The ADL weighs in to the immigration debate

Posted on December 13, 2008

The ADL is an organization formed to defend Jews from discrimination and I support that aim. Jews are however overwhelmingly Leftist voters and it was in fact a group of far-Leftist Jews who in 1950 concocted the myth that conservatives were responsible for Nazism, despite the fact that Hitler was a socialist who won his elections on a platform of peace and equality. And the ADL is just as good at irrationality as those 1950 scholars.

I reproduce below a post in which the ADL fulminate about how some blog commenters made intemperate comments about illegal immigrants. Most and maybe all of the comments would be entitled to protection under the free speech provisions of the first amendment so the ADL seems to feel the need to suppress such comments by the good ol’ tried and true method of comparing them to Nazism.

But that is a false analogy. The Jews of Hitler’s Germany had done nothing legally wrong. But illegal immigrants in the USA today HAVE done so. They have disobeyed the American laws that require permission for foreigners to settle in the USA. So an attitude of hostility that would have been unjustified towards Jews in 1930s Germany may be perfectly well-justified towards lawbreakers in America today.

Jews are generally smart people so the article below is testimony to how Leftism rots the brain. So when they say things like “ADL has noticed”, be aware that you are not listening to honest testimony.

And, sadly, the dishonesty is not limited to false analogies. They quote studies saying that first generation immigrants are less crime-prone than are native-born Americans. There are huge and fatal omissions in that claim. 1). The statistics concerned include ALL immigrants, not just illegal ones and illegal immigrants are almost certainly under-representerd in the data. 2). It is the CHILDREN of the illegals who are the bigger problem. They are VERY crime-prone. 3). The “native-born” statistics quite properly include blacks. And blacks are far and away the most crime-prone ethnic group in the USA. Hispanics in fact lie in between blacks and whites in crime-rate. And being less crime-prone than blacks is no honour. Details on that here.

I have got to put it plainly: The ADL are just another outfit of deceitful Leftist crooks

The Houston Chronicle made some important discoveries with its recent series by Susan Carroll on the failure of law enforcement officials to deport or keep in jail illegal immigrants who commit crimes. Certainly the Chronicle’s investigation pointed out shortcomings in our legal and immigration systems that need to be fixed. The release of any criminal who goes on to commit more crimes, whether he or she is in this country legally or not, can be called a miscarriage of justice.

What concerns us at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is despite Carroll’s attempts to reach readers with the results of research that “found that recent immigrants are far less likely than their U.S.-born counterparts to commit crimes and end up in prison,” anti-immigrant bigots seized on parts of her series to insult, stereotype, and even advocate violence against immigrants and others they perceived to be immigrants, especially Hispanics. Here are some examples of the comments from Chronicle blogs:

“This is a no-brainer to me. Start with the jails and get all those people deported, then construction companies, garbage companies, landscape companies, restaurants and must I go on?”

“All of our grandchildren’s children are going to live in a third world country.”

“We the taxpayers are footing the bill for these society leeches.The people from Katrina were bad enough. Our crime rate is still high.”

“I got a great idea – just shoot them on the spot if they commit a serious crime in Texas.”

These comments should offend all of us, and must be challenged. One only need look at the Holocaust to see the results of relentless, pervasive bigotry. The Nazis began their campaign with words and pictures against Jews, Slavs, political dissidents, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals and the mentally and physically disabled.

Law enforcement officers in ADL’s Law Enforcement in Society course, taught jointly with Holocaust Museum Houston and the Houston Police Department, review Nazi-created images to see how the Nazis used elaborate media campaigns to turn people against certain groups.

They include a newspaper photo of a “search for dissident contraband” in a Jewish neighborhood, and another photo of an official-looking man questioning a Roma woman for research in “criminal biology,” a pseudo-science that maintained certain groups were more likely to be criminals because of the makeup of their blood. As images like that grew more pervasive, even well-educated people started to believe them. An estimated 11 million people died as the result of 12 years of hatred fueled by biased propaganda, and compounded by the silence of those who didn’t speak out against the hate.

Unfortunately, we already see signs that anti-immigrant rhetoric has led to more overt and violent consequences. ADL has noticed an increase in such rhetoric among extremist groups in recent years, coupled with a marked increase in hate incidents and hate crimes against Latinos and those perceived to be Latinos. Further, the FBI has documented a disturbing four-year trend in the increase of hate crimes against Latinos from 475 in 2005 to 595 in 2007 nationally.

We caution readers to refrain from taking the Chronicle’s well-intentioned and informative series, a series that found some real problems, and using those problems to justify prejudice and bigotry against all immigrants. As the reporters and columnists, including Carroll, Lisa Falkenberg and Rick Casey indicated, study after study has found that recent immigrants, even illegal immigrants, are less likely to commit crimes than American-born citizens. Harvard Sociology Professor Robert J. Sampson and his colleagues found in a study they completed several years ago that first-generation immigrants were 45 percent less likely to commit violence than were third-generation Americans. [See my comment of March 20 on the Sampson study].

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