Stanley Kurtz links to an article on chain migration;
Pablo Baltazar was the first in his family to cross the Rio Grande, seeking a place where his children would never have to fight over morsels of meat in a watery stew, as he and his siblings had done on hungry nights.In the three decades since his crossing, all nine of his siblings followed, bringing spouses and children. The Baltazar clan, now too numerous to count, stretches from Eastern North Carolina, where its members started out working the fields, to Florida, Texas and Colorado.
Their family ties to Pablo, who was granted legal residency in a 1986 amnesty, have helped nearly all of them become legal residents.'
Kurtz writes;
[I]n a clear echoing of the European pattern–the article notes, "Chain migration has cleared out entire village in Mexico. And it has turned areas of rural North Carolina into places where Spanish is the dominant language."That is the heart of the problem. Not only does chain migration make nonsense of numerical limits, it transfers entire extended clans–even whole villages–from one country to another. By setting up a little world that’s culturally and linguistically just like the originating country, chain migration effectively blocks assimilation.
This chain migration is definitely a problem, but certainly not the worst one. In fact, I wonder if the Senate is talking about this simply to get the word out that they are, in fact, are not giving away the store. However, the fact of the matter is that this is a pretense because in reality they *are* giving away the store.
Right now conservatives are completely disgusted with Republican senators. (We had dismissed thinking about Democratic senators a long time ago.)
The heads-up is that the real action is going on in the House. In the House traps are being set in anticipation of this bill coming over to their side.
There are still conservative congressmen in the House, and all the new Democratic congressmen ran emphatically against open borders in their campaigns. And right now Washington, DC, is about to explode from the volume of calls they are receiving in opposition to this bill. They would have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to know how the American people feel about this.
So conservative congressmen are constructing traps and baiting them, and when the House version of this bill is considered, that is when the blood will be in the water.
I'm still hammering this every day, and spoke to the office of my congressman just a couple of hours ago. There is obviously a lot of pressure being put on these guys, and my particular congressman, Pete Sessions, has been down on the border with the Minutemen several times.
Stay tuned. It's going to get interesting...
This chain migration isn't limited to mexicans. Newfoundlanders and many other groups do it too.
Last time I checked, Newfoundlanders were Canadians too, just special.
The problem down here in the US is that the illegal immigration and chain immigration patterns are basically moving Mexico's problems north. Can't feed your people (or don't want to), no problemo, give them a ride to the border along with the name of a cousin who knows someone hiring and presto! Problem gone. Don't forget all the money flowing back into Mexico. The amounts are staggering. Why would the Mexican government try to stop anyone from leaving?
I always wondered why a recent immigrant can bring his whole family (village) into the country but someone who has paid taxes to the country all his/her life, served in Her military, and contributed to Her wealth, cannot. I think I should be able to get a government grant to go over to Old Ireland and recruit from my ancestral village. I will only bring over people who can contribute to our society. No Gimmies.
How about it Stephen?
...Realistic estimates seem to indicate that it will only take another twenty or thirty years before Muslims become a majority in many European nations. There seems to be a deliberate movement to swiftly populate the continent. Bawer discusses a study which examined a group of 145 Turkish men who immigrated to Denmark as guest workers in 1969 and 1970. "By the year 2000...the importation of spouses and other family members, combined with a high fertility rate, had turned this group of 145 into a community of 2,813. Those who had married had all married Turkish women whom they brought over to Denmark under 'family reunification.' Some of these men were later divorced or widowed and then remarried, again to Turkish women. Three married yet a third time--and again, in each case, the wife was a Turkish import. The rate of 'fetching marriages' among this group, then, was over 100 percent, while the average number of children per family was 6.4--several times the overall Danish average (181)." The second and third generations of these families continued to marry spouses imported from abroad and largely refused to integrate with Danish society...
www.challies.com/archives/001947.php
JM - how lucky can Islam get. That which they couldn't accomplish centuries ago, they get to conquer this time with minimum casualties. Europe will be theirs. I just finished Mark Steyn's book "America Alone", it hammers away at the horror of European demographics and hubris. They are goners.
Russia has more abortions than live births with the average male life expectancy at age 56. They are goners too.
America's birthrate is fine which makes this basically a territorial giveaway to Mexico even more stupid. The frontier has long been over. Mass influx of the unskilled, the unlikely to assimilate with a high school dropout rate of 50% is suicide. It's fine with me to have a guest worker program matching our unmet labor needs. Amnesty, forget it. Mexico needs to deal with it's internal problems. It's time for Bush to leave the stage on this note.
chain mail or chain mirgration its both bad for america we dont want it
And it has turned areas of rural North Carolina into places where Spanish is the dominant language.
In the late eighteenth century, an influx of Loyalist refugees fleeing war in New England turned whole areas of what is now New Brunswick into places where English was the dominant language.
What's the real difference?
When you've read enough newspapers, blogs, comments etc. and books,test these "author's" words out in the real world-as we call it. In the big cities, look and see who work the food kiosks, clean toilets, work in kitchens etc. and it's 3rd world migrants; hastily "brought in" to bolster our economy. You won't see this phenomenon as readily in rural communities and small towns.
Aim your comments and political rhetoric at the right target(s). Whether right or left wing, it's our own generation and usually urban yuppy types that do not want to do their own work-work so necessary to true freedom. And that's what this about:the responsibilities of freedom, and I think they are onerous. The way I interpret Kate's blog, I get this kind of message. Reading a major newspaper or the CBC's comments on freedom and democracy or on immigration, it's easy to interpret their comments as institutional or, believe it or not, market driven. The CBC is in it for its own sake and definitley not for "Canada."
These immigrants do so much and I am grateful for their work. Working out how WE retain our free and democratic society will deal with the real problems associated with un-assimilated immigrant enclaves. And I think some of these answers can be found in our rural communities (where, I think, this blog emantes from).
Their grandchildren will all be unilingual English speakers, and some will play the version of football popular throughout the Carolinas.
What to worry? the problem is little enforcement of what is the law. Just set reasonable laws and enforce them.
Same thing has happened/is happening in UK. Entire Pakistani villages have moved in.