What Now For US Immigration Policy
During his term as President, Donald Trump sought to dismantle the open border, immigrationist policies of his predecessors, Presidents Obama and Bush, with a wide ranging, aggressive and successful restructuring of the US border and immigration system. The headlines writers focussed on his claim to…
Why Are Open Door Migrationists So Mean & Hypocritical?
There is a weird intellectual journey that supporters of open border immigration follow which I would like to examine. First, they list all the benefits of mass immigration. A larger pool of cheaper labour leads to increases in GDP, diversity in people brings innovation, new…
Freedom of Movement Punishes the Poor
One of the ‘mike drop’ moments of the EU referendum campaign was when Lord Rose, then the leader of the Remain campaign spoke to the Treasury select committee and conceded that if there are fewer workers available then businesses will be prepared to pay higher…
The UN, EU and Soros stoke the Migrant crisis
The EU migration crisis began in 2014 was initially triggered by Chancellor Merkel’s unilateral decision to throw open the gates of Europe and despite EU claims it shows little sign of abating. With resistance now coming from many countries against migrant quotas imposed from Brussels,…
There Has Always Been A North South Divide
Like the jokey cliches “does night follow day” or “is the Pope a Catholic”? (though traditionalists wonder if that is still true in the new modernist Vatican) there has always been a North-South divide in England – economically, socially and importantly culturally. While the border…