Category Archives: IMMIGRATION

Send Us Your Con Men and Women

Christianity, Europe, IMMIGRATION, Islam, Morality

What do you know, a day after The Decider (Bush’s nickname for himself) praised millions of illegal immigrants for heroically forging documents and lying to employers about their status in the country, The American Enterprise Institute has opened its arms to a prominent Dutch counterfeiter, and is, evidently, sponsoring her immigration to the United States.

She’s the Somali-born Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whom I’ve mentioned—favorably—before. Ali’s an outspoken and brave critic of Islam. She assisted Theo van Gogh, the slain Dutch filmmaker, in exposing the enslavement of women in Muslim countries. It goes without saying that followers of the religion of peace want to kill her.

Little did I know that she is liberal only with respect to views she endorses. According to Lawrence Auster, Ali has sought to ban conservative, Christian, and immigration restrictionist parties in Europe. Writes Auster:

She was also among the 12 signers of a leftist anti-Islam manifesto in March 2006 that said, ‘It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.’ The clear implication is that Christian ‘theocrats’—which by contemporary standards means anyone who actually believes in Christianity—are Ali’s enemy as much as jihadists are.

Ali, moreover, lied on her Dutch asylum application. Duly, after being a Dutch citizen for 14 years, and a member of that parliament, to boot, immigration minister Rita Verdonk has revoked her citizenship.

I’m not saying I support this ruling. The details are sketchy, and Ali claims to have “admitted lying to win asylum in the Netherlands when she was vetted as a candidate for parliament in 2002.” What makes me even more suspicious is that “a Dutch court ruled that she must leave her home in The Hague because neighbours felt she was a security risk.” That’s preposterous! What right has the court to evict her from her home because thugs have threatened her life? Let the court banish the thugs from the country!

I’d say that Ali is a candidate for asylum in the United States, although I’m not sure she’d be better protected here than in Europe. What I question is her candidacy for a fellowship with an American think tank.

Wait a sec, what am I thinking? Having no coherent political philosophy or lacking veracity—even talent—are not always impediments to being hired by such places. For example, Rachel Marsden, a convicted Canadian stalker, worked for Paul Weyrich’s D.C. think tank, the Free Congress Foundation, which is dedicated to fighting America’s “long slide into cultural and moral decay.” I’m sure there are other examples—of lack of talent, at least, if not of out-and-out wrongdoing.

* Image courtesy Point Of Inquiry.

The Wails Over The Wall

IMMIGRATION, Israel

Another little-mentioned fact has to do with the Israeli security fence—it is the reason there haven’t been any attacks for so long. The wall that separates Israeli from Palestinian territory—and makes liberals, libertarians and plain, old bigots like Bob Novak shriek like stuck pigs—has cut by over 80 percent the number of Israelis maimed and murdered by suicide bombers.

This barrier is not a political border—it can be dismantled. But lives taken by terrorism cannot be reconstituted. Still, mention any security fence intended to prevent undesired or undesirable human acts, and the Kumbaya Crowd launches into maudlin impersonations of the sainted Ronald Reagan, RIP: “… tear down this wall.”

The complete column, “The Wails Over The Wall,” is here.

Immigration Rallies: Hobbesian Democracy in Action

America, IMMIGRATION

The nationwide illegal-alien rallies have been touted by the contemptible Ted Kennedy as the victory of democracy. “The country has spoken, and today the Senate listened,” Kennedy grandiosely crowed (emphasis added).
What makes the apparently no-longer-soused Senator assert that the in-your-face anti-American specter sweeping the nation—if anything more French than American—represents the majority?
What we are seeing unfold are special-interest politics, likened by Loren E. Lomasky to “Hobbes’s war of all against all, albeit by democratic means.”
The winner in an election is certainly not the fictitious entity referred to as “The People,” but rather the representatives of the majority. Do these elected representatives at least carry out the will of the majority? Hell no! The majority has little say in the business of governance; they’ve merely elected politicians who’ve been awarded carte blanche to do as they please.
The tyranny exercised by well-entrenched minorities over unorganized majorities,” in Lomasky’s words, now that’s the democratic reality Kennedy is exulting.

Nation, State & Mass Immigration

IMMIGRATION, The State

To consider nationhood a collectivist concept is to confuse authentic individualism with a caricature thereof. The real individualist knows that man is a social being by nature. He knows that to belong to a variety of social systems is not necessarily to be bound by—or subjugated to—them. Mostly, the real individualist knows who he is and whence he came.

And it is precisely this sense that the “powerful political coalitions” that dominate the immigration debate work indefatigably to obliterate. They want an ahistoric and deracinated America, all the better to manipulate.

The excerpt is from my new WorldNetDaily column, “Nation, State & Mass Immigration.”