Immigration Watch International (2): Residents in Left-Wing State Sound the Alarm Over Illegal Immigrants

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Residents in Left-Wing State Sound the Alarm Over Illegal Immigrants

Residents of the left-leaning Cape Cod, Massachusetts are reportedly “pushing back” after a group of illegal immigrants turned up in the area “on short notice.”

Reportedly, the town Select Board sent a letter to Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, urging the state to not send illegal immigrants to the Yarmouth Resort motel. The location has “become a nuisance to the town,” does not have an occupancy permit and the property is under a cease-and-desist order, the letter stated. Additionally, Town Administrator Robert Whritenour said that the state has not been communicating with town officials about the illegal immigrant crisis.

“It's a fluid process with them day-to-day. They often neglect or forget to contact the local municipal officials," Whritenour told NBC Boston. "It's been brutal, quite frankly, in terms of a lot of vitriol that has been directed towards local officials, towards state officials, towards federal officials. And honestly, I think a lot of people are fearful."

Whritenour told the outlet that at least six families from Haiti arrived this month with “very little warning” from the state. And, protestors have been gathering outside of the Town Hall and hotel where the illegal immigrants are staying.

“We fear we’re losing Cape Cod," one woman said at the meeting. "Cape Cod is a special and beautiful place. It’s not just a problem for our town. We need you guys to be working with the other towns to have a unified front on this.”

According to The New York Times, Massachusetts has a “right to shelter” law that guarantees families with children a place to stay if they meet certain criteria. As a result, the number of families living in emergency shelters and hotels statewide has doubled in the past year. And, it is estimated that more than half of currently sheltered families are illegal immigrants from other countries like Haiti.

Breitbart noted that in Cape Cod, some communities voted up to 92 percent for Biden in the 2020 election. The state is also housing migrants on two college campuses and on a Cape Cod military base.

https://townhall.com//tipsheet/madelineleesman/2023/09/19/cape-cod-residents-worried-about-migrants-n2628588?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&recip=6139244

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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)

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Residents in Left-Wing State Sound the Alarm Over Illegal Immigrants

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