Writing at The Guardian, Oxford professor Paul Collier says that England must slow the flow of immigrants into the tiny country.
It is worth reading the whole thing, but here (below) is one small snip to give you the flavor.
Have any of you read it? http://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Immigration-Multiculturalism-21st-Century-ebook/dp/B00ELXQYM0
He says that British political activists (UKIP) who focus largely on the economic costs to Britain are missing the much larger impact that the size and diversity of the immigrant population will have on social cohesion going forward.
The important effects of immigration are social and long term, not economic and short term. The key long-term social effects are probably on the overall size of the population and its diversity. As to population size, Britain is already one of the most crowded countries in Europe, and there is a sound environmental argument for protecting quality of life by discouraging further substantial increases. As to diversity, it involves a trade-off: as it increases, variety is enhanced but cohesion reduced. Variety is good but, unfortunately, as cohesion erodes voters become less willing to support generous welfare programmes.
In my view, not only will voters not want to support welfare programs (isn’t that economic?), but there will be increasing tension, conflict and potentially violence as Brits look at immigrants as invaders.
Why do we write about refugees, asylum seekers, and illegal migration in Europe and other first-world countries? So that you can see what is in store for America—the only difference between them and us is our size and the fact that in Europe the number of immigrants is so large in comparison to the native population that the impact is being felt sooner. But, we are getting there!
Some US cities are already there—Minneapolis for instance!
Collier is the author of ‘Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century.’
We wrote about another of his books here in August.
Yes, that is from the beleaguered New Jersey Senator, Robert Menendez now facing corruption charges. Could that Gang of Eight soon become the Gang of Seven?
Democrat Senator Robert Menendez, member of the Gang of Eight, under fire in NJ. Photo: Star Ledger
The story about immigrants with Temporary Protected Status wanting to become citizens (because honestly they are already permanent!) needs some clarification before you read it.
A migrant with TPS status can do anything a legal American citizen can do except vote.
Those with TPS status (El Salvador leads the pack) first got into the US illegally—they were first illegal aliens! Then as a result of something going on in their home country—a civil war, a big storm, an earthquake—the benevolent US crafted this program so that they wouldn’t be immediately returned to a country that was struggling to recover at that moment.
We understood that at some point they would go home! That is not to be, every year one or or the other of the eight nationalities gets an extension and this has gone on for decades. (You can see the eight favored groups, here). We recently added Syrians to TPS, but heck, why is Somalia still on there when we are told it’s safe to go home?
Remittances are a driving force behind keeping this program goingas we knew, but was brought home recently with comments from Maryland Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez here at my other blog. American money sent abroad props up governments.
And, by the way, CASA de Maryland was born out of the so-called ‘sanctuary movement’ when Quakers (among other “religious” people) broke the law by bringing Salvadorans across the border in the early 1980’s here (scroll down to second half of the post, links to Betty “rainbow” Hoover no longer work).
An immigration reform bill being drafted in the Senate may offer an expedited path to citizenship to nearly 300,000 people who are currently in the U.S. under a temporary program designed to protect people who face physical danger in their own country. [Faced physical danger maybe in the past—ed]
The program in question is called Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and it allows people to live and work in the U.S. without fear of deportation if they follow the law. But the status offers no formal pathway to citizenship, and some immigrants have been here for decades without being able to apply for a green card.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), a member of a bipartisan group working on a Senate immigration bill, told the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinión on Tuesday that the details still weren’t finalized, but that such a pathway should be considered as part of reform.
“I think that it’s expected that these people, that have been here under a legal avenue, should have some possibility to change their status in a quicker manner,” Menendez said. “[We] haven’t reach a final agreement in respect to that.”
The program, which was part of a large-scale immigration law passed in 1990, gives certain immigrants who are already in the U.S. a way to remain in the country if they face imminent dangers in their home country, such as a civil war or a natural disaster. Temporary Protected Status was born because existing refugee and asylum programs weren’t adequately addressing the needs of immigrants fleeing countries like El Salvador, which was enmeshed in civil war in the 1980s and early ’90s, according to Anwen Hughes, senior counsel at Human Rights First, a nonpartisan group that works on immigration issues. Two-thirds of people living in the country under TPS are Salvadorean.
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Some conservative critics have said that the program is problematic because it isn’t actually temporary. Salvadorans, for example, were re-authorized for TPS after a series of earthquakes in 2001, and have been eligible for the status ever since. At this point, many Salvadorans with TPS have established roots in the U.S., so if that status was suddenly revoked, it could mean expelling residents who have been living and working in the country for decades.
Type ‘temporary protected status’into our search function to learn more about this racket.
Editors note: This post is cross-posted from my other blog Potomac Tea Party Report. Although Norquist is opposing Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s efforts largely related to illegal immigration, it raises questions related to refugee resettlement as well. Kansas is a prime destination target for refugee labor (mostly needed by meatpackers), so one wonders how they could be short of low-wage workers in Kansas. One would think that Kobach’s proposed bill would not in any way affect the legal immigrants other than to keep their wages up. So, I’ll bet that the big money behind Norquist’s visit to the state is coming from the meatpacking giants (more available laborers=lower wages).
And, one more thing! I have pages and pages of postshere on immigrant problems in Kansas. One of my favorites is the demand by Muslims in Garden City, KS (a meatpacking town) for their own publicly funded Muslim cemetery (see no assimilation even in death!)
Potomac Tea Party Report:
I know I am putting energy elsewhere these days [focusing more on refugees], but some things I can’t let go! This is one. I have a massive archive now on Grover Norquist and want to be sure it’s up-to-date.
It seems that Norquist was recently invited to Kansas to gin up the industry base (those looking for plentiful cheap labor) to oppose Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s efforts to get an Arizona-like law in place in Kansas. Some of you may have met Kobach in Frederick, MD in May 2011, here.
Before I tell you more about Norquist’s trip to Kansas, please see just a few of our previous posts on Norquist, friend of Islamists. See what Rep. Frank Wolf said about him on the House floor in 2011, here. See what Pamela Geller(in Maryland last week, btw) said about him here. From that 2010 post:
Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs) has written an incredible expose today at American Thinker about Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform, charging that he has for more than a decade helped Islamic supremacists get positions of power in Washington. She goes on to warn Tea Party activists that he is working to keep the Tea Party movement silent on issues involving national security and the war on terror.
And, who can forget that Norquist told Soros’ “Think Progress”that Shariah law was compatible with the US Constitution here in 2011.
From America’s Voice*, an open borders website, funded by George Soros, that has a new hero—Norquist! (Emphasis below is mine)
Poor Kris Kobach. It’s one thing to be maligned by people you hate and believe should self-deport, but it’s another thing to be called out by those who are supposed to be your friends.
Last week we wrote about how Kobach, the architect of state anti-immigrant laws like Arizona’s SB 1070 and Alabama’s HB 56, is determined to bring a similarly destructive law to Kansas. The Kansas Business Coalition for Immigration Reform—which includes groups like the Kansas Chamber, Kansas Livestock Association, Kansas Farm Bureau, and restaurant, construction, and agriculture groups—was alarmed at what Kobach’s legislation could mean for the economic climate in the state, and sponsored anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist to come to the state and give Kobach a dressing-down.
I can only guess that now that Norquist’s tax fighting image has been so tarnished by pledge defectors that he is moving on to other areas (immigration!) where he might wield power. I believe Norquist’s open borders goal isn’t to help the farmer milking cows and wanting cheap labor, it’s about getting his Muslim friends into the US. Kobach stands in his way.
*See America’s Voice entire profile here at Discover the Networks.
