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Britain Poll: Two-Thirds Want Drastic Action to Reduce Immigration
Around the world, most societies don’t care for immigration, particularly when there’s too much of it. Global polls from Ipsos and Pew Research have illustrated the normal dislike of foreigner diversity. Human nature is deeply tribal, dictating that we all like our own group the best and are somewhat suspicious of those who don’t share out language, culture and values.
Mass immigration is a favored project of elites, who like the reduced cost of labor and see exploitable third-worlders as potential household help.
Immigration is even less popular when historic enemies (e.g. Muslims) have been permitted to enter by the millions. London is no longer majority white and some areas have been declared sharia zones where infidels better behave according to Allah in their own country. Plus there has been serious terrorism, like the 2005 London bombings, and appalling crime, particularly the sexual targeting of young English girls by Muslim gangs.
There have been recent murmurs from the British government that it would toughen up against illegal aliens, though actual seriousness remains to be seen. Not a minute too soon either, since the EU requires the free entry of Romanians and Bulgarians later this year.
The graphic below from the recent Sky News poll is of rather poor design, since it’s hard to read the important details. The 67% part says: “Take drastic action” The UK population is already too large and the government should take drastic action now to reduce migration.
Immigration: Britons Want ‘Drastic Action’, Sky News, October 13, 2013
The Home Secretary has insisted the Government is tackling immigration after a Sky News poll revealed a demand for “drastic action”.
Theresa May told Sky News steps were already being taken to tighten rules on migrants’ access to benefits as she noted the findings of the survey.
It found more than two thirds of the British public believe the UK population is too large and want the Government to go further.
Russia Reacts To Anti-Immigrant Riots: By Arresting Immigrants
Russian protesters handed round security footage showing the alleged killer (BBC)
As Brenda Walker noted for us yesterday, Russians in Moscow, exasperated by yet another violent crime apparently committed by a Muslim immigrant, staged a full scale riot this weekend.
Today the Russian Government responded
Police in Russia have arrested more than 1,200 people
Kaus On Kotkin On In Inequality: Kotkin Ignoring The "Elefante In The Room" - Immigration
Mickey Kaus on Joel Kotkin's "Feudalism" article:
Elefante in the room. Joel Kotkin’s piece on California’s new “feudal” society leaves out one conspicuous contributing factor: immigration, including illegal immigration. You could argue that the historic influx of Latinos, Asians and others made the state better (there is a huge garment industry in L.A. that lives off Latino labor). Or you can argue that it made it worse (increasing inequality by adding unskilled workers and enriching businessmen who employed them). I don’t see how you can ignore it. …
P.S. Even if immigration made California richer (and no more or less mathematically unequal) it could still have made California society more feudal–in the sense that differences in economic status became a) more conspicuous b) more all-encompassing and c) more permanent. There’s a very strong argument for these effects–in particular, a high Latino drop-out rate reduces the mobility-enhancing impact of education, and the widespread employment of Latinos as servants, busboys and valet parkers brings back a form of Downton- Abbeyish social inequality that for a brief shining period in the 1960s and 1970s seemed to be on the verge of disappearing. …
I said much the same thing, at greater length, here, and noted
Do Charter Schools Most Help Whites? And If So, Is That Bad?
An op-ed in the Buffalo News by a couple of University of Buffalo social science professors:
By Adeline Levine and Murray Lev
2013 Hajj: And They're OFF! Diseases For All!
The 2013 Hajj is officially under way. Last year 3,161,572 people congregated in and around Mecca for the annual Muslim pilgrimage, a 55 percent increase over the number for ten years previously. (Click to enlarge the infographic below, from Alarabiya.net.)
In land area, Mecca at 500 sq. miles is slightly smaller than Nashville, Tennessee. Speaking as a deeply un-gregarious person, I find the thought of being in a town that size together with
Russians Riot over Muslim Immigrant Crime in Moscow
Russians have not been celebrating the increased Muslim diversity in their nation. Jihadist terror has struck hard there, notably in the Beslan school massacre of 186 schoolchildren and the Moscow theater hostage crisis, both attacks committed by hostile Chechen Muslims.
The city of Moscow has one to two million Muslim residents who block streets by the thousands on their Allah holidays and they intimidate daily to force Islam on Russians. The breakup of the Soviet Union has accelerated the influx and the accumulation over the years has been brutal.
The RT.com video below begins with the announcer describing the reason locals are angry over a recent murder, “An uncontrolled flow of illegal migrants has turned the neighborhood into a crime center.” It’s remarkable there are not more riots over nation-changing immigration invasions.
The written report from RT similarly notes unhappiness with diversity-fueled crime.
Over 300 detained after anti-migrant riot in southern Moscow, RT.com, October 13, 2013
Moscow police said they detained some 300 people
Countdown To October 14 Release Of Latest Ann Coulter Book: NEVER TRUST A LIBERAL OVER THREE—ESPECIALLY A REPUBLICAN
We say in Ann Coulter's bio that "She is the author of nine New York Times bestsellers—collect them here."
As of midnight tonight, this is going up to ten, with the release of Never Trust a Liberal Over Three-Especially a Republican.
The Amazon blurb says
Coulter is uncensored, unapologetic, and unflinching in her ruthless mockery of liberals, sissies, morons, hypocrites, and all other species of politician.
Coulter doesn’t stop at the politicians, though. Watch her skewer
Five Shot In Tulsa—What's Hmong With This Picture?
Not an immigrant mass murder, because no one is actually dead, but part of the same phenomenon:
5 injured in shooting at Hmong celebration in Tulsa, OklahomaBy AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN
October 13, 2013
(CNN) -- A man walked in and opened fire at a Hmong New Year's celebration in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night, injuring five people, police said.
Authorities don't know what caused the man to begin shooting inside the Green Country Event Center. He has been arrested.
Two attendees were hit in the upper body, while the other three were struck in the arm and leg, said Tulsa Police Capt. Mike Williams.
They were between the ages of 30 and 60.
"One of the individuals will probably lose his lower leg," Williams said.
A police helicopter that happened to be flying by saw a vehicle leaving the area. When officers tried to stop the car, they saw a passenger changing clothes, then throwing his hoodie and a gun from the car, Williams said.
Police believe the passenger, 19-year-old Ming Mee,
New York: Illegal Alien Arrested in Baby Hope Murder Case
A 22-year-old cold case has been solved in New York City regarding the murder of a four-year-old girl whose identity was unknown. Now we know her true name is Anjelica Castillo, not Baby Hope as she had been nicknamed. Her cousin, Conrado Juarez, an illegal alien from Mexico who was 30 at the time, has admitted to the murder and has been arrested.
Anjelica’s body was found in a cooler by the side of a road in 1991. The child was emaciated and had been sexually assaulted.
Kudos to the police whose remarkable persistence over more than two decades solved the murder.
Below, posters about the case were placed around the neighborhood last summer to jog memories.
According to the following article, police believe Anjelica’s mother was willing to help Juarez (pictured) dispose of the body because she feared deportation. She never reported her child was missing.
‘Baby Hope’ cousin admits fatal sex attack, New York Post, October 12, 2013
It was a murder that wrenched the hearts of New Yorkers and baffled the city’s best detectives and prosecutors for two decades.
On a summer day in 1991, the body of an emaciated 4-year-old girl was found naked and bundled with twine inside a filthy cooler near the Henry Hudson Parkway.
Investigators called the girl “Baby Hope” — and on Saturday their own never-flagging hopes were fulfilled when they finally cracked the case.
The turning point came this summer, in a laundromat, when one woman overheard another woman say that years ago her little sister had disappeared.
The first woman had also seen one of the “Baby Hope” fliers police continued to post, and called the cops.
The tip led to the arrest of Conrado Juarez, 52, who sources said was a Mexican illegal alien dishwasher at the Bleecker Street restaurant Pesce Pasta.
Juarez was the girl’s cousin, and was staying with her in
Swiss Set February Date for Referendum regarding Immigration
The Swiss have made good use of their national referendum process to fight against the unwanted diversity of unfriendly Muslim immigrants. Although Switzerland is required by the borderless EU superstate to accept any Europe resident who plops down in residence, the Swiss have cleverly worked the edges in earlier efforts.
In 2009, for example, the citizens voted to ban minarets, a clear message of unwelcome to hostile Muslims who are using immigration to turn the home of the Enlightenment into totalitarian Eurabia.
In the following year, the Swiss chose to deport foreign criminals. June of 2013 saw the successful referendum tightening the asylum standards to keep out moochers, who have been flocking since the Arab spring. Plus there have been reports of determined terrorists using the large flow of refugees to Europe to slip in, so there is a national security threat as well as worsened crime.
Recent reports put the number of Muslims residing in Switzerland at 400,000, out of a total population of eight million.
The Swiss sign below says “Enough already! Stop mass immigration.”
The new referendum takes on the EU more directly in hopes of renegotiating the immigration part of the agreement.
Interestingly, further restriction initiatives are planned, including one based on respecting the environmental carrying capacity of a country (an argument that was made by the SUSPS group against the Sierra Club in a several-year struggle).
Vote set for bid ‘against mass immigration’, October 10, 2013
Mexicans Defend Cruel Horse-Tripping Diversity in Their Rodeos
Mexican family values include animal cruelty, as noted in a recent BBC report about horse tripping in the hispanic version of rodeos. A Mexico-booster dad remarks, “You’re not gonna hurt me by stopping me by doing charia; you’re gonna hurt thousands and thousands of kids that want to have an alternative sport and be proud of something.”
Rider Leonardo Lopez remarks in the video, “Most of us that come from Mexico, we don’t leave Mexico there, we bring Mexico with us, it’s part of us when we ride horses here our mind goes back to our little towns in the old days, so Mexico is always with us.”
Say, if Mexico is so beloved by its people, why don’t they live there, where business is booming and no annoying Americans are complaining about Mexicans’ cultural cruelty
Radio Derb Is On The Air: De Blasio, French Nationalism, Janet Yellen, Etc.
As a podcast on iTunes, listenable/downloadable onscreen at Taki’s Magazine, or as a transcript here.
More On Christianophobia/Christophobia: Why There's No Outcry
More about Rupert Shortt's book Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack,which I mentioned below, with the caveat that we've been using the word "Christophobia" for years.
Alan Johnson interviews Rupert Shortt in the Telegraph:Why are we so quiet about Christianophobia? October 4th, 2013
It's wrong of Shortt to say of the "perceived sufferings and complaints of Muslims" that "many of which I will be the first to say are justified." That kind of concession never helps.
He should say something like "We're talking (or rather not talking) about about a suicide bomber attacking a church, killing 78 people, including 34 women and seven children, you're screaming at the top of your lungs about someone looking at you sideways when you appear in public wearing a ninja mask." [Emphases added below,]
Talking to Rupert Shortt, the religion editor of the Times Literary Supplement and an intensely thoughtful man, I heard four big causes of our shameful quietism.
First, “I’m sorry to say there’s a bit of a hierarchy of victimhood here” he told me. “It’s just not very fashionable to be a persecuted Christian.” The New Atheism has played its role here.
Second, and one of the sources of this fashionable indifference, is what Shortt called "a bit of a liberal blind spot". He meant that while we are "very, very sensitised to the perceived sufferings and complaints of Muslims, many of which I will be the first to say are justified," we also tend to swallow whole a "highly questionable victimhood narrative of certain Islamists. The idea that Muslims are targeted and persecuted like no other group is a falsification of history that needs to be resisted." That we often fail to do that is one reason we also struggle to see anti-Christian hatred and persecution plain. It meshes with what Shortt calls the "self-lacerating element in Christian societies, probably born out of guilt over colonialism."
Third, there is that "turn the other cheek" thing. Shortt gave the
Sierra Club Patriotic Logo No Longer Operative
The Sierra Club used to have the motto
"Christianophobia"—New Word (And New Book) For An Old Thing
In January, 2012, I wrote an article headlined “Christophobia”—The Prejudice That Barely Has A Name.
We've had readers question the word “Christophobia”, (meaning hatred, fear, and contempt for Christians and Christianity) which we've been using for years, but I can trace its use back to the late 19th and early 20th century, when it referred to Chinese and Indian resistance to missionaries. This was caused by a combination of xenophobia (theirs, not ours) and a desire to cling bitterly to old ways like ancestor worship and suttee.
Rupert Shortt in England has written a book talking about the same phenomenon under a slightly different name, Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack 
That means that this prejudice not only barely has a name, we can't even agree on the name it barely has.
Here's Shortt being interviewed in Fathom Magazine:
Alan Johnson: Let’s start with some big questions about the word ‘Christianophobia.’ First, what does it mean?Rupert Shortt: It covers a multitude of sins really. I grant you that the word ‘phobia’ implies something rather passive, unlike the more active evil of antisemitism. But ‘anti-Christianism,’ just like ‘anti-Muslimism,’ hasn’t really caught on as a term, so I thought I would adopt a coinage
Senator Rand Paul Condemns Islam's War against Christians
It was good to hear Senator Rand Paul speak out against the brutal persecution of Christians around the Muslim world as the theme of his speech at the Value Voters Summit on Friday.
“There is a minority of Muslims who condone killing Christians but unfortunately that minority numbers in the tens of millions,” he said.
The Senator also noted the insanity of Washington’s support of terrorist enemies: “We are now arming Islamic rebels who are allied with al-Qaeda that attacked us on 9/11. Does that make any sense at all? American tax dollars should never be spent to prop up war on Christianity, but that’s what’s happening now across the globe.”
Of course, in speaking to the audience at an event hosted by the Family Research Council, Paul emphasized Islam’s war against Christians, but in fact jihadists kill Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, and anyone
Dr.Norm Matloff On The Parallels Between Schumer's Role In The Housing Bubble And His Amnesty Pushing
Dr.Norm Matloff writes to his email list:
I'm in the midst of reading Sheila Bair's excellent account of her frustrations--but eventual vindication--during her tenure as head of the FDIC in the years leading to and following the 2008 financial crash. I'm finding some remarkable parallels with the current H-1B situation.As many of you know, by 2007 the wheels were already starting to come off of the subprime mortgage mania, "derivatives squared" craziness bus in the real estate and financial markets leading up to the 2008 implosion. Yet Bair shows how both the legislative and executive branches ignored the dire warning signs and were pushing full speed ahead with policies aimed to please the big financial institutions, relaxing capital requirements (reserves needed if, e.g. a lot of loans suddenly go bad).
To begin with, Senator Schumer enters the picture, behaving in as strong a pro-banking industry manner as he is now in his pro-tech industry stance. He pushes the same mantras too, with phrasing like "our outdated policies" and the need for the U.S. to be "competitive" with other nations, just like we see with H-1B. The McKinsey consulting firm is
Electing A New People: How Many New Voters Would Amnesty Create? A Lot!
CIS has a report on the number of immigrants who would be added to the voting rolls by the Gang of Eight bill. It's a very large number:
How Many New Voters Would S.744 Create?
A look at the electoral implications of the Gang of Eight immigration bill
By Steven A. Camarota October 2013Download a PDF of this Backgrounder
Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies.
Based on projections published by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), we estimate that if S.744 were to become law it will add more than 17 million new potential voting-age citizens by 2036. These new potential voters are in addition to the nearly 15 million that the current level of legal immigration will add by 2036. Combined, current immigration plus the effects of S.744 would add more than 32 million potential new voting-age citizens by 2036. To place these figures in perspective, the last four presidential elections were decided by 4.5 million votes on average.
Among the report’s findings:
- Based on the CBO’s analysis of S.744, we project