Category: Immigration
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Of Coulter and Kant, Screwed Pooches, and Milked He Goats
Ann Coulter: Everyone who screwed the pooch on this one better realize fast: All that matters is immigration. It's all that matters to the country, and it's all that matters for winning elections. She's right: read what she has to say. What caught my eye, however, was the expression 'screw the pooch.' I now send you to…
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Once More on Immigration and the Retromingent Left
One point that needs to be made over and over in the teeth of retromingent leftist incomprehension is that immigration is justified only if it benefits the host country. Donald Trump understands this; Hillary and her ilk do not. This is another reason why his defeat of Hillary is cause for jubilation among those who…
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Illegal Immigration and the Misuse of Scripture
At the website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, we read: Why is the Catholic Church involved in the immigration issue? There are several reasons the Catholic Church is involved in the immigration debate. The Old and New Testaments, as well as the encyclicals of the Popes, form the basis for the Church's position. In…
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A Struggle for the Soul of America
The acquittal in San Francisco of an illegal alien of all homicide charges throws into unusually sharp relief the difference between the destructive leftists who seek a "fundamental transformation" of the United States and the patriots who defend the country as she was founded to be. Heather MacDonald: Advocates for illegal immigrants are unrepentant after…
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Inconvenient Truths about Migration
Required reading. Yes, kiddies, this will be on the final. Conclusion: It seems to me that anyone who thinks about such matters is bound to agree with Goodhart that citizenship, for most people, is something they are born into. Values are grown from a specific history and geography. If the make-up of a community is…
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Sanctuary City Denialism
There are those who attempt to downplay the depth of our social and political disagreements. But no honest and intelligent observer can fail to note just how deep they go. One sort of disagreement is over the attributes of an object admitted to exist. That's bad enough. Worse still are those disagreements over the very…
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Mayor of Albany Lies on Tucker Carlson Show
Kathy Sheehan, mayor of Albany, New York, while defending sanctuary cities, told an egregious lie on Tucker Carlson's show tonight (11/16) when she said that 'undocumented' (her word) workers were not in the U. S. illegally. Although Carlson eventually called her on it, he failed to clarify the distinction that Sheehan was mendaciously and confusedly…
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It Bears Repeating
1) There is no right to immigrate. Correlatively, no nation is under any obligation to accept immigrants. 2) Immigration must be to the benefit of the host country. Trump understands this; leftists don't. Another reason to rejoice that Trump is president. You don't like his style? Suck it up. He is doing good things for…
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Fratelli d’Italia
The Italians are wising up. Georgia Meloni of the Brothers of Italy exposes the Left's migrant agenda.
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Mark Steyn on Borders
Here: The left is quite explicit: Borders are fascist and racist, and thus the organizing principle of the world for the last four centuries – the nation state – is an illegitimate concept. The globalist establishment is not that upfront about it: they're more of the view, publicly, that the nation state is an obsolescent…
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“We Are All Immigrants”
Charlie Rose told this blatant lie during his 60 Minutes interview of Steve Bannon. I never thought much of Rose, but now I think even less of him. And of course he refused to distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants. Bannon was too restrained. He should have punched back harder.
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Reason to End Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Act
Andrew C. McCarthy explains: The problem is the substance of executive action. DACA is defective in two ways. First, it presumes to exercise legislative power by conferring positive legal benefits on a category of aliens (the “dreamers,” as concisely described in Yuval Levin’s Corner post). Second, it distorts the doctrine of prosecutorial discretion to rationalize this presidential legislating…
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Trump Pardons Joe Arpaio
And conservatives cheer. Of course. Paul Mirengoff gets it right: Arpaio was accused by the Obama Justice Department and other left-wingers of targeting Hispanics. Indeed, the legal case that led to his conviction arose from claims of racial profiling. But in Maricopa County, the illegal immigrant population is overwhelmingly Hispanic. Had the County been plagued…
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Is Trump Divisive?
To say of Trump or anyone that he is divisive is to say that he promotes (political) division. But there is no need to promote it these days since we already have plenty of it. We are a deeply and perhaps irreparably divided nation. So it is not right to say that Trump is divisive:…
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Dayton, Drugs, and Borders
Looks like I 'got' while the 'gittin' was good. I taught at the University of Dayton from 1978 to 1989 before moving on to Case Western Reserve University. Dayton the town was a boring place, but not a bad place to live in in those days. According to this Daily Mail piece, however, it…