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[Wosbald]

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FBI Director Wray issues urgent warning:

Hamas-style terror attacks might be coming to U.S. soil.

Good thing we have a secure border.

Though certainly not negligible, it doesn't exactly sound all that "urgent" either:

The FBI does not have “specific and credible intelligence indicating a threat to the United States stemming from the Hamas attacks in Israel,” but continues to monitor events as they unfold, the agency said in a statement² issued on Monday.

No further efforts by Wray or the agency have been made public as of yet, although the release noted that FBI personnel was involved in efforts to locate affected Americans.

¹LINK: politico DOT com/news/2023/10/14/fbi-director-warns-of-increase-in-domestic-threats-00121589
²LINK: fbi DOT gov/news/press-releases/fbi-statement-on-hamas-attacks-in-israel

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https://x.com/AmyMek/status/1714129745124929676?s=20

Allahu Akbar Michigan!

In Dearborn (Muslim Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s District) Hamas Supporters marched through the streets celebrating the attacks on Israel.

The Muslims chanted: “From the River (Jordan) to the Sea (Mediterranean), Palestine will be free.” Many however, still don’t know that it is an open declaration of the Palestinian imperative to obliterate Israel completely, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean. This would result in the deaths of millions of Jews.

Dearborn is known as the Arab capital of North America for its high concentration of Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian, Iraqi, and Yemeni communities, and the city claims the largest American Muslim population per capita (majority Shiite Muslim), and the country's largest mosque.

Restaurants and businesses display signs in Arabic and sometimes English. All meat in Dearborn public schools is Halal, a tool that Muslim minorities use to impose aspects of Sharia on the non-Muslim majority in the West.

This is just one more Western city that Islamic supremacists have seized control of without firing a shot...

[Wosbald]

+JMJ+

Source: Catholic Review / OSV News
Link: catholicreview DOT org/todays-migrants-and-why-many-arent-coming-legally/

Today’s migrants, and why many aren’t coming legally [Opinion]

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OSV News — A common question people are asking today about migrants is, “Why are these people not coming legally like my ancestors did?”

There are many answers to this question. First, most people’s ancestors came before 1921, when the United States imposed a strict immigration quota system, which was only rectified in the 1960s.

There were few, if any, legal restrictions for most people who wished to come to the United States, especially those coming from the countries deemed useful to the American workforce.

Although in 1965 our immigration law was totally revamped into a national quota system, how it has been implemented in the past 50 years has made it nearly impossible for most people to enter the United States legally. The 1965 law was based on family relationships and labor market needs.

It served us well for many years, but new developments have to be considered. Globalization in the world, for example, affects not only economics, but also the media and the labor market. The movement of goods, information and services freely around the world should be accompanied by a movement of labor in order to meet our nation’s long-term needs.

Moreover, the historical position of the United States as a haven for refugees and asylum-seekers is something that our country should not abandon.

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The present influx of asylum-seekers has highlighted the existing problem of the lack of legal pathways. A pathway has been established by which asylum-seekers should be allowed to enter the United States to make an asylum claim. Some even choose or are directed to the destinations where they can make a claim. The obstacle is that the asylum system is overwhelmed and they cannot quickly receive the benefits of a claim, which includes the permission to work. This has created a major problem in some cities, such as New York, where nearly 115,000 migrants either have come on their own or have been transported by border states in an act of political retribution.

However, some municipal laws, particularly in New York City, require that those who are homeless receive shelter and food. This unexpected influx has strained the city’s budget to the point that Mayor Eric Adams has said that the influx will “destroy New York City.” While this may be an overstatement, it does ring the alarm bell that Congress and the administration need to act to repair our broken system.

The Biden administration has tried to improve the system without Congress, using its authority to create legal pathways for immigrants and refugees. For the large number of Ukrainian and Afghan refugees fleeing war, the administration has used humanitarian parole to admit them to the United States, providing them legal status and eligibility to apply for work authorization.

The administration has also created a parole program for refugees fleeing political unrest in countries such as Haiti, Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela. On Sept. 21, for example, the Biden administration extended and re-designated Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans already in the U.S., positively impacting as many as 500,000 people.

While these are helpful moves, they do not solve the underlying problem of the lack of permanent legal pathways for newcomers in our current system. Neither humanitarian parole or TPS provides permanent status, so immigrants and their families live under the fear that their legal status could end and they could face deportation. They never become fully integrated into society.

While most economists and labor market experts see the need for new immigrant labor. Others disagree perhaps not based on a factual analysis, but rather upon their fear about the changing racial character of our American population.

A system based on the national interest should be defined not only in labor market terms, but also in terms of our national identity as a nation of immigrants, formed by immigrant families and sustained by immigrants. As our country’s history shows, in diversity we find strength.

Political gamesmanship will not accomplish the goal of a new and just immigration system that serves our national interest free of racism and ill-informed self-interest.

Absent the passage of a new immigration law by Congress, there is no available solution to the lack of legal avenues for migration in the system, making our country ill-equipped to respond to future labor needs, family reunification, and the need to provide safe haven to the persecuted.

[Del]

+JMJ+

Source: Catholic Review / OSV News
Link: catholicreview DOT org/todays-migrants-and-why-many-arent-coming-legally/

Today’s migrants, and why many aren’t coming legally [Opinion]

We know why millions of migrants enter illegally.... It's because we let them.

This license is what enables the cartels' modern slave trade, which we like to call "human trafficking."

[Wosbald]

+JMJ+

Source: Archdiocese of Miami
Link: miamiarch DOT org/CatholicDiocese.php?op=Blog_16938522516397

Toxic scapegoating doesn't help fix the immigration system [Explainer, Opinion]

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Brooklyn, NY — As I have written before, during the past year, some vocal public officials and private organizations have joined with some media outlets in making false or misleading claims regarding the church's work with migrants and refugees. Initially, they were aimed at Catholic Charities, especially those local organizations working with migrants at the U.S.–Mexico border. Now, as we see with the influx of asylum-seekers at the border, political officials have targeted Catholic Charities organizations in other states by sending asylum-seekers directly to their doorsteps, as recently happened in New York and Sacramento. Even the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops and individual bishops have been implicated as somehow influencing the irregular migration of people to the United States.

These claims have been used as a diversion from the real issue the nation is confronting: a lack of legal channels for migration under our present immigration laws.

A review of the social ministry teaching of the Church will help dispel the doubts that have been placed in the public forum by some uninformed public officials. First, let me be clear: The Church does not advocate for open borders. In fact, the teaching is clear that a sovereign nation has the right to admit those whom it chooses, but it must be based on the common good — not only of the receiving nation but also of the migrants. In fact, the Church prefers that a person not exercise their right to migrate if conditions in their home country are adequate for a decent life. The Church never encourages illegal or undocumented migration but advocates for legal pathways for their migration. The migrants as well would choose legal means, if available.

As a young priest, one of my duties was the supervision of a local shelter. I remember being asked a question by an undocumented woman at the shelter: "Is it a sin to be undocumented?" "No," I said, "it is not your sin."

Migrants have well-formed consciences and make decisions in accord with what they know and believe, often in desperate situations. The unspoken truth of undocumented migration today is that, because of an inadequate public policy, undocumented immigrants labor — without legal rights and at very low wages — for the benefit of our own nation.

The Church's concern for migrants has been a long-standing tradition and teaching that became very apparent after the Second World War when it became institutionalized in the organization of the Vatican and dioceses. New Catholic organizations were formed to deal with refugee resettlement. More recently, a joint pastoral letter of the U.S. and Mexican bishops 20 years ago stated: "Religious and social service providers, … without violating civil law, attempt to respond to the migrant knocking at the door."

These organizations do not encourage undocumented migration, but they deal with the people on their doorsteps. In many places, church organizations cooperate with local, state and federal governments in meeting the needs of both documented and undocumented migrants. Some public officials have used this to falsely claim our church organizations financially benefit from the assistance rendered. In my more than 50 years of providing services with government assistance, I can testify that as nonprofit organizations there was never a profit but always a deficit in doing these works of charity for migrants.

Another almost unbelievable accusation is that the Church somehow supports human trafficking and smuggling by accepting responsibility for assisting these migrants once they have arrived. Nothing could be further from the truth. It even has been insinuated about our programs for unaccompanied children separated from their parents. The fact is the government has already separated the parents from their children and we have become the caretakers.

If there ever was a case of scapegoating the good Samaritans of this world, this current effort to paint the Church as a promoter of undocumented migration wins the prize.

In truth, the Church's work assisting migrants is to make up for the failures of the government, which refuses to enact just immigration laws. The undocumented woman I met at the shelter should not have to worry about whether being undocumented is a sin. She should have the opportunity to migrate in a legal and safe manner and have her God-given human dignity respected.

[Del]

+JMJ+

Source: Archdiocese of Miami
Link: miamiarch DOT org/CatholicDiocese.php?op=Blog_16938522516397

Toxic scapegoating doesn't help fix the immigration system [Explainer, Opinion]
These claims have been used as a diversion from the real issue the nation is confronting: a lack of legal channels for migration under our present immigration laws.

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As a young priest, one of my duties was the supervision of a local shelter. I remember being asked a question by an undocumented woman at the shelter: "Is it a sin to be undocumented?" "No," I said, "it is not your sin."

I am happy to agree with one of your links, Wozzie.

Trump wanted to fix immigration policy as much as he wanted to secure the border. His sense of immigration justice was well-balanced.

Unfortunately, Republican leadership in Congress had the mistaken notion that Americans don't want to welcome immigrants. So Trump invited Pelosi and Schumer into the Oval Office to discuss immigration reform. They refused to even talk with him, because they don't want controlled, legal immigration.

As a result, we now have Biden's policy of allowing millions of immigrants into the country, but refusing them any sort of legal status. This policy is cynical and evil -- Biden's handlers apparently want a large population of birthright citizens who were born into desperation and poverty and government dependency, so these future voters will vote for Democrats.

This must be fixed. Vote for legislators who are not immune to common sense. (And avoid the Party that kills children.)

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https://x.com/AmyMek/status/1714770917128392974?s=20

Islam Conquers the United Kingdom

During a rally for Hamas outside Downing Street in London, Islamic soldiers stopped for Maghrib prayer...

Does the naive West even realize that the Maghrib prayer contains Surah Al-Fatiha, which is one of the most anti-Christian and anti-Jewish texts in the Qur’an!?

Furthermore, do you know that "these Islamic "street prayers" are actually a confrontation and a statement: the Muslims are asserting their supremacy, implicitly demanding that everyone else who wants to pass along the street has to accommodate them.

This is a manifestation of the old Islamic dictum that “Islam must dominate and not be dominated.”

It is inevitable that eventually, the leaders of all Western countries are going to have to decide whether they’re going to defend their own laws and culture, or whether they’re going to bow to Islamic norms and practices one by one until finally they are Sharia states.

This confrontation is coming, and cannot be avoided" -
@jihadwatchRS


It seems that Gaddafi's prophecy will eventually come true: Islam will conquer Europe without firing a shot.

Follow my work at https://rairfoundation.com

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https://x.com/AmyMek/status/1715097486573138412?s=20

France has surrendered...

Thousands of Jihadis and their supporters are chanting the Islamic battle cry, 'Allahu Akbar,' in solidarity with Hamas at a rally.

Once again, Islamic supremacists spit in the faces of authorities who banned pro-Hamas protests.

Do you recall an incident from two years ago when 20 French Generals, along with a hundred senior officers and over a thousand other members of the French military, issued a public warning about the potential for a future civil war arising from what they described as Creeping Islamization?

It also warns against cultural Marxism, runaway multiculturalism, and the expansion of no-go zones in France.

The open letter came amid a spate of at least nine consecutive jihadist attacks in France, all of which were carried out by Muslims unknown to French intelligence services, who, therefore, were not suspected of being radicalized and consequently were not on a jihadist watchlist.

The attacks, like the illegal protests taking place in France, suggest that the authorities have lost control of monitoring Islamic radicals in the country.

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https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/17141 ... 13707?s=20
Palestinian Protesters fill the streets in Damascus —- I’m sorry — Dearborn.

As in Michigan.

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https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/1715222 ... 78016?s=20
The situation in Germany is out of control. The uncontrolled and indiscriminate immigration imposed by the EU with the collaboration of NGOs has brought the conflicts of the Middle East to the heart of Europe. Soon it will happen in your neighborhood in Europe too. Know this.