We liked Roy Beck’s “Immigration by the numbers” film so much, it is now a permanent page at RRW. Click Numbers USA in bar above (right next to ‘diversity’).
Category: Other Immigration
Immigration by the numbers
See this 14 minute video by NumbersUSA’s Roy Beck that, although released in 2006, tells more powerfully the same story as the Pew Research Center told us the other day in dry prose. Hat tip: create
Watch it!
Another Muslim Food Stamp Scam busted
As always I’ll preface this with a disclaimer that this has nothing to do with refugees. I’m interested in the topic because it’s allegedly happening right here in our western Maryland county too—food stamp fraud perpetrated by immigrants of a particular variety.
Doing my nightly rounds of blogs I stopped at one of my favorites, Debbie Schlussel, and was surprised to find yet another food stamp bust–a big one this time.
As soon as I learned that 27 people from eight Detroit-area stores were arrested and facing charges for illegal trafficking in food stamps, I just knew they were from the “Religion of Peace.” This crime satisfies way too many of the precepts of that moon-god cult to be anything other than perpetrated by one of its members: cash easily transferred to terrorists, ripping off Infidel American taxpayers, laughing at the great American satan at the ease with which they can pull off this sham.
I just love Debbie’s colorful way of telling the story, don’t you.
See our last Food Stamp scam story here. I spoke with the US Attorney’s office in that Minnesota case and asked the spokesman if there was a national trend developing and he said he didn’t know about that and maybe someone in Washington would be tracking it if there was—I think I spot a trend!
Pew: Immigration pushing population through the roof
Today the Washington Post reported on the latest study of the impact of immigration on population growth in America.
The study by the nonpartisan, Washington-based Pew Research Center … found that nearly one in five Americans will be foreign-born in 2050, compared with about one in eight today.
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Overall, by 2050 the U.S. population is projected to increase by 47 percent, from 296 million in 2005 to 438 million. Newly arriving immigrants would account for 47 percent of the rise, and their U.S.-born children and grandchildren would represent another 35 percent.
Pat Buchanan has got to be saying, I wonder where I heard this before:
……. the report offers an intriguing picture of the possible long-term effects of the immigration surge that began after 1965, when Congress abolished a quota system that had nearly ended immigration from non-European countries since the 1920s.
The report debunks the notion that us old folks need the young immigrants to take care of us.
Those who oppose allowing immigration to continue at its current pace interpreted the findings as vindication. “These numbers underline the fact that immigration is not a solution to the aging of the population,” said Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors further limits on immigration. “And then we need to ask ourselves if we want the 100 million more people immigration will bring. Do you want 80 million more cars on the road, or 40 million homes occupying what’s now open space?”
As for that last line, where is the Sierra Club when you need them? This massive environmental freight train is headed our way and they are busy fighting with a few farmers, fishermen or timber producers somewhere.
Walkersville, MD says no to Ahmadiyya Muslim Convention Center
Update 2/09/08: Here is another good article on this topic at Red Maryland blog. Be sure to read the comment from a Walkersville resident.
Last night, the Board of Zoning Appeals of Walkersville, in Frederick County, MD turned down the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s request to make a special exception and allow the construction of a worship and convention center on 224 acres adjacent to town.
The annual convention of the AMC could draw 10,000 or more people to the town of about 5000 clogging roads and putting pressure on services. Up until now this Pakastani Muslim splinter group had held its convention in a convention venue near Dulles Airport with all the normal amenities of such a facility–bathrooms, parking, water, hotel rooms—so it has always puzzled me why they needed a large piece of farmland for a one time a year event.
The Frederick Post has this account of last night’s proceedings. The article begins:
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will have to look for another site for its worship and recreational center.
As I sat in on one of the deliberations this week, I thought every little town in America needs to have its zoning in good order if a community wishes to avoid having a large separate community set up within its confines.
Call me an Islamophobe but I never once heard the AMC disavow Shariah law for themselves. Separate Shariah law is actually being considered in Great Britain and if we are to dodge that bullet we need to be alert to its possible establishment here.
If I’m wrong and the AMC has publically disavowed Shariah law, please send me a comment with a link to that official statement.