Why We Need Much Tougher Immigration Policies: Some Sad Lessons from Brighton Beach

Townhall.com ^ | August 23, 2015 | Mark Nuckols

[kearnyirish2]

Even Australia & Canada don’t just throw open their doors; they have the same welfare we do, and want to ensure they don’t end up on them ASAP. In our country, the wealth re-distributed by that welfare has created a huge false economy that is used to keep whole states afloat.

[kearnyirish2]

Most things in which we used to lead are now done elsewhere; we’ve lost our exceptionalism, and the upper crusts of the Third World countries know it.

[rmlew]

It is true that Russian Jews consider Americans ignorant. Americans barely know American geography for the most part. Most know little to no American history.
It is true that older Russians (Jewish and non-Jewish) who came to the US are on welfare. Many came over age 50 and not knowing English. Their degrees were viewed often as suspect or meaningless. I know of surgeons lucky to become nurses in America. But the middle aged one, young adults, and above all children have done well and not by fraud. I don't know any adults without at least an associates degree or trade. I would note that the author of this just attacked the third most Republican ethnic group (Russian and Bukharan Jews) after WASPS and White Catholics. In 2011, Russian Jews elected the most Conservative Republican congressman in the northeast and the State Senator in the city. Democrats responded by destroying their districts.
It doesn't matter in the long run. There are more Jewish children born to Russian Jews and Russian Jews and non-Russian Jews than to the traditionally liberal Jews most of you think about. (Of course 3/4 of Jewish children under 5 are now Orthodox Jews.)

[junta]

That show “Flip or Flop” in SoCal is basically half the time just clearing out junk from some immigrant squatter types before they can even begin the demo.

[kearnyirish2]

I could imagine; definitely different sanitary customs...