.

From The Tidings:

The Canadian Council for Refugees asked the Canadian government to work with other governments and international organizations to promote the evacuation and protection of all affected refugees. In addition, the council urged the government to include refugees with a pending application to Canada in the measures to evacuate Canadian citizens and to fast-track refugee and immigration applications to Canada from refugees affected by the Libyan crisis.

As I read the lengthy report, I was fearful I would read that we had to get American troops on the ground to escort the refugees to the border.  Thankfully I saw no mention of any such proposal. 

Plan to overload the asylum system at southern border

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The Center for Immigration Studies noted in a recent posting by David North that open borders groups and immigration lawyers are teaming up to increase the number of asylum seekers coming across the Mexican border.  We have written before, here, about Somalis coming across the border with the help of NGOs and lawyers, but this plan involves Mexicans who would be presumably seeking asylum from the crime (persecution?) in their home country.   Hat tip: Paul

At the moment the cloud at the southern border is no larger than a man’s hand, but it has prospects for seriously complicating the nation’s immigration control programs.

Observers have long known that if there were a massive number of asylum applications by Mexican nationals, legal and illegal, the entire immigration apparatus would be seriously challenged, if not totally swamped.

At the moment the approval rate for Mexicans applying for asylum, despite the ferocious gang activity on the other side of the border, is only a little over 2 percent, but it is not the approval rate that worries but the application rate. Should that soar we would be in big trouble.

And it might. Jason Dzubow, a skilled asylum lawyer here in Washington, has written in both the Asylumist and Immigration Daily that some Mexican asylum seekers and their advocates “have formed a coalition to support each other in their cases.”

He writes that “immigration attorneys and immigrant-rights groups in … El Paso said that they have formed a coalition aimed at providing greater support for asylum seekers facing a hurdle-ridden application process.”

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If these organizers are at all successful, it could put a serious strain on the system, even if the approval rate stays as low as it is, and the relentless violence on the other side of the border can only work to increase both applications and approvals.

Putting a strain on the system (any government system) seems to be what the far Left is all about these days.  They all must be getting their training in the Cloward-Piven strategy on the war of the ‘have-nots’ against the ‘haves.’

We learned this week that the Hispanic population in the US has reached 50 million, so what is the end-game for Jason Dzubow and his buddies?  Overload America with an impoverished population that couldn’t govern itself in the countries they came from?  Then what?