Immigration Watch International (2): Cynical El Paso cleanup before Biden’s visit perfectly sums up his pathetic border policy

Monday, January 9, 2023

Cynical El Paso cleanup before Biden’s visit perfectly sums up his pathetic border policy

In his most effective action yet on the illegal-migrant crisis, President Joe Biden on Sunday . . . went to El Paso, for his first border visit since taking office and opening the floodgates.

Yes, it was empty symbolism (and a cynical gambit serving his plans to run in 2024) for barely three hours — but even setting the stage for the gesture had real-world consequences, as border agents and local cops cleared El Paso’s streets of migrants who’d camped out because the city’s shelters are beyond full.

They even sent many back over the border to Mexico, enforcing Biden’s new “get (kind of) tough on refugees from socialist disasters” policy.

Of course, the evicted migrants will start flowing right back as soon as Biden skips town (hint: say you’re Columbia, not Venezuela, or just evade the Border Patrol entirely as hundreds of thousands of others have done). But we’re sure the people of El Paso will appreciate the respite.

Cynics may draw parallels to the way DC cops rousted the homeless from Union Station in advance of the president’s “Republicans hate democracy” speech, and the videos of migrants pleading with cops may break a few hearts — and it won’t do a thing to stop surging fentanyl smuggling — but it’s still Biden’s most effective move yet to stem the tide.

Seriously: The plan he dropped last week is beyond pathetic, merely a recognition that even Democrat pols across the country are finding the influx too much. Biden still shows no sign of rethinking his fundamental “wave ’em in” policy.

Still, we bet every other town on the border is hoping for a presidential visit. At least it’s something.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/08/el-paso-cleanup-before-bidens-visit-perfectly-sums-up-his-pathetic-border-policy/

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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Monday, January 9, 2023

Cynical El Paso cleanup before Biden’s visit perfectly sums up his pathetic border policy

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