It's Racism. Of course it is!

"Iran expells 70,000 Afghans." "Kabul - More than 70 000 Afghans who were in Iran illegally have been returned in the past month, the United Nations said on Monday, as talks were under way between the neighbours over the controversial deportations." [5/21/2007]

"Sanaa, 15 April 2007 (IRIN) - Somali community leaders in Sana'a said on Saturday that 130 African migrants died at sea when their boat capsized off the Yemeni coast after coast guards opened fire on them. "

So Iran is racist against the Afghans, and the Yemenis are racist against the Somalis.

"Kenya-Somalia: Border remains closed to asylum seekers. Garissa, 3 April 2007 (IRIN) - The Somalia-Kenya border is to remain closed despite the arrival of thousands of new Somali asylum seekers escaping weeks of heavy fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a Kenyan official announced. "Our security officers have been put on high alert; no Somali will enter the country.""

Oh, okay. The Kenyans are racist against the Somalians.

80 killed, many bodies recovered with missing limbs with Turks and Caicos coastguard rams raft full of Haitians trying to reach shore in Turks and Caicos:
"Around two in the morning of Friday 4 May 2007, the Cap-Haitien sloop was intercepted by the TCI's [Turks and Caicos Island] 50-foot police launch Sea Quest, about a mile south of Providenciales Island. ... I was on the prow at the front of the boat and I was able to follow everything that occured. ... a coastguard ship appeared on the left side of our boat. ... It wanted to prevent us at all costs from reaching the shore. ... When the coastguards realised that everyone was getting ready to disembark, they rammed our boat. Twice. [...Then] they tried to tow us out into the channel, out to open sea. Moments later the bow was dragged under and the sloop capsized. ... .. The luckiest survivors claim that TCI police left them waiting in the water for around fifteen minutes; others 'alleged that police beat them with wooden batons when they tried to scramble aboard the patrol boat from shark-filled waters.'

Oh, so the Turks and Caicos people, who are black, are racist against the Haitians.

Do you notice that all of those incidents happened within 6 weeks of each other?

And the final incident:

"Egypt's foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, ... said yesterday his country would break limbs of Gaza residents who cross the border of Egypt illegally: "Anyone who violates Egypt's borders will get his leg broken.""

Oh, so the Egyptian Arabs are racist against the Palestinian Arabs.


Could it be that people just want to live in their own country and reach a point where they are fed up with foreigners coming in large numbers? Could it be that people still have loyalty to and identity with, their nation? That would hold especially true when the foreigners have no prospect of making any contribution to the economy. So God damn you Southern Poverty Law Research Center! http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=885
It's not nativism. It's just wanting to live in your own country with your own people and it is universal around the world. And illegal immigrants are intentionally violating the law and seeking to be part of this republic, where our laws and lawmaking process are our civic religion, so that illegal immigration is Highly Offensive.



Sources for the above factual statements:

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2116696,00.html
(Apparently affiliated with AFP)

http://mostlywater.org/rawa_stop_human_catastrophe_help_afghan_refugees

http://www.irinnews.org/PrintReport.aspx?ReportID=71614

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2007/04/mil-070403-irin01.htm

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=71164

http://www.haitianalysis.com/2007/9/4/if-stones-could-float-the-british-press-and-the-turks-and-caicos-boat-disaster

‘Survivor of Turks & Caicos Islands boat disaster gives an eyewitness account,’ Haiti Support Group 6 June 2007, http://haitisupport.gn.apc.org/TCIeyewitness.html.

‘Haitian migrants “angry and revolted” at alleged boat ramming off Turks and Caicos’, Associated Press 8 May 2007.

‘Haitian migrants killed on capsized boat buried’, Associated Press 21 May 2007.

MAIB Safety Bulletin 1/2007, ‘Capsize of Haitian sloop, while under tow by Turks and Caicos Islands’ Police Launch Sea Quest, 4 May 2007’, http://www.maib.gov.uk/cms_resources/Safety%20Bulletin%201-07.pdf.

Andrew Buncombe, ‘Patrol vessel blamed for collision which left 60 Haitian migrants dead’, Independent 12 May 2007, http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2534050.ece

The NY SUN 2/8/2008 Cairo Threatens Gazans with Broken Bones, by Benny Avni.