By Andrew L. Jaffee
El Jefe, Hugo Chavez wants to change Venezuela’s laws to allow him to own and control everything — all of his country’s wealth, human rights, ideas, news, etc. In other words, Chavez is about to become the next dictator in the Castro/Mugabe/Milosevic tradition: absolute power forever. Still want that Che Guevara t-shirt? From the AFP:
By Andrew L. Jaffee
Those of us who support legal immigration won a small victory today, but the battle is just beginning. “A fragile bipartisan compromise that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants suffered a setback Thursday when it failed a test vote in the Senate, leaving its prospects uncertain…” But “the measure…got a reprieve when Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he would give it more time before yanking the bill and moving on to other matters.” This “compromise” is President Bush’s pet, and would open the floodgates to illegal immigration. The President is really looking to ensure a cheap supply of labor, even tough he cloaks his aims in other language (sophistry). His plan is basically an amnesty that rewards people who have illegally entered the U.S. What we really need is legal and sustainable immigration, not an illegal tidal wave.
Newest Data Shows Latin American Immigrants Make Heavy Use of Welfare
By Mark Krikorian
WASHINGTON (June 6, 2007) — As they debate legalization for illegal immigrants, Senators would do well to keep in mind the most recent data on welfare use by the people in question. According to the Department of Homeland Security, nearly 60% of illegal aliens are from Mexico and 80% of the total are from Latin America as a whole. A new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of 2006 Census Bureau data, which includes legal and illegal immigrants, shows use of welfare by households headed by Mexican and Latin American immigrants is more than double that of native households. Among the findings:
By Andrew L. Jaffee
I wouldn’t put a lot of credence into what El Jefe Castro says. After all, he’s a “communist” leader worth $US900 million. His “communist” economy is a disaster, and Cuba is one of the poorest countries in the Americas. If not for tourism and money sent by Cuban expatriates, there would be complete economic collapse. Castro executed three Cubans for trying to escape their “worker’s paradise.” El Jefe jailed 75 poets, journalists, economists and other dissidents because they dared to express political opposition. Now Castro has gone off the deep end, criticizing the use of biofuels, which by the way “will lower carbon dioxide emissions, ensuring a cleaner environment.” Still think El Jefe is “progressive?” From the BBC:
Cuban leader Fidel Castro has written a second newspaper article within a week, again criticising US biofuels policy.
Writing in the Granma newspaper, Mr Castro said a US drive to back crop use for fuels would raise prices and cause more hunger in developing countries. …
He said [the use of biofuels] “…means none other than the internationalisation of genocide…”
So, Castro wants us to burn more fossil fuels? Damned if we burn fossil fuels and pollute more; damned if we burn ethanol and pollute less. Ah, we have a surplus of grains, so there’d be no effect on “developing countries…” Oy, amateurish economics and environmentalism…
By Andrew L. Jaffee
Remember the old jingle for Chiquita bananas? Cute, huh? Well, no. Instead of working with U.S. and/or Columbian authorities to fight terrorism, Chiquita Brands International Inc. was paying off terrorists — in old-style protection money:
U.S. banana producer Chiquita Brands International Inc. pleaded guilty Monday to doing business with a terrorist organization for paying protection money to Colombian paramilitaries between 2001 and 2004.
By Andrew L. Jaffee
Stop the presses: Mayan priests are upset about President Bush’s planned visit to Guatemala. No doubt, Maya civilization rose to great heights, but it also degenerated into an imperialist, egomaniacal bloodbath. Who needs history when the revisionists can sanitize it?
Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate “bad spirits” after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.
“That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture,” Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday.
Oy, vey.
by Mark Krikorian*
President Bush’s “comprehensive” amnesty-guestworker extravaganza, that Sen. Kennedy may introduce as early as next week, is not going to become law this year. It may well be approved in some form by the Senate, though even that is not a sure thing.
But it will stumble again in the House of Representatives, just as it did last year, and for the same reason—the public hates it.
By Andrew L. Jaffee
Brazil has a hidden but serious problem of slave labor. The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that there are 40,000 slaves working in Brazil today.
- CSM, 2/16/07
This from a country run by leftists, where the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party) and a motley crew of other kookie “socialist” parties hold the reigns in Brazil’s Congress. How could these guys back off of stopping slavery?
By Andrew L. Jaffee
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has outdone even himself, telling “U.S. officials to ‘Go to hell, gringos!’ and call[ing] Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ‘missy’ on his weekly radio and TV show Sunday,” according to the AP. The Bush administration has long been criticized for not using sufficiently diplomatic, delicate language, but ¿cuál es éste? Hugo is pushing through “legislation” that will allow him to rule by decree and be dictator for life. Let me switch languages, but isn’t this a bit of koyaanisqatsi (Hopi for “life out of balance”), to put it into the lexicon of the politically correct?
By Center for Immigration Studies
SAN DIEGO (January 2007) — Discussion of U.S.-Mexico relations seldom acknowledges the longstanding and systemic conditions that foster the illegal out migration of hundreds of thousands of Mexican nationals each year. Neither Washington politicians nor the State Department want to publicly address the decades-long instability in Mexico for which no Mexican politicians are ever held accountable. Can any significant policy discussion of America’s border crisis with Mexico continue to ignore the basic conditions of America’s neighbor to the south?
by Bill Levinson
The Canadian Free Press reports that armed Mexican drug dealers attacked unarmed U.S. National Guard troops on the United States’ side of the border. This is commonly known as an act of war, and it should be treated as such. If anyone thinks otherwise, recall General Pershing’s invasion of Mexico in 1916 as a result of Pancho Villa’s incursions into the United States.
By Fern Sidman
While the attention of the world is now focused on the latest “cease fire” agreement between Hamas terrorists and the State of Israel and the escalating hostilities in Iraq, it would appear that lurking in the periphery of the news is the dramatic rise of global Jew hatred.
By Andrew L. Jaffee
Castro will be in power until he’s dead. Hugo Chavez probably will try to do the same. Now — guess who — Daniel Ortega is back in power in Nicaragua. One can only wonder why he was elected — some kind of populist nonsense, no doubt:
By Andrew L. Jaffee
When the Agence France-Presse is less politically correct than the AP, you have to know something’s afoot. When I first saw the headline that President Bush signed the bill authorizing 700 miles of new fence between the U.S. and Mexico, I thought, “Great; better border security and greater control over immigration.” That’s not quite how the AP saw it, in the first paragraph, no less:
By Andrew L. Jaffee
It has only been 12 years since the heinous act, but better late than never… From the BBC:
The Iranian government and Lebanese militia group Hezbollah have been formally charged over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires.
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