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Huddled masses etc.
Why is this a good idea? Here’s an overview of the Somali Bantu we’re taking in because they qualify as “a persecuted class of people who deserve to be resettled in America”: “The Bantus have had little formal education, low literacy and English levels, large families, almost no U.S. support system, and an almost total lack of exposure to technology and urban life. They practice traditional beliefs and primitive health care approaches … The Bantus have only limited exposure to transportation systems, rental property, and government services, with the exposure being mostly in the camps … Bantus have had little exposure to Western housing, conveniences, food, electricity, flush toilets, telephones, and kitchen and laundry supplies … Female circumcision is also common … Most of the Bantu children worked on the farms rather than attending schools.”These are people with no connection at all with America or the West. We are taking them in because like lots of others they are having big problems in Africa. If them, why not hundreds of millions of others from all over the world? Why not the whole population of the Muslim world, because the women could all qualify as victims of discrimination and then they could bring their families over? Why not everyone in China, because it’s impoverished and politically oppressive? Wouldn’t it be more sensible simply to extend the borders of the United States to be coextensive with the world? Or is that just obvious? The only benefit mentioned for people already here is that “The refugees are needed in hospitality jobs,
cafeterias, food service, custodial jobs, cleaning, packing/shipping, dishwashing, construction, and grounds
keeping jobs.” That’s all very well, but can their present availability as hewers of wood and drawers of water be
made the basis of a permanent relationship?
Comments
Well, at least they are coming legally. I think our immigration policy would be improved if we favored refugees, even in a broad application of the term, over illegals. Posted by: Paul Cella on March 7, 2003 12:35 AMI worked as a teacher in Louisville, Ky and had a chance to see the bureaucracy that surrounds the immigrant community. The whole immigration issue revolves around the fact that each immigrant generates a certain amount of federal money for the political machine. Teachers, social workers, laywers, and a host of others all make their living off of these immigrants. This means that there is a lot of political support for immigration, but it is concentrated in the social services industry. Part of the federal money that is spent on immigrants is diverted, in the form of teachers union dues, to the task of political lobbying in favor of (what else?) more immigration. The only way to stop this cycle is for media to outline the self-serving agenda of the NEA, which it would never do. Posted by: Ron Liebermann on March 7, 2003 5:37 AM“Teachers, social workers, laywers, and a host of others all make their living off of these immigrants. This means that there is a lot of political support for immigration, but it is concentrated in the social services industry.” — Ron Liebermann Ron is absolutely right about that — I’ve seen exactly the same thing in Vermont, albeit on a smaller scale I’m sure, than in Louisville (smaller *for now* — but come back a few years, everybody, and see the new, improved Afro-Asian-Mexican white-free, waspless, Vermonterless, welfare-dependent, Latin-and-Muslimized Vermont). And let’s not omit *here and always* to unmask the morally criminal complicity of The Ford Foundation (and other once-responsible outfits of that ilk) in our nation’s accelerating transformation into a white-free zone — they massively fund MALDEF and other such organizations whereof a mere list of titles and names would curl one’s hair to see. The year 1989 has come and gone and taken Communism with it, and we all thought we could take a breather. We didn’t know how utterly wrong we were. The destruction of America continues apace, courtesy of largely the same culprits as we faced pre-1989. We see now to our horror that communism was only ever a pretext, the real aim all along being this country’s annihilation. (“Oh — did communism disappear?,” they say to themselves. “No matter — we’ll find some other way to grind this hated nation into oblivion. How about … mmmm — let’s see … GOT IT! How about EXCESSIVE INCOMPATIBLE IMMIGRATION! Am I a GENIUS or what! Let’s get going, guys! There’s work to be done!”) |