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For Immigrants, America Is Still More Welcoming Than Europe
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The United States has some of the most hostile policies toward an immigrant population found in the developed world.

Start with the special police forces dedicated to persecuting and deporting over a quarter of the nation’s immigrants, the estimated 11 million who entered the country without authorization. Then there is the lack of labor laws to shield them from wage theft and perilous jobs.

And don’t get me started on America’s stingy social insurance: even legal permanent residents are barred from a host of government programs, including Medicaid, food stamps and other welfare programs.

So why is it that immigrants in the United States — including those here illegally — have managed to integrate far more successfully into the American economy and social fabric than foreigners arriving to the relatively coddled states of the European Union, where they often enjoy access right away to a panoply of rights and benefits?

The difference is worth pondering.

 
• Category: Economics • Tags: Immigration 
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  1. eah says:

    Why don’t the “immigrants” stay where they are and for the sake of their descendants try to make their home countries better? A perpetual mass population movement into ‘nice white countries’ — they never want to go anywhere else, do they? — is not really sustainable. Plus then they won’t be ‘nice white countries’ anymore.

  2. Priss Factor [AKA "The Priss Factory"] says: • Website

    So, let me see.

    The main role of gentile nations is to be welcoming to outsiders(and even invaders) than safe and secure for natives and citizens.

    BUT the primary role of Israel is to be a safe and secure nation for Jews than cater to outsiders and invaders.

    Oy.

  3. Jefferson says:

    “But closing the door to Muslims or building a wall across the southern border, Donald Trump notwithstanding, is not going to stop the many immigrants from impoverished fringes of the globe from continuing to make their way toward the wealthy and relatively secure societies of Europe and the United States.”

    Closing doors and building walls across the border has prevented Muslims and other 3rd world immigrants from immigrating in very large numbers to Israel and Japan. Since it works for the Israelis and the Japanese, it can certainly work for North Americans and Europeans as well.

    “In June, President Obama hosted a Ramadan Iftar meal at the White House. In France, public schools still serve fish on Fridays. In some schools, the choice for Muslim children is pork or nothing.”

    Muslims don’t like that pork is being served in schools, than don’t immigrate to Catholic countries like France. Stay in their own damn countries where everybody practices Islamic dietary laws and there won’t be any cultural clashes.

  4. JEC says:

    ….the special police forces dedicated to persecuting and deporting over a quarter of the nation’s immigrants, the estimated 11 million who entered the country without authorization.

    To state the obvious: Deporting illegal immigrants isn’t “persecuting” them. But it’s useless to demand honesty and accuracy from diversitymongers.

  5. Rehmat says:

    When it comes to foreign immigration, United States have a unique place in history.

    1. Muslims make over 60% of world’s refugee population. More than 80% of immigrants from Muslim lands were forced to leave their ancestral lands as result of American wars for Israel and exploitation of natural resources.

    2. United States was and is still being built by non-White cheap labour.

    3. Europe accepted immigrants from its non-White colonies to train their future puppet leaders and provide cheap labour, especially from Indian sub-continent and Africa.

    4. Pro-Israel White and Jewish groups have always supported immigration from non-White countries – to use them as pawn to the so-called “rise in antisemitism.

    On September 13, 2015, British Jewish journalist and author, Ben White, said what most people knew before, that Israel only makes refugees. It never took non-Jewish refugees without some PR payback.

    Ben White says that Syria’s neighboring countries, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq have accepted over three million Syrian refugees since the foreign insurgency in 20011. But Israel, a parasite state, with a GDP capita almost double of Turkey and five times as much as Jordan has not accepted a single of one. Netanyahu, on the other hand, has mentioned his “Jewish humanitarian nature” for providing medical treatment to al-Qaeda and ISIL fighters in Syria.

    http://rehmat1.com/2015/09/15/jewish-author-israel-makes-refugees/

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