Take this immigration quiz!

~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

I’m going to give you some quotes and you tell me who said them.  Your choices are:

A. Pat Buchanan (author and former candidate for President)

B. Robert Spencer (Jihad Watch)

C. Congressman Tom Tancredo

D. Mark Steyn (Columnist and author)

E. Yale Law (where Bill and Hillary met) professor, Amy Chua, daughter of immigrants

…..are all immigrants really equally likely to make good Americans?   A, B, C, D, E

Around the world today, nations face violence and instability as a result of their increasing pluralism and diversity. Across Europe, immigration has resulted in unassimilated, largely Muslim enclaves that are hotbeds of unrest and even terrorism. The riots in France last month were just the latest manifestation. With Muslims poised to become a majority in Amsterdam and elsewhere within a decade, major West European cities could undergo a profound transformation.  A, B, C, D, E

The greatest empire in history, ancient Rome, collapsed when its cultural and political glue dissolved, and peoples who had long thought of themselves as Romans turned against the empire. In part, this fragmentation occurred because of a massive influx of immigrants from a very different culture. A, B, C, D, E

America’s glue can be subverted by too much tolerance. Immigration advocates are too often guilty of an uncritical political correctness that avoids hard questions about national identity and imposes no obligations on immigrants.  A, B, C, D, E

…..the special preference for family members should be drastically reduced.  A, B, C, D, E

…..more stringent English proficiency requirements for citizenship should be set up.  A, B, C, D, E

It’s up to each immigrant community to fight off an enclave mentality and give back to their new country. A, B, C, D, E

Illegal immigration, along with terrorism, is the chief cause of today’s anti-immigration backlash.  A, B, C, D, E

Immigrants who turn their backs on American values don’t deserve to be here.  A, B, C, D, E

By now, I think you know what answer I’m looking for.  If you said E for each statement above you would have an A on this quiz.   When I read this Opinion piece in Sunday’s Washington Post I was incredulous.  The first thing that came to my mind was the Post would never in a million years have published this prominently on the front page of the opinion section if it had been written by A, B, C, or D above, but a Chinese woman Yale Law Professor makes it O.K.    

My second thought was for Professor Amy Chau and the hell she is going to get for being so truthful (and politically incorrect).

Wake up America! It’s the jihad, stupid

~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Writing at American Thinker yesterday, our friend Janet Levy talks about the “elephant in the room” that is almost completely ignored by the presidential candidates and for that matter our whole government—global jihad.

This campaign season, presidential candidates seem intent on battling each other with a war of words over universal healthcare, tax reform, immigration, the war in Iraq, the economy and Biblical literalism. Yet, they have spent few words on and have literally ignored the greatest threat to America and Western civilization since the Cold War: the global jihad.

We have seen this unbelievable willful ignorance demonstrated with the US State Department’s actions regarding Refugee Resettlement as they merrily bring hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants to America (208,702 between 1990 and 2003 to be exact) when there are Christians and people of other non- violent faiths who are persecuted, often by Muslims, and waiting to come.  And, when these devout Islamists arrive, with the help of “church” groups and are placed in our welfare system, many refuse to assimilate creating controversies such as the one on-going in Emporia, Kansas and the one about to explode in Shelbyville, TN.   See our Emporia category for the whole story.   Ms. Levy continues:

It is unprecedented that a minority group that freely immigrated to the United States and Europe of its own accord is now endeavoring to overhaul Western civilization to its Koran-dictated, specifications. The West, particularly America, has a tradition of welcoming people from other cultures and practitioners of different religions. However, immigrants have always assimilated and strengthened American society rather than demand that we adopt their ways at the expense of our own.

Remember Imam Hendi, “30 Muslim mayors by 2015”!   See especially this post.

Iraqi refugees to Houston, another “lack of will” story

~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

It’s laughable to watch how these refugee stories spread around the country using the same phraseology.   Here is another one from Houston, TX.    And, yet another organization involved.  These refugee groups are breeding like rabbits it seems.   The Refugee Council USA has a website but there appear to be no financial documents available to the public;  it looks like a lobbying outfit seeking more money all around for refugee resettlement.  [It is the same M.O. as the global warming ‘crisis’.  Hype = more government funding]

“There is a huge need and a lack of will,” said Elizabeth Campbell, director of Refugee Council USA, a Washington-based coalition. “They are failing to meet their own targets. People who worked for the United States find their lives are in imminent danger, and to simply leave them there is despicable.”

Then we have our old buddy Jacob Kurtzer from Refugees International, but this time he is a “researcher” (not a “congressional advocate”) trumpeting the same theme:

“When we talk of the lack of political will by this administration, we are thinking of President (Gerald) Ford, who gave a presidential order so there could be an airlift of 135,000 Vietnamese at the time of the fall of Saigon. He recognized the vulnerability of a huge population of South Vietnamese,” Kurtzer said.

There is one big differance here, maybe two.  First, the war is not over and we haven’t abandoned Iraq like we did Vietnam, and secondly the Vietnamese didn’t have terrorists hiding in their refugee ranks who wished to kill us.

It is so blatantly political it’s disgusting.  There are definitely some desparate Iraqis, the Christians, but these refugee lobbyists are so partisan they hurt those with a  legitimate claim to protection.

By the way, Refugees International is headed by Mr.Partisan himself, Ken Bacon.  Maybe you will recall that he was the guy working in the Clinton Defense Department who released Linda Tripp’s personel file to reporters during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Follow the Money! OMB database now available

~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Your tax dollars: 

The Washington Post reported yesterday that OMB (Office of Management and Budget) has launched a new site called USAspending.gov, and here’s what they say about it:

The story began late last year, when two other political opposites, Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), sponsored legislation requiring the federal government to set up a searchable online database tracing federal budget spending by Jan. 1, 2008.

_____

The goal was to make both the executive branch and Congress accountable for their spending decisions by allowing regular taxpayers to follow the money.

As you will see when you read the article, there is already a site called OMB Watch.   So between the two we should be able to spend some long winter days pouring over the finances involved in Refugee Resettlement.  And, if you don’t find what you are looking for, contact the site and tell them what you need because new data is being added daily, according to one of those involved in designing the site.

“It’s a work in progress. The site doesn’t include as much data as we want, but we are like a gerbil in an exercise wheel, loading data as we speak.”

Alrighty then, let’s give those “gerbils” some work!

Time Magazine paints Ft.Dix Six as sympathetic characters

~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Time Magazine this week ran its “investigation” of the Ft. Dix terrorism case and at every turn attempts to show the alleged perpetrators of a plot to kill US soldiers as misquided youths who could not possibly pull off such a brazen attack.   We have followed this case here because one of those charged is a former refugee (three others were illegal aliens) who had actually been initially resettled at this Army base in the wake of Bill Clinton’s Bosnian War.   And,  because it interests me having grown up on the edge of the N.J. Pine Barrens where Ft. Dix is located.  See our earlier stories here and this one about Albanian blood feuds.

What you won’t see in this on-line version of Time’s story is a large photo of one defendants 26 year old wife, an American convert to Islam,  whom he married in a religious ceremony when she was 16 and their five cute kids.  It’s really quite sickening to see the blatant attempt to play on public sympathy. 

At one point the reporter tells us this:

It’s worth mentioning, of course, that it’s not at all clear that the alleged plot would have succeeded. The base, which trains soldiers before they are deployed to Iraq, is heavily protected. Delivery vehicles are thoroughly searched before entry.

Just this little comment sealed my opinion of this so-called “investigation.”  I was at Ft. Dix not long after the arrests of the six suspected terror plotters and was stunned at the easy access my brother and I had to the base.   The guard house contained 2 guards, one just lounging in a chair.  The other came to our car took a quick look at our drivers licenses and signalled us to proceed into the base.   We had at least expected they would want us to open the trunk and have a look inside, but I guess white middle aged types aren’t dangerous.  We also learned that even after the scare, food vendors and pizza delivery guys had easy access to soldiers’ barracks and roamed about freely.