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Contrasting migration policies

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This is the United States, as noted at Drudge:

PAPER: Hundreds of dead border-crossers in single Texas county…
Rancher shares grotesque photos…
House passes bill…
Gutierrez in Spanish Remarks: GOP ‘Want to Punish Our Community’…
DEM: ‘Immigration Reform Not About Enforcement’…
Detention Center Has Hair Salon, Child Care, Basketball Courts, Gym, Soccer Field…
SUITES WITH FLAT-SCREEN TVS…
Immigrants’ ‘unfamiliarity with bathroom facilities’ causes problems…
REPORT: Transgender Raped…
Illegal charged in beating death of Chinese college student in LA…
UPDATE: TB, Scabies Spreading…
Feds Fly Illegals to Alaska…
TX Law Enforcement Volunteer To Form ‘Border Brotherhood’…
Ready to rumble: Activists to raid congressional town hall meetings…
Obama: ‘I’m Going To Have To Act Alone’…

Meanwhile in Australia:

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison takes hard line: 157 sent to Nauru

From which we read:

ALL the 157 people, including 50 children, who left India almost six weeks ago on a people-smuggler’s boat will arrive at the Nauru ­asylum-seeker camp today from the Curtin detention centre in Western Australia after refusing to see Indian consular officials.

The Abbott government decided to send all those from the boat late yesterday to the Pacific nation’s detention centre because they decided not to meet Indian government officials after re­ceiving advice from refugee ­advocates.

The boatload of people, mainly Tamils who had fled Sri Lanka to India, now face months on Nauru while their asylum claims are processed and the prospect of being sent back to Sri Lanka if they fail to qualify as refugees.

A self-selected program of migration is not the way this can ever work. The contrast between the US and Australia is astonishing, but you would be hard pressed to say the US has it right and Australia has it wrong.

Multiculturalism and the new migrant

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Canada has not only become jaded with the effect of migration on Canadian society but has begun to take steps to limit numbers. This is a column by George Jonas the National Post with the self-explanatory title, Multiculturalism encourages a new type of immigrant who shares our wealth but not our values.

The new immigrant seemed ready to share the West’s wealth but not its values. In many ways he resembled an invader more than a settler or an asylum-seeker. Instead of making efforts to assimilate, the invader demanded changes in the host country’s culture. He called on society to accommodate his linguistic or religious requirements. . . .

It’s not a matter of where immigrants come from but where they’re going. Refugees from the East are no threat; colonizers are. That’s where non-traditional immigration and multiculturalism become a volatile mix. Extending our values to others is one thing, but modifying our values to suit the values of others is something else.

By now multiculturalism has made it difficult to safeguard our traditions and ideals against a new type of immigrant whose goal is not to fit in, but to carve out a niche for his own tribe, language, customs, or religion in what we’re no longer supposed to view as a country but something between Grand Central Station and an empty space.

It’s no longer impossible to imagine the death of the West since we see the potential before our eyes at every turn. It’s not too late to do something, but time is getting very short. Diversity is a concept of the left – themselves frequent enemies of our existing cultural traditions and economic structures – part of whose aim is to swamp own culture of tolerance and self-reliance with migrants who often do not believe in either.

They will wreck it if they can

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How many different ways does the Labor/Green Alliance work to undermine this country. There cannot be two principles to rub together in refusing temporary protection visas. What is the fundamental reason for this, other than a desire to see more boats arrive? This, however, is what they say:

Australian Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young told the chamber the government’s cruelty should not harm the hearts of people who have suffered so much already.

‘No longer will these refugees have to live in limbo,’ she said.

‘These visas never worked as a deterrent, they only punished the most vulnerable.’ . . .

Labor frontbencher Kim Carr told the chamber Labor supported the motion because the visas could result in further tragedies.

‘TPVs act as a magnate for women and children… such is the desperation of people seeking to be reunited with their loved ones,’ Senator Carr said, explaining that the visas remove scope for family reunions.

But on the other hand, this is from the Government:

The outcome was slammed by Immigration Minister Scott Morrison who vows to press on with the coalition’s commitments to fight people smuggling.

‘The vote to abolish TPVs (temporary protection visas) is a vote to deliver on the promise of people smugglers to more than 33,000 people who turned up illegally on boats,’ Mr Morrison said in a statement issued late on Monday.

He added that the backlog of asylum seekers waiting to be issued with visas under Labor’s system will not be settled by the coalition.

‘We will be keeping our promise to deny permanent residence to those who arrived illegally by boat, whether they turned up three months ago or three years ago.’

The worst government in our history has now become the worse opposition in our history.

Australia in the news

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This was picked up at Lucianne.com.

IMMIGRATION Minister Scott Morrison has issued a stern warning to refugees escaping the Syrian crisis – if they try to come to Australia by boat they will not be welcome.

Mr Morrison this morning said there would be “no sympathy” given to boat people, regardless of their country of origin.

His comments come in the wake of the latest boat tragedy in which at least 31 people, mostly children, drowned off the coast of Indonesia with many more still missing.

News Corp Australia this morning revealed among the dead were a group of Lebanese refugees lured to Australia on fake Syrian passports.

The families from an impoverished area of Lebanon were promised a safe “ship” to Australia via the fake identification.

Mr Morrison said the boat disaster was a tragedy but that the Australian government would not refrain from its hard line approach.

“People who are going to try and use the Syrian conflict, which is a dreadful and horrible tragedy that is unfolding before us there, as some sort of cover to come to Australia for economic migration – we are just not going to cop it,” he told 2GB Sydney radio host Ray Hadley.

“Australia is going to do its bit in terms of what is going on in Syria and there are meetings going on in Europe at the moment about how we are going to support the UNHCR and we are going to be providing places under our humanitarian program for those who are genuine refugees in Syria.

This is the message going out and none too soon. We are closing our borders which was a possibility open to any government if they were of a mind to do it. And then this, with picture, was found on The Drudge Report:

julia gillard from drudge

Gillard reveals her ‘murderous rage’ at sexist attacks…

She should only know the experience even I have felt putting things up on The Drum. Her own party couldn’t take any more of her with the lying and incompetence. All the votes that were picked up by Kevin or those that flowed to the Coalition must originally have been Labor voters. It is these people, these former supporters of the ALP, who are the misogynists she is talking about. The rest of us didn’t vote for Kevin either.

She must have had a particularly sheltered political life up until becoming Prime Minister if the kind of criticism she found as PM wasn’t what she was prepared for. I who find Margaret Thatcher and Sarah Palin as two of the greatest political leaders of my time will not be accused of misogyny in finding what Gillard stood for and did well against my principles. Politics is an equal opportunity pursuit with the rules the same for everyone. She was not on the receiving end of less than anyone else but she also did not receive the slightest bit more.

And then finally there was “5 Ways Feral Cats Do More Good Than Harm for Wildlife“. Also spotted on overseas, at Instapundit in this case, but this is what it’s about:

An Australian study shows feral cats help some endangered animals survive. I say: “Well, duh!”

Makes you proud.