tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post7120417732571075538..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: Government suspends African refugee intakeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-38224759663166091682007-10-06T14:37:00.000+10:002007-10-06T14:37:00.000+10:00Francis w. Porretto said: The American experience ...Francis w. Porretto said: The American experience has been that high-volume immigration from a single source is unsustainable.<BR/><BR/><BR/>There is no basis for saying that at all. America still permits mass legal immigration, with a "high volume" of it emmanating from a "single" source -- Latin America. There is no serious public debate over legal immigration. The recent uproar has been over illegal (mostly Mexican) immigration, which implies that the thinking is that had the same numbers of Mexicans arrived legally everything would have been fine. On this evidence, it is unreasonable to claim an American recognition that single-source mass immigration is "unsustainable".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-72793897148976728182007-10-05T09:36:00.000+10:002007-10-05T09:36:00.000+10:00Mark, I agree with most of your sentiments but a m...Mark, I agree with most of your sentiments but a major factor bringing discredit on the Australian immigration program was the use by the ALP of a massive family-related migration program to boost its electoral appeal in seats with high numbers of migrants. <BR/><BR/>This is clearly documented in the Gruen-Grattan book, Labor in Power. <BR/><BR/>I am a supporter of skilled migration to mAustralia but this is under threat - not from John Howard (who has substantially increased both mainstream and refugee migration) but from the interest group exploiters in the Labor Party. <BR/><BR/>Watch immigration policy go into reverse if Labor winds power.hchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13799594181016858701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-14888582468385058002007-10-04T22:04:00.000+10:002007-10-04T22:04:00.000+10:00Remember us in your prayers won't you fw porretto....Remember us in your prayers won't you fw porretto. Having a conversation with our current prime minister is like speaking with a resident of a nursing home. We are running out of water but the government seeks to maintain a high level of migrant intake. In Sydney, rental properties are becoming scarce but still the migrants continue to arrive.<BR/><BR/>Say a prayer for us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-32707589452881854612007-10-04T18:54:00.000+10:002007-10-04T18:54:00.000+10:00The American experience has been that high-volume ...The American experience has been that high-volume immigration from a single source is unsustainable.<BR/><BR/>Our late nineteenth/early twentieth century immigrant stream, despite its <B><I>eventual</I></B> assimilation into American culture, put a severe strain on the nation for about half a century -- and that was when the assumption of assimilation was strongly backed by public institutions and attitudes. Today, with the overwhelming majority of our immigrants coming from a single source and multiculturalism in the saddle, we've developed <A HREF="http://www.eternityroad.info/index.php/weblog/single/exclaves/" REL="nofollow"><B>Mexican exclaves</B></A> that have started to act as if they're politically and socially independent of the rest of the country.<BR/><BR/>There's a lesson in that. May Australia draw it faster than we did!Francis W. Porrettohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.com