Category: Immigration
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Islam and the West: What is My Preferred Prophylaxis?
Things are coming to a head. We cannot tolerate as a 'new normal' another Islamist slaughter of innocents every six months or so. So what is to be done? What prophylactic measures do we need to take to protect the USA and the rest of the West from the Islamist virus? London Ed writes,…
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Extreme Vetting or Just Common Sense?
The latter. "But you can't bar Muslims from immigrating! We have freedom of religion! That's not who we are! That goes against our values!" Andrew C. McCarthy answers this sort of nonsense very sensibly here. As I would put it: Freedom of religion does not extend to the protection of a hybrid political-religious ideology whose…
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A Diversity Paradox for Immigration Expansionists
Liberals love 'diversity' even at the expense of such obvious goods as unity, assimilation, and comity. So it is something of a paradox that their refusal to take seriously the enforcement of immigration laws has led to a most un-diverse stream of immigrants. "While espousing a fervent belief in diversity, immigrant advocates and their allies have presided…
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Political, not Religious
As an addendum to The Incompatibility of Islam and the West, let me add that the case against Muslim immigration is political not religious. It is because Muslims are politically subversive that their immigration must be curtailed or eliminated, not because they have a different religion. The U. S. Constitution in its First Amendment guarantees…
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Libel?
Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 13 June: "Omar Mateen despised gays in the same way that Donald Trump and too many of his supporters despise Muslims." Why isn't this libel? 'Libel' as defined in the law: 1) n. to publish in print (including pictures), writing or broadcast through radio, television or film, an untruth about another…
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Is Diversity Our Strength?
Thomas Sowell poses the question: Is diversity our strength? Or anybody's strength, anywhere in the world? Does Japan's homogeneous population cause the Japanese to suffer? Have the Balkans been blessed by their heterogeneity — or does the very word "Balkanization" remind us of centuries of strife, bloodshed and unspeakable atrocities, extending into our own times?…
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Victor Davis Hanson Takes a Trumpian Line on Muslim Immigration
It's about time these establishment types began wising up: [. . .] Immigration to the U.S., and citizenship itself, should be seen, again, as a privilege, not a right—and assimilation and integration, not multicultural separatism and ethnic and religious chauvinism, should be the goal of the host. We need not single out Muslims in terms…
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Richard Cohen on Donald Trump
Mr. Cohen feels that Trump is betraying the principles that America stands for: It ['betrayal'] is the word that comes to mind almost on a nightly basis when I see some Trump surrogate defend his position on one of the cable news shows. How can you? I want to ask. Do you believe that the…
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Will the ‘True Conservative’ Please Stand Up?
Every morning I find a new batch of anti-Trump articles by so-called conservatives. These anti-Trumpsters clearly see the man's many negatives, but most of them refuse to come clean on the question: "Do you advocate not voting for Trump thereby aiding and abetting a Clinton victory? Yes or no?" Add to the list Michael Gerson…
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The Parable of the Lion and the Turtle
The lion said to the turtle, "Come out of your shell, and join the party!" The turtle said to the lion, "OK, Leo, after you have had yourself declawed and defanged." Defense mechanisms, both physical and psychological, serve a good purpose even as they limit relations with others. But too much armor, psychic and otherwise,…
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Making America Mexico Again
There is, however, a minor problem with this notion, namely, that Mexican invaders will then have to travel so much farther north to get to a place worth living in. The graphic below is from a recent Trump protest rally in California. Now Trump's negatives have been on display for a long time and there…
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Hillary Apologizes for Using ‘Illegal Immigrants’
Here. The problem is not that Hillary is too stupid to grasp the distinction between legal and illegal immigration; the problem is that she is a corrupt leftist out for her own personal gain at the expense of her country. Chris Hedges over at Truth Dig is worried about the rise of American fascism. But…
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Reflections on Wise and Suicidal Immigration
An outstanding essay by Victor Davis Hanson, except that he fails to address the question of Muslim immigration and the question of a moratorium on it. A failure of nerve? A desire to remain comfortably respectable in his ivory tower? You will recall the 'conservative' Lindsay Graham's denunciation of Donald Trump as a 'xenophobe' when…
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Two Leftist Constraints on ‘Conversation’
Only politically correct topics may be discussed. So Eric Holder called for a 'conversation' on race as if we had never talked about this before. But I don't recall him calling for a 'conversation' on immigration. The other constraint is that 'conversation' must consist in an acquiescence by the conservative in the leftist's nonsense. No…
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San Bernardino, ISIS, Islam, and Refugees
A measured statement from the Christian evangelical camp by Mark Tooley. Excerpt: At the very least, Christian immigration advocates should urge U.S. immigration policies that strongly prohibit persons who reject American democratic principles. Over one hundred years ago immigration policies screened against anarchist sympathies, which murderously raged in Europe. Later U.S. policies screened against Bolshevism.…