Tag: Immigration
An Immigration Bonus
Most people trying to escape from the horrors of Haiti don’t go to Cuba. They risk the much longer journey and try to get to Florida. People fleeing violence in Honduras don’t move to Mexi... Read More
A New Paradigm for Immigration
“The right to go where you want should be a principle in a decent world.”Noam Chomsky Less than two hundred years ago most of our ancestors thought that chattel slavery was perfectly accep... Read More
The Immigration Opportunity
Competing with China I recently read the Now It can be Told by General Leslie Grove. It is the story of the Manhattan Project, the US/UK project to build the atomic bomb during WWII. It was written by... Read More
Obligations
“If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.” Thomas Jefferson Our immigration laws are unjust, confusing and detrimental to the long term success ... Read More
Immigration Justice
The case for allowing people to move is simple; openness to newcomers is morally right, economically beneficial and culturally enriching. Philippe LeGrain Another Inukshuk built in Granada Park.... Read More
We are Guilty
Forty Dead in another Immigrant Disaster Most people will say that the people who took a small boat across the Florida Strait to try to enter the United States illegally were responsible for what happ... Read More
A Great Nation
The USA attracts immigrants because, more than most countries, it rewards merit and forgives failure, it attempts to see all people as equal before the law and it is one of the best nations in the wor... Read More