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It is making the mass migration John Steinbeck dramatized in The Grapes of Wrath look like a giddy gold rush. In fact, it’s often difficult to tell these days whether Europe is trying to cope with a migration or fend off an invasion. The EU refused to prepare for a predictable rekindling of the migration… Read more.
The Dalai Lama is the most famous migrant in history. Of course, he’s a self-professed holy man. So you’d think he would be using his moral authority to support migrants everywhere. But nothing could be further from the truth. The Dalai Lama is an anti-migrant hypocrite [H]e said that refugees to the European Union should ultimately return home,… Read more.
Reports about African migrants dying to breathe free have become normalized, so much so that they hardly register in public consciousness, let alone prick our collective conscience. At least 65 migrants have died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia. … The incident is thought to be one of the… Read more.
Much is being made about the historic gains a neo-Nazi party made in Sweden’s national elections on Sunday. The far-right, anti-immigration Sweden Democrats who rose from the white supremacist and neo-Nazi fringe, saw their share of the vote rise from 12.9 percent in 2014 to 17.6 [which] represents the largest gain by any party in… Read more.
Sadly, the tragedy of African migrants dying in the Mediterranean Sea has become even more commonplace than the tragedy of American blacks dying in encounters with the police. According to the International Organization for Migration, 1,412 migrants lost their lives on the latter-day Middle Passage – from Africa to Europe – just this year (as… Read more.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that an electronic fence along the Israel-Egypt border has saved the Jewish state from jihadist attacks or what he believes would be worse — a tide of African migrants. … The interior ministry says there are currently some 42,000 African migrants in Israel, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea,… Read more.
Migrants aren’t a danger, but are in danger. This, according to the May 29 edition of BBC News Online, is the pontifical way Pope Francis dismissed the hysteria this migrant crisis is inciting all over Europe. Never mind that he said it to little children instead of European leaders at the Vatican on Saturday. But,… Read more.
History is replete with great migrations. Notably, in modern times, they have included: Blacks from the rural South to the urban North/West in the United States (1915-60) Jews from Europe to Palestine (1931-39) Muslims from East to West and Hindus and Sikhs from West to East in the Punjab (1947) Cubans from Mariel to Florida… Read more.
History is replete with episodes of people migrating in droves from one place to another in search of a better life. And, in far too many cases, their migration challenged them to make it through a known hell to get to an uncertain heaven. Hispanics and Haitians migrating to America blighted the twentieth century in… Read more.
There’s no denying that America has an arbitrary, even mercenary, immigration policy (which, for example, grants Cuban migrants an EZ pass but repatriates Haitian migrants summarily). Yet, compared with that of other countries, America has by far the most inviting and humane policy of them all. This fact is finally coming into stark relief for… Read more.
