[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]

Here’s a roundup of short news items about immigration. I’ll take them in expanding order by geolocation: first provincial, then national, finally global.

“Provincial,” for this Long Islander, means—

• New York City and environs.

As I have been reporting, the city has been coping, or trying to cope, with a mighty flood of illegal aliens being bused, and sometimes flown, up from border states.

There is a lighter side to this, at any rate for us immigration patriots. We get to chuckle at the cognitive dissonance being suffered by goodthinkful New Yorkers.

Immigration sentimentality waxes strong here: Ellis Island! Statue of Liberty poem!

Now, faced with the reality of massive unskilled immigration, mainly fighting-age young men, New York progressives are undergoing severe psychic stress [Migrant Crisis Tests New Yorkers Who Thought They Supported Immigration, by John Leland, NYT, October 7, 2023].

Apparently they supported it in Texas, New Mexico, and especially Arizona, but not, you know, here where they live: https://t.co/J7EXy0INxY

— VDARE (@vdare) October 21, 2023

To which I say: Good!

The illegals are still piling in, more every week. The week ending October 8th saw almost 4,000 new arrivals, bringing the total for the last year and a half to 126,000 and change, more than 64,000 of them still in city shelters.

It’s getting worse, but there are small signs of enlightenment. An October 15th editorial in the New York Post printed the phrase “asylum seekers” in quotation marks!

“Asylum seekers” arriving in New York City just set a new record: nearly 4,000 in a single week.

And the routine inflow is double what it was a year ago.

It’s getting worse, not better, and Homeland Security’s belated move to build a few miles of wall won’t change a thing.

[ New NYC migrant high, FDNY fears fires while Prez Biden fiddles, October 15, 2023 Links in original]

I’ll take what I can get.

Resistance is strongest in the outer boroughs, away from the intense, suicidal Wokery of Manhattan, as we’ve been reporting here.

See

A shelter for illegals on Staten Island that had been loudly protested by people in the neighborhood was evacuated last Monday after the city Fire Department declared it a fire hazard.

Given that Staten Island is heavily working-class legacy-American, and the Fire Department doubly so, I suspect some sort of quiet arrangement there; but whatever, the evacuation was loudly cheered by the locals [Dozens of migrants bused off Staten Island after closing of controversial shelter, by Kevin Sheehan, Craig McCarthy and Haley Brown , NY Post, October 21, 2023]

City Hall is still whining, though. What are they whining about? Well, they have filed over two thousand applications for work permits on behalf of the illegals, and the feds have not approved a single one [Adams downplays lackluster migrant job figures as none yet cleared to earn paychecks, by Craig McCarthy and Chris Nesi, NY Post, October 20, 2023].

Let that sink in: Our federal government is withholding work permits from illegal aliens. Talk about executive dysfunction!

• Nationally

Not to worry, though. On the national level, the New York Post has dug out the paperwork on something called the RRM Initiative. RRM stands for “Release and Reporting Management,” don’t ask me why. It’s federal paperwork and it says that—

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is overseeing 5.7 million migrants in the US—who could soon be provided free medical services, food and even housing by the Biden administration.

ICE admits record 5.7 million migrants in US—Biden wants to provide ‘medical services, housing’ to all, by Diana Glebova, NY Post, October 12, 2023

So that’s all right then. The illegals may not get work permits, but they’ll be getting food, housing, and free medical services.

Let’s not be stingy, though: why shouldn’t they get a yacht as part of the deal?

Nothing much on legal immigration—nothing like as much as I’d like to see. I did, though, spot Gavin Wax the other day on Twitter thus, tweet:

End all student visas. All these “private” colleges and universities are subsidized heavily either directly and indirectly by federal, state, or local government. Tax dollars shouldn’t go to educate foreign nationals on our shores at the expense of American citizens.

End all student visas. All these “private” colleges and universities are subsidized heavily either directly and indirectly by federal, state, or local government. Tax dollars shouldn’t go to educate foreign nationals on our shores at the expense of American citizens.

— Gavin Mario Wax