Is MASS immigration problematic?

[Campion]

2 hours ago, Macnamara said:

well the thing about 'democracy' is that it is rule by the majority which means that 51% of the population can impose things on the other 49%

 

So in a country that considers itself a 'democracy' politics is a numbers game. This means that demographics have a political dimension

 

In theory a democracy should work like that and I can't deny that a higher population leads to more power. However ... 

 

2 hours ago, Macnamara said:

Equally if you are a native population and you don't want incoming interest groups to impose their value systems, culture, beliefs and the legislation that can enshrine those things on you then naturally you are going to want to limit the influx of those interest groups to ensure the ongoing harmony and survival of your own culture, values, beliefs etc

 

I don't think that's 'bigotry' because i think everyone around the world feels the same way so i'd simply call it 'being human'

 

No it isn't bigotry to want to live with your own kind. And speaking in the western European context, we, the great majority haven't wanted MI; our democratic politicians have known perfectly well we don't want it and vaguely promise to limit it; but yet it continues unabated. So doesn't that indicate there's something going wrong with our initial claim that democracy involves the rule of the majority? It suggests that there are minority interests overruling the majority's wishes. And the fact that this minority is operating behind the scenes of democratic political decision making, means that describing this as a conspiracy is quite reasonable. 

Edited February 19 by Campion

[Campion]

2 hours ago, Macnamara said:

This is to create a coalition of the wiling that they then turn on the object of their hate: white men

 

of course they don't care about any of those useful idots that they manipulate into that scheme and they intend to enslave and depopulate them too but the biggest barrier to their schemes is white men so they are the ones deemed as having committed 'crimes against the collective' simply by existing

 

A nice piece of research Mac. And I can't help be struck by the irony that this cabal wants its minions to act in the name of a collective to destroy the native westerners' collective identity. So they only want a collective which they can control. Which isn't a proper collective of equals as the minions believe but resembles some sort of feudal communist system. 

[EnigmaticWorld]

On 2/19/2023 at 6:47 PM, Campion said:

 

I'll say the answer to whether it's problematic depends on who you ask. I want to look at who who finds mass immigration (MI) problematic, and who finds it beneficial. 

 

 

I still remember this poll. Admitedly voting that it's not working doesn't give us enough data to determine whether the voter wants less immigration, but it was interesting for a BBC poll.

 

 

 

[Macnamara]

On 2/19/2023 at 9:02 PM, Campion said:

So doesn't that indicate there's something going wrong with our initial claim that democracy involves the rule of the majority? It suggests that there are minority interests overruling the majority's wishes.

 

yes there is a minority controlling society but the point is that they will use 'democracy' when it suits them. So if they are targetting a certain population for removal and replacement then they know that if that target population abide by that form of 'democracy' then they will sabotage them by changing demographics

 

they'll create societies of competing political and cultural interests. The elite themselves are not attached to that place. They live in a more global sense and if they can create disorder on the national level then it plays into their arguments that only a more globalised form of governance can resolve those issues

[Campion]

3 hours ago, Macnamara said:

They live in a more global sense and if they can create disorder on the national level then it plays into their arguments that only a more globalised form of governance can resolve those issues

 

And anyone who believes that the cure for the disorder is more and bigger of the governance which caused it then they're seriously under the spell. Tribal identity is part of human nature and I don't suppose for a moment that the real intention of global governance is to resolve the disorder but to manipulate it for more control. 

[Macnamara]

The downside of diversity

A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth?

By Michael Jonas  |  August 5, 2007   IT HAS BECOME increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic diversity as a civic strength. From multicultural festivals to pronouncements from political leaders, the message is the same: our differences make us stronger. But a massive new study, based on detailed interviews of nearly 30,000 people across America, has concluded just the opposite. Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam -- famous for "Bowling Alone," his 2000 book on declining civic engagement -- has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings. "The extent of the effect is shocking," says Scott Page, a University of Michigan political scientist. Putnam claims the US has experienced a pronounced decline in "social capital," a term he helped popularize. Social capital refers to the social networks -- whether friendships or religious congregations or neighborhood associations -- that he says are key indicators of civic well-being. When social capital is high, says Putnam, communities are better places to live. Neighborhoods are safer; people are healthier; and more citizens vote. The results of his new study come from a survey Putnam directed among residents in 41 US communities, including Boston. Residents were sorted into the four principal categories used by the US Census: black, white, Hispanic, and Asian. They were asked how much they trusted their neighbors and those of each racial category, and questioned about a long list of civic attitudes and practices, including their views on local government, their involvement in community projects, and their friendships. What emerged in more diverse communities was a bleak picture of civic desolation, affecting everything from political engagement to the state of social ties. https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/

[Macnamara]

Irish Police Tell Family of Victim of Vicious Assault to Remove “Foreign Nationals” Reference From Social Media

 

Women System February 23, 2023

The United States is not the only county that seems to protect migrants over its own citizens.

In recent years, Ireland has faced challenges as the nation’s population of migrants continues to grow.

The family of a woman who was sexually assaulted in Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland, has been told by Gardai (the state police force of the Irish Republic) to remove a social media post that identified the perpetrators as foreign men.

The family contents that, since the suspects have not been arrested, they were sharing information to help protect other women in the community. But apparently that is not as important as protecting the image of migrants.

The U.K. has faced problems with migrant grooming gangs for years.  Activist Tommy Robinson’s documentary, “The Rape of Britain,” exposed those involved with the gangs of migrants raping young British girls in Telford and other towns.

Gript reports:

Speaking to Gript today, one family member said that concerns about identifying the attackers as non-Irish seemed to be more important than ensuring that other girls and women were aware that they may be in danger.

The woman became momentarily separated from her partner while on the way home from a night out and was approached by a men who asked her for a light. Two men then seized her by the arms and dragged her into an alleyway where another man were waiting.

However, her screams alerted an older woman in a nearby house, who came out and interrupted the assault. The four men reportedly hit the older woman before running away when told the Gardai had been called.

Describing the assault as a “vicious attack” by a “gang”, the family member said that they had found the response of the Gardai to be “very upsetting”.

“We can’t understand it,” he said. “We were asked to take down a social media post where we had identified the attackers as foreign nationals, because no one has been arrested and women need to know this information.”

“We were asked by the Gardai why we said it was foreign men, and then asked to take the post down. Then we were asked not to talk about what had happened to anyone.”

“It seems all wrong, who is being protected here? [The victim] can’t sleep or eat, she is totally traumatised. Normally if there’s a serious crime anywhere it’s on the radio and descriptions are given and there’s an appeal for witnesses. But we’re being told to  say nothing.”

Another family member told Gript: “People need to know, it’ll happen to another girl if women don’t know who to look out for, everyone understands that. It’s why descriptions are given.”

http://www.womensystems.com/2023/02/irish-police-tell-family-of-victim-of.html

[Macnamara]

The Effects of Immigration in Denmark

Inquisitive Bird

Feb 17

 

First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report. Second, I add my own analysis on violent crime conviction rates by nation of origin. Together they give a more complete overview of immigration in Denmark.

Net Financial Contribution of Immigrants in Denmark

 

Not all countries have formal population registers. However, Scandinavian countries in particular are well-regarded in this respect, having government databases storing comprehensive and high-quality data of the full populations. Denmark is especially interesting because it is the only Scandinavian country to have properly quantified the net fiscal impact of immigration based on register data. This analysis has been conducted and described in the official Danish government report, Immigrants’ net contribution to the public finances in 2018. The net financial contribution of a person is conceptually simple: their total contribution to the state finances, subtracted their total costs.

The report finds that the total net contribution in 2018 by native Danish people was +41 billion DKK. The contribution of immigrants and their descendants was net negative at -24 billion DKK (Table b). However, net contribution was highly heterogenous by group as will be illustrated in the following figures. The figures are taken directly from the report, with the minor tweak that I have translated the text to English. The first figure included here (Figure 2.7) shows the average net financial contribution at all ages by broad nation category: Danish origin, Western countries, MENAPT (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey), and other non-Western countries.

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The average net financial contribution of immigrants in Denmark by age and broad nation-of-origin category.

As is expected, children and the elderly are net negative contributors. To compensate for this net cost, it is necessary and expected that people in their prime working age have a sufficiently large net positive contribution. The next Figure (2.8) shows what the total net contributions are. On the whole, they find that Western immigrants (and their descendants, i.e., 2nd generation immigrants) have a small positive net financial contribution, whereas MENAPT and other non-Western immigrants and descendants have a net negative financial contribution.

Given the strong relationship between age and financial contribution, the analysis also considers age-adjusted figures. The next figure shows the actual net contributions as well as the age-standardized net contributions of immigrants and their descendants. Adjusting for age substantially changes the estimates of net contribution. This is because immigrants and natives differ in their age composition, with immigrants being disproportionately young adults.

 

The actual and age-standardized average net contributions of immigrants and their descendants in Denmark by broad nation-of-origin category.

Lastly, the report also provides net financial contribution by immigrants of specific country of origin, which can be seen below. The list includes all countries of origin with at least 5,000 individuals in Denmark.

 

The average net financial contribution of immigrants in Denmark by nation of origin. Only includes nations with at least 5,000 immigrants in Denmark. Estimates are not adjusted for age.

In general, net contributions are positive for Western countries and negative for MENAPT countries. For other non-Western countries, some have positive contribution and some negative. Unfortunately these nation-of-origin estimates are not adjusted for age. With that said, we know that adjusting for age would systematically lower these estimates (as demonstrated in Figure 2.8). Thus once adjusted for age, immigrants from Western countries, instead of being net positive in all cases, would probably be roughly evenly distributed below and above zero (the aggregate estimate is just barely above zero in Figure 2.8). MENAPT countries would go further into the negatives after age adjustments.

 

Violent Crime Convictions

 

Having summarized the results of the official government financial analysis, I now append with my own analysis on the topic of immigration and crime. According to Danmarks Statistik, there were 5,921 violent crime convictions in 2021, of which 71% (4,193) were committed by people of Danish origin and 29% (1,728) by immigrants and their descendants. In 2021, immigrants and their descendants represented 14% (817,438) and people of Danish origin 86% (5,022,607) of the total population of 5,840,045. Thus immigrants and descendants are overrepresented in violent crime convictions, being 14% of the population and constituting 29% of the violent crime convictions. This translates into immigrants and descendants having 2.5 times higher conviction rates than natives.

However, like financial contributions, convictions also exhibit great heterogeneity. Western immigrants and descendants were 5.0% of the population and accounted for just 3.8% of the nation’s violent crime convictions. Non-Western immigrants and descendants were 8.9% of the population and accounted for 25.4% of the nation’s violent crime convictions. Homicide is very uncommon in Denmark, but we see a similar pattern for homicide convictions. For rape convictions, the pattern is even stronger. The results for the period 2010-2021 can be seen in the figure below. For each group, it shows the population share and the share of total violent crime convictions, as well as shares of specific types of violent crime convictions, that can be attributed to each group.

 

Population and violent crime conviction shares in Denmark in years 2010–2021 by broad ancestry category.

We can also convert these to conviction rates relative to that of natives. This can be seen in the figure below.

 

Violent crime conviction rate ratios in Denmark in years 2010–2021 by broad ancestry category.

Overall, Western immigrants have violent conviction rates that are approximately 20% lower than that of natives, whereas Non-Western immigrants have approximately 3.5 times higher conviction rates than natives.

The heterogeneity can be analyzed at an even finer granularity. The Danish government agency Danmarks Statistik publicize the data necessary to compute the conviction rates by country of origin.

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The figure below shows the results for the years 2010–2021 expressed in terms of multiples of the Danish rate.

 

 

Violent crime conviction rates for immigrants in 2010–2021 by nation of origin expressed in multiples of the Danish conviction rate. Not adjusted for age or sex. Error bars are bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals.

At the bottom we see that several immigrant groups have conviction rates less than half of that of natives (Japanese immigrants manage to have zero violent convictions in this 12 year period). At the top, we see some groups having conviction rates >8 times higher than natives. However, none of the figures in this section are adjusted for age, which is a potential major contributor to the observed disparities. We will consider that now.

Accounting for age and sex

 

Crime rates vary greatly with age and sex. The rate of imprisonment for violent crimes in Denmark (averaged across 2010–2021) by age and sex is illustrated below. It goes without saying that violent conviction rates are highest in young males. Violent crime rates seem to peak in the late teens. At least in this data, the female peak (age 16) is earlier than the male peak (age 19), possibly reflecting the earlier female puberty (peak years marked with dashed lines).

 

The rate of imprisonment for violent crimes in Denmark averaged across 2010–2021, by age and sex. The peak years are marked with dashed lines for males and females, respectively.

Further, the age composition of immigrants differs substantially from the native population (see below). Immigrants cluster disproportionately at ages with higher rates of violent criminality. For this reason, age is arguably the first and most crucial variable to consider when observing any disparities between immigrants and natives. The sex ratio of immigrants also occasionally deviates nontrivially from a typical approximate half/half balance. This is usually not as severe an issue in practice, but still good to account for sex ratio when possible.

 

The age compositions of natives and immigrants in Denmark, 2010–2021.

Violent conviction rates adjusted for age and sex

 

We can account for differences in age and sex distributions the following way. Instead of simply dividing by the total amount of people from each nation of origin, we can scale people counts by the age/sex violent crime conviction curves displayed in the previous section. For example, ten men of the age of 30 would create a far larger denominator than ten women of the age of 60. The results adjusted for age and sex can be seen below.

 

Violent crime conviction rates for immigrants in 2010–2021 by nation of origin expressed in multiples of the Danish conviction rate. Adjusted for differences in age and sex composition. Error bars are bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals.

A few facts are evident. First, adjusting for age and sex has very little influence on the nations’ rank order. Those that were previously near the top continue to be so, and vice versa. However, I find that, on average, the rate ratios are reduced by 20-25% when accounting for age, sex and year. This is almost exclusively because of the age differences between natives and immigrants.

Second, it remains the case that the disparities are largely unexplained by differences in age or sex compositions. The top immigrant groups have >6 times greater conviction rates than natives, even when age and sex compositions have been adjusted for (down from >8 in the unadjusted model).

To finish, a few things are worth considering. First, I have analyzed violent crime convictions. The extent to which convictions systematically deviate from actual criminal behavior I cannot say. Second, except for considering age and sex compositions, I have not attempted to explain the causes of the observed disparities. This is a difficult task, and perhaps worth revisiting at a later time, but I am not sure if I could do such an analysis justice with the available data.

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The categorization used in the official Danish government report is the following. “Western” countries are all countries in the European Union, Andorra, Australia, Canada, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, San Marino, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA and the Vatican. “MENAPT” countries are Kuwait, Tunisia, Somalia, Lebanon, Jordan, Algeria, Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Libya, Mauritania, Oman, Yemen, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Sudan, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates.

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Data was retrieved from Statistikbanken. To calculate the rate, you need the following: (1) the total number of convictions for violent crimes by country of origin, (2) and the total number of people by country of origin. The conviction rate is simple the former divided by the latter. The necessary datasets are as follows. STRAFNA4: Persons guilty in crimes aged 15-79 years by type of offence and country of origin (2000-2021). FOLK2: Population 1. January by sex, age, ancestry, country of origin and citizenship (1980-2023).

https://inquisitivebird.substack.com/p/the-effects-of-immigration-in-denmark

Edited February 25 by Macnamara

[Mr H]

The movement of a substantial amount of people from one location to another in quick time is going to be problematic because the area they move to won't have the resources to sustain them.

[Macnamara]

2 hours ago, Mr H said:

The movement of a substantial amount of people from one location to another in quick time is going to be problematic because the area they move to won't have the resources to sustain them.

 

well there is a lot more going on than that but lets look at that one particular aspect of MASS immigration

 

No one seems to be talking about the disappearance of rabbits! There used to be rabbits everywhere but now i hardly ever see one. Yes they came in with the normans which means they've only been here about a thousand years but they were brought in as a foodstuff. They can be eaten. So i did a quick internet search and i did find a couple of stories in mainstream UK newspapers mentioning the die-off of rabbits. they mentioned the disease myxomatosis which was a manmade virus released by humans to kill off rabbits which many people saw as pests. But then in 2010 a new virus: hemoragic fever was seen in rabbit colonies kept by humans in france and this has wiped out vast numbers of rabbits.

 

I used to see large salmon pulled onto a river bank i know well that would be half eaten by an otter. those salmon don't seem to be in the river anymore and i'm guessing it is because of chemicals running off farm land into the river systems.

 

In recent years they have slaughtered MILLIONS of chickens and turkeys claiming that having been tested with PCR tests they have avian flu and must be killed. This is leading to egg shortages.

 

Over 100 food processing plants have burned down in the US in the last year and these are being monitored by the ice age farmer.

 

The government of the netherlands are looking to take half the farmland off farmers so that they can build a smart mega city called the tri-state city. The netherlands is the second biggest exporter of food on the planet

 

the amish are self-sufficient farmers and many of them are in ohio where a recent chemical spill from a train in east palestine that was then set alight is billowing up dioxins that are spreading across the sky and raining down on the land and water below which will toxify it. Dioxins were the poison that monsanto put in their notorious agent orange spray that they sprayed across vietnam, during the vietnam war, which killed and deformed many babies.

 

The WEF globalists are telling people to get rid of cows so that they can grow biofuel crops instead but cow manure is what boosts the top soil with nutrients. Cows give us key staples like: milk, beef, cheese, butter, yoghurt and cream

 

So it seems as if food production in the west is being sabotaged at the very same time that the western politicians are flooding more and more hungry mouths into the west which means that there is going to be more mouths chasing dwindling food supplies

Edited February 25 by Macnamara

[Campion]

2 hours ago, Macnamara said:

So it seems as if food production in he west is being sabotaged at the very same time that the western politicians are flooding more and more hungry mouths into the west which means that there is going to be more mouths chasing dwindling food supplies

 

I used to live in a semi-rural village and there were rabbits around, as well as quite a lot of horses. It was a village mentioned in the Domesday book and with an Anglo-Saxon church. Ethnically very homogeneous, it had the feeling of somewhere that has survived the mixed fortunes of history and could probably hold its own if the technological acro-props holding up most of the western world collapsed.   But no doubt that village will also be absorbed into the multicultural technosphere in the Illuminati's relentless drive to outsmart nature. More mouths and fewer farms means we become more reliant on imported food and the vagaries of world markets, which imo is not in the interests of the ordinary regular families here, but the cult does want us more dependent on international trade (which it controls) and less self-reliant. 

Edited February 25 by Campion

[Macnamara]

21 hours ago, Campion said:

 

I used to live in a semi-rural village and there were rabbits around, as well as quite a lot of horses. It was a village mentioned in the Domesday book and with an Anglo-Saxon church. Ethnically very homogeneous, it had the feeling of somewhere that has survived the mixed fortunes of history and could probably hold its own if the technological acro-props holding up most of the western world collapsed.   But no doubt that village will also be absorbed into the multicultural technosphere in the Illuminati's relentless drive to outsmart nature.

 

in scotland a village like that would currently have a vast new housing development tacked onto it that would double the village in size and completely destroy the entire historical integrity of the place

[Nemuri Kyoshiro]

On 2/22/2023 at 2:16 PM, Macnamara said:

IT HAS BECOME increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic diversity as a civic strength. From multicultural festivals to pronouncements from political leaders, the message is the same: our differences make us stronger.

We needed a political scientist from Harvard to tell us the bleedin' obvious? Diversity is Bolshevism, dressed up in slogans and repeated by the sheep ad infinitum. Oh, and just in case we dare to forget and say something against it. they'll come down on us like a ton of bricks.

[Macnamara]

17 hours ago, Nemuri Kyoshiro said:

We needed a political scientist from Harvard to tell us the bleedin' obvious? Diversity is Bolshevism, dressed up in slogans and repeated by the sheep ad infinitum. Oh, and just in case we dare to forget and say something against it. they'll come down on us like a ton of bricks.

 

yeah the modern day bolsheviks kept this guy in the country:

Chilling video captures moments before criminal who was saved from deportation to Jamaica following high-profile campaign by Labour and luvvies murders man in horrific knife fight

• Ernesto Elliott was due to be aboard a Home Office charter flight in Dec 2020
• Just six months later he murdered a 35-year-old man in a horrific knife fight  

By David Barrett Home Affairs Correspondent

Published: 22:01 GMT, 26 February 2023 | Updated: 09:50 GMT, 27 February 2023

A Jamaican criminal who avoided deportation following legal challenges backed by Labour MPs and a host of celebrities went on to commit murder, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Ernesto Elliott was due to be aboard a Home Office charter flight in December 2020, but dodged efforts to remove him thanks to last-minute human rights appeals.

But in June 2021 – six months after he was supposed to have been removed from Britain – Elliott murdered a 35-year-old man in a horrific knife fight.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11795977/Chilling-video-captures-moments-criminal-sent-Jamaica-kills-man-horrific-knife-fight.html

[Macnamara]

Texas sheriff: We’re experiencing 'silent invasion' of military age men

• By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor
• 3 hrs ago

What's happening at the southern U.S. border with Mexico is in fact an invasion, Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe says.

“We’re experiencing a silent invasion of military age men,” Coe told The Center Square when describing what his deputies have been increasingly facing over the past two years.

He spoke with The Center Square during an Operation Lone Star task force multi-day operation during which law enforcement officers rescued foreign nationals from a burning vehicle and revived a five-year-old girl being smuggled who’d been stashed inside of a car’s trunk.

 

The “silent invasion,” Coe said, is being committed primarily by single, military age men between the ages of 17 and 45 who are illegally entering the U.S. They’re wearing camouflage and carrying backpacks, according to video captured by cameras placed throughout the county viewed by The Center Square. Many are armed and dangerous, committing robberies and engaging in shootouts with law enforcement, Coe said.

The men are believed to be working or associated with Mexican cartels. Once they arrive in major U.S. cities, they are embedded with gangs and or cartel affiliates acting like a “Trojan horse,” Coe said. “They set up in our cities, take over through voting and or crime, and scare the local people who move out. It’s happening in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio,” he said, where crime has also exponentially increased over the last few years.

He said, “You can win a lot of battles without getting violent,” referring to the “silent invasion” as an act of war against the U.S. by Mexican cartels.

Coe last month sent out an SOS asking for help from other counties to apprehend human smugglers in his small border county of roughly 3,000 people. In response, law enforcement officers from 20 agencies participated in a days-long operation during which The Center Square participated in a ridealong.

As soon as the task force got started, officers were engaged in smuggling pursuits. He said, “the more people we have, the more effective we’ll be” at pushing smugglers and gotaways “out of the area.” Gotaways are those who illegally enter the U.S., don’t request asylum or make other immigration claims, and intentionally evade capture.

A retired Border Patrol agent, Coe took office Jan 1, 2017, and says he’s never seen what’s he seeing now in his entire life. Things first started getting bad after President Joe Biden altered border security and immigration policies, and have only gotten worse since, he said.

In 2022, for example, his deputies made 877 arrests, filing 3,057 felony charges. Of all the criminal cases filed that year, 927 were immigration-related involving illegal foreign nationals or smugglers, he said.

While these numbers are unprecedented, the number of people who got away are even greater. Detected on cameras making their way through the county on foot, nearly 21,500 foreign nationals were detected but weren’t apprehended last year. That’s at least seven times the size of the county’s population. Their whereabouts are currently unknown.

“The other unknown,” he said, “is what’s not on camera. You might see two or three are on camera but shadows are also visible indicating there are more people behind them. The camera only shows the 2 to 3 people.”

 

In 2022, Kinney County Sheriff’s deputies apprehended 3,192 illegal foreign nationals compared to the 1,124 they apprehended in 2021, according to the sheriff’s data.

In 2022, they apprehended 741 smugglers compared to 169 in 2021, Coe said, as he went through the data with The Center Square.

His deputies engaged in 139 pursuits and 136 bailouts in 2022 compared to 61 pursuits and 56 bailouts in 2021.

In 2022, they impounded 580 vehicles compared to 179 in 2021.

In 2022, deputies also seized 89 firearms carried by alleged smugglers, including some that were stolen, up from 29 in 2021.

Despite increased resources and funding through Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, apprehensions and crime continue to escalate, Coe said.

So far in 2023, their efforts and the stats are already breaking last year’s records across the board, he said. At least 6,600 illegal foreign nationals have been captured on cameras crossing through the county on foot, he said. “That’s an average of 150 a day. These are people who aren’t being caught,” he added.

His deputies already have apprehended 398 illegal foreign nationals and 96 alleged smugglers so far this year. They’ve also engaged in nearly 30 vehicle pursuits, including 27 bailouts, nearly all involving human smugglers, he said.

The majority of the alleged smugglers they’re catching are men from Houston between the ages of 17 and 25. Earlier this month they apprehended a 14-year-old who evaded arrest driving a stolen car, he said.

The overwhelming majority of alleged smugglers they’re arresting are U.S. citizens responding to social media ads hoping to make several thousand dollars per load. Those caught include a licensed security guard, attorneys, couples, and teenagers, Coe said.

Americans are coming to Kinney County from all over the U.S. Initially, they were from Oklahoma and Louisiana; now they’re also coming from Georgia, California, New York, and New Jersey, he said.

Their efforts would be severely limited were it not for support from the state, he said. “We couldn’t do what we’re doing without Operation Lone Star. Our county attorney handled 4-5 cases a month. Now it’s 150 every time we have court and we have court four times a week. We used to have district court once a month, now it’s 100 cases every time. The jury pool is busy, and we may end up with two grand juries to convene every other week.”

https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/article_7f05381e-b3c3-11ed-8fc3-43ef7547884d.html

[Macnamara]

Terrifying moment Iraqi immigrant, 28, stabbed university student, 18, in bid to be deported because he was disillusioned with life in a taxpayer-funded hotel after arriving on a small boat and racking up a string of convictions

• Ellis Wheeler, 18, was attacked by Rebaz Mohammed on way home from the gym
• The 28-year-old immigrant says he did it so he could be sent home to Iraq 

By Martin Robinson, Chief Reporter and Lizzie May For Mailonline

Published: 10:00 GMT, 9 March 2023 | Updated: 15:21 GMT, 9 March 2023

This is the horrifying moment an Iraqi immigrant who arrived in Britain on a small boat stabbed a student in a bid to be deported after having become disillusioned with life living in a taxpayer-funded hotel.

Rebaz Mohammed, 28, has been jailed for six years after he stopped stranger Ellis Wheeler, 18, to ask him a question before knifing him in the back in Southampton last December.

Mohammed, who has a string of previous convictions including a prison term, then chased the Solent University student, who managed to run away before passing out.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11839177/Moment-Iraqi-immigrant-stabbed-university-student-broad-daylight-attack-bid-deported.html

[Macnamara]

sounds like the globalists solution to illegal immigration is simply to legalise it...

Ministers 'turn to migrant workers to boost the economy': Bricklayers, roofers, plasterers and carpenters 'will be added to the government's shortage occupation list' due to shortages in construction industry

By David Wilcock, Deputy Political Editor For Mailonline

Published: 10:06 GMT, 9 March 2023 | Updated: 10:09 GMT, 9 March 2023

Britain is planning to relax rules on foreign workers to allow more into the country to address the UK's chronic labour shortages.

At the same time ministers talk tough on illegal immigration, a swathe of occupations will be added to the 'shortage occupation list' which eases recruitment abroad.

The construction sector is due to be the first part of the economy to benefit, with a bricklayers, roofers, plasterers and carpenters recruited from abroad to address a shortage of home-grown applicants.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11839279/Ministers-turn-foreign-bricklayers-roofers-plasterers-carpenters-solve-labour-crisis.html

[Macnamara]

Britain is addicted to mass migration – and it is not racist to say this must change

Ministers haven’t just lost control of the Channel: the huge scale of legal immigration is being allowed to continue with little scrutiny

Camilla Tominey

Associate Editor

17 March 2023 • 5:53pm

There was something horribly ironic about Gary Lineker claiming to “speak up for those poor souls who have no voice” on the question of immigration, after effectively trying to silence dissenters with comparisons to 1930s Germany. He was right in one sense – there is a group of people who don’t have a voice on this issue – but they certainly aren’t the ones Gary’s advocating for.

No, it’s the silent majority with legitimate concerns about mass, uncontrolled migration who have been cut out of the debate by elites who consider it crass to want to manage Britain’s borders. They are the ones hounded and patronised into submission by supposedly “tolerant” liberals who use their sense of moral superiority to justify political browbeating. And this tactic, which has been hugely successful in shutting down the national debate, helps to explain why the Conservative Party has failed to get a grip on post-Brexit immigration.

Of course, Britain is a welcoming country and proudly so. But the truth of the matter is that our immigration system is broken and the public can see it more clearly than those politicians too busy pandering for progressive approval. Just this week, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) confirmed what many had long suspected: that it isn’t just the boats crossing the Channel that are a problem, but our entire visa system. On present plans, soaring migration is set to continue despite Rishi Sunak’s tough talk about “stopping the boats”, or Suella Braverman’s efforts to reform our asylum system (the very efforts Lineker described as “beyond awful”).

 

 

First, it’s worth understanding what Mrs Braverman actually said, given all the selective quotes floating around. “If you come here illegally, you will not be able to stay,” she said. You will be detained and removed to your home country if safe, or a safe third country like Rwanda. We are committed to helping those in need like the hundreds of thousands of people we have supported from Ukraine, Afghanistan and Hong Kong in recent years. But it’s not fair that people who travel through a string of safe countries and then come to the UK illegally can jump the queue and game our system.”

Far from being “beyond awful”, then, she is proposing an immigration system based on fairness, rather than one exploited by criminal gangs. That’s obviously to be welcomed, not least on behalf of the vulnerable fathers, mothers and children sent to their deaths on barely seaworthy crafts.

But the Home Secretary needs to be even more honest and admit that the Home Office has lost control over those coming here legally, too. According to the latest OBR figures, prepared for Wednesday’s Budget, net migration is projected to hit 245,000 a year by 2026-27. That’s almost double the level it predicted early last year and 40,000 higher than its November forecast.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the current scale of migration is unprecedented in our history. Net migration has run at more than six million since 2000. Communities are being asked to sustain population growth of at least a quarter of a million per annum without the infrastructure to support it. That’s the equivalent of a new Wolverhampton or a new Luton being absorbed into the UK every 12 months. Extraordinary.

Furthermore, just as it is completely misleading to claim that all migrants are asylum seekers, we now have evidence to undermine the spurious suggestion that all migration benefits the economy. Of the total 1,437,000 non-visitor visas granted in 2022, nearly 50 per cent were non-work, non-study visas. This represents a trebling of the numbers under the pre-Brexit immigration system when just 31 per cent were neither study nor work visas. And while visas granted to Hong Kongers and Ukrainians may have contributed to this rise, what it reveals is that we do not need such high numbers for our economic survival.

As the OBR pointed out, non-work, non-study visas were the “fastest growing category” since the pandemic which meant they have scaled down the impact the migrant population would have on jobs growth. “It is likely that the participation rate of migrants under the post-Brexit regime will be lower than in the past, so we have assumed they will have the same participation rate as the resident population,” they say.

It all begs the question, are the politicians behind this system acting in the Brexit spirit? That vote may not have been a direct mandate against mass migration, but the public were definitely promised that leaving the European Union would result in controlled migration. Somehow, in the process, we have ended up with a system that appears to be spiralling out of control.

Still, anyone who complains about this sorry state of affairs is easily shut down. Critics are belittled as stupid uneducated reactionaries, or even slandered as racists. If you wish to survive cancel culture: don’t say there’s too much migration, and certainly don’t say that Britain is full. To say that “Britain is full” is to expose yourself as an awful bigot.

This censorship deserves scrutiny. Granted, Britain isn’t “full” in the technical sense – even though, at 434 people per square kilometre according to the Office for National Statistics, England is one of the most densely populated nations in Europe. The real problem is that Britain’s infrastructure and public services have their hands full. Many find it difficult to see how we can cope with such high levels of migration when school places are so scarce, house prices and rent are spiralling out of control, transport and roads are so congested and GP appointments are so hard to come by. It’s easy to sympathise with that view.

This is not to say that immigration is a bad thing. My great-grandparents moved to this country from Ireland and Italy. Like the millions of immigrants who have come here over the past century, they helped to contribute to making Britain the multicultural envy of the world (despite what our detractors might have you believe). The problems being raised are questions of balance, proportionality and durability. Indeed, if we control migration the situation would improve for immigrants, too, since everyone suffers from bad public services.

It would be easy to take out these frustrations on smug Leftists, who arrogantly assert their views on immigration as if they were gospel. But the Tories are responsible for this mess. Successive Conservative governments haven’t just embraced Tony Blair’s lax approach to the borders, but doubled down on it.

Worst of all, they claim to be the party of strong borders – at least when an election campaign comes round. David Cameron even promised to bring migration down to the tens of thousands. Surely our inept leaders can’t get away with these broken promises forever.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/17/britain-addicted-mass-migration-not-racist-say-must-change/

[Macnamara]

The british political class and its lackeys are importing countless poor people who will overburden the british welfare state and drive the entire countries economy into the ground because they are ideologues looking to destroy britain as a nation. They are simply carrying on the work of the EU which was created to destroy nation states and absorb them into a new superstate which in turn would in the future be merged with other superstates composed of other landmasses such as north america, africa, south america, asia etc

 

Their goal is to completely replace and water down native populations so that there is no coherent identity or culture left. The more the nations economy can be destroyed the more dependent the nation then becomes on international bodies like the IMF and world bank that will bail out the failed states once they accept the globalists terms. In other words we are not seeing incompetence we are seeing TREASON.

Why are we importing people to be a burden on the welfare state?

A smart migration policy would limit access to social housing for non-citizens and focus on ensuring most arrivals are people likely to make a big economic contribution.

Patrick O'Flynn

22 hr ago

THINK we can all agree that social housing is a resource in very scarce supply in the United Kingdom.

More than a million British families are on social housing waiting lists. At least 30,000 people have been waiting for ten years or more.

And it is not even just a question of more money being needed to tackle the chronic shortfall. Our planning system is necessarily rigorous given our relatively small landmass and high population density, so the physical capacity of the state to sufficiently increase supply is also constrained.

Yet having a council or housing association tenancy does not just bring a family some much-needed stability on the home front, it is also worth a small fortune. Typically the rent on a social home is about half that which the same home would attract on the private market – a subsidy worth several thousand pounds a year to tenants.

Given all this, it surely follows that it cannot be a good idea to import people from other nations to take up social housing in the UK ahead of our own citizens. And given all we hear from the pro-mass migration zealots about the alleged economic boon provided, one would expect to find a very low take-up rate for social housing among migrant groups.

Yet this turns out not to be the case. Figures from the Oxford Migration Observatory show that the proportion of foreign-born UK residents living in social housing is actually slightly higher overall than for UK-born citizens, 17 per cent compared to 16 per cent.

Far from sensibly arranging a migrant population dominated by wealthy go-getters, we have actually managed to import a needier cohort of people than we had living in the country in the first place.

Pete @post_liberal

‘UK-born and foreign-born residents have similar levels of participation in social housing (16% and 17%, respectively).’ migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/brie…

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But the real eye-opener comes when one looks at the breakdown of the social housing uptake of different migrant groups. While only six per cent of Indian-born people are in social housing, an astonishing 30 per cent of sub-Saharan African migrants in the UK live in social housing. That rises to a frankly preposterous 40 per cent in London – the most expensive city in Europe for housing. So while many UK families have been forced to leave the capital city they were born in due to housing costs, a big chunk of its social housing stock has been turned over to those arriving from other countries.

How can that be remotely economically justifiable, let alone accord to anyone’s idea of treating our own UK-born national citizens fairly?

Though sub-Saharan Africans lead the way, there are other foreign-born groups with a greater than average social housing occupation rate, including those born in Pakistan.

It strikes me that British governments could tackle this ludicrous situation in two ways. The first would be to ensure that we stop importing impoverished economic migrants to do low-paid work and ensure that only those with high-salary job offers get to move here. The second is to legislate for some form of citizen preference in the allocation of council and housing association properties.

This could range from awarding housing bonus points to those born in the UK all the way up to an outright ban on those born abroad from occupying UK social housing.

In fact no major party appears to be showing any interest in citizen preference in this field, as is shown by recent reports of permanent social housing being built that can only be applied for by refugees from Ukraine or Afghanistan. Cases of this have hit the headlines in Shropshire and in Camden in London, but the policy appears to be a nationwide one, ironically developed under the Government’s “levelling-up” funding stream.

The results of a 2021 academic study in the Netherlands, meanwhile, suggest that any government wishing genuinely to maximise potential economic benefits from immigration needs properly to address the question of which countries it should take migrants from and for what purpose.

(PDF) Book Review: [i]Borderless Welfare State: The Consequences of Immigration on Public Finances [Grenzeloze verzorgingsstaat: De gevolgen van immigratie voor de overheidsfinanciën][/i] (researchgate.net)

The team at the University of Amsterdam found that the average lifetime net contribution of immigrants to Dutch public finances, including costs associated for the second generation, was €125,000 for those who had come on work visas. That’s a decent return.

But for those coming for family reunification it was hugely negative, running to - €275,000 and for those coming to claim asylum it was a whopping - €475,000. Interestingly, the most expensive migrants were those coming from the Horn of Africa and Sudan, who clocked up negative fiscal impacts averaging  - €600,000 each.

These sharply varying costs, combined with the picture that has been revealed on UK social housing uptake, indicate that a smart immigration policy for the future would be selective about both the purpose of immigration and the countries we take most immigrants from.

But will any party be courageous enough to take on these arguments anytime soon?

https://patrickoflynn.substack.com/p/why-are-we-importing-people-to-be?publication_id=1436664&isFreemail=true

 

[Campion]

7 hours ago, Macnamara said:

The british political class and its lackeys are importing countless poor people who will overburden the british welfare state and drive the entire countries economy into the ground because they are ideologues looking to destroy britain as a nation. They are simply carrying on the work of the EU which was created to destroy nation states and absorb them into a new superstate which in turn would in the future be merged with other superstates composed of other landmasses such as north america, africa, south america, asia etc

 

I think we can look at mass immigration as one piece of the jigsaw, and when we connect up some of the other pieces we know about, the overall picture becomes clearer. 

 

The UK has been made to live beyond its means for some years now, with the national debt increased and all the main parties adopting a high tax, high borrowing and high spend policy. So the cost of this social housing (and other services) for the migrants is being paid with borrowing. Increasing taxes limit investment and growth, so the options for future governments become more limited.  Negotiations for new trade agreements have ground to a halt. We are still acting like we're a global player over the Ukraine war by donating weapons and effectively subsidising it with inflation in the energy markets. 

 

There's no doubt other pieces to fit together but that's a few to start with. 

Edited March 23 by Campion

[Macnamara]

43 minutes ago, Campion said:

I think we can look at mass immigration as one piece of the jigsaw, and when we connect up some of the other pieces we know about, the overall picture becomes clearer.

 

what we are seeing is the controlled demolition of britain:

 

-MASS immigration of poor low skilled people who will be a net burden on the economy

-MASS jabbings of the population to drive down health

-MASS debasement of the currency through money printing

-attacks on the sanctity of family life, motherhood and fatherhood

-attacks on manhood to weaken the resolve of men

-constant lies through the MASS media

-a replacement of our history and culture with globalised corporate psuedo-culture

 

We are fighting a rear guard action here against our own destruction

[Name444]

If you're shot in the leg with an arrow, do you try to extract it the way it came, or do you continue pushing it out the other side? In other words, do we continue the fight as best we can, or do we let Rome fall and focus on rebuilding after the collapse? At this point I think the latter is the best option. Too many people are so hopelessly brainwashed that nothing outside of complete dystopia will be enough to wake them up. Until then, protect yourself and your loved ones, and ride the collapse as best you can.

[Campion]

14 hours ago, Name444 said:

If you're shot in the leg with an arrow, do you try to extract it the way it came, or do you continue pushing it out the other side? In other words, do we continue the fight as best we can, or do we let Rome fall and focus on rebuilding after the collapse? At this point I think the latter is the best option. Too many people are so hopelessly brainwashed that nothing outside of complete dystopia will be enough to wake them up. Until then, protect yourself and your loved ones, and ride the collapse as best you can.

 

Hi Name, I understand this way of framing it, and there's folks on both sides of the debate. It depends what you think the Illumini have planned for us. An armageddon-type collapse and demolition of our civilisation with population reduction and economic collapse; or creation of a Brave New World style technocratic-communist gulag to imprison us in 15 minute cities and cut us off from nature and traditional community. 

 

Either way I think it's a good idea to learn some practical skills to do more things for ourselves and become a little more self-sufficient in our local community. 

Edited March 26 by Campion

[Mr Crabtree]

52 minutes ago, Campion said:

 

Hi Name, I understand this way of framing it, and there's folks on both sides of the debate. It depends what you think the Illumini have planned for us. An armageddon-type collapse and demolition of our civilisation with population reduction and economic collapse; or creation of a Brave New World style technocratic-communist gulag to imprison us in 15 minute cities and cut us off from nature and traditional community. 

 

Either way I think it's a good idea to learn some practical skills to do more things for ourselves and become a little more self-sufficient in our local community. 

I'm not clever enough to know the definitive answer to the 'Asylum Seeker' problem, but my take is this. I have no problem with someone trying to improve the lifestyle and the security of their families and come here willing to work and give something positive to the country who's allowed them in, in order to improve their family situation! My objections are letting in young, single men who roam around the local communities intent on pestering the local female population, committing minor, and sometimes, major crimes, moaning about their food, their accommodation, and the way they are treated by the country who's allowed them in in the first place! They all seem to somehow have better clothes, trainers etc than their hosts, and most of them have state of the art mobile phones and expensive watches and rings, not bad for someone escaping from repressive regimes who threaten their very lives! We, or rather, they, the manipulators, are piling large heaps of shit and major problems on our heads for their own agendas, none of which are for any of our benefits!

[Campion]

58 minutes ago, Mr Crabtree said:

 I have no problem with someone trying to improve the lifestyle and the security of their families and come here willing to work and give something positive to the country who's allowed them in, in order to improve their family situation! My objections are letting in young, single men who roam around the local communities intent on pestering the local female population, committing minor, and sometimes, major crimes, moaning about their food, their accommodation, and the way they are treated by the country who's allowed them in in the first place!

 

I'm not an expert either but I'm looking at the big picture here. There are a large number of countries with chronic economic stagnation resulting in millions of people seeking to escape to countries they are told by the media and traffickers that have good prospects and welfare states. 

 

But it turns out that this population of unapproved migrants are over-represented with young antisocial men, and it leads me to question why their homelands are such an unattractive place for them to live in the first place. The liberal elite like to blame western civilisation for third world poverty, but when you look at the actual behaviour when they come here, even if it's a minority, it doesn't indicate a culture with the same protestant work ethic and mutual respect which our country was built on. And it only takes a minority to impact the whole country. 

Edited March 26 by Campion