Category: Other Immigration

It’s not race, it’s culture that matters

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A reader called Bob sent a comment about immigration and race to one of our posts. I’m not going to post his comment where he sent it, but I want to respond to what he says, so I’m putting it right here:

“Send ALL immigrants back where they came from NOW. Not tomorrow NOW! I do not want any more NON-WHITE people in my country! I am ready and willing for a civil war or a revolution, if that is what it takes! If my government will not protect me, my race and my culture, then I don’t have a use for that government, and I WILL NOT pay taxes to that government.”

We’ve been getting a lot of readers from a white-supremacist website on which someone linked to one of our posts. That’s probably where Bob found RRW. So in case anyone thinks that our views on refugees reflect any racial animosity on our part, let me set the record straight.

We have posted a great deal on Somali refugees. The reason is that wherever Somalis go trouble seems to follow. This is not because they have black skin. It is because of two other characteristics of theirs: One, they come from a primitive culture that has difficulty fitting into our society, made worse because one of their cultural characteristics seems to be arrogance.  And two, they are Muslims, and many of them have been radicalized either in their country of origin or during their sojourns in other countries.

As Ann has pointed out time and again, Sudanese blacks and American blacks come into frequent conflict with Somalis. Somalis don’t seem to get along with anyone. Yet they are one of the largest recent refugee groups in the United States. We object to the way refugee agencies and the U.S. government bring people here without any thought to the effect they will have on the communities in which they settle — that was the original reason for our setting up this blog. The Somalis are the poster children for this problem, but other refugees, black, brown and white, cause problems too when they are not properly settled, which very few refugees are today.

Bob seems to confuse immigration and race when he calls for sending all immigrants back now.  Does he think all immigrants are non-white, or does he just consider everyone besides Americans to be non-white? And his call for civil war or revolution reveals either his personal inner turmoil or his complete lack of historical knowledge. Neither one ever leads to the result its initiators wish for, but they do lead to a lot of destruction and misery.

Ann and I have slightly different opinions on immigration. She is more restrictionist than I am. But we agree that we prefer people who fit into our society, who are eager to assimilate, and who contribute something to America.  Neither one of us has any animus against immigrants or anyone else based on skin color. After all, which immigrants have contributed more to this country, the Indian parents of Bobby Jindal, the brilliant governor of Louisiana, or the white Bosnian gang members in Fort Wayne, Indiana? And who is better helping to preserve our culture, the white homosexual activist and Episcopalian bishop Vicky Gene Robinson or the black African Anglican bishops who are providing a way for Episcopal parishes and dioceses around the United States to find a more traditional home.

Addendum: See our Diversity page for more on this subject.

Immigration slows as the economy slows and laws are enforced

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The Census Bureau reports a dramatic slowdown in the number of immigrants coming to the United States last year, says an AP article:

The nation added about a half million immigrants in 2007, down from more than 1.8 million the year before, according to estimates being released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.

It goes on to say that the U.S. has added an average of about a million immigrants a year since 1990, legal and illegal. It doesn’t say if the number of immigrants tracked with the strength of the economy during those years. I don’t recall hearing of such an effect, just that the number has been rising in recent years. The drop is far more dramatic than the slowdown in the economy, which wasn’t much in 2007. So I conclude that it was indeed the enforcement of immigration laws that has caused most of the drop.

I’ll bet it was also the strong message sent with the defeat of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill in mid-2007, when grassroots Americans overcame the efforts of elitists of both parties to give amnesty to illegal aliens and otherwise encourage more immigration.

But no matter how slow the economy, you can be sure that the refugee agencies and their friends in Congress will keep the refugees coming.

Fear growing: Russia to be a Muslim nation in our lifetimes

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Right on the heels of the post I just wrote about the graying of Europe comes this story about Russia.

The Muslim population could outnumber ethnic Russians within 30 years.

Then here, uttered by some brave immigration activist in Russia is the truth that the worshipers of multiculturalism refuse to see:

Many ethnic Russians are terrified at the prospect of becoming a minority in their own country.

Alexander Belov, from the Movement Against Illegal Immigration, said: “History is a fight between races and religions.

“It’s the law of nature … people are used to being with people like themselves, speaking the language their mothers taught them.”

Read it all, it is fascinating (and frightening).  Imagine Russia a Muslim-dominated nation.

Congressman Tom Tancredo introduces anti-sharia bill

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Update September 24th:  Here is another link, from Jim, with more details about this bill.

In light of what we are seeing these days in Rep. Tancredo’s own state of Colorado with the Somali demands for religious accommodation, a measure to at least alert the public to the growing menace of sharia-loving immigration couldn’t come at a better time.   Go to Jihad Watch here for the whole story and the good comments.

Judy told us the other day what is happening in Great Britain with sharia law here.

Allowing non-citizens to vote?

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Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies held a panel on that question earlier this week. A comprehensive paper by one of the participants, Stanley Renshon, is here. A transcript of the proceedings is here, and a Congressional Quarterly news story about the panel headlined Non-Citizen Voting: ‘American Dream’ or ‘One of the Worst Ideas Ever’? is here. The article begins:

An emerging movement to give non-citizens the right to vote in local elections should be resisted because it puts at risk national cohesion and the value of U.S. citizenship, according to a new report by a group that supports lower immigration.

“The Constitution, the Congress and the courts have enshrined voting as a core indispensable element of American citizenship and democracy,” Stanley A. Renshon, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said upon release of his paper, “Allowing Non-Citizens to Vote in the United States? Why Not.”

Those who support non-citizen voting argue that it would actually be more democratic because more interests would be represented and participation in the political process would aid newcomers’ assimilation.

The report attempts to debunk that claim. And conservative columnist Michael Barone took issue with that characterization at a Sept. 15 CIS event promoting the study.

“This proposal is a tactic by insincere manipulators who want to increase the number of votes cast on their side of the issues and in the absence of interested citizens are willing to try to find any votes they can,” Barone said.

That “movement” is not “emerging” by itself, as a chick emerges from an egg. It has been created by activist groups like ACORN (Obama’s old employer) and groups championing illegal immigration. And I’ll bet that if Graen Isse, Somali community organizer in Greeley, Colorado, isn’t already involved in such a movement, he soon will be. Groups of refugees like the Somalis, bursting with grievances, are ripe for recruitment into claiming rights never before given to non-citizens.

A July paper from the Heritage Foundation, The Threat of Non-Citizen Voting, by Hans A. von Spakovsky, says:

In 2005, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that up to 3 percent of the 30,000 individuals called for jury duty from voter registration rolls over a two-year period in just one U.S. district court were not U.S. citizens.[1]  While that may not seem like many, just 3 percent of registered voters would have been more than enough to provide the winning presiden­tial vote margin in Florida in 2000.

The Heritage paper is about illegal voting activity. The Krikorian panel is about the movement to make non-citizen voting legal. These are two trends that need close watching.