Immigration
October 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
When I was a kid, it was a proud boast that the US-Canada border is the longest unguarded border in the world. That is still true, but we may need to start guarding it. Our northern border is not as much of a disaster as the southern border, only because it is so far from Mexico. But things are getting much worse: The number of migrants caught crossing a stretch
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October 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
It is no coincidence that, in last night’s debate, immigration was the issue on which the moderators intervened to try to stop the Democratic Party’s bleeding. The Biden/Harris administration’s immigration policies have been disastrous, unless they are actually trying to destroy our country. In which case they make perfect sense. My colleague David Zimmer recaps the Biden/Harris debacle by the numbers. There is more at the link; here are some
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September 30, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
In March of 2021, Joe Biden appointed Kamala Harris to take charge of the border. Since then, the Biden-Harris administration ushered in some 10 million illegals, with no criminal background checks. With crime by these illegals a raging issue with voters, Harris made a rather odd choice to introduce her at an event in Douglas, Arizona, last Friday. Doing the honors was Tori Verber Salazar, former district attorney of California’s
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September 15, 2024 — John Hinderaker
There are several great issues on which the presidential election (and Congressional elections, too) should turn. One is our out of control national debt, which promises to first hamstring our government, then bankrupt us. But no one is talking about it. Another is America’s deteriorating military readiness. The Europeans are scrambling to defend themselves against possible Russian attack; that in itself is a good thing. But they are doing it
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September 9, 2024 — John Hinderaker
A Facebook account in Springfield, Ohio, apparently triggered a string of AI-powered memes by reporting that illegal immigrants from Haiti were eating people’s cats, ducks, geese and other pets: Bring in the third world and become the third world. Springfield, Ohio, has a small population of 58,000, with 20,000 now made up of Haitian immigrants, who were shipped under the Biden-Harris administration. pic.twitter.com/gFWHukHqF2 — I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸
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September 7, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
In his first court appearance, the 17-year-old who shot San Francisco 49ers receiver Ricky Pearsall claimed he was “very sorry that this did happen.” That message came through his court-appointed attorney Bob Dunlap, who said the shooting was “completely out of character for him,” while confirming that the juvenile has another “outstanding matter” in San Joaquin County. The “matter” was not revealed and neither was the suspect’s identity. No photos
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September 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In state elections in Saxony and Thuringia, AfD, the Alternative for Germany party, has scored a dramatic success. The Telegraph reports: Exit polls predict the anti-immigration party has gained some 33% of the vote in Thuringia, with the conservative CDU party polling at around 23%. However, in the state of Saxony, the AfD is projected to narrowly lose to the CDU, with about 30 per cent of the vote to
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August 24, 2024 — John Hinderaker
At a festival in Solingen, Germany, a knifeman–an increasingly common term in Western Europe–went on a rampage, stabbing at least 11 people, three fatally. Somehow the knifeman escaped. The man was described by witnesses as “Arab-looking,” and today ISIS claimed credit for the attack: Islamic State claimed responsibility Saturday for a knife attack at a festival in Germany that left three people dead and eight hurt, according to reports. The
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August 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Where in Europe is a woman most likely to be raped? The answer probably will surprise you: An explosion of violent crime in the United Kingdom has made England and Wales into what one economist calls “the rape capital of Europe by a sizeable margin.” *** The rate of increase is staggering, too. Reported rapes are up 63% in just five years. *** The new numbers catapulted England and Wales
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August 12, 2024 — John Hinderaker
On Coney Island, a woman is raped at knifepoint while her boyfriend is beaten with a pipe by a second criminal: Two migrants were arrested for a knifepoint rape in Coney Island – including one who was released from jail less than two months ago after sexually assaulting a different woman at a city-funded shelter, authorities said Monday. “Migrant” is the currently approved euphemism for illegal immigrant. Daniel Davon-Bonilla, 24,
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August 11, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Currently Great Britain is being convulsed by anti-immigration riots. The rioters are universally referred to as “far right,” which in Europe is code for not being on board with mass immigration from Third World countries. I have no idea what the rioters think about taxes, or wasteful government spending, or the National Health Service, or the war in Ukraine. I believe the riots are taking place mostly in cities that
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August 4, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Last Monday, in Southport, England, children attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance class were attacked by a knife-wielding 17-year-old. He stabbed to death three girls, ages 6, 7 and 9, and wounded ten more children and adults, several critically. In the wake of the attack, rumors spread that the murderer was a Muslim immigrant. Rioting broke out in Southport. Because the attacker was nearly 18 at the time of his crimes,
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July 23, 2024 — Steven Hayward
One of the notable features of Trump’s nomination acceptance speech last week is that he devoted 1,000 words to the subject of energy, and in particular called out the “green new scam.” That’s probably 900 more words than any previous nominee of either party has ever said about energy in an acceptance speech. He also devoted a lot of attention to immigration and border control, as is to be expected.
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July 9, 2024 — John Hinderaker
At the Telegraph, Jake W. Simons describes the impact of The Muslim Vote on the just-completed UK election. The Muslim Vote is a loosely organized group of Islamic activists. It is not a political party, and thus not subject to any of the legal strictures that govern parties. It supported, and organized Muslim support for, candidates that ran on a single issue: Gaza. An insurgent force has entered British politics.
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July 7, 2024 — John Hinderaker
A week ago, the National Rally, a “far right” anti-mass third world immigration party, got the most votes in the first round of France’s two-step voting for the National Assembly. There was hope in some quarters that the Rally could win an absolute majority in today’s second round of balloting, and form a government. But it was not to be. President Macron and his party joined with leftist parties (including
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July 4, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
July 4 is about celebrating independence but this year it’s more about regaining it. President Trump established energy independence for the first time in decades. On his first day in the White House, Joe Biden returned the nation to dependence on foreign nations not always reliable. Independent nations do not destroy their border, but that’s what Joe Biden did his first day in the White House. Since then, the Delaware
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July 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I wrote here about the first round of French elections, in which the “far right” National Rally scored an impressive plurality of votes for the National Assembly. But round two is coming up, and the left-wing and the relatively centrist (Macron) parties are combining to try to stop the “far right” from winning an outright majority in the National Assembly: At least 200 candidates have stood down days before France’s
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