Category: Other Immigration

Pro-amnesty advocates tell Obama legalizing workers helps the economy!

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Huh!   Does that make sense to anyone reading this?  Record numbers of AMERICANS are out of work and the open borders crowd wants immigration reform now so that illegal aliens are in a better position to keep their jobs. 

From the Los Angeles Times:

Religious and labor leaders called upon Congress and President-elect Obama to pass a comprehensive immigration package this year and said that the U.S. economy could not be restored without legalizing the nation’s undocumented immigrants.

“Immigration reform is a necessity in order to fix the American economy,” John Wilhelm, president of Unite Here’s hospitality-industry division, said Thursday during a national teleconference call on immigration reform. The New York-based group represents more than 450,000 workers around the U.S.

Wilhelm said immigration legislation would help the recovery by eliminating exploitation, increasing wages and tax compliance and placing all workers on a level playing field.

You know what really steams me!   All this Leftist love and compassion for immigrants when you know they have disdain for the blue collar worker who perhaps lives in Appalachia (or PA!), whose home might be a mobil home, goes to church, hunts on  the first day of deer season, is patriotic, and is proud when his kid joins the military.   Why don’t these folks deserve the same respect and love showered on the illegal who has broken the law to get into the US?

Numbers USA defends the American worker and is calling for a halt to legal immigration as well!

But anti-illegal immigration advocates urged the U.S. government this week to curtail legal immigration in response to the economic crisis.

“With the federal government reporting continuing giant losses of jobs, it is time to slow the massive importation of workers,” Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, wrote in a letter this week to Obama. “How can it make any sense for the American people’s own government to be approving more competitors for a dwindling number of jobs?”

Get involved with the NumbersUSA campaign here.

See the Numbers film we have permanently linked at the top of RRW, here.

So-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform (S-9) introduced in the Senate, for more go here.    This is an open borders website, but it’s good for us to see what they are saying.

A county that coddled illegal aliens begins a turnaround

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Although this isn’t a refugee issue, we have occasionally mentioned Maryland’s handling of illegal alien issues and the very active grassroots group, Help Save Maryland that is working overtime to bring the public’s attention to the problem.  So this is an update of sorts.

Montgomery County, Maryland has long been known for its softness toward illegal aliens.   While another county farther west, Frederick County,  has become one of a few so-called 287g counties in the country that allow local law enforcement to detain and ultimately deport (with the help of ICE) alien lawbreakers, Montgomery County officials have steadfastly turned a blind eye and done the bidding of powerful open borders advocates who control the immigration issue in our state.

Now the county that coddled illegals is making a turnaround.   But, unfortunately it took the senseless murders of a couple of innocent people by day laborers to wake up the residents of this very affluent county.

From the Washington Post today:

Montgomery County police are seeking approval to ask suspects arrested for violent crimes and weapons offenses about their immigration status, an about-face in a county whose leaders for years declined to do so even as police agencies elsewhere in the region began aggressive efforts to identify illegal immigrants.

Continue reading and learn about the tragic murders.

Dutch party makes hard-hitting demand for Muslims to integrate

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Who thought this would happen in the most tolerant country in the world? But it looks as if the Dutch have had enough. The International Herald Tribune reports from Amsterdam:

Two weeks ago, the country’s biggest left-wing political grouping, the Labor Party, which has responsibility for integration as a member of the coalition government led by the Christian Democrats, issued a position paper calling for the end of the failed model of Dutch “tolerance.”

Got that? These are leftists who are realizing their much praised “tolerance” is destroying the society they love.

If judged on the standard scale of caution in dealing with cultural clashes and Muslims’ obligations to their new homes in Europe, the language of the Dutch position paper and Lilianne Ploumen, Labor’s chairperson, was  exceptional.

The paper said: “The mistake we can never repeat is stifling criticism of cultures and religions for reasons of tolerance.”

Government and politicians had too long failed to acknowledge the feelings of “loss and estrangement” felt by Dutch society facing parallel communities that disregard its language, laws and customs.

Newcomers, according to Ploumen, must avoid “self-designated victimization.”

She asserted, “the grip of the homeland has to disappear” for these immigrants who, news reports indicate, also retain their original nationality at a rate of about 80 percent once becoming Dutch citizens.

It’s worth reading the whole thing. But here’s a little more:

Not clear enough? Ploumen insists, “The success of the integration process is hindered by the disproportionate number of non-natives involved in criminality and trouble-making, by men who refuse to shake hands with women, by burqas and separate courses for women on citizenship.

“We have to stop the existence of parallel societies within our society.”

Our politicians and professional do-gooders need to read this and pay close attention. Our leftists and our elites take their cues from the European left. The rest of Europe has not gotten as far as the Dutch; let’s hope they will, and let’s hope our elites follow suit. We need a powerful reaction to multiculturalism in favor of proclaiming our western values superior — freedom of speech, equality of the sexes (not sameness, but equal treatment), freedom of religion, personal responsibility in place of playing the victim, and tolerance that goes both ways, from the majority to the minority and vice-versa. We need to demand that people who choose to come to our country then become part of our country and not set up parallel societies.

In other words, we need to adopt this Dutch manifesto, or one very like it, for ourselves.

Americanize ….. or else!

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Last week the federal government released the results of a government-wide task force that has concluded a larger effort must be made to assimilate immigrants and predicts dire consequences if they don’t assimilate.

The United States must embark on an aggressive effort to integrate immigrants, including teaching them English and U.S. history, a federal task force recommended Thursday.

If this “Americanization” fails, the nation could see major problems in 20 or 30 years, with foreign-born populations detached from the larger society and engaging in anti-social behavior, said Alfonso Aguilar, who heads the U.S. Office of Citizenship.

Aguilar compared the potential strife to what is occurring in some Western European countries where foreign-born populations do not feel part of the larger society and are not accepted by many as full citizens.

I would like to see the report because if Aguilar’s gang is suggesting what is happening in Western Europe (riots in Greece and Sweden right now) is completely due to lack of assimilation, implying the natives are being mean to outsiders somehow and not accepting immigrants, they are wrong.   First, some of those immigrants, especially the Muslims, don’t want to assimilate and others leading the riots are anarchists who want to bring down democracies and replace them with Marxist governments.

“We should not be naive and assume that the assimilation process is going to happen automatically,” Aguilar said at a news conference.

As for this comment, it won’t happen fast if  there isn’t some real adjustment on the part of the multiculturalists first.    The cultural relativism that has seeped into governments and non-profits that manifests in acceptance of some of the most anti-American behavior—polygamy, abuse of women, female genital mutilation—needs to be dumped.   People must return to passing judgement on behavior that is unacceptable in America. 

One of my pet peeves has been the ready acceptance of ethnic enclaves throughout the US.  These non-profits settling refugees see nothing wrong with resettled Africans heading off to African communities in places like Minneapolis or Seattle.   It is understood that certain nationalities want to live together.   However, if someone wanted to set up a completely white European community all hell would break loose.

To achieve assimilation the task force recommends more and better English instruction as well as education about the US and its history.   Good yes, but of course we need to build more bureaucracies and throw more money at the problem.

The Task Force on New Americans recommends that the federal government take a leadership role in an “Americanization movement,” but also says that states, local governments, nonprofit groups and the private sector should play a key part.

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The task force also recommends that every state create a “state integration counsel” comprised of state and local government officials, businesses, faith-based organizations, civic organizations, and nonprofit groups that work with immigrant communities.

So what might the ‘or else’ be?

On the same day we heard about the Americanization task force warnings we get word of a report from the Army War College entitled,   ‘U.S. Military Preparing for Domestic Disturbances.’    Any connection between the two?

A new report from the U.S. Army War College discusses the use of American troops to quell civil unrest brought about by a worsening economic crisis.

The report from the War College’s Strategic Studies Institute warns that the U.S. military must prepare for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States” that could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.”

Entitled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development,” the report was produced by Nathan Freier, a recently retired Army lieutenant colonel who is a professor at the college — the Army’s main training institute for prospective senior officers.

He writes: “To the extent events like this involve organized violence against local, state, and national authorities and exceed the capacity of the former two to restore public order and protect vulnerable populations, DoD [Department of Defense] would be required to fill the gap.”

Freier continues: “Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order … An American government and defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at home.”

Read on, there is more.

Border fence is real, not virtual

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Mark Krikorian at The Corner posts this link to a map of the fence along the U.S.’s southern border.  He comments that

the fence is finished or under construction along almost all the border from the Pacific to El Paso, though in some places it’s a vehicle barrier that prevents smuggling vans from crossing but not people from relatively easily hopping over. A spokeswoman for the border agency tells me that none of what’s shown is “virtual fence” as opposed to an actual one, and that they’re building about 50 miles a week at this point.

I had no idea it was so far along. Maybe President Bush had to be pulled kicking and screaming into getting the fence built, but somehow it’s getting done.