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My daughter had an unfortunate experience this weekend near Winchester in Virginia. She and a group of friends were tubing on the Shenandoah River. Nearby a large group of Hispanics were at a public park picnicking, apparently a regular event in that area. A boy and his father were wading in the river when suddenly [...]
Filed under: Immigration
Immigration restrictionists scored a big win yesterday, with the primary defeat of six-term Utah Republican Chris Cannon. His opponent, Jason Chaffetz, campaigned against birthright citizenship and amnesty, in contrast to Cannon, who long ago earned the ire of Republicans concerned about the border security and immigration. As the Politico notes:
Immigration was the driving [...]
Filed under: Congress, Election, Immigration
Tuesday’s New York Times editorial on immigration attracted little comment. I’m surprised. It stated that America will cease being American if we continue to notice that some people are not American. Or something. Here it is:
Someday, the country will recognize the true cost of its war on illegal immigration. We don’t mean dollars, though those [...]
Filed under: Immigration
Manassas, Virginia hasn’t seen this much action since 1862. Next week Jorge Bustamante, the UN special rapporteur on migrant rights, arrives on official business. Of the 191 million migrants around the world, those pouring into this D.C. commuter town of 35,000 somehow deserve international attention.
The Mexican-born Bustamante isn’t exactly an objective observer. He has called [...]
Filed under: Immigration, Uncategorized
Over at Hit and Run David Weigel blogs on a Washington Post report on a new study from the Manhattan Institute that he describes as “revealing the quicker and quicker adaptation of immigrants to American norms.” He pulls the following excerpt:
In general, the longer an immigrant lives in the United States, the more characteristics of [...]
Filed under: Culture, Immigration
Having spent much of the 1990’s writing about immigration, I tend to avoid the subject. I’ve made all my points and it’s tiresome to repeat them. But the New York Times last week published this irritating editorial, irritating but welcome because it so cleanly reveals the immigrationist mentality.
The [...]
Filed under: Immigration
My neighbor Clive is possessed of an increasingly rare quality: He’s neighborly.
Clive is a naturalized U.S. citizen hailing from Jamaica. The first time I invited him in he was with his 16-year-old daughter. Surveying my bookshelves with a curious eye, the kid noticed my modest classics collection. Pulling out a dog-eared paperback Xenophon, she made [...]
Filed under: Immigration, Uncategorized