Last night, a report of an attack in the evening on a mosque in Quebec City, Quebec caught my eye.<\/p>\n
At the time, the report said 5 dead, several injured. That was updated this morning to 6 dead and 8 injured. \u00a0The Prime Minister did use the term ‘terrorist attack’ in his response to the news.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-38793071<\/a><\/p>\n Since we’ve been discussing immigration, our unfortunately porous borders, and the fact that both our neighbors to the north (Canada) and south (Mexico) have strict immigration policies, I think it’s fair to ask why we should be expected to simply throw the doors wide open and endure a swarm unchecked. \u00a0Ellis Island, which was the clearing place for incoming emigrants from other countries, was closed some time ago. It was the Checkpoint Charlie of its time. \u00a0Things have changed substantially in the last 100 years, making a single way station less efficient.<\/p>\n Frankly, the Central American country of Belize is even more strict about immigration than either Mexico or Canada, and New Zealand is so tight-assed about it that you can visit, but if you really do want to emigrate permanently to Kiwiland, you have to meet their financial requirements ahead of everything else or they will tell you ‘N-O, NO’ and show you the door.<\/p>\n No one is addressing this at all. The Eurozone countries are finding that following the imbecilic open doors policy promulgated by Angela Merkel has become a financial and political disaster. She herself admitted last fall that it was a mistake on her part. This nonsensical notion, that everyone – every single person – \u00a0running from a war zone is only a refugee looking for a place to squat has sent the political pendulum swinging back\u00a0in the other direction. The Brexit vote was the Brits saying, bluntly ‘we want OUR country back’. \u00a0The same rumblings have been popping up everywhere in the Eurozone.<\/p>\n Like nearly everyone else here, I’m a descendant of many generations of people who emigrated from Europe and England and Scotland in search of a better life, and who found it through hard work and contributing something tangible. None of those people were leeches looking for freebies.<\/p>\n Ergo, I will ask again and a again until I get a sensible answer: if other countries, including Mexico and Canada, have such tight-assed requirements for immigrants and no one is complaining about it, why is it NOT okay for the USA and its citizens to expect the same thing?<\/p>\n I’d like to repeat what has been said in several other places: Pres. Obama did the same thing in 2011. He also capped the incoming volume at 50,000 before he dropped the limits.<\/p>\n