Suckers of the World
19th June 2012
John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, spreads some inconvenient truth:
The downside of our cheerful open-handedness is that it makes the USA a great magnet for freeloaders and unscrupulous lowlifes. In the news, or flitting around the edge of it, at any given time are always half a dozen stories of such.
Many of whom are being offered amnesty by the Obama regime.
US immigration, asylum, and refugee-resettlement procedures are subjects of intensive study in Third World countries. I doubt if one US citizen in ten thousand could tell you the difference between a K-1 visa and an H-4 visa; in Jakarta, Bogotá, Islamabad, and Ouagadougou, they speak of little else.
In any Third World bazaar there is a street of vendors offering help with getting into the USA. Some of the help is of a legitimate kind: translation services, college applications, connection with employers. Some is more…creative. It is highly unlikely that the cassette in the New York Times story about DSK’s accuser was made for the benefit of that one woman. More probably the production of such teaching aids is a major industry in West Africa.
No doubt the same people who are accusing us of being outrageous imperialists. Case in point:
Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi. Both these gentlemen were arrested in May on terrorism charges. Both had entered the USA in 2009 as refugees, in spite of active careers fighting against US troops in Iraq.
My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
And there was no shortage of public funds to provide Mr. Alwan and Mr. Hammadi with the necessities of life—you know, stuff such as housing and health care—that you, Joe Citizen, have to work your ass off for.
You tax dollars at work.
Zeituni Onyango. Out of the news since her big break last year, Barack Obama’s Aunt Zeituni remains a poster gal for the propositions that: (a) If a US federal judge orders you to do something and you don’t do it, nothing whatever will happen to you. (b) If you make illegal contributions to the campaign of a presidential candidate to whom you are related, and that candidate becomes president, nothing whatever will happen to you. (c) No matter how deep a pit of debt the USA and its states and municipalities sink down into, there’s always $700 a month and free housing to spare for a foreign freeloader.
Is this a great country, or what?
June 19th, 2012 at 12:47
“Many of whom are being offered amnesty by the Obama regime.” And you have evidence of this assertion? Or are you just blowing Reactionary smoke up our asses?
The only ‘amnesty’ I’m aware of is that just recently offered to illegals who are 1) under 30; 2) in school; 3) were brought here as children; 4) have no criminal record. Hardly the profile of ‘freeloaders and criminal lowlifes’ mentioned. And the ‘amnesty’ isn’t an amnesty at all, just a ‘cease-fire’ in the deportation process.
Nobody can make a hurricane out of a dust-devil like a NeoCalvinist.