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Greenfield: Super-Amnesty Will Turn Every City into Detroit
Sultan Knish blog ^ | Thursday, November 13, 2014 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 11/13/2014 9:25:39 PM PST by Louis Foxwell

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Super-Amnesty Will Turn Every City into Detroit

Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog

After another bloody weekend in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel branded the shootings unacceptable and the city’s top cop demanded more gun control laws. Chicago’s murder rate has actually dropped since concealed carry became legal. Emanuel’s lawsuits over his illegal gun control laws have left the already struggling city deep in the hole and forced to cover the NRA’s million dollars in legal bills.

Concealed carry paid off over that bloody weekend when a vet carrying a gun returned fire stopping a massacre before it happened. The original shooter ended up in the hospital, but nobody ended up in the morgue, which kept the death toll for the weekend down to fourteen.

Fourteen isn’t pretty, but it’s better than twenty or thirty.

Chicago’s murder rate in 1992 was double what it is today. The death rate was at 33.7 out of 100,000 which meant that you had a pretty good chance of being shot in Chicago. Today it’s down to 15 out of 100,000, which is small comfort to those ending up in the morgue, but it gives everyone else much better odds of surviving to see what ingenious ways the next corrupt mayoral administration will use to rip off the city.

Back in 1992, the cops also blamed guns for the murder rate. But it wasn’t the guns that were killing people. It was the gangs. Now the murder rate is down, but the number of shootings is up. To Chicago’s police boss, that’s a problem, as if it makes a difference to the deceased whether he’s shot, stabbed or dropped in the water wearing cement overshoes. But fighting guns is easier than fighting crime.

The gun obsession is one of the few things that cops and leftists have in common. It’s the last politically acceptable form of prohibitionism in a society that enthusiastically legalizes drugs, even if possessing crack cocaine is statistically much more likely to lead you to kill a man, than possessing a gun will.

Every shooting spree bypasses the obvious problem with calls for more gun laws and something for the youth to do over the weekend that doesn’t involve shooting up the local housing project. This weekend, Rahm Emanuel took on the problem of funding more teen centers while Chicago’s top cop blustered about more gun laws. And then having successfully talked around the issue, they all went home.

The left loves root causes more than it loves red shirts and black bandanas, a fashion choice that it shares with some of the gangs responsible for most of the shootings.

America’s gun violence problem is urban. It’s localized in Democratic enclaves. And it overlaps neatly with its corrupt political machines. It has nothing to do with the NRA and a great deal to do with the party of social engineering, the welfare state and gun bans.

And illegal immigration.

Homicide rates overlap with unemployment rates, especially when accounting for the demographic populations of young minority men who are statistically more likely to kill or be killed.

92% of black male teens in Chicago don’t have a job. In Detroit, 50% of black men are unemployed. It’s not that there aren’t any jobs, but the entry level jobs have been mostly going to immigrants.

The Center for Immigration Studies found that under Obama two-thirds of jobs went to immigrants, both legal and illegal. Throw in a massive illegal alien amnesty and the rush of illegal aliens into the country will turn the employment figures of every city into Detroit and Chicago.

The black male unemployment rate in New York was at 33%. And the murder rate in New York is significantly lower than in Detroit or Chicago. But how long will that last if the unemployment rate in New York rises above 50%? Before long the marginal gangs will swell to monstrous sizes controlling entire neighborhoods. Anyone who can will flee and the city will once again become what it was.

The same process will take place in most major American cities.

The United States of America does not have a shortage of workers. It has a shortage of jobs. The irresponsible immigration policy has created a surplus of workers. Illegal alien amnesty will make that surplus much worse. Legalize twelve million illegal aliens and another twelve million will come. Those who can’t find jobs, will find gangs. Those who lose jobs to them will also find gangs.

The gangs will fight each other for control of entire neighborhoods and the crime wave will set America back decades.

After the 1986 amnesty, the number of murders, which had begun to fall in the early eighties, rose again. They did not return to a pre-amnesty level until 1997. Rapes have only recently returned to a pre-amnesty level. Now the progress we’ve made is about to be undone all over again.

In 1986, murder rates suddenly rose mysteriously in major cities. The New York Times described the crime rates as being the highest since the 1970s.

In Chicago, murders increased by 20%. In New York they increased by 20%. The cities rushed to crack down on guns while insisting that they were mystified by the drastic increase.

The guns weren’t the problem. The illegal alien amnesty which had created a magnet was. Illegal aliens with fake documents headed in hoping to take advantage of amnesty. Later newly legalized immigrants invited their family members to join them. Even before the amnesty took effect, crime rates spiked.

Amnesty advocates claim that immigrants aren’t taking jobs from Americans because they are more likely to be employed at the lower and higher ends of the marketplace. And that’s half true. What it really means is that they displace trained technical workers at the high end of the marketplace. That leads to a further erosion of the native middle class, but it doesn’t directly lead to gang violence.

At the lower end of the marketplace, they not only displace workers, but they displace the workers that might have been. Teenagers who would have started working regular jobs instead roam around aimlessly. The lost entry level jobs are substituted with crime. Neighborhoods fall apart and gang violence increases as gang members compete for turf in the new drug marketplace. And the rest is crime statistics and children taken to morgues in cities that can barely keep the lights on.

If we want to repeat the same cycle again, Super-Amnesty, an amnesty several times bigger than the one in 1986, will make it happen. Entire cities will fall into gang violence. Their economies will collapse and that will have a ripple effect on their suburbs and on entire states.

America will be a more dangerous and poorer place. And the politicians will talk some more about banning guns and about building more teen centers for the youth to hang out in between shootings.


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1 posted on 11/13/2014 9:25:39 PM PST by Louis Foxwell
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To: daisy mae for the usa; AdvisorB; wizardoz; free-in-nyc; Vendome; Georgia Girl 2; blaveda; ...
Amnesty will bring on the last dying gasp for a nation driven to its knees by liberalism.

Obama will achieve the ultimate transformation of the greatest nation in the world into a nation at war with itself.

2 posted on 11/13/2014 9:29:00 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Mitch and Boner will sputter and pretend to be outraged and declare they will sue Obama (still waiting for that last one) and maybe even hold hearings which won’t do anything, all to fool conservatives into thinking they oppose Obama’s amnesty when they do not.


3 posted on 11/13/2014 9:29:59 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

It is terrible to witness the senate willingly diluting its own constitutionally-granted and MANDATED authority to put the administration in its place, and confront Obama’s lawlessness, by ceding all of it’s constitutionally mandated powers to the judiciary, by means of this ridiculous lawsuit against Obama. This lawsuit cripples the system of checks and balances between the three branches of government guaranteed by the constitution. What kind of elected officials do we have in congress who would resort to such a tactic?

Secondarily it is really a wake-up call to me to note the small number of responses to this thread on FR. Twenty years ago this kind of article would have had hundreds of outraged responses. Today there is no one left to object to the destruction of America. Anyone who might have been motivated to defend our country has either died or been co-opted by the nanny state.


4 posted on 11/13/2014 10:09:21 PM PST by 4Runner
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To: Louis Foxwell

Naw. Not Detroit.
Guatemala City.


5 posted on 11/14/2014 1:16:12 AM PST by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: 4Runner; Liz; Brad's Gramma; AuntB
Secondarily it is really a wake-up call to me to note the small number of responses to this thread on FR. Twenty years ago this kind of article would have had hundreds of outraged responses.

Years ago there were people on FR that would have posted all kinds of stuff. Most of them were banned. Not sure why.

6 posted on 11/14/2014 2:57:35 AM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: All

good thing we didn’t elect Romney...


7 posted on 11/14/2014 2:59:31 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Louis Foxwell; All

What’s with the “it don’t exist” in pic #2?


8 posted on 11/14/2014 3:10:16 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: raybbr; TADSLOS; 4Runner; edwinland; Tennessee Nana; AuntB; sickoflibs; jsanders2001; Jane Long; ..
Obama's very disturbed---maybe deranged. We are all in danger every minute this seething mass of hatred holds onto power. He was decisively trounced and rejected at midterms. Now he's paranoid----frantic to do something---anything---to feed his monumental ego.

Keep in mind, the ultimate self-hating liberal quest is to "feel good" about oneself.

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FREEPER EDWINLAND CAME UP W/ THIS GEM---The Republican Senate leadership should say: "If the president moves to augment the power of the Executive Branch in an unprecedented and unconstitutional manner via E/O'ing amnesty, then the Legislative Branch will need to increase its powers in order to maintain the balance of powers called for in the US Constitution.

The Senate will do this in an unprecedented but completely constitutional manner, by providing that the filibuster rule is suspended completely until such time as the president withdraws his executive aggrandizement.

RATIONALE--Obama's temporary amnesty E/O requires temporary suspension of the rule. That should also include Congress passing laws without the president signing the bill.

If it is okay for the president to overreach, then it is okay for Congress to overreach. Obama forgets that the Congress can also say, “We have been patient.”

9 posted on 11/14/2014 5:00:39 AM PST by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: Liz

Thanks for the shoutout :) Post it around and maybe someone who works in the Senate might see it!


10 posted on 11/14/2014 5:54:56 AM PST by edwinland
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To: edwinland
This gem of yours needs to go viral.

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FREEPER EDWINLAND CAME UP W/ THIS GEM---The Republican Senate leadership should say: "If the president moves to augment the power of the Executive Branch in an unprecedented and unconstitutional manner via E/O'ing amnesty, then the Legislative Branch will need to increase its powers in order to maintain the balance of powers called for in the US Constitution.

The Senate will do this in an unprecedented but completely constitutional manner, by providing that the filibuster rule is suspended completely until such time as the president withdraws his executive aggrandizement.

RATIONALE--Obama's temporary amnesty E/O requires temporary suspension of the rule. That should also include Congress passing laws without the president signing the bill.

If it is okay for the president to overreach, then it is okay for Congress to overreach. Obama forgets that the Congress can also say, “We have been patient.”

11 posted on 11/14/2014 6:02:02 AM PST by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: canuck_conservative
What’s with the “it don’t exist” in pic #2?

In the ebonics dialect, it seems to be answering hopelessly to the cry for "HELP!"

12 posted on 11/14/2014 6:38:02 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: MrB
92% of black male teens in Chicago don’t have a job. In Detroit, 50% of black men are unemployed. It’s not that there aren’t any jobs, but the entry level jobs have been mostly going to immigrants. The United States of America does not have a shortage of workers. It has a shortage of jobs. The irresponsible immigration policy has created a surplus of workers. Illegal alien amnesty will make that surplus much worse. Legalize twelve million illegal aliens and another twelve million will come. Those who can’t find jobs, will find gangs. Those who lose jobs to them will also find gangs.

Do blacks in Chicago, Detroit and Philly understand democrats are working against them? Do the Black Panthers 'get it'? God, it's all so obvious...

13 posted on 11/14/2014 7:34:08 AM PST by GOPJ (Gruber & MIT - all the class of boiler room lowlifes pushing worthless swamp land on innocents....)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Good article on cause and effect.


14 posted on 11/15/2014 4:09:25 PM PST by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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