Immigration Watch International (2): Doubling of NYC migrant inflow proves the border is still open

Monday, October 9, 2023

Doubling of NYC migrant inflow proves the border is still open — and Adams’ trip won’t change a thing

In all the other noise last week, at least one grim fact got rather buried: The number of new migrants arriving in the Big Apple daily has doubled over the past year.

The recent peak is about 800, actually, but even 600 is twice the level of a year ago, which already rightly had the mayor screaming for relief.

And while arrivals in the city may not correlate perfectly with how many migrants are getting waved in under President Joe Biden’s policies, it’s surely yet another sign that he’s done absolutely nothing to meaningfully restrict the flow. Indeed, it’s getting worse.

And Homeland Security’s belated move to build a few miles of wall won’t change that.

Nor will Mayor Eric Adams’ odd Latin American trip, even if he spent every minute lecturing about the foolishness of coming to the city.

Every wave of migrants decides whether to come overwhelmingly on the basis of what they hear from people they have good reason to trust: people they know, who are just like them — except they’ve already arrived.

If Adams thinks thinks his “nightmare in pursuing the ‘American Dream’” talk will yield anything other than blank nods and polite requests for directions to the Roosevelt Hotel, he’s even more absurd than Vice President Kamala “Root Causes” Harris.

On Wednesday Oct 4th 2023 three bus loads of migrants arrived at the Port Authority from Texas.
About 800 migrants arrived in New York City in a single day last week — double the typical number.

Unless and until migrants who’ve already tried to make the trek start sending back word that it’s not worth it, they’ll keep on coming.

The real “root cause” is the fact that Team Biden will wave you in as long as you play the right “asylum seeker” cards, and (in NYC’s case) that Team Adams will find you somewhere to stay and enough to eat, plus free health care and so on.

Potential migrants know a good deal when they see it.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/08/nyc-migrant-crisis-worsens-as-inflows-double-thanks-biden/

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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)

Monday, October 9, 2023

Doubling of NYC migrant inflow proves the border is still open — and Adams’ trip won’t change a thing

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