Ostriches don’t bury their heads in the sand to hide or for anything else for that matter. It’s a myth than can be traced to Pliny the Elder (23-79AD) the author of Naturalis Historia, which is an attempt to cover all the knowledge to be found in the Roman Empire. In Book 10, Chapter 1, Pliny says “(Ostriches) imagine, when they have thrust their head and neck into a bush, that the whole of their body is concealed”.
The knowledge to be found in the Roman Empire was not always right, but who are we to throw stones?
Ostriches don’t bury William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-12-20
For the last two months, the roiling immigration debate has centered around President Trump’s Executive Orders that slowed some legal migration and suspended until the end of 2020 most employment-based visas. During the period, President Trump scored a major victory over H-1B globalists when he forced Tennessee Valley Authority executives to turn back their outsourcing commitment that would cost high-skilled American workers their jobs.
Meantime, however, down on the still-porous Southwest border, illegal immigration – the contentious issue that propelled President Trump into the White House in 2016 – is worsening. Since April, and despite President Trump’s efforts to curb illegal immigration in light of the coronavirus pandemic, unlawful entry arrests have, according to Customs and Border Protection, soared 237 percent.
In March, pursuant to the urging from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, border officials turned back migrants including those who claimed asylum. For more than 90 percent of the migrants, the normal timeline for returning unlawful border crossers dropped from a period of several weeks to a mere hour and a half. The White House relied on the Public Health Safety Act’s Title 42 that permits temporarily barring the entry of persons into the United States “when doing so is required in the interest of the public health.”
In his compelling documentary, “They Come to America: the Politics of Immigration,” filmmaker Dennis Michael Lynch, in interviews with experts, gives an overview of the challenges that decades-long ineffective methods of slowing illegal entry present to the nation. Among them are drug smuggling, national security, environmental degradation and population growth.
But Lynch also focuses on illegal immigration as a labor variable that is especially harmful to low-skilled U.S. workers who have less than a college education. CBP acting Commissioner Mark A. Morgan acknowledged that, during the spring-time, surge jobs are illegal immigration’s biggest pull factor. Morgan said that “Single adult Mexican nationals, who are generally seeking economic opportunities, accounted for almost 80 percent of the encounters.” Based on the latest available federal statistics, Pew Researchestimated that 8 million illegal immigrants are in the labor force, mostly employed in agriculture but also in sectors that would present hiring possibilities for America’s under-employed like construction, hospitality, business services and manufacturing.
While there’s been much fanfare, both positive and negative, about President Trump’s “big beautiful wall,” Lynch makes clear that no structure can protect the nation’s waterways from illegal entrants. As an example, Lynch cites the CBP’s Miami sector that’s assigned to cover Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
The Miami sector consists of approximately 187,000 square miles and has 1,203 miles of Florida’s coastal borders along the Atlantic and Gulf shores. In his statement, Morgan advocated for President Trump’s wall. But as Lynch pointed out, a wall is meaningless with such a vast expanse of unprotected shores and waterways that migrant smugglers can easily penetrate. At the time Lynch’s documentary went into production, a mere 111 CBP agents, and only two with boats, were assigned to the Miami sector.
President Trump’s wall-blustering is empty talk. Even if a wall were erected, the effect of deterring illegal immigration would be, at best, minor, and a flat zero for water arrivals. While talking about migrants in search of “economic opportunities,” Morgan missed a chance to promote E-Verify which, since the program confirms individuals’ lawful authorization to work, is a proven illegal immigration deterrent.
U.S. ineptitude at immigration enforcement is known to prospective migrants worldwide. Lynch’s documentary featured a local CBS broadcaster who reported that the Miami sector alone had apprehended aliens from 64 nations.
Labor Day will mark the official kickoff for the 2020 presidential campaign. Voters will be subjected to a nearly unbearable torrent of speeches that promise more jobs for Americans. But just as reporters asked Democratic primary candidates if they supported open borders and Medicare for illegal immigrants, President Trump and challenger Joe Biden should face an equally probing question: Would you, if elected, demand that Congress pass mandatory E-Verify?
Joe Guzzardi is a Progressives for Immigration Reform analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@pfirdc.org.
The Strangites were strange but that’s not how they got the name. It comes from James Jesse Strang, a Mormon who tried to take over as head of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints after Joseph Smith was tragically killed during a shoot-out in a jailbreak. Anyway Strang failed, and started his own branch which came to be known as the Strangites.
He moved his flock to Beaver Island, the largest island in Lake Michigan, created a theocratical monarchy, took five wives and declared himself king. He also won election to the Michigan legislature, which a tyrannical zealot can do when his constituents are zombie followers. Think Portland.
Two of the zombies, though, turned on him shooting him from ambush on June 16. 1856. He died from his injuries on July 9.
Amazingly enough, Strang’s denomination still has about 130 members.
Starboard comes from the German steuerbord which means steering board which was the rudder. In ancient times, this board was on the right side of the ship if you are facing the bow. Obviously, you would not put this side against the quay while in port. The side you would place against the quay while in port would be the port side.
Discipline your children William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-10-20
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: Discipline your children, and they will give you peace; they will bring you the delights you desire.
Proverbs 29:17
Discipline your children William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-10-20
The world’s largest hospital is the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University in China with 7,000 beds. The largest hospital in the US is AdvantHealth Orlando with 1,705 beds. For what it’s worth, lots of beds don’t equal lots of health care. The hospital with the most staff is the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Minnesota with 54,700. The Chinese hospital with the most staff is the West China Medical Center with 6,100.
Largest hospital William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-8-20
Two noblest human efforts William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-8-20
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O. E. Xqiue Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Evelyn Waugh
Two noblest human efforts William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-8-20
Amazon Kills Child’s Voice — A Child’s Voice is an indie supernatural thriller from 2018 directed by Edgar Michael Bravo and produced by John Paul Rice. It’s a little more intelligent than average for its genre and has much less gore and nudity than typical.
It’s not a bad movie.
Amazon Prime has carried it for months but has now made it unavailable. It’s nothing that the producer or director wanted. In fact, Rice (see below) is puzzled by it.
Why would Amazon pull it?
Well, maybe not puzzled. A Child’s Voice concerns the kidnapping of children by powerful people to be used for human sacrifice. One of the children comes back from the dead and recruits a young lost couple as instruments of justice.
Rice, who has been involved in movies since 2000 and participated in the making of many major films, thinks the subject hit a little too close to home for Hollywood. He believes this kind of stuff actually occurs.
Regardless, it is extremely weird that Amazon would boot the movie which is far more innocuous than most films of this type. It mostly resembles a made-for-TV movie.
Peanuts are a great source of folate. That’s vitamin B9. Too little folate can result in anemia. Feeling tired? Eat some peanuts. Too little folate also increases the risk of cancer and stroke and other bad things. Yes, eat some peanuts.
Eat Some Peanuts William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-7-20
