Immigration Watch International (2): Walls on Another Border

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Walls on Another Border

A spike in the number of Haitian migrants making the 600-mile sea journey to the Florida Keys is being attributed to the increased difficulty in crossing into neighboring Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic, faced with a massive influx of migrants from Haiti that was crippling the social system, built a wall, with soldiers guarding the barrier at intervals.

Chuck Holton, who has spent the last two decades reporting on wars and disasters in more than 100 countries and the author of a new Center report, writes of the Dominican Republic, “After consultations with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the country has stepped up its program of rounding up illegal Haitians and sending them back to their home country, and is expanding the wall project to deter illegal crossings.”

Haitians have long crossed to the Dominican Republic looking for work, particularly in tourism and agriculture, providing a near-limitless supply of cheap labor. But the illegal numbers swelled to over two million in the Dominican Republic, causing a change in immigration policies.

According to Holton, “Haitians are making the trek to the U.S. in larger numbers, either by sea or by flying to mainland South America, usually Suriname or Ecuador, then making their way by bus to the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama and then on to the U.S. southern border to take advantage of Biden’s open-border policies. And now with the Biden administration’s new CBP One mobile phone app, which allows 30,000 Haitians per month to skip the dangerous and expensive journey and fly directly to the U.S, more Haitians will be incentivized to leave.”

The new app will allow more Haitians to leave the country, but the majority of the 60,000 Haitians who crossed the U.S. southern border in 2022 did not come directly from Haiti. Most had left Haiti years ago and were making lives for themselves in Peru, Chile, Ecuador, or Brazil. Their decision to emigrate to the U.S. had nothing to do with fleeing persecution, violence, or even poverty, per se.

https://cis.org/Report/Walls-Another-Border

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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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Immigration Watch International (2)

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Walls on Another Border

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