Saturday, November 24, 2018

Hillary Clinton Finally Admits that Mass Immigration is a Threat to Modern Liberal Democracies

In the articles below, Hillary Clinton states that mass immigration is a threat to modern liberal democracies, especially in Europe. It's good to hear a left-of-center politician finally admit the obvious truth: Modern immigration only works smoothly when it is done in moderation, by accepting well-vetted migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in limited numbers, otherwise the destination countries feel overwhelmed and threatened by the large numbers of new arrivals and often turn to populist leaders. 

In the USA, the total number of yearly immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers should be well below our current levels of around one million people per year, not just for cultural and political reasons, but primarily for environmental reasons. The world already has enough materialistically voracious Americans and our population is heading towards over 1/2 billion people by the year 2100 if we continue at our 2017 growth rate, which is driven primarily by immigration.

Here is the original article:
Hillary Clinton: Europe must curb immigration to stop rightwing populists

And here is an additional article:
Hillary Clinton: Europe Needs to Toughen Immigration Laws to Stave Off Nationalism 

Sunday, November 11, 2018

An Article Offering Some Good Short-term and Long-term Solutions Regarding Immigration and the Migrant Caravans

The article below by Sonia Nazario, an experienced immigration reporter, offers some reasonable solutions to some of our immigration problems. Unfortunately both the Democrats and the Trump Administration probably won't accept her plan. The Democrats, my party, won't like some of her ideas because they involve real enforcement measures. The Trump Administration won't like some of her ideas because they're somewhat humane. 

There are other solutions not mentioned in her article that are also needed such as a strictly enforced, mandatory, universal, national E-Verify system in any new "comprehensive" immigration bill, an end to extended family immigration (sometimes called "chain migration"), greatly decreasing the number of yearly normal immigrants which is usually an ecologically irrational number of around a million or more, and increasing our ridiculously small refugee limit of 30,000 per year. But those ideas can be discussed later. Here is her article:

"I'm a Child of Immigrants. And I Have a Plan to Fix Immigration"