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Sunday, February 11, 2024

Links - 11th February 2024 (1 - Migrants)

Paris attack: Three people stabbed at Gare de Lyon - "Paris police chief, Laurent Nunez, has said the attack does not appear to be terror-related, and has described the attacker as appearing to suffer from mental health issues... French 24-hour-rolling news channel BFMTV has reported that the attacker is aged 32 and from Mali."
Paris attack: Three people stabbed at Gare de Lyon : theworldnews - "I'm always surprised about the number of mental health issues throughout European countries, especially when so many Europeans brag about their healthcare system.  Of course when stories like these pop up, the go to excuse is usually claiming talking about and seeking care for mental health is still taboo in most countries."
Doesn't it perpetuate stereotypes and deepen stigma to associate mental health issues with Muslims and terrorism?
In the US, we're told that it's a myth that people with mental health are violent. Ironic. Too bad they get thrown under the bus to support the narrative

Paris knife attack suspect told TikTok followers he 'hated France' and claimed he'd soon be 'welcomed in paradise' by Allah — but police say stabbing spree wasn't terror-related - "The Malian national suspected of stabbing three passengers at a Paris train station was a prolific user of the TikTok social media platform and hinted to his followers about his planned attack. Le Figaro newspaper named 32-year-old Sagou Gouno Kassogue as the perpetrator arrested by French authorities after setting fire to a backpack and using a knife and a hammer to injure three people, seemingly indiscriminately, at the Gare De Lyon train station shortly after 7:30 a.m. on Saturday. Several internet users drew attention to Kassogue’s TikTok account through which he regularly berated France and the West for “impoverishing developing nations” in Africa and claimed that French people would soon “reap the storm” they had sowed for decades. The Malian national, who was granted asylum in Italy back in 2016, told his 44,000 followers that France was a “terrorist state that finances terrorists” and declared, “I hate all French people,” blaming them for “all the problems on this planet.” In a video uploaded in December last year, Kassogue hinted that “Allah will welcome me in paradise in three months,” suggesting the attack was religiously motivated, although French authorities claimed the stabbing spree was not terror-related."
Obviously, letting him in showed he was wrong to blame France, and they should let more people like him in so they will realise they were wrong to blame France

Paris attack: Three people stabbed at Gare de Lyon : theworldnews - "Crime never happened before immigration! Oh those poor Europeans!"
"Country: has a problem.
You: therefore it's ok to have more of the problem. Since we have crime, it's ok to cut people's heads off for drawing a picture."

NYC migrant contractor tossing out thousands of uneaten taxpayer-funded meals a day: report - "A controversial contractor being paid millions by the Big Apple to handle migrant services is tossing away tens of thousands of uneaten meals prepared for migrants — including 5,000 on a single day, company records show.  DocGo, which was awarded a hefty $432 million no-bid contract by Mayor Adams’ administration to help relocate some migrants upstate, receives up to $33 per day to provide three meals for each of the 4,000 asylum seekers in its care...   According to a recent log from a migrant hotel in Western New York, “24 Chicken Alfredo & 24 Spaghetti Chicken Dinner” were wasted one night. Another shift report from Brooklyn Vybe Hotel showed 184 lunch meals were thrown out on Oct. 31... Despite the internal logs, a DocGo spokesperson said, without elaborating, that the data cited by the NYT was “not accurate” and that meal consumption for migrants is currently at 93%...   Details of the wasted food emerged at a time when Mayor Adams is making controversial widespread budget cuts to all city agencies in a bid to cover the costs of the billion dollar migrant crisis plaguing the city."

Eric Adams Asserts Migrant Crisis Will ‘Destroy New York City’ - The New York Times - "In a sharp escalation over the migrant crisis, Mayor Eric Adams claimed in stark terms that New York City was being destroyed by an influx of 110,000 asylum seekers from the southern border and said that he did not see a way to fix the issue... He pointed to new projections that the city’s budget gap could grow to nearly $12 billion — the same amount that city officials estimate that the migrants could cost the city over three years.  “Every community in this city is going to be impacted,” Mr. Adams said at the meeting. “We have a $12 billion deficit that we’re going to have to cut — every service in this city is going to be impacted. All of us.”... it also raised the ire of immigrant advocacy groups and some Democrats who have called the mayor’s rhetoric toward migrants racist, and a dramatic departure for a city where Ellis Island served as a gateway to America for decades.  Murad Awawdeh, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, said that the mayor’s comments were dangerous and could lead to violence against immigrants. “What we’ve seen with the rhetoric he’s using is that it’s activating people in a negative way against their new neighbors,” he said. “The mayor should know better. The contributions of the immigrant community here have been seismic.” The Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless said that Mr. Adams’s comments “villainize people who fled unimaginable situations in their home countries,” and that he sounded like “fringe politicians on the far-right of the political spectrum.”  New York City is required to provide shelter to anyone who needs it — a mandate that has presented an enormous challenge for Mr. Adams, who has tried to weaken it through legal and strategic measures. He has sought to appear welcoming to migrants while also raising alarm about the financial impact of hosting them.  Anne Williams-Isom, the city’s deputy mayor for health and human services, said at a news briefing on Wednesday that the right-to-shelter provision was a major reason migrants were choosing to come to the city... One measure of the issue’s divisiveness in the city is the increasing number of protests outside shelters and at the mayor’s Upper East Side residence at Gracie Mansion. The tenor has turned hostile at times, with protesters holding signs that say “Americans over migrants,” chanting “Close the border!” and openly wondering whether the migrants were murderers or rapists... Mr. Adams said the neighborhood was home to some of the most highly educated people in the city and asked what they had done to help solve the migrant crisis.  “As you ask me a question about migrants, tell me what role you played,” he said. “How many of you organized to stop what they’re doing to us?”"
Racist!
As usual, the left conflat immigrants and illegal immigrants
Is demonising landlords as the left always does threatening their safety?

NYC to hand out prepaid credit cards to migrant families for food Ashley St. Clair on X - "Eric Adams: Why wont the migrants stop coming to NYC 😪
Also Eric Adams: What if we gave them $53 million dollars for free"

End Wokeness on X - "BREAKING: 150 Democrats vote against a bill to deport illegals caught driving while drunk"

Elon Musk on X - "A few other things you probably don’t know: illegals in America can get bank loans, mortgages, insurance, driver’s licenses, free healthcare (California & New York) and in-state college tuition.  What’s the point of being a citizen if an illegal gets all the benefits, but doesn’t pay taxes or do jury duty?"

Meme - ">what do you MEAN there are no white taxpayers left to fund everything and repair complex infrastructure?
>I came here to live in paradise and now it looks just like where I left?
>how could this happen?!?"

When Does Accommodation Work? Electoral Effects of Mainstream Left Position Taking on Immigration - "In many countries, right-wing populist parties have gained electoral support by attracting voters from mainstream left parties. This has prompted public and scholarly debate about whether mainstream left parties can regain political power by taking a more restrictive position on immigration, a so-called accommodation strategy. However, selection bias confounds observational estimates of the effectiveness of this strategy. This letter reports the results of a survey experiment conducted among Danish voters during a unique political situation in which the mainstream left party's position on immigration is ambiguous, enabling experimental manipulation of voters' perceptions of the party's position. The authors show that, consistent with spatial models of politics, accommodation attracts anti-immigration voters and repels pro-immigration voters. Because repelled voters defect to other left parties, while attracted voters come from right parties, accommodation increases overall support for parties that support a mainstream left government. The results demonstrate that in some contexts, accommodation can improve the political prospects of the mainstream left."
Published online in Dec 2020 and appearing in the Apr 2022 issue?!

Gregg Re on X - "when I worked at a biglaw firm in new York (Sheppard mullin), the partners provided pro bono legal services to a Venezuelan migrant who was clearly lying to get asylum  she claimed their phone was being monitored by the authorities because she heard static, etc. She knew exactly what to say b/c she had been coached.  She then came to this country, never paid rent even though she had Gucci bags. The firm also represented her in housing court too so that she could get endless extensions  this is what most asylum claims are. the goal is just to come up with a story and get these people into the country, where they disappear and never show up to court  the biggest law firms in the world support this"

Australia to halve immigration intake, toughen English test for students

Meme - "Europeans arrive in Africa - 1652 *Caravel*
Africans arrive in Europe - 2020 *sinking dinghy*"

A quiet Dutch village holds clues as European politics veer to the right - "Voters across Europe are increasingly empowering leaders like Wilders who promise to restrict immigration and, in some cases, constrain democratic freedoms: of religion, of expression, of the right to protest"
This is hilarious, given that elites are trying to censor "hate speech" and "misinformation"
If you don't believe in open borders, you are "far right"

Yes, NPR: Illegal Immigration Does Increase Violent Crime - "A look at U.S. Sentencing Commission data from 2016, pertaining to 67,742 felony and Class A misdemeanor cases, shows noncitizens accounted for 41.7 percent of all offenders. Further broken down: noncitizens accounted for 72 percent of drug possession convictions, 33 percent of money laundering convictions, 29 percent of drug trafficking convictions, 23 percent of murder convictions, and 18 percent of fraud convictions. Commission data doesn’t report on state and local prisons and jails, but the Government Accountability Office does. The GAO found that among 251,000 criminal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local prisons and jails, these criminal aliens were arrested 1.7 million times, for nearly 3 million combined offenses. Fifty percent had been arrested at least once for assault, homicide, robbery, a sex offense, or kidnapping—around half had been arrested at least once for a drug violation. The GAO consistently reports the number of noncitizens (legal and illegal aliens) constituting 25 percent of the federal prison population. That slice of the pie would require noncitizens to commit crimes around three times the rate of citizens... Los Tucanes are banned from performing in their namesake Tijuana, the consequence of a 2008 concert in which the band’s members gave a shout out to Tijuana’s most wanted men, “El Teo and his compadre, El Muletas.”  Raydel Lopez Uriarte, alias “El Muletas,” ran a drug-trafficking cell known for murdering police officers, numerous kidnappings, and beheading victims. Garcia Simental, known as “El Teo,” helped turn Baja into a place where “soldiers patrolled in convoys and manned bunkers flanking highways. Torture victims’ bodies hung from overpasses, and once-crowded beaches became playgrounds for mob bosses and their entourages.” An insider who wanted to help “clean up [his] country” eventually turned on Simental and gave him up to the feds. Needless to say, gangster rap doesn’t hold a candle to the vicious culture extolled by narcocorridos.  Although banned in Tijuana, the Tucanes enjoy immense popularity in the United States; in fact, you can catch them at the San Diego County Fair, they’re billed as “global ambassadors of Norteña music and corridos and ballads.” They tour throughout the states, playing in Central Park, Dodger Stadium, the Astrodome. They have a massive following in Texas.  The United States isn’t just importing violent crime, it’s importing the culture that has made narcoterrorism acceptable, even desirable, in countries like Mexico—and our media is paving an express lane. When Juan Williams said, “Now is the time to defund NPR,” he might have been on to something.  After California Democrats appointed an illegal alien to statewide office, Lizbeth Mateo sent out an inaugural Tweet to Attorney General Jeff Sessions: “Fuck you @jeffsessions!! You coward piece of shit. You think this is going to change the resolve of these families? You don’t know the strength and courage of my community.”  Apart from the vulgarity and unhinged tone, what stands out are two words: “my community.”  Mateo is not an American. She is a Mexican living in America

Criminal knifed man to death in fight over drugs months after being saved from deportation flight - "A convicted criminal who avoided deportation on a Home Office charter flight to Jamaica following a series of legal challenges went on to commit murder, it has been revealed.  Ernesto Elliot, originally from Jamaica, was due to board a flight back to his country of origin in December 2020, but a series of challenges stopped the flight.  Elliot and his son Nico went on to murder 35-year-old Nathaniel Eyewu-Ago in south east London after they robbed drugs and cash from him months later in June 2021.  The duo have been jailed for a combined total of 48 years after they were convicted of murder and robbery.  Priti Patel, who was Home Secretary at the time of Elliot's planned deportation, said his case shows why it was important to defy "do-gooders" who want to block deportations.  A number of high-profile celebrities and politicians supported the campaign to stop the deportation flight, including supermodel Naomi Campbell, actress Thandiwe Newton and historian David Olusoga."
Keir Starmer was against the deportation too

Meme - Ruth @RoughRuth: "I'm tired of having my ancestors compared to today's migrant hordes. Settling an undeveloped land and building a civilization out of it is not comparable with showing up to an aging, post- industrial nation and signing up for benefits."

Scholz blasts far-right plan to repatriate Germany's immigrants - "He reportedly presented ideas on how foreigners could be pressured to leave Germany and how people with an immigrant background could be forced to assimilate... The AfD is already under surveillance by Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Christian Dürr, the chair of the the liberal Free Democrats' parliamentary group, saw parallels to Germany's Nazi past... In a survey conducted this month by Ipsos, 42% of participants were in favour of banning the AfD. Just as many were against."
Ironically, the Nazis used the state to persecute political opponents
TIL the Nazis were for integrating minorities

Migrants applying for asylum are going home for Christmas, Border Force chief reveals - "Phil Douglas said his officers had been left shocked when carrying out exit checks on people leaving the UK... "We do find a lot of people who have claimed asylum in this country, and are heading back to their own country for holidays, which obviously isn't allowed."  Home Secretary James Cleverly told LBC that some of those coming to the UK are economic migrants who are seeking a better life."
Clearly they fear for their lives in their home countries

Germany: Muslim migrant TikTok star says ‘Soon we will bring Sharia law to Germany’ - "And for dissidents: “mustard gas.”"

Hamburg: Outrage as 8 of 9 men who gang-raped 15yo go free | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site - "Eight out of nine young men convicted of gang-raping a heavily intoxicated 15-year-old girl in a Hamburg city park will not face prison time, in a verdict that has sparked widespread outrage in Germany and threats against the judge and lawyers involved in the case.  Hamburg Regional Court last week sentenced a 19-year-old to a youth prison sentence of two years and nine months without parole, while youth sentences of one to two years’ probation, or so-called pre-parole, were imposed on eight men, Spiegel reported.  A tenth defendant was acquitted.  Of the eight who escaped prison time, four of the youth sentences were suspended on probation with strict conditions and “instructions for educational support”, while a decision on enforcement of the other four youth sentences was deferred for six months... An eleventh defendant, who was charged with aiding and abetting and filming the rape, was acquitted in April this year.  The girl had attended a party in the park, which had become a popular meeting area during Covid, on the day of the attack.  According to prosecutors, four of the men led the girl, who had a blood-alcohol level of at least 0.16 per cent, into a bush and performed sexual acts on her against her will.  One of them stole her mobile phone and wallet.  Another two defendants then took advantage of the girl’s confused state and raped her, and when she wandered across the grass again she ran into another of the defendants who also raped her. Finally, three other defendants then took the girl into the bushes... While there were no direct witnesses, DNA evidence connected nine of the defendants to the crime.  The presiding judge described it as a “mammoth circumstantial trial in which it was not clear for a long time what had happened on the night of September 19th to 20th, 2020”... four of the men have German nationality, another four have Armenian, Afghan, Kuwaiti and Montenegrin nationality, and the nationality of the other two had not been clarified by the court.  The outlet reports six of the men were born in Hamburg, and the others were born in Poland, Egypt, Libya, Kuwait and Iran. Prosecutors had sought sentences of between one year and three months to three years for nine of the defendants, while defence lawyers sought acquittal for all 10.  According to Spiegel, under juvenile criminal law in Germany the length of youth sentences is based on the educational needs of the individual defendant... Psychiatrist Nahlah Saimeh, who reportedly appeared before the court as an expert witness, said in a controversial interview with Spiegel that the gang rape may have been a way to vent “frustration” due to “migration experiences and sociocultural homelessness”. Dr Saimeh said perpetrators “who live on the margins of society, completely uprooted culturally, linguistically and socially” could face a “mix of emotions of anger, sadness, powerlessness, depression, fantasies of grandeur as a compensation attempt to cope with one’s own misery, and drug use”.  “Disordered, unprepared migration experiences and sociocultural homelessness increase the risk of addiction and psychosis,” she said.  “Sex is also a means of venting frustration and anger, a means of warding off sadness and emptiness, and in a group of men with the same fate it also creates identity and strengthens the group feeling.”  She added, “The victim becomes a pure instrument for their own sexual gratification. It’s about an immediate need, opportunity, inner conviction and the right of the stronger.”"

Wilfred Reilly on X - "There is nothing even debatably "immoral" about sending illegal aliens allowed in to the country by a Democratic administration to Democratic sanctuary cities that boasted about wanting them until last October. Come on."

Steven Edginton on X - "None of this had to happen. Britain did not need to import ethnic conflicts from around the world. But our politicians wanted to 'rub diversity in the right's nose', 'grow' GDP through cheap labour and create a multicultural utopia out of guilt from the Empire. Things can and will get worse if mass immigration continues. We will see constant violence based around world events nothing to do with Britain and native Brits will get blamed when they complain about it and called "far right counter protesters". Multiculturalism has failed and the Tories are to blame. Don't forget it amid "red meat" talk (you'll see more of this as the election approaches)."
Richard Bentall #FBPE Woke and proud on X - "I don’t agree with your racist analysis but I am bound to point out that Brexit was designed to lead to a decline in migration from countries that are culturally and ethnically similar to England and an increase in migration from countries that are not."
John Cotton on X - "Did he mention ethnicity? This issue is all about culture. Not really sure Bulgarians or Spanish folk are more akin culturally to Brits than, say, Canadians or Aussies."
sam 🇺🇸 on X - "Who besides the west does this? Do the Saudis, Japanese, Chinese or Indians think their culture is too homogeneous? Are they cowed by claims of “racism” - a term that no one can even define - when they point out that certain cultures have never lived harmoniously under the same flag. “Racism” is a concept so elastic it has lost all meaning yet it has become the apex sin of the western world.   This is existential yet no one is allowed to question it lest you are the one who must be silenced? We aren’t merely addressing fault lines that exist in our culture, we’re accused of creating them.   Meanwhile we have to create these oppressive social norms and speech codes to hold the system together, sacrificing bedrock values such as freedom of expression and free inquiry, to maintain this shaky truce.   “We are all trapped in our inability to see what is in front of our nose.”"
sunnynorth 🍁🇨🇦🍁 on X - "I being from south India faced more racism in north India than in Canada. So far zero in Canada. 🇨🇦. ❤️🇨🇦❤️"

AUSTRALIA: Iraqi Refugee Granted Bail After Being Charged With Raping Teen Girl Repeatedly - "A 19-year-old Iraqi refugee charged in the horrific rape of a 15-year-old girl has been granted bail after his father convinced a judge he was a “kind-hearted man.” Abthar Bassam Talib Al-Athmany and his unnamed accomplice repeatedly sexually abused the girl last August at the Parramatta Meriton Suites in Parramatta, Australia... In addition to attempting to prostitute the minor on her personal Instagram page, the two men also used a knife to intimidate her to take off her clothes and “perform sexual acts on film.”"

Ewan C. Forbes on X - "The Danes are paying Syrian refugees €30,000 each to return home to Syria (enough that in many places they could buy a flat outright). They've realised this is cheaper than the 31 billion Krone (almost £3.6 billion) that they are spending yearly on non-Western immigrants."

Dutch study: immigration costs state €17 billion per year - "“I can even picture a cultural and economic renaissance similar to the one in the decades prior to the beginning of World War I.” Those were the words of Deutsche Bank Chief Economist David Folkerts-Landau at the height of the 2015 refugee crisis. Refugees were “the best thing that has happened [to Germany] in 2015”, he continued, arguing that mass migration would be the key to boost the country on the global stage.   Not much has been heard from Folkerts-Landau since, most likely because neither Germany nor Europe have reaped the rewards of migration he promised. On the contrary, a number of empirical studies seems to show that the exact opposite is happening, and that instead of a renaissance, mass migration has become an economic burden.  A team led by mathematician Jan H. van de Beek at the University of Amsterdam estimates that the Dutch government spent approximately €17 billion per year on migration in the period between 1995 and 2019, meaning that more than one billion euros went to migration-related issues every month.   The study digs deeper still: annual net costs of non-Western immigration amount to €17 billion and the annual net benefits of Western immigration total one billion euros. Distinguishing between Western and non-Western migration patterns, the study comes to a startling conclusion: if immigration remains at 2015-2019 levels, the annual budget burden will increase from €17 billion in 2016 to about €50 billion. This is an increase that the welfare state would most likely not survive.  The Dutch findings are mirrored in a similar study conducted by the Danish Finance Ministry, which concludes that non-Western immigrants are most likely to remain lifelong recipients of public finances compared to their Western or native Danish peers. Meanwhile, the picture in Germany is not much different: about 45% of those who receive unemployment benefits are not German citizens, costing the taxpayers around €20 billion per year. Austria shows similar numbers, with almost 60% of recipients having a “migrant background”.    Van de Beek sees parts of the problem in the structure of the welfare state, which creates the wrong incentives for newcomers. The European experience with Ukrainian refugees provides some evidence for this view: if access to government-paid services is too easily available, it discourages migrants from looking for work, regardless of their country of origin. In some European countries, immigrants are well-integrated into the labour market: 70% in Denmark, 60% in Poland and the Czech Republic, and 50% in the Netherlands, UK and Ireland. But in others, such as Germany and Austria, the number remains below 20%.  The emerging picture is a complex one that includes both cultural and economic factors, but the overall conclusion remains the same: the current conditions under which migration to Europe takes place are not sustainable and will bring the welfare systems ever closer to collapsing. The idea promoted by Folkerts-Landau and others turned out to be far too optimistic, and what makes matters worse is that politicians still refuse to face the facts. Placing one’s head in the sand is, unfortunately, not the same as actual policymaking. Europe has ignored these issues for too long, and voters will make their discontent heard at the voting booth."

Meme - Eomer: "Orcs are roaming freely across our lands! Unchecked, unchallenged, killing at will"
Theoden (under the sway of Saruman): "Oh well. At Ieast Rohan is multicultural now. That's the important thing!"

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