Thread: Where Will American Refugees Go?

November 11, 2015
Where Will American Refugees Go?

By John T. Bennett


If immigration completely transforms America, where can Americans go to preserve our national identity? Nowhere. This land is our one chance.

There is nowhere else to turn for Americans who want limited government, truly free speech, the norm of personal responsibility, and Judeo-Christian Enlightenment culture. Americans don't have the option of moving to another nation and replacing that nation's culture with our own.

The countries within Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia proudly preserve their national cultures. Plus, their immigrants come here and change American culture, and attempt to do the same to Europe. The immigrant is entitled to do so under the bipartisan doctrine of multiculturalism. The total lack of reciprocity is noteworthy; this imbalance is unsustainable. If America maintains multicultural dogma while non-Western nations remain culturally intact, the eventual outcome will be an inhospitable America. Where will the traditional American refugees go, in the “world community”?

Today’s immigrants enter an increasingly secular, multicultural society where assimilation is decimated, where minority group membership carries tangible benefits from the state, and racial resentment is taught with messianic zeal (see “Critical Race Theory”). In response, obtuse politicians like Lindsey Graham find it persuasive to quote the obsolete poem on the Statue of Liberty, as if a sonnet is going to turn statists into libertarians, resolve ethnic grievances, or maintain social cohesion as the foreign-born population approaches an unprecedented share of the overall U.S. population.

There is no place else for us to go and escape the welfare state, tyrannical speech codes, and the plagues of victimhood and relativism. Americans cannot migrate to any other nation and transplant our culture. Neither Mexico nor Canada is the New World. Besides, few Americans could afford to uproot themselves and their families. Cost is an even greater barrier to far-away places like New Zealand. Even for those willing to emigrate, other countries generally have their own distinct legal and political systems. They don’t want to hear how the Founding Fathers did things.

What happens then, if mass immigration is allowed to continue? America (and the West) will be nothing but cauldrons of conflicting, competing factions and ethnicities. That’s the opposite of stability, for those keeping score. Whichever ethnic special interest group is the most aggressive, embittered, and vocal will come to set the tone for the entire society. It will be as if the West were occupied by those who detest it.

There is no nation on earth where Western Europeans or Americans can go once our own nations are transformed. The nations of Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia will maintain their distinct national identities, while their immigrants move outwards with a sense of entitlement to reshape the West in their image. Why wouldn’t they? American society seems to contort and fracture itself to accommodate just about anyone. There is no reciprocity, and the West shies away from enforcing the very standards that account for our distinction. America is forced to change, along with Europe, as the nations sending their immigrants out remain the same. Where is our sense of self-preservation?

The dilemma described above is not going to be resolved by optimism. That's why Scott Walker’s facile homage to optimism as he left the campaign trial was so absurd. Reagan invocations are fine and good, but Reagan and the Republicans went along with a transparent fraud in the 1986 amnesty act. Regular Americans have been paying the price for that blunder ever since.

It may be that optimism about immigration is unwarranted. Optimism about immigration “reform” in the form of a path to citizenship is certainly unwarranted. No ethnic interest group will say, “Thank you for the amnesties of 1986 and 2015, we won't ask for any more.” Instead, more immigration means more chain migration of family members, more clamoring to nullify American immigration law, and more gutless guilt and pandering on the part of politicians who cave to the ethnic pressure groups. This whole process creates a vested interest in the undermining of American sovereignty. Any path to citizenship would be a blueprint for perpetual illegal immigration and racial favoritism in response to that illegal immigration. No one with an appreciation for human nature and public policy should be optimistic about these circumstances.

We don't need reflexive optimism right now. Happy noise is not a strategy. We need to restore our sense of national self-preservation. We need leadership that will look at the world for what it is, put the interests of American citizens first, and limit immigration.

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35% of Americans would consider leaving the US – study

Published time: 2 Jul, 2015 04:00

Reuters / Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
A study polling American and emigrant adults found that 35 percent would consider leaving the US, according to TransferWise, an international money transfer company. The most popular reason for wanting to leave was to seek a better quality of life.

Despite the results of the survey, 59 percent said it was home. Another 58 percent said romantic and family ties were important reasons for staying in the US.

Another 22 percent in the survey cited democratic society as a reason to stay, and only 2 percent said low taxes. The online poll surveyed 2,000 American and emigrant adults.

The percentage of those willing to leave greatly increases for the millennial generation, with more than half of those aged 18 to 34, or 55 percent saying they would consider moving to another country for a higher paying job.

“With technology impacting every part of our lives from how we communicate to how we bank, it’s easier to move around the world today than ever before,” said Joe Cross, US General Manager of TransferWise, reported WUSA9.

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“It doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive and we don’t have to lose touch with our roots either. I’d certainly expect more Americans trying life abroad in the years to come, as well as more foreigners like myself building a life here in the US.”

Americans and emigrants are leaving the country in increasing numbers. According to the Treasury Department, more than 3,000 US residents renounced their residency/citizenship in 2014, a 14 percent jump from 2013. While that represents just 0.0001 percent of the total US population, the number of people on record as expatriating to other countries was well below 1,000 per year up until 2010. So far in 2015, more than 1,300 people have renounced their citizenship.

The online survey also found that 84 percent of US-born Americans believe the country could be a more appealing place to live, compared to 75 percent of foreign-born residents.

The survey was conducted just days before one of the US’s biggest national holidays, the Fourth of July Independence Day celebration.

https://www.rt.com/usa/271144-americ...ng-leaving-us/

Overseas US populations

The list below is of the main countries hosting American populations.

Those shown first with exact counts are enumerations of Americans who have immigrated to those countries and are legally resident there, does not include those who were born there to one or two American parents, does not necessarily include those born in the US to parents temporarily in the US and moved with parents by right of citizenship rather than immigration, and does not necessarily include temporary expatriates (the numbers of Americans resident in Canada and Mexico, for example, are believed to be well over one million). In all other cases, starting with Israel, the figures are estimates of part-time US resident Americans and expatriates alike.


European Union - 800,000 (2013; all EU countries combined)

1. Mexico - 738,203 (2010)^[11]
2. Philippines - 600,000 (2015)^[12]
3. Canada - 311,215 (2011)^[13]
4. Israel - 185,000^{[citation needed]}
5. Italy (EU) - 170,000 to 200,000^{[citation needed]}
6. United Kingdom (EU) - 158,000 (2013)^[14]
7. South Korea - 130,000 (2013)^[15]
8. Germany (EU) - 107,755 (2013)^[16]
9. France (EU) - 100,619 (2008)^[17]
10. Brazil - 98,000 up to 350,000 (See also Confederados, descendants of post-war Confederate settlers in Brazil)
11. Australia - 90,100 (2011)^[18]
12. Japan - 88,000 (2011)^[19]
13. Dominican Republic - 82,000^{[citation needed]}
14. China - 71,493 (2010, Mainland China only)^[20][21])
15. Spain (EU) - 63,362^{[citation needed]}
16. Colombia - 60,000^[22]
17. Hong Kong - 60,000^[21]
18. United Arab Emirates - 40,000^{[citation needed]}
19. Republic of China (Taiwan) - 38,000
20. Belgium (EU) - 36,000^{[citation needed]}
21. Saudi Arabia - 36,000^{[citation needed]}
22. Switzerland - 32,000^{[citation needed]}
23. Poland (EU) - 31,000 to 60,000^{[citation needed]}
24. Lebanon - 25,000^[23]
25. Panama - 25,000^[24]
26. New Zealand - 17,748 (2006)^[25]
27. Sweden (EU) - 16,555 (2009)^[26]
28. Austria (EU) 15,000^{[citation needed]}
29. Hungary (EU) - 15,000^{[citation needed]}
30. Singapore - 15,000^[21]
31. Netherlands (EU) - 14,100 (2000)^[27]
32. Ireland (EU) - 12,475 (2006)^[28]
33. Argentina - 10,552^{[citation needed]}
34. Chile - 10,000^{[citation needed]}
35. Costa Rica - 9,128^[29] to 50,000^[30]
36. Denmark (EU) - 8,651 (2012)^[31]
37. Norway - 8,013 (2012)^[32]
38. Malaysia - 8,000^[21]
39. Guatemala - 5,417 (2010)^[33]
40. Pakistan - 5,000^{[citation needed]}
41. Uruguay - 3,000^[34]
42. Portugal (EU) - 2,228 (2008)^[35]
43. Russia - at least 2,008^[36] up to 6,200^[37]
44. Syria - n/a (in the 1975 Encyclopædia Britannica, 2.5% of Syrians reportedly have dual U.S.-Syrian citizenship)^{[citation needed]}
45. India - n/a est. 10,000 to 15,000^[38]

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One-Way Mars Colony Project Draws 200,000 Volunteers

By Megan Gannon, News Editor | September 11, 2013 03:42pm ET

A group that's looking for the first Red Planet colonists received applications from more than 200,000 prospective astronauts vying for a spot on a one-way trip to Mars.

The non-profit Mars One Foundation hopes to send teams of four space flyers on one-way Mars colony missions starting in 2023. Its initial 19-week application window closed on Aug. 31, with a final tally of 202,586 volunteers.

The Dutch nonprofit Mars One aims to land four colonists on the Red Planet in 2023. Do you want to be one of them?

Yes — Sign me up!
No — I like life here on Earth just fine.
Maybe — I need some time to think about it.
Irrelevant — I don't think this mission will ever get off the ground.

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The only requirement to apply was to be over age 18.

Those selected to move on to the next round will be notified by the end of this year. Over the next two years, a selection committee will narrow down that pool to up to 40 candidates, who will then begin seven years of astronaut training. A public vote will determine which four will be the first to go to Mars, never to return.

The applicant pool is quite diverse with more than 140 countries represented, Mars One said in a statement.

Nearly a quarter of the aspiring Mars colonists are from the United States. Ten percent of the applicants are Indians, the second largest group in the pool.


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Mars One, based in the Netherlands, will face some major technical and funding challenges in the years ahead. It has not yet picked a spacecraft or rocket for the long voyage. The project also estimated it will cost about $6 billion to send its first crew to the Red Planet and $4 billion for each of the following missions.

The group started raising money through its application fees, which ranged from $5 to $75 depending on the applicant's country of origin. Mars One also hopes it will be able to raise funds with a reality TV show tracking the astronaut selection process and training.

Martian hopefuls who missed the deadline or were too young to apply this time around will have future chances to be considered. Mars One says it will start regular recruitment programs as the search for future Red Planet crews continues.

http://www.space.com/22758-mars-colo...-mars-one.html