Immigration Watch International (2): Biden’s border bungling now risks a tragic blowup

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Biden’s border bungling now risks a tragic blowup

As a group of mostly Venezuelan migrants charged the US border near El Paso on Monday, Border Patrol agents had no choice but to fire rubber bullets, pepperball rounds and other nonlethal crowd-control ammo. Make no mistake, this is entirely on President Biden — and it’s likely to get worse.

It’s Biden who hung out the “come on in” sign as he became president, and who left it up for nearly two years despite the record rise in illegal migrants it produced.

Until he belatedly realized it was political poison in the runup to the midterm elections, and opted to shut down one single stream of the tide — namely, the Venezuelans largely entering through El Paso, who were being bused to New York City, the nation’s media capital.

After a few weeks of rough national coverage, Team Biden opted to apply Title 42 (a rule it had been trying to completely eliminate) to justify sending all Venezuelans back — even though, more than most so-called “asylum seekers,” they had a legitimate claim to be fleeing oppression back home.

Yet they’ve only been pushed back across to Juárez, where many linger and make repeated attempts to re-cross — watching other migrants continue to get waved through. On Monday, the anger boiled over and the rush began.

Why would they give up now? Most spent all their resources getting that far, and more are on their way. Future, better-organized efforts seem inevitable, with a mass breach possible — and more violence.

But will even that stop Biden & Co. from insisting the border is “under control”?

https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/bidens-border-bungling-now-risks-a-tragic-blowup/

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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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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Biden’s border bungling now risks a tragic blowup

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