Trump: No Asylum
without doco; Global Compact on Migration a cornerstone of Agenda 2030
Newsletter published on January 11, 2019
(1) Sweden feminists
turn blind eye to Sexual Assault by Migrants from warzones
(2) Sweden elite is
out of touch, so people turn to Far Right parties
(3) Trump: No Asylum
without documentation
(4) California Judge
blocks Trump's new asylum rules
(5) Student leader facing calls to resign
after using the phrase "illegal alien"
(6) UN's Global
Compact for Migration
(7) Global Compact
for Migration - Final Draft
(8) Bloomberg Global
Business Forum pushes Left line on Gender, Migration
(9) Global Compact on
Migration vs Xenophobia & Populism; a cornerstone of Agenda 2030
(10) UN Report:
Replacement Migration - a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?
(11) Australia
refuses to sign UN migration pact
(12) NGO Caught on
Camera Teaching Migrants to Lie, to cry, to "act the part"
(13) Jewish
Involvement in Contemporary Refugee and Migrant Organizations
(14) Israeli company
to patrol the seas around Europe, to reduce Islamic Immigration
(15) Israeli Defense
Company Wins Contract to Monitor Europe’s Coasts
(16) Trump Dumps
Agenda 21 Regionalization Mask / Paris Climate Trap
(1) Sweden feminists
turn blind eye to Sexual Assault by Migrants from warzones
Sweden’s Dark Soul
by Kajsa Norman review – 'far from a utopia'
A journalist becomes disillusioned with her country following
the cover-up of sexual assaults at a Stockholm music festival
PD Smith
Thu 20 Dec 2018 23.00 AEDT
Sweden is proud of its reputation for being one of the
world’s most progressive and egalitarian nations, and for a long time Kajsa
Norman thought that its main defect was being rather “boring”. As an
investigative journalist, she preferred more challenging environments, such as
Zimbabwe. But while abroad she heard of an incident in Sweden “so disturbing and
strange” that she felt compelled to investigate. What she found shook her faith
in her country.
The annual We Are Sthlm music festival attracts some 200,000
people, mostly aged between 13 and 19, to Kungsträdgården Park in central
Stockholm. On a balmy evening in August 2015, a middle-aged psychologist, whom
the author calls Hans, as he wishes to remain anonymous, took his teenage relatives to the
festival. As twilight fell, he noticed how groups of men and boys appeared and began
“eyeing the young girls in hot pants”. During the evening he saw girl after
girl stagger out from the crowd to ask for help from the security guards after
being sexually assaulted.
Afterwards Hans was haunted by the memory of “watching packs of predators hunt helpless
prey”, and was shocked that nothing appeared in the press the next day. When
he emailed the Dagens Nyheter newspaper, a journalist called him. Although she
sounded interested, when he mentioned that “the vast majority” of the perpetrators
“appeared to be Afghans”, her tone became “noticeably colder”. No article
appeared, leaving Hans angry that “in a
country that claims to be one of the most feminist places on earth”, no one
cared.
Eventually he contacted an alternative news website run by a
former counsellor for the nationalist Sweden Democrats, whom Norman describes as
a “dissident”. The resulting story caused a storm of controversy, with
accusations of both a media and a police cover-up. ...
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(2) Sweden elite is
out of touch, so people turn to Far Right parties
Sweden’s far right has flourished because the elite lost
touch with the people
Whatever the result of the general election, Sweden
Democrats’ nationalist stance is now part of the political conversation
Andrew Brown
Sun 26 Aug 2018 16.00 AEST
The Sweden Democrats look at first sight like any of the
other anti-immigrant and populist parties that have spread across Europe in the
last decade. They are said to be Steve Bannon’s favourite party with their
programme of xenophobia and cultural nationalism – the 1950s, but with mobile
phones, as one of their founders once told a journalist.
They have risen from the extreme fringes to a position where
they have completely jammed up the traditional power blocs of Swedish politics,
which since 1976 have been based around the competition between the Social
Democrats and a grouping of three or four non-socialist parties. None of the
mainstream parties will co-operate with them, but neither bloc can form a
majority government without them.
Yet on closer inspection, they are a very Swedish phenomenon.
In Denmark, Norway, and Finland, parties that share their ferociously
anti-immigrant message have long been admitted to government and form part of
the normal political process. Swedish mainstream parties, though they have
adopted many of the Sweden Democrats’ policies since the great U-turn on
immigration of 2015, have simply refused to acknowledge their existence. ...
The drawback of all authoritarian systems is that the people
at the top will hear only what they want to, and gradually lose touch with
reality. What prevented this in Sweden for most of the 20th century was mass
membership of political parties on a scale hard to imagine in Britain. In 1983,
nearly a quarter of the population was enrolled in a political party. More than
1 million people out of a population of 8 million were members of the Social
Democrats (I was myself, as the union representative in the small factory where
I worked).
The parties functioned almost as social media do today, says
Petersson. Young people joined to meet others, especially in the country. And
because they were so embedded in everyday life, party officials had a very good
idea of what ordinary, unpolitical people were talking about. Since then,
membership has collapsed to levels scarcely above those of British counterparts.
About half the membership of the Social Democrats vanished with the abolition of
collective membership through the unions. By 2010 the party had only 109,000
members. There was no longer any mechanism by which the leadership on Stockholm
could be told things they did not want to hear.
That was the void in which the Sweden Democrats flourished.
Originally a neo-Nazi sect, which was taken over and cleaned up by four student
politicians, it was the only party that spoke out against the consensus on
immigration. The mainstream parties tried for years to ignore them entirely.
Just before they entered parliament for the first time, in
2010, I asked the minister for integration what her plans were for when they got
in (as the polls showed they would) and she replied that it was unthinkable they
should. No thought was duly given. So now the party has grown to be the third –
and will quite possibly soon be the second – largest in the country.
But it is still a captive of the authoritarianism from which
it benefited. Unlike true fascist movements, it has no coherent plan to reshape
the state, and no views on capitalism. It just believes the wrong people are
running the right system. In that sense it is already a part of Swedish
political life, whatever the result of the election. ...
(3) Trump: No Asylum
without documentation
Asylum ban: Trump eliminates right to asylum for immigrants
crossing without documentation
By Eric London
9 November 2018
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Justice
Department issued a joint statement yesterday announcing a new federal regulation barring immigrants who cross the
US border without documentation from applying for asylum.
The decision is the most significant restriction on
immigration in decades, as the vast majority of asylum seekers apply from within
the country. It will cause hundreds of thousands of deportations and family
separations, and send countless immigrants to their deaths, largely in Mexico
and Central America. It is aimed at whipping up racist and xenophobic sentiment
against vulnerable workers from Latin America in particular. ...
The new federal regulation, which will formally become law
tomorrow when Trump issues his presidential proclamation affirming the rule
change, is explicitly aimed at the
caravan of Central American immigrants presently resting in Mexico City en
route to the US. ...
(4) California Judge
blocks Trump's new asylum rules
'He may not rewrite the laws': Judge blocks Trump's new
asylum rules
CNN
Susan Walsh
In an order laced with language accusing President Donald
Trump of attempting to rewrite immigration laws, a federal judge based in San
Francisco temporarily blocked the government late Monday night from denying asylum to those crossing over the
southern border between ports of entry.
Judge Jon S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of California said that a policy announced November 9 barring
asylum for immigrants who enter outside a legal check point "irreconcilably
conflicts" with immigration law and the "expressed intent of Congress."
"Whatever the scope of the President's authority, he may not
rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has expressly
forbidden," Tigar wrote, adding that asylum seekers would be put at "increased
risk of violence and other harms at the border" if the administration's rule is
allowed to go into effect.
The temporary restraining order is effective nationwide and
will remain in effect until December 19, when the judge has scheduled another
hearing, or further order of the court.
(5) Student leader
facing calls to resign after using the phrase "illegal alien"
Student gov VP faces calls to RESIGN after political Facebook
post
Jon Street
on Nov 12, 2018 at 4:44 PM EDT
A student leader at Emporia State University in Kansas faced
impeachment and is now facing calls to resign after using the phrase "illegal
alien."
The student leader told Campus Reform on Monday that she will
not cave in to those demands because she is committed to a "diverse" campus.
A student leader at Emporia State University in Kansas used
the phrase "illegal alien" on her personal Facebook page and is now facing a
wave of backlash, including calls for her to resign from her student government
position.
"Illegal alien" is the legal term used by the U.S. government
to describe individuals who are in the country illegally.
"Put Kansas first, not illegal aliens. The millions of
dollars spent on public welfare for illegal aliens in Kansas hurts Kansas
taxpayers every single day." Tweet
This
Prior to Election Day on Nov. 6, Michaela Todd, vice
president of the student government a staunch supporter of Kansas gubernatorial
candidate Kris Kobach, posted a message of support for her candidate of choice.
In it, she described how she believed Kobach was the best choice because of his
views on abortion, taxes, and illegal immigration.
"Put Kansas first, not illegal aliens," Todd wrote. "The
millions of dollars spent on public welfare for illegal aliens in Kansas hurts
Kansas taxpayers every single day."
But the phrase
"illegal alien" didn't sit well with some students, who took screenshots and
shared them across social media, calling Todd's comments "racist" and "ignorant."
"It has come to our attention that the VP of @EmporiaStateASG
has made incredibly hurtful, racist, and, frankly, ignorant remarks," the
Multicultural Greek Council at ESU tweeted Wednesday, adding that Todd "does not
represent us and we hope that @EmporiaState takes the measures needed to show us
that she does not represent ESU either."
"I am so disgusted at the fact the VP of @EmporiaStateASG
promotes these racist and revolting ideas," another student tweeted.
And Kayla Gilmore, who studied at Emporia State University
and works there, according to her Facebook profile, called on student leaders to
"hold themselves accountable" and for the administration to "hold them
accountable should they fail."
Following the backlash, Todd told Campus Reform that she
edited her post and removed the phrase "illegal alien."
"After I heard that there were some of my constituents who
were upset with what I posted, I edited it and took out the part that had the
term in it," the student leader told Campus Reform. "I left the rest of the post
there, though. It was a caption to go along with my updated profile picture,
which had a Kobach banner on it, which is why I think people who weren’t my
friend on Facebook were able to see it. I didn’t realize that was possible."
But the backlash didn't stop there.
The ESU Bulletin student newspaper reported Thursday that the
student senate tried but failed to impeach Todd over her remarks. The paper also
reported that ASG’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee is now calling for Todd to
resign.
In a statement to Campus Reform on Monday, Todd made clear
that resigning is not her plan.
"I was apologetic to the students who[m] my post [a]ffected
negatively because I never want to inflict pain on others," she said. "Now, I am
still dedicated to representing the ESU students. I am not going to step down
because I am committed to creating a diverse campus at ESU, not only in culture
but in thought as well."
Emporia State University did not respond to a request for
comment in time for publication.
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and Twitter: @JonStreet
(6) UN's Global
Compact for Migration
Global Compact for Migration
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
(GCM) is a non-binding "intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under
the auspices of the United Nations, [that covers] all dimensions of
international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner".[1] The United
Nations conference to adopt the compact will be held in Marrakech, Morocco, on
10–11 December 2018.[2] Austria negotiated the GCM on behalf of the EU.
Opposition
Austria,[3] Australia,[4] Croatia,[5] Bulgaria,[6] the Czech
Republic,[7] Estonia[8] Israel, [9] Hungary and Poland[10] will be absent from the agreement.
There has also been some opposition in the German parliament,
led by Alternative for Germany.[11]
The Government of Estonia remains divided on the issue [12] and the country's
position might be decided by the Riigikogu.[13] The Chancellor of Austria,
Sebastian Kurz, stated that the compact would reduce Austria's sovereignty and
mix up the difference between illegal and legal immigration as well as that
between economic and humanitarian immigration.[3] At the behest of President
Trump, the United States did not even
participate in the negotiation of the agreement.[3] Slovak foreign minister
Miroslav Lajčák has
announced that he will step down from his position if the Slovak parliament,
controlled by the coaliton which he represents, rejects the Compact. Most coalition parties in Slovakia are
criticizing the document.[14][15]
See also
United Nations Global Compact: similarly named instrument
dealing with corporate social responsibility.
This page was last edited on 21 November 2018, at 09:24
(UTC).
(7) Global Compact
for Migration - Final Draft
GLOBAL COMPACT FOR SAFE, ORDERLY AND REGULAR MIGRATION
FINAL DRAFT
11 July 2018
We, the Heads of State and Government and High
Representatives, meeting in Morocco on 10 and 11
December 2018, reaffirming the New York Declaration for
Refugees and Migrants and determined to
make an important contribution to enhanced cooperation on
international migration in all its dimensions,
have adopted this Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and
Regular Migration
(8) Bloomberg Global
Business Forum pushes Left line on Gender, Migration
Bloomberg Global Business Forum Highlights Initiatives on
Gender, Urban Mobility, Migration
by ADAM FISHMAN
Thematic Expert for 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
(US)
16 October 2018
The Bloomberg Global Business Forum convened on the
overarching theme of strengthening prosperity through trade.
The event highlighted three announcements: an update to Bloomberg Gender Equality Index; an
expansion of the SharedStreets platform; and private sector support for the Global
Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
26 September 2018: The Bloomberg Global Business Forum (GBF)
met on the overarching theme of strengthening prosperity through trade. More
than 70 Heads of State and 200 CEOs
announced a series of partnerships, agreements and initiatives, while
breakout sessions reviewed finance,
migration, changing demographics, technology and economic issues.
The Forum convened on 26 September 2018 in New York, US.
Opening the Forum, former New York City Mayor and UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for
Climate Action, Michael Bloomberg, emphasized that the day was “designed
to give business leaders a seat at the
table” on issues such as trade. UK Prime Minister Theresa May added in her
keynote that understanding business needs and working in partnership with the
private sector is crucial to success, which, Bloomberg noted, would be measured
not by the day’s outcomes, but in the years to come.
UK Minister for Women
and Equalities Penny Mordaunt outlined how six data points from the UK Government’s gender pay gap metrics
will be incorporated into the global reporting framework of the Bloomberg
Gender-Equality Index (GEI). She noted that the partnership with Bloomberg is
representative of “the growing global commitment to transparency and gender
equality,” and that some of the largest UK companies have already taken action.
...
(9) Global Compact on
Migration vs Xenophobia & Populism; a cornerstone of Agenda 2030
Long Live Multilateralism: Why the Global Compact for
Migration Matters
As the world finalizes the Global Compact for Migration,
ODI’s Marta Foresti explains the political significance of reaching an
international agreement on migration that many saw as an impossible gamble in an
age of xenophobia and nationalism.
by Marta Foresti
July 19, 2018
U.N. MEMBER STATES last week finalized the text of the first
ever international agreement on global migration. The Global Compact for Safe,
Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) is the result of nearly two years of intense
and – at times fraught – negotiations. The U.S. left the negotiating table at an
early stage and Hungary pulled out at the end of negotiations. Others have
threatened to follow
suit.
But they did not leave. Instead, last Friday, national
delegations from all over the world gave the Swiss and Mexican co-facilitators
and the U.N. Special Representative on Migration Louise Arbour a standing
ovation for achieving an “historic breakthrough” on global migration. ...
At a time when European states cannot reach a meaningful
agreement to cooperate while an increasing number of people die at sea, and with
Trump pushing an ever harder line on immigration at home and abroad, it is more
urgent than ever to commit to discover and test new forms of international
cooperation and to explore solutions and pragmatic ways forward. The GCM offers
a framework to do just that. In the words of the Swiss ambassador for
development, forced displacement and migration during Friday’s ceremony at the
U.N.: “It looked like an impossible bet, but the Global Compact has cut through the noise of
xenophobia and populism.” ...
On matters of migration and development, the text recognizes
that migration can help achieve
development outcomes and as such it is a cornerstone of the Agenda 2030 on
sustainable development. That’s no small result. However, the text also falls
back into donor-convenient rhetoric of suggesting that development policies,
programs and money can address the “adverse drivers” of migration, when there is
little evidence that development aid can stem irregular movement.
Even so, the text is also rich in ideas and innovations; for
example, the proposal to establish skills partnerships between countries to
facilitate labor mobility. ...
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and
do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Refugees Deeply.
About the Author
Marta Foresti is the director of ODI’s Human Mobility
Initiative, leading the institute engagement on migration at global, regional
and local level. She is visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs and the
London School of Economics and she is acting as senior policy advisor for the
consultation of the Global Compact For Migration and to the IOM’s Research
Syndicate. She is a member of the advisory board of Refugees Deeply, of the
editorial doard of the Journal of Migration Policy and Practice as well as of
the board of PorCausa.org.
(10) UN Report:
Replacement Migration - a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?
New Report On Replacement Migration Issued By UN Population
Division
Press Release Dev/2234 Pop/735
NEW YORK, 17 March (DESA) -- The Population Division of the
Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has released a new report
titled "Replacement Migration: Is it a Solution to Declining and Ageing
Populations?". Replacement migration refers to the international migration that
a country would need to prevent population decline and population ageing
resulting from low fertility and mortality rates.
United Nations projections indicate that between 1995 and
2050, the population of Japan and virtually all countries of Europe will most
likely decline. In a number of cases, including Estonia, Bulgaria and Italy,
countries would lose between one quarter and one third of their population.
Population ageing will be pervasive, bringing the median age of population to
historically unprecedented high levels. For instance, in Italy, the median age
will rise from 41 years in 2000 to 53 years in 2050. The potential support ratio
-- i.e., the number of persons of working age (15-64 years) per older person --
will often be halved, from 4 or 5 to 2.
Focusing on these two striking and critical trends, the
report examines in detail the case of eight low-fertility countries (France,
Germany, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and
United States) and two regions (Europe and the European Union). In each case,
alternative scenarios for the period 1995-2050 are considered, highlighting the
impact that various levels of immigration would have on population size and
population ageing.
Major findings of this report include:
-- In the next 50 years, the populations of most developed
countries are projected to become smaller and older as a result of low fertility
and increased longevity. In contrast, the population of the United States is
projected to increase by almost a quarter. Among the countries studied in the
report, Italy is projected to register the largest population decline in
relative terms, losing 28 per cent of its population between 1995 and 2050,
according to the United Nations medium variant projections. The population of
the European Union, which in 1995 was larger than that of the United States by
105 million, in 2050, will become smaller by 18 million.
-- Population decline
is inevitable in the absence of replacement migration. Fertility may rebound
in the coming decades, but few believe that it will recover sufficiently in most
countries to reach replacement level in the foreseeable future.
- 2 - Press Release DEV/2234 POP/735 17 March 2000
-- Some immigration is needed to prevent population decline
in all countries and regions examined in the report. However, the level of
immigration in relation to past experience varies greatly. For the European
Union, a continuation of the immigration levels observed in the 1990s would
roughly suffice to prevent total population from declining, while for Europe as a whole, immigration would
need to double. ...
-- The numbers of immigrants needed to prevent the decline of
the total population are considerably larger than those envisioned by the United
Nations projections. The only exception is the United States.
-- The numbers of immigrants needed to prevent declines in
the working- age population are larger than those needed to prevent declines in
total population. ...
-- In the absence of immigration, the potential support
ratios could be maintained at current levels by increasing the upper limit of
the working-age population to roughly 75 years of age. ==
Alternative: allow the Right to Die, i.e. Voluntary
Euthenasia - Peter Myers
(11) Australia
refuses to sign UN migration pact
Australia refuses to sign UN migration pact, citing risks to
turnbacks and detention
Morrison government says global deal risks reversing
‘hard-won successes in combating the people-smuggling trade’
Paul Karp
The Morrison government has confirmed it will not sign up to
the United Nation’s migration pact, claiming it will undermine Australia’s harsh
policies to deter asylum seekers.
The Refugee Council of Australia and advocates have strongly
rejected that assertion, citing the fact the compact is non-binding and has a
provision stating that countries retain sovereignty over their migration
programs.
In July the Coalition signalled it would refuse to sign the
agreement, because the final draft of the compact said that migration detention
should only be used “as a measure of last resort” and states should work towards
alternatives.
After failing to secure changes addressing its concerns, the
Morrison government confirmed on Wednesday that Australia will not sign, joining the United
States, Israel and a group of Eastern European countries that have also
refused.
(12) NGO Caught on
Camera Teaching Migrants to Lie, to cry, to "act the part"
European NGO Caught on Camera Teaching Migrants to Lie and
‘Pretend to be Christians’ and act Like a ‘Refugee in Trauma’
by Cassandra
Fairbanks
November 12,
Documentary film-makers Lauren Southern and Caolan Robertson
have released shocking new recordings in which the director of a major NGO in
Europe told their undercover team how she teaches migrants to lie and pretend to
be persecuted Christians to border police.
Ariel Ricker, Executive Director of Advocates Abroad, was
caught in the recordings admitting that the asylum process is simply
theatre.
“This is all like a big theatre production, everyone has a
part to play and a refugee has to act the part of the refugee in trauma for the
interviewers, but it is extremely difficult to do this because unless they are
taught how to be this character, this actor, then they go about it usually the
opposite way,” Ricker says.
Ricker’s NGO, Advocates Abroad, provides legal aid to
refugees and migrants seeking asylum in Europe. They have 380 staff members that
are primarily involved in preparing refugees and migrants for their asylum
interviews. In 2017, they worked with over 15,000 refugees. Southern’s team
points out that they also recently campaigned with 12 British MPs to raise
$100,000 in donations.
In the shocking undercover video, Ricker also admits to teaching the migrants how to cry, to
“act the part” of the “refugee in trauma” and even throw up to show extreme
emotion.
“Oh yeah, yeah. I see it like, I tell them that this is
acting, all of this is acting […] it’s all acting as though this is theatre. So
for them to get through they must act their part in the theatre and that is the
refugee in trauma, because these EASO officers are so fucking stupid all they
know is what’s written on the paper, EASO says ‘this is refugee in trauma, they
have these characteristics’ so we coach people how to have these
characteristics,” Ricker admits.
Ricker explains that they do role-playing, where they act
like the “refugee” and the migrant plays the officer. This way they can see how
they are supposed to act.
They also admit to teaching the migrants to pretend to be
Christian — and how to pretend to pray.
“They also ask like whats your favourite holiday, some people
say like Christmas and but like we explain you cannot just say this because this
is not a sufficient answer, you have to say, you have to say it a certain way
which is like ‘December 25th which is Christmas, which is the birthday of our
Lord and Saviour,'” Ricker explains.
It gets worse.
Ricker explains that she has come up with a “formula” on what
exactly they should teach migrants to say in order to appear sympathetic.
“So like um there’s a formula we came up with which is ironic
because I suck at formulas, but its like ‘significant event, date and location.’
So [unintelligible] to answer all the questions the same way; ‘in December 2017
in Izmir in Turkey I was threatened for being a Christian because my boss and
his friends jumped me when I was leaving my church. This is the Bible they tried
to tear up, this is the crucifix I was wearing that they tried to tear, and they
made me feel unsafe as a Christian in Turkey.’ Ba-boom. And that way you have
the event, the date and the location so you’ve given them a very specific
answer, and you’ve kept it to be a tight, short answer as well […] and it’s much
harder to refute because you have all the elements there,” Ricker said.
Ricker even admits to being involved with smugglers.
“So the leader [of ERCI] was properly involved with
smugglers?” the undercover journalist asks.
Ricker replied confidently, “of course they were, I mean we
all are to some degree, like there’s no question of that. But it’s like how
involved you are, how much you want to be involved […] some people will draw the
line at being in cahoots with a trafficker but they won’t with a smuggler.”
A United Nations Refugee Agency spokesperson has responded to
the statements made by Ricker in the undercover recordings by saying that they
are “alarmed by these reports.”
“Any individual or organization offering support to
asylum-seekers should demonstrate the highest standards of professionalism, be
it a government agency, international organisation, established NGO, or
volunteer,” the UN spokesperson said.
The organization currently lists The University of Denver as
an official partner.
Upon being presented with a transcript of the undercover
records, the university said that “one of our college’s professors, Scott Johns,
traveled to a Greek island near Turkey in December of 2016 and to mainland
Greece in November of 2017 to volunteer with Advocates Abroad. He worked with
other lawyers, mostly from Europe, to advise individuals seeking asylum in
Greece.”
“Additionally, some of the students in a class Johns
previously taught on asylum law volunteered to write objective country reports
for individuals seeking asylum. These
reports consist of factual information about the status of human rights in a
given country, cite multiple sources and are used by asylum-seekers to make
their case,” the university spokesperson said.
“Upon reading the
transcript in your email, Johns said he is ‘shocked and repulsed’ the comments
made by Ariel Ricker. He said that based on your information, he and his
students wouldn’t want to continue working with the organization,” the statement
continued.
(13) Jewish
Involvement in Contemporary Refugee and Migrant Organizations
ANDREW JOYCE o DECEMBER 29, 2018
[...] The conspicuous presence of influential Jewish diplomats
and politicians in the formulation of the Refugee Act of 1980, together with
the obvious dissonance between Elizabeth Holtzman’s presentation of the Act and
the reality of it’s impact, should be contextualized within the question of
ethnic conflict in immigration policy more generally. In particular, it should
be contextualized within Kevin MacDonald’s discussion of Jewish involvement in
shaping U.S. immigration policy, in the course of which MacDonald concludes that "Jewish
organizations have uniformly advocated high levels of immigration of all racial
and ethnic groups into Western societies and have also advocated a
multicultural model for these societies."[2] The posited reasons for this
uniformity include the historical Jewish interest in securing immigration rights
for Jews, and the fact that pluralism is conducive to increased feelings of
Jewish security — a state of affairs in which Jews become just one among many
ethnic groups instead of a sole outgroup in a predominantly White, Christian
nation. The theory allows for exceptions to the rule, in cases where Jewish
interests are interpreted differently by a minority of Jews. Further, Jewish
success in advancing pluralistic goals are said to be rooted in a number of
Jewish traits, especially high verbal intelligence and a tendency toward
in-group networking. This theoretical framework would seem to predict that Jews
would be overrepresented in positions of influence within contemporary refugee,
asylum, and similar pro-immigration or "immigrants rights" organizations. The
following study of a number of such organizations strongly confirms all aspects
of MacDonald’s theoretical framework, and offers a rejoinder to some recent
criticisms of it. ...
Jewish Representation in Secular Contemporary Refugee and
Migrant Organizations.
In contrast to the modest overrepresentation of Jews in
anti-immigration groups (around 5%), Jews are nothing short of prolific in
influential senior roles in contemporary refugee, asylum, and pro-migration
organizations. Significantly, Jews occupy the leadership of all four of the
largest and most influential (and nominally secular) organizations active in
America today, the International Rescue Committee (President and CEO David
Miliband), Refugees International (President Eric P. Schwartz, formerly of
HIAS), International Refugee Assistance Project (Director Becca Heller), and
Human Rights Watch (Executive Director Kenneth Roth, and Deputy Directors Iain
Levine and Fred Abrahams).
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of the most
significant organizations bringing migrants to the United States. In their
countries of origin, refugees and their families are assisted by the IRC to
prepare their cases to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), compiling
personal data and background information for security clearance. Once their
cases are approved, refugees are usually greeted at the airport by case workers
from the IRC. The IRC then provides these migrants with a home, furnishings,
food, and any other assistance that might be required. The IRC operates 27
offices across the United States, each offering food, housing, educational, and
medical assistance. It also works closely with the U.S. Office of Refugee
Resettlement (ORR) Division of Refugee Assistance, which was reported in August
2018 as quietly removing its staff directory page. Consultations with the
Internet Wayback Machine revealed the Director of the Office of Refugee
Resettlement to be one Carl Rubenstein, an alumnus of Tel Aviv Law School. In
2017, the IRC, in conjunction with Rubenstein’s ORR, resettled more than 51,000
migrants to the United States, and is currently a staunch lobbyist against
current restrictions imposed by President Trump.
Jews are very prominent in the leadership of the IRC. In
addition to President and CEO David Miliband, there are at least 30 Jews in
senior positions within the organization including Morton I. Abramowitz
(Overseer), Madeleine Albright (Overseer), Laurent Alpert (Board Member),
Clifford Asness (Board Member), Betsy Blumenthal (Overseer), Alan Batkin
(Chairman Emeritus and Board Member), Michael W. Blumenthal (Overseer), Susan
Dentzer (Board Member), Evan G. Greenberg (Overseer), Morton I. Hamburg
(Overseer), Leila Heckman (Overseer), Karen Hein (Overseer), Marvin Josephson
(Overseer),Alton Kastner (Overseer and former Deputy Director), Henry Kissinger
(Overseer), David A. Levine (Board Member), Reynold Levy (Overseer), Robert E.
Marks (Overseer), Sara Moss (Overseer), Thomas Nides (Board Member), Susan
Petricof (Overseer), Gideon Rose (Overseer), Thomas Schick (Chairman Emeritus
and Board Member), James Strickler (Overseer), Sally Susman (Board Member), Mona
Sutphen (Board Member), Merryl Tisch (Board Member), Maureen White (Board
Member), Jonathan Wiesner (Chairman Emeritus and Board Member), William Winters
(Overseer), and James D. Wolfensohn (Overseer).
The Board of the IRC is comprised of 30 individuals, 12 of
whom are Jewish, giving a Jewish representation at senior board level of 40%.
The Board of Overseers consists of 78 individuals, of whom at least 25 are
Jewish, giving a Jewish representation at this level of just over 32%. Since
Jews occupy the position of CEO at the IRC, as well as 40% of the senior board
and 32% of the lower board, it would be reasonable to assert that they enjoy a
dominant role within the organization.[6] This dwarfs any Jewish representation
seen in anti-immigration groups.
The International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) came to
national prominence when Director Becca Heller brought a class action suit
against Trump’s January 2017 travel ban on individuals from certain Muslim
countries. Heller, who has described herself as an "intensely neurotic Jew," was
active from the very earliest airport detentions, and was assisted by former
Yale law professor Michael Wishnie, also Jewish and a former member of Jews for
Economic and Social Justice. Wishnie assembled "a group of students to draft a
class action suit to represent not just IRAP’s two clients but anyonewho had
been detained." The case was later also supported and taken up by the
Immigrant’s Rights division of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) at the
direction of its two Deputy Directors, Lee Gelernt and Judy Rabinowitz, both of
whom are Jewish. At IRAP, there are three Jews on the board of the International
Refugee Assistance Project: Jon Finer, David Nierenberg, and Carl Reisner. The
board consists of 12 members, giving a Jewish representation of 25%. Aside from
the board, other influential positions in the organization are held by Jews,
including Deputy Legal Director (Lara Finkbeiner), and legal fellow (Julie
Kornfeld). Again, this is significantly greater than any Jewish representation
seen in anti-immigration groups.
Lee Gelernt & Judy Rabinowitz Lee Gelernt & Judy
Rabinowitz Heller’s cause has very recently been taken up by what the New York
Times has euphemistically been called "Big Law" but what is in fact a large
number of Jewish legal conglomerates based in New York. Of these, the most
significant is Paul Weiss in Manhattan, led by Brad S. Karp, a Director of the
American Friends of The Hebrew University and prize-winner from the Jewish
Theological Seminary. Karp, whose previous political adventures have included
activism for homosexual marriage, has offered his company’s services pro bono,
via counsels Emily Goldberg and Steven C. Herzog, to Gelernt and Rabinowitz in
order to obstruct Trump’s anti-immigration measures, with Gelernt telling the
New York Times that Karp’s help was "indispensable."
Refugee organizations are also reliant to a great extent on
legal assistance provided by "immigrant’s rights" organizations. Here
too, Jews appear to be overrepresented by a large margin. For example, Jews
comprise just over 14% of overall listed staff at the National Immigrant Justice
Center, and dominate the most senior positions. These include Director of Policy
(Heidi Altman, former legal director for the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights
Coalition), Associate Director of Legal Services (Ashley Huebner), Director of
Litigation (Charles Roth), and Associate Director of Litigation (Keren Zwick).
Maria Blumenfeld, a former senior lawyer for NIJC departed the group for
another, almost identical organization, named Equal Justice Works, the Director
of which is David Stern, also Jewish. Another interesting organization is The
Immigrant Defense Project. Of the 15 listed senior staff, at least four are
verifiably Jewish (Development Director Ariadna Rodenstein, Senior Staff
Attorney Genia Blaser, Supervising Attorney Marie Mark, and Supervising Attorney
Andrew Wachtenheim). This is a Jewish representation at senior level of over 26%
– significantly greater than any Jewish representation seen in anti-immigration
groups. Of the five members of the Immigrant Defense Project’s Advisory Board,
one, Peter Markowitz, is Jewish. Markowitz is also listed as founder and
director of the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic and a "George
Soros Justice Fellow and staff attorney at the Bronx Defenders from 2002 to
2005," where he "developed the nation’s first in-house full-service immigration
project housed in a public defender office." New Hampshire’s "Best Immigration
Lawyer" is the Jewish Ron Abramson.
At the National Immigration Law Center, 18.5% of its staff
lawyers are verifiably Jewish, and the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Project is under Jewish Presidency (Ty Frankel) and 26% of its board is Jewish
(Frankel, Ira Feldman, David Androff, Nathan Fidel, and Andrew Silverman). The
Immigrant Legal Resource Center was founded mostly via the efforts of Jewish
lawyer Mark Silverman, described here as "one of the very first movement lawyers
helping DREAMers." Its board is under Jewish chairmanship (Lisa Spiegel), and
its Executive Director is Eric Cohen, also Jewish. One interesting member of its
senior staff is Rose Cahn, also Jewish, who is a former Senior George Soros
Justice Fellow at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco
Bay Area. Cahn specializes in what she calls "post-conviction relief for
immigrants," which is rather florid way of saying that she specializes in
helping foreign criminals get into, and remain in, the United States. Other
senior staff members include Donna Goolub and Sara Feldman, a Jewish woman who
nevertheless managed to become Migration Policy Advisor to the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops, a fact that sheds some light on how that organization
became rabidly pro-migrant.
Another organization providing legal support for the
pro-immigration lobby is the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Right’s Under the Law.
Of its six most senior staff, three are Jewish (Jon M. Greenbaum, Lisa
Bornstein, and Samuel Weiss). One of its most senior lawyers is Ezra Rosenberg,
a veteran in the multicultural cause who has worked variously to challenge
racial profiling by police, to stop requests for voter ID among certain ethnic
groups in Texas, and to advance school desegregation in North Carolina. A
further interesting organization is the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project,
where two members of the board of 12 can be verified as Jewish (Dave Heiner and
Sara Litt), a representation of 16%, and staff attorneys include Jews Elizabeth
Eisenberg, Jenna Golan-Streib, Rachel Rubinstein, and Jordan Wasserman. At the
Asylum Advocacy Project, two of the five members of the advisory board are
Jewish (Dani Isaacsohn and the above mentioned Michael Wishnie), and its list of
donors appears to be at least 40% Jewish.
The Director of Refugee Council USA is Naomi Steinberg. The
Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union is the Jewish feminist
Donna Lieberman who includes among her ongoing activities "resisting the Trump
regime’s attack on immigrant children and refugees," while its Legal Director is
Arthur Eisenberg. The American Immigration Council is under the Jewish
Directorship of Beth Werlin, its Research Director is the Argentinian Jew
Guillermo Cantor (see a great example of his propaganda here), and its Policy
and Media Director is Royce Bernstein Murray. The area director for Refugee
Services of Texas in Austin is the Jewish Erica Schmidt-Portnoy. Schmidt-Portnoy
has described the recent 80% decline in the number of refugees being resettled
in Texas as "hard to watch." Meanwhile, another Portnoy, Diane Portnoy, Jewish
founder and CEO of The Immigrant Learning Center, has demanded that
Massachusetts should welcome more Syrian refugees. A similar organization is the
Open Avenues Foundation, which has the stated goal of "helping foreign nationals
build their unique path to thrive in the United States." The founder and
executive director of Open Avenues is Danielle Goldman, also Jewish.
Jewish lawyers, occasionally acting alone or as part of small
firms, are also disproportionately represented as major immigrant and asylum
advocates. One good example in this regard is Susan J. Cohen, founder and Chair
of Mintz Law’s Immigration Practice. Cohen was involved in contributing to the
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) regulations implementing the
Immigration Act of 1990, and has won awards for her political asylum work from
the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and the Political Asylum/Immigration
Representation (PAIR) Project (of which she is now President). PAIR "provides
free immigration services to indigent asylum seekers and detained immigrants."
In 2017, Cohen led a Mintz team that worked with the ACLU of Massachusetts and
others to obtain a temporary restraining order on President Trump’s travel
ban.
Cohen also advised the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in
drafting the legislation which resulted in the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur
in Residence (GEIR) program, which enables tens of thousands of non-White
foreign students to stay in Massachusetts if they merely indicate they might
start a company. Cohen co-developed the project with another Jewish lawyer, Jeff
Goldman. Goldman describes himself as "a leader in immigration policy" and
"chairs Governor Charlie Baker’s Advisory Council on Refugees and Immigrants."
Goldman and Cohen, like Carl Rubenstein at the Office of Refugee Resettlement,
are illustrative of a remarkable Jewish talent for acquiring key government
positions in the areas of immigration and refugee resettlement. Another useful
example is Mark Greenberg, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute and
a former senior administrator at Rubenstein’s Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Yet another very notable Jewish lawyer is Michael Kagan. Kagan led a campaign to
ensure changes to refugee status determination (RSD) procedures by the UN
Refugee Agency (UNHCR) that would result in more migrants attaining official
refugee status, thus improving their chances of getting asylum or visas in the
West. Kagan is co-director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of
Nevada, Las Vegas’ Boyd School of Law, which offers free legal aid to all
immigrants.
The record of Jews as immigration judges is also quite
remarkable. Detailed statistics for most senior immigration judges are available
online. One example is Judge Raisa Cohen, New York Immigration Court. Attorney
General Loretta E. Lynch appointed Cohen to begin hearing cases at the court in
March 2016, but Cohen had previously decided on asylum cases as assistant chief
counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, in New York. During the period 2013-2018, Cohen is recorded
as deciding 572. Of these, he granted 470 and denied 102. Converted to
percentage terms, Cohen denied 17.8 percent and granted 82.2 percent. Compared
to Cohen’s denial rate of 17.8 percent, nationally during this same period,
immigration court judges denied 57.6 percent of asylum claims. Many asylum
seekers in New York are provided with free legal aid by organizations like
Central American Legal Assistance(CALA). CALA has a board of ten people, five of
whom can be confirmed as Jewish (Lisa Reiner, Anne Isaak, Zachary Sanders, Harry
Shulman, and Ellen Wachtel).
Another example, Judge Leonard Shapiro of Boston, is equally
illustrative. Shapiro was appointed as an Immigration Judge in December 1990,
and was coauthor of the 1988 Edition of The American Immigration Lawyers
Association Textbook and the 1995 Edition of The Immigration Judge Benchbook.
Shapiro was also the chairman of the Immigration Law Section of the
Massachusetts Bar Association in 1990 prior to his appointment. During the
period 2013-2018, Shapiro is recorded as deciding 160 asylum claims. Of these,
he granted 113 and denied 47. Converted to percentage terms, Shapiro denied 29.4
percent and granted 70.6 percent. Again, nationally during this same period,
immigration court judges denied 57.6 percent of asylum claims.
Canada
Jews feature prominently among the top immigration lawyers in
Canada. ...
UK
In the UK, Jews have also been remarkably overrepresented in
the development of pro-immigration policy.
...
Footnotes
[1] See Gee, H. "The Refugee Burden: A Closer Look at the
Refugee Act of 1980," 26 N.C. J. Int’l L. & Com. Reg. 559 (2000).
[2] MacDonald, K. "Jewish Involvement in Shaping American
Immigration Policy, 1881–1965: A Historical Review", Population and Environment
(1998) 19: 295.
[3] See Cofnas, N. "Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy:
A Critical Analysis of Kevin MacDonald’s Theory", Human Nature (2018) 29:
134.
[4] No Jews were/are listed on staff at similar but smaller
groups such as American Immigration Control Foundation, California Coalition for
Immigration Reform, ProjectUSA, or American Patrol.
[5] "Hans Eysenck’s Controversial Career," The Lancet, Vol.
376, August 7 2010, 407.
[6] Another interesting qualitative aspect to board
membership at the IRC is the high proportion of Jews with a background in
corporate finance and banking.
(Republished from The Occidental Observer by permission of
author or representative)
(14) Israeli company
to patrol the seas around Europe, to reduce Islamic Immigration
Elbit will provide maritime UAS to EU Maritime Safety
Agency
Elbit awarded contract for maritime Unmanned Aircraft System
patrol services provided by European Maritime Safety Agency to EU countries.
Mordechai Sones, 01/11/18 10:30
Elbit Systems announced today it was awarded a framework
contract to provide maritime Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) patrol services to
be provided by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) to countries in the
European Union. The contract that will be executed in cooperation with CEiiA is
for a two-year base period and two single year option periods. If fully ordered,
the total contract value is €59 million (approximately $68 million).
Under the contract and in cooperation with CEiiA, a leading
engineering company in Portugal, Elbit Systems will lease and operate its
HermesTM 900 Maritime Patrol and its Ground Control Station. A persistent
long-range unmanned maritime surveillance system tailored for littoral and blue
water operations, the Hermes 900 Maritime Patrol will feature maritime radar, an
Electro Optic payload, Satellite Communication and an Automatic Identification
System (AIS) receiver. Thus configured, the Hermes 900 Maritime Patrol will
enable persistent monitoring of vast
swathes of sea and long coastlines and effective identification of
suspicious activities and potential hazards.
Elad Aharonson, General Manager of Elbit Systems ISTAR
Division, commented: “Having been selected by the European Union authorities is
yet another vote of confidence in the Hermes 900 by following additional
contract awards for this UAS in Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Israel.
Extensively deployed, the Hermes 900 family of UAS continuously expands its
capabilities introducing the capability to operate in civilian airspace and
integrating self-protection suites and stronger payloads.”
(15) Israeli Defense
Company Wins Contract to Monitor Europe’s Coasts
Monday, November 19, 2018 Last Update: 6:43 PM GMT
November 1, 2018
The Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems Ltd has won a
contract worth up to $68 million to monitor much of Europe’s coastline.
Elbit Systems, an Israeli tech firm which specialises in
defence, security and commercial systems, said today that the framework contract
consists of the provision of maritime unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to the
European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) in order to help monitor extensive
coastlines and vast areas of sea to identify any potential hazards and
suspicious activities.
(16) Trump Dumps
Agenda 21 Regionalization Mask / Paris Climate Trap
6/1/2017
As I watched President Trump's speech today, I cheered. I think he gets it. After Angela Merkel's comment that the Paris
Climate Accord is a "key agreement that shapes globalization" it is clear to all
who listen that United Nations treaties
and agreements are about systems inventory and control. The Paris Climate Accord is not about whether
the planet heats up another 1/10 of 1 percent in 50 years. This agreement is about crippling the ability of the United States
to recover from years of a collapsed economy and loss of individual
certainty. This agreement is about eroding national boundaries and national
sovereignty all over the world, and about strengthening the power of the
United Nations and non-governmental organizations.
Although the Paris Climate Accord was never brought to the
Senate for ratification it is important that it be rejected by President
Trump. Agenda 21 was also not a treaty and was not
brought before the Congress, except obliquely, but it was 'de facto' made binding by President
Clinton who implemented it administratively and by federal pressure on the
States. President Obama and Hillary
Clinton had every intention of implementing the Paris Climate Accord through the
usual channels: federal pressure,
grants, regulations, restrictions, HUD/EPA/DOT grants and lawsuits, and
bogus non-profits working the grassroots.
During President Trump's speech today he mentioned American
sovereignty several times and referred to the Accord as a redistribution of
wealth that favored other nations and debilitated American business. That it
clearly does do so is apparent in the treatment of China and India as
"developing countries" who are exempt from regulations and controls for
years---years in which they will continue to grossly pollute while producing
cheap goods for export to the United States.
I searched President
Obama's speeches for mention of American sovereignty. I didn't find it. What
I did find was his address to the United Nations General Assembly in the fall of
2016 stating that we in America 'must
bind ourselves to international rules' and not fall prey to
'nationalism.' The term
'nationalism' is now equated with Hitler or isolationism. What we are protecting is not just a sense
that our country has self-interests both social and economic, but our
Constitution, our rule of law, our sovereignty.
By refusing to abide by the Paris Climate Accord President
Trump is sending a message to those of us who have fought consistently against
UN Agenda 21's message of globalization/One World Government. It takes time and effort to destroy the
economy of one of the world's wealthiest nations. We are hugely in debt and struggle with
homelessness, youth who feel hopeless about their future, polarization of the races exacerbated by
compressed Smart Growth mega-cities, more and more drug use...we need help.
The presidency is not a popularity contest. Whether we like his personality or not is
irrelevant. What is important is the
health and welfare of our nation, and our freedom.
The Paris Climate Accord Is Un Agenda 21.
