USCIS removes “nation of immigrants” from mission statement, Left goes nuts, by Ann Corcoran, 2/25/18
“…..reveals the
insidious racism harbored by those in this administration.” (Eleanor Acer, director of refugee protection at Washington-based
advocacy group Human Rights First)
Here is
the story at Think
Progress (consider the source):
They are one-trick ponies! It is
“racist,” Trump is “racist” and you, dear readers, are “racists!”
In a move formalizing more than a year of hardline
anti-immigration rhetoric from the White House, the agency responsible for overseeing
both green cards and citizenship has
wiped a key line framing the United States as a “nation of immigrants” from its
mission statement.
In
a letter sent Thursday, Lee Francis Cissna, the director of United States
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), told employees that the statement had been altered to
“guide us in the years ahead.”
The
original language: “U.S.C.I.S.
secures America’s promise as a nation of immigrants by providing accurate
and useful information to our customers, granting
immigration and citizenship benefits, promoting an awareness and understanding
of citizenship, and ensuring the integrity of our immigration system,” read the
agency’s original mission statement.
The
new Trump Admin. language: The new offering is notably altered: “U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services administers the nation’s lawful
immigration system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently and
fairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting
Americans, securing the homeland and honoring our values.”
That
new statement, Cissna said, “clearly defines the agency’s role in our country’s
lawful immigration system and the commitment we have to the American people.”
In addition to the removal of the “nation of
immigrants” phrase, the statement has also eliminated any reference to
non-U.S. nationals as “customers” — a decision Cissna said served as “a
reminder that we are always working for the American people.”
Did you know that some Native Americans
and Blacks never did like the phrase—nation of immigrants—so they must be
cheering this move!
The phrase “nation of immigrants” is not without
controversy — many Native Americans have argued against the saying, as have Black
Americans, arguing that the arrival of colonizers and slaves should not be
conflated with immigration more broadly. But the phrase has become a rallying cry for many
contemporary proponents of immigration, which helps to diversify the United
States and keep the economy strong. Its removal formalizes an agenda long
pursued by the Trump administration, which has made cracking down on
immigration a key pillar of its tenure.
“Our nation is one built by immigrants—removing this
language does nothing to change that fact, it only reveals the insidious racism
harbored by those in this administration,” said Eleanor Acer, director of refugee protection at
Washington-based advocacy group Human Rights First, in a statement.
More here.
You might find it heartening to read the list of all the “racist” things the
White House has been doing!
And,
I don’t want to get in to a big yak, but we haven’t been a nation of
immigrants, in fact we took about a 40 year break until Senator Ted (don’t
bring them to Hyannis) Kennedy pushed the 1965 Hart-Cellers Immigration Act that opened the present day flood
gates. Earlier waves of immigration were mostly from Europe (and there
was no welfare system. They worked hard or went home). All that changed in
1965. 15 years later he pushed through the Refugee Act of 1980.
I
always wondered if ol’ Teddy was a true believer, or did someone have a gun to
his head?
Australia:
Iranian refugees charged in major drug bust, so much for gratitude by Ann Corcoran 2/26/18
Were they simply greedy criminals
looking to live high by destroying Australia’s youth, or is there more to
Middle Eastern drug dealing? Is it a form of warfare on the West?
I don’t know the answer, but I
thought about it when reader Jon sent this link from the Daily Mail:
An Iranian couple who arrived to Australia by boat five years ago have
allegedly been flooding the streets of Sydney with the deadly drug ‘ice’.
By the way, they must have gotten in
just before Australia lowered the boom on boat people and sent them to
detention in Papua New Guinea or on Nauru (where Trump’s State Department is
vetting them for movement to Any Town, USA.).
Just your everyday Iranian refugees.
Ali Maleki
and Yosra Rabieh, from the city’s north-west, are two of several Iranians in
Australia on temporary protection visas recently arrested over alleged meth
trafficking, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The couple, who share two young
daughters, were arrested last week after police allegedly seized more than 36kg
of ice, over $260,000 in cash, three luxury cars and more than 100 ampules of
steroids at homes in Hornsby and Asquith.
Maleki and Rabieh have each been
charged with supply large commercial quantity of prohibited drugs and
participate in a criminal enterprise.
A third Iranian has been charged
with being an accessory after the fact of supplying drugs.
In a separate bust last week, two
Iranian nationals were arrested in Sydney, allegedly trying to import almost 10
kilograms of ice hidden in honey jars on a cargo flight to Australia.
Go here for more from the Daily Mail. If guilty they should
hope for Australian prison rather than deportation.
See my ‘Australia’ category by clicking here.
Important free speech case filed against Twitter
Posted by Ann Corcoran on February 26,
2018
And,
it all started when Twitter banned Jared Taylor
and American Renaissance from its platform.
Breitbart has
a long report on the case. I think Taylor has a good case, but you know
how our court system has become (too often these days) the place where Leftwing
ideology has found its home and Constitutional protections are lost, so I won’t
dare to predict how this could turn out.
Here is
Ian Mason writing at Breitbart about the case filed
last week in California: A
group of free-speech lawyers filed the most serious legal challenge yet to
Twitter’s censorship policies Tuesday in San Francisco County Superior Court,
seeking a ruling preventing Twitter from banning users purely on the basis of
their views and political associations.
Twitter made a big mistake taking on
Taylor! Taylor’s case has a good chance of prevailing if the California judge
is not a Leftwing ideologue. And, if he/she is, could Jared Taylor v. Twitter
go all the way to the Supreme Court?
The 29-page complaint contends that, under a California
legal doctrine that recognizes some private facilities as “public forums,”
Twitter may not discriminate against speech on their platform based purely on
viewpoint. If
successful, it would be the first extension of that doctrine to internet social
media platforms and could transform the way free speech is treated
online. The suit
became all the more relevant Wednesday as Twitter stood accused of locking out
thousands of conservatives under the guise of cracking down on “Russian bots.”
The genesis of the suit is Twitter’s November 2017
announcement that they would start banning and sanctioning users based on their
offline behavior and associations.
On
December 18, 2017, Twitter, five years after their top British executive
described the company as “the free speech wing of the free speech party,” made
good on this threat, “purging” hundreds of mostly right-wing users. Twitter’s
new policy refers to association with “violent extremist groups,” and a company
blog post claimed, “If an account’s profile information includes a violent
threat or multiple slurs, epithets, racist or sexist tropes, incites fear, or
reduces someone to less than human, it will be permanently suspended.”
One of those purged is Jared Taylor, founder and editor of
“American Renaissance,” a fringe-right journal on race and immigration. He is
frequently described as an “extremist” and a “white supremacist” by left-wing
groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL), the latter of which sits on Twitter’s “Trust and Safety Council,”
the largely leftist group of activists and non-profits Twitter assembled in
2016 to help decide which speech to censor.
Taylor
is a graduate of Yale University and Paris’s Sciences Po, the former West Coast
editor of PC Magazine, and author of several books. He describes himself as a
“white advocate” or “race realist” and condemns Nazism and antisemitism.
According
to the complaint, in his more than six years on Twitter, Taylor never made
threats, harassed anyone, or otherwise came under scrutiny for his behavior on
the platform. Even the SPLC notes Taylor “scrupulously avoided racist epithets
[and] employed the language of academic journals” in his writings, and Taylor
once wrote an article urging people to be more civil on Twitter.
Yet both Taylor’s personal account and
that of American Renaissance were permanently banned. The only explanation Twitter gave
was that the accounts were “affiliated with a violent extremist group.” Twitter
refused to offer Taylor any further details including to which “violent
extremist group” he was affiliated. There is much more here.
The SPLC and me…. You might also want to know that the SPLC has gone on another of its media hit campaigns. See that the Baltimore Sun has listed me as a “hate group” (taking the SPLC’s word for it!) without ever checking to find out that I am a journalist blogger and have no group! How many more one-person ‘groups’ are on SPLC’s “hate group” list?
LOL! The Sun says
Maryland hate groups are “on the rise” as Maryland gains one “hate group” since
the SPLC’s list last year.
The
SPLC aimed its big-money guns at me after the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society directed them to my work. Of course HIAS didn’t like anyone
questioning their federal funding and their refugee resettlement program.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2018/02/26/important-free-speech-case-filed-against-twitter/
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