Posts Tagged ‘ immigration ’

The Underground Economy

The Underground Economy

A brilliant story in Commonweal today, which explores the sordid depths that certain sectors of the American economy have sunk to in our post-borders society. I can’t possibly do justice to it here, so I suggest you read the whole thing.   
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The New American Way

The New American Way

One of the freedoms we cherish as American citizens is the right, enshrined in our Constitution, to peaceably assemble and express our opinions, ideas, and complaints. However, what happens when that right becomes an excuse to obstruct, delay and impede the lives of other citizens? Usually this isn’t a problem in New York City,...
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Miss America

Miss America

I don’t care if she ultimately wins the crown, to me Arianna Afsar represents this country beautifully.  She is a former American Idol contestant recently crowned Miss California.
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Violent Border/Media awareness

Violent Border/Media awareness

Perhaps a better term to describe the Mexican-American border would be “anarchic,” since the most gruesome violence is occurring just across the Rio Grande, which is leading to a completely chaotic situation in American towns such as Ft. Hancock, Texas. The other evening, Nightline re-aired a report about that besieged town in a remarkable...
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Letter to the Editor

A reader writes in with some thoughts on the current immigration debate: ************ It seems to me that Americans have always considered immigration policy to be amongst the most important domestic issues. It comes up in the Constitutional provision to hold Election Day on the 2nd Tuesday in November (and not on All-Saints Day).
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Xenophobia

Xenophobia

            Earlier tonight I was watching a program called “Noticiero” on La Estrella, a Spanish-language, HD channel that airs on an affiliate station of WPIX in New York, whose chief topic was-suppress your shock for a moment–immigration! The show’s host-who I remember chiefly for hosting a news-magazine tabloid program, roughly...
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Oz Update

Oz Update

It turns out that Australia’s new prime minister is making some concessions to political reality, and has abandoned the “Big Australia” favored by her predecessors in office. Of course, Bloomberg News spins this policy shift as a tale of impending recession and economic retrenchment , replete with insinuations of nativist bigotry by the Australian populace.
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Welcome to American Rattlesnake

Today inaugurates an experiment that will hopefully mark a turning point in the debate over the intertwined issues of mass immigration and illegal aliens’ presence in our society, both subjects that have been largely ignored or obscured by the chattering class and open-borders elite which shape polite opinion.
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Global Warming=More Mexican Immigration?

Global Warming=More Mexican Immigration?

Another sign of the apocalypse, or perhaps a signal that we might want to start enacting more Arizona-style laws before it’s too late? Even National Geographic is intrigued by the immigration debate. Global warming and immigration.
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Disappointing News From The Garden State

Disappointing News From The Garden State

If we take his statements at face-value, the only thing we can conclude is that Governor Christie supports amnesty on a federal level.
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