Category: Immigration

Just Don’t Come Back

Celebrities, Immigration

Here’s a trend that I’m completely behind:

Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi made a quick exit after Trump’s election victory and vowed to never return.

Ryan Gosling and his wife Eva Mendes also made the move alongside America Ferrera, who fled the US in search of the ‘best opportunities’ for her children in the UK.

Courtney Love and Minnie Driver have also made the move across the Atlantic since the election last year. [Driver is a Brit, so she doesn’t count.]

And of course there’s Rosie O’Donnell, who ended up in Northern Ireland.

The latest?

George Lucas has bought a huge £40 million mansion in London, joining a number of American liberal celebrities fleeing the US.

In what is likely to be one of the biggest residential buys in the UK this year, the Star Wars creator is set to move to St John’s Wood.

Yeah well fuck ’em all.  The more of these assholes who GTFO, the purer the air Over Here becomes.

What’s going to be really interesting is when these “Trump refugees” come face to face with Britishland’s problems:  skyrocketing crime, illegal immigrant flooding and, should they stay there long enough, HM’s voracious taxes.

Have fun Over There, assholes, and good bloody riddance.

A Qualified Maybe?

Immigration

This poll caught my eye:

The survey asked respondents, “What do you think should be done about immigrants who have entered the U.S. illegally, but have committed no crimes while here?”

Across the board, respondents are virtually split, as 41 percent said those illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay, while 40 percent believe they should be deported. Another 19 percent remain unsure.

Results drastically vary by party identification. Most Democrats, 68 percent, believe that those illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in the country, and only ten percent said they should be deported. Another 22 percent remain unsure.

Nearly three-quarters of Republicans, 72 percent, believe those illegal immigrants should be deported, while 14 percent said they should be allowed to stay, and 15 percent remain unsure.

A plurality of independents, 42 percent, believe those illegal immigrants should be able to stay in the country, followed by 38 percent who believe they should be deported and 20 percent who remain unsure.

In the past, I’ve always been in the hardass camp — break the law, no matter when, and out you go.

However, I’ve recently softened my stance on this, after asking myself a question:

What if someone came over here (granted, illegally), but has over the years become a model “citizen”, working hard, paying taxes, maybe even raising a family.  Should the heavy boot of the State be applied to his (or her) ass?

If you consider the question then the key, I think, is in the phrase “over the years”.  In other words, how many years?

Here’s my thought.  Assume that the person came over at age 24.  Now, twenty years later, they’re in their mid forties:  spouse, kids in high school, working hard in a decent job, and most importantly, never convicted of any serious crime — not even drunk driving.  In other words, the person has proven themselves to be a decent member of society, and in fact, perhaps a better “citizen” than many a native-born citizen who lives on welfare, has been a general fuckup and definitely not someone you’d want to see marry your own son or daughter.

It’s even more compelling should the illegal immigrant have come over at age 40 and is now facing retirement.  Who’s want to deport a sixty-year-old back to a country they’ve not seen since their youth?

Unfortunately, however, all bets are off if this illegal immigrant has used forged documents (SocSec card, driver’s license etc.) to enable them to have worked here all that time.  That’s a criminal act — forgery — right there.

The question is:  how have they managed to live and work here without such documents?  The answer, regrettably, is that they probably couldn’t have, unless their employer has been incredibly lax or else has deliberately turned a blind eye to their status.

I have to tell you all, though:  the thought of tossing someone out after they’ve lived here for twenty years, worked hard and tried their best to stay on the right side of the law… that tossing out seems pretty harsh to me.

You will note that I’ve used the period of twenty years as a cut-off point.  I wouldn’t accept less than twenty, and the higher the number (25, 30 or 40 years), the greater I’m inclined towards leniency.

So, for the purposes of this argument, you can put me in that “Republican: 15% Unsure” category.

Comments are welcome.

Oh Just Stop It

Immigration

Just when you thought the illegal immigration reversal couldn’t get any better:

Florida to Use Truck Weigh Stations as Immigration Checkpoints

Have mercy.

What’s next:  immigration checkpoints at Publix and Kroger entrances?  [chorus of “Yes!”  “Yes!”  “Do it!”]

Any more like this, and I’ll be forced to take up smoking.

Disgusting Lie

Immigration, Lies and Untruths, Marxists

Seen at Twitter* (via Insty):

Ahem.  Having been through the (legal) immigration process myself, and most recently with New Wife, I can attest that the question involving prior membership of the Communist Party or similar organizations is still very much part of the interrogatory, and has been since the early 1950s.

So to say it has “no prior precedent in immigration law” is, like so many utterances from the Left, a bald fucking lie.

All that the Trumpist USCIS is doing now is broadening the scope to bring such charming little fads like  jihad and terrorsymp into the conversation.  And about damn time, too.

*All Elon’s rebranding efforts to the contrary, it will always be Twitter to me.  Screw that “X” nonsense.

Smart Move

Culture, Health, Immigration

To many people, this little move would be astonishing, nay even incredible:

France will ban smoking in all outdoor spaces frequented by children, including beaches, parks and bus stops, the country’s health minister said.

The restrictions will involve creating a perimeter outside schools where members of the public will not be able to smoke a cigarette.

“Tobacco must disappear where there are children,” Catherine Vautrin, the health minister, said in an interview with the Ouest-France newspaper.

The freedom to smoke “stops where children’s right to breathe clean air starts”, she said.

The ban on smoking outdoors will come into force on July 1.

As one of many who has had to endure the clouds of smoke from the Gitanes/Gauloises that form a permanent fixture of any French establishment, I first asked myself:  The French?  Of all people, the French?

It’s like asking them to have only one kind of cheese, or banning wine.  C’est incroyable!

But they’re sneaky, the Frogs, as any old doughboy or G.I. will tell you.  Note this little wrinkle:

Café terraces will be excluded from the ban.

So that lifestyle choice — essentially, involving most of the places outside the home where Frogs would be found smoking — can carry on as before.

It’s the “outdoor spaces frequented by children” that’s the kicker.

If anyone loves them a good strong cigarette more than the French, it’s the… Arabs.  And where there are Arabs, you’ll always find hordes of screaming ill-behaved… children.

If you put those two facts together:  I think that this smoking ban is a subversive move to get Arabs to leave France in disgust.

Social Cancer

Immigration, Muzzies

What happens when you encourage unbridled immigration:

The truth is France is a two-tier country. There is the charming, civilised nation that has been my home for more than 25 years, a land of magnificent countryside and chilled rosé. But another France has festered inside it and now threatens to consume it – a dystopia of grim tower blocks, from which unemployed, nihilistic youths emerge to loot and terrorise at any excuse.

The headlines are relentless: gang warfare in Marseilles, synagogues and holocaust memorials attacked in Paris, two prison officers murdered in an ambush at a motorway pay station.

A sinister development that makes this worse is the proselytising of the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks to undermine the French Republic and impose sharia law. 

According to a classified report from the Ministry Of The Interior, leaked to Le Figaro, the Brotherhood has built an extensive ideological infrastructure in France through schools, charities and mosques – infiltrating civil society under the guise of religious and educational activities.

It is not new arrivals who burn the cars and stoke the riots.

That is done by the second and third generation immigrants, the ones whose parents arrived to work but failed to integrate. A couple of decades later, their children are completely disaffected and disconnected from education.

We are experiencing a new kind of hybrid chaos, in which the state loses control of portions of the ‘indivisible France’, a term enshrined in the constitution of the Fifth Republic.

In this new world, hordes of youths descend on the cities in eruptions of arson and looting. Meanwhile, thousands of migrants arrive from southern Europe and nobody even knows how many there are in France or who and where they are.

Someone explain to me why the U.S. would be immune from this.