Immigration Watch International (2): Two migrants dead, five missing after ‘rustic’ boat capsizes off Florida Keys

Monday, August 8, 2022

Two migrants dead, five missing after ‘rustic’ boat capsizes off Florida Keys

At least two people are dead and five remain missing after a boat of apparent Cuban migrants capsized near the Florida Keys, according to the Coast Guard and reports.

The Coast Guard responded to a call around 10 a.m. on Friday of a capsized “rustic” vessel that had 15 people aboard about 14 miles off of Sugarloaf Key, officials said.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation officers pulled two dead migrants from the ocean.

With the help of good Samaritans, eight other migrants were rescued, six of whom were taken to emergency medical services for treatment. Two others were taken on a Coast Guard cutter “in good health.”

Five migrants remain missing.

“Our search continues for others that may have survived this tragic incident,” Rear Adm. Brendan McPherson said in a statement Friday night.

“This situation highlights the risks these migrants face as they attempt to enter the United States illegally by sea. The Florida Straits and its approaches can be hazardous for even the best trained and equipped mariners,” he added.

“For people illegally migrating aboard unseaworthy or overloaded boats and homemade rafts, who lack basic lifesaving equipment like life jackets, those risks can often prove deadly,” McPherson said.

The deaths come amid a major surge of Cuban migrants arriving in the Florida Keys. United States Border Control reported Over 130 migrants had been apprehended along the island chain in the last two days, according to WPLG.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/05/two-migrants-dead-five-missing-after-boat-capsizes-in-florida/

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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.

I can be reached on jonjayray@hotmail.com -- or leave a comment on any post. Abusive comments will be deleted.

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Monday, August 8, 2022

Two migrants dead, five missing after ‘rustic’ boat capsizes off Florida Keys

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