10/21/2023
[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusivelyon VDARE.com]
Here’s a roundup of short news items about immigration. I’ll take them in expanding order by geolocation: first provincial, then national, finally global.
“Provincial,” for this Long Islander, means —
As I have been reporting, the city has been coping, or trying to cope, with a mighty flood of illegal aliens being bused, and sometimes flown, up from border states.
There is a lighter side to this, at any rate for us immigration patriots. We get to chuckle at the cognitive dissonance being suffered by goodthinkful New Yorkers.
Immigration sentimentality waxes strong here: Ellis Island! Statue of Liberty poem!
Now, faced with the reality of massive unskilled immigration, mainly fighting-age young men, New York progressives are undergoing severe psychic stress [Migrant Crisis Tests New Yorkers Who Thought They Supported Immigration, by John Leland, NYT, October 7, 2023].
Apparently they supported it in Texas, New Mexico, and especially Arizona, but not, you know, here where they live: https://t.co/J7EXy0INxY
— VDARE (@vdare) October 21, 2023
To which I say: Good!
The illegals are still piling in, more every week. The week ending October 8th saw almost 4,000 new arrivals, bringing the total for the last year and a half to 126,000 and change, more than 64,000 of them still in city shelters.
It’s getting worse, but there are small signs of enlightenment. An October 15th editorial in the New York Post printed the phrase “asylum seekers" in quotation marks!
“Asylum seekers” arriving in New York City just set a new record: nearly 4,000 in a single week.
And the routine inflow is double what it was a year ago.
It’s getting worse, not better, and Homeland Security’s belated move to build a few miles of wall won’t change a thing.
New NYC migrant high, FDNY fears fires while Prez Biden fiddles, October 15, 2023. Links in original
I’ll take what I can get.
Resistance is strongest in the outer boroughs, away from the intense, suicidal Wokery of Manhattan, as we’ve been reporting here.
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A shelter for illegals on Staten Island that had been loudly protested by people in the neighborhood was evacuated last Monday after the city Fire Department declared it a fire hazard.
Given that Staten Island is heavily working-class legacy-American, and the Fire Department doubly so, I suspect some sort of quiet arrangement there; but whatever, the evacuation was loudly cheered by the locals [Dozens of migrants bused off Staten Island after closing of controversial shelter, by Kevin Sheehan, Craig McCarthy and Haley Brown, NY Post, October 21, 2023].
City Hall is still whining, though. What are they whining about? Well, they have filed over two thousand applications for work permits on behalf of the illegals, and the feds have not approved a single one [Adams downplays lackluster migrant job figures as none yet cleared to earn paychecks, by Craig McCarthy and Chris Nesi, New York Post, October 20, 2023].
Let that sink in: Our federal government is withholding work permits from illegal aliens. Talk about executive dysfunction!
Not to worry, though. On the national level, the New York Post has dug out the paperwork on something called the RRM Initiative. RRM stands for "Release and Reporting Management," don’t ask me why. It’s federal paperwork and it says that —
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is overseeing 5.7 million migrants in the US — who could soon be provided free medical services, food and even housing by the Biden administration.
ICE admits record 5.7 million migrants in US — Biden wants to provide ‘medical services, housing’ to all, by Diana Glebova, New York Post, October 12, 2023
So that’s all right then. The illegals may not get work permits, but they’ll be getting food, housing, and free medical services.
Let’s not be stingy, though: Why shouldn’t they get a yacht as part of the deal?
Nothing much on legal immigration — nothing like as much as I’d like to see. I did, though, spot Gavin Wax the other day on Twitter thus, tweet:
End all student visas. All these "private" colleges and universities are subsidized heavily either directly and indirectly by federal, state, or local government. Tax dollars shouldn’t go to educate foreign nationals on our shores at the expense of American citizens.
End all student visas. All these “private” colleges and universities are subsidized heavily either directly and indirectly by federal, state, or local government. Tax dollars shouldn’t go to educate foreign nationals on our shores at the expense of American citizens.
— Gavin Mario Wax 🇺🇸 🗽🍊 (@GavinWax) October 17, 2023
Right on, brother. Education is a finite national resource, heavily subsidized; it should be for Americans.
A couple here. In my podcast this week, I mentioned the Transparency International rankings on corruption, repeating my point that the Russia-Ukraine War is being fought between the world’s two most corrupt white nations. What, according to Transparency International, is the least corrupt of the 150 nations they’ve listed?
Answer: Denmark. Readers of VDARE.com will also know that as well as being sensationally non-corrupt, Denmark is the least insane of Western European countries where Third World immigration is concerned.
They haven’t totally resisted it, though. There are immigrant ghettos in several Danish cities practicing "hard" multiculturalism — i.e., "We’ll live in your country because it’s way nicer than ours, but don’t try to make us assimilate."
Now the Danes are tackling those ghettos, forcibly evicting public-housing residents in them to be moved elsewhere [Danish government accused of racism over plan to break up ’ghettos’ of ’non-Western’ immigrant communities in bid to boost integration in cities, by Nick Craven, Daily Mail UK, October 21, 2023].
The relevant laws have full support in the Danish parliament, but are being challenged in the European Court of Justice. We’ll see how that goes.
Finally, in the mother country, my idea of detaining illegals in prison hulks moored offshore, as used to be done with the overflows from British prisons, has finally come true … sort of.
That very ugly barge with the silly name, the Bibby Stockholm, moored off England’s southwest coast, received its first detachment of illegals on Thursday — thirty men. More will come today and next Monday.
The interior of the barge is actually pretty nice: well-appointed apartments with TV, Wi-Fi, and so on. And I believe the inhabitants will be free to come and go to Dorsetshire’s Portland, the nearest town. Look out for the first reports of rapes and robberies in Portland.
Law and common sense, as represented by the bus bringing those thirty illegals to the barge, encountered lunacy and groupthink on the way there. A posse of Just Stop Oil protestors sat down on the road the bus was coming along [Chaotic scenes as first asylum seekers return to Bibby Stockholm barge, Steven Morris and Diane Taylor, Guardian, October 19, 2023].
They came without the Crazy Glue they usually use to affix themselves to roadways and Vermeers, though. The bus driver stopped for a moment; then he crept his vehicle forward, scattering the Climate Crazies. Apparently none of them was keen on martyrdom for the cause.
This video appears at several places on Twitter, this is from one of the protesters — who did not actually die.
On Thursday, I tried to stop the government forcing people back onto Bibby Stockholm.
Seems like the Home Office had briefed the coach driver to drive into us, regardless of whether or not we would die.pic.twitter.com/4UBUV7Rmqv
— Ams (@amelia_halls) October 21, 2023
Of course, this was an intra-Left conflict, the Climate Crazies not having got the memo that the Great Replacement is now the Left’s Number One Priority.
So no one was arrested, much less jailed.
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