tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25646979.post1983498533704237334..comments2024-01-01T15:35:12.954-07:00Comments on Simple Utah Mormon Politics: Problems with Legal Immigration? Here's One!Frank Stahelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822334061980912687noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25646979.post-38898960760464895882007-02-01T14:41:00.000-07:002007-02-01T14:41:00.000-07:00Frank, I'm with you on this one. I have personal ...Frank, I'm with you on this one. I have personal experience dealing with immigration, and it ain't customer-friendly. In fact, I once had to ask Senator Hatch's office to intervene because the bureaucrats took more than a year to process some simple paperwork. You can't get an answer to a simple question on the phone, you have to go wait in line for everything. I think they don't care because most of the people who they deal with don't have the right to vote.rmwarnickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10948594032787232166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25646979.post-25764160146127482312007-01-31T13:56:00.000-07:002007-01-31T13:56:00.000-07:00Interesting. Thanks for the info. I'll definitel...Interesting. Thanks for the info. I'll definitely put that one on my reading list!Frank Stahelihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01822334061980912687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25646979.post-80653660536317109072007-01-31T13:53:00.000-07:002007-01-31T13:53:00.000-07:00Steyn mentions this problem in America Alone, but ...Steyn mentions this problem in America Alone, but that is not the thrust of the book. The book is less about American than it is about the rest of the Western world. Steyn cannily demonstrates how things are changing demographically, especially in Europe, and shows how this is impacting culture, lifestyle, and policy.<br /><br />Steyn extrapolates current trends into the future using relatively conservative numbers to show how substantially populations (and therefore cultures) will change. Much of this is already apparent in Western Europe. Steyn notes that within several decades Europe will be mostly populated by Muslims, and that the resultant cultural shift will be rather dramatic.<br /><br />Steyn's thesis is that if something doesn't change, America will eventually stand alone as the last bastion of Western culture.<br /><br />The book is scary -- in some ways too scary, and in other ways not scary enough. As is the problem with trend projection, it is always impossible to predict unforeseen future events that could change the trend.Scott Hinrichshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11831447472339880148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25646979.post-40995860291066782322007-01-30T12:27:00.000-07:002007-01-30T12:27:00.000-07:00Is this what his new book, "America Alone" is abou...Is this what his new book, "America Alone" is about?Frank Stahelihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01822334061980912687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25646979.post-61002933580767895882007-01-30T11:54:00.000-07:002007-01-30T11:54:00.000-07:00Mark Steyn, himself an immigrant, says that one of...<a href="http://www.steynonline.com/">Mark Steyn</a>, himself an immigrant, says that one of the major problems with U.S. immigration policy is that it's application is accomplished in a hodge-podge arbitrary manner. Every official kind of makes up the rules as they go. And any single official can completely ruin somebody's life.<br /><br />This issue holds special interest for me, since I am the son of an immigrant. My dad was able to come here legally 51 years ago. The process has become much more cumbersome since his time.Scott Hinrichshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11831447472339880148noreply@blogger.com