IMMIGRATION

Professor Sabrin, Ph.D response

Regarding ”President’s immigration bill unveiled” (Page 1A, Feb. 19). 

I arrived in America with my older brother and parents, the only members of their respective families who survived the Holocaust, from war torn Germany in 1949, three years after they left their native Poland.  

As I recall my father told me he wrote his great aunt in New York City who responded quickly with the appropriate instructions to obtain sponsorship so we could immigrate to America.  My father was thoroughly vetted in West Germany inasmuch as he served as a partisan commander in his struggle against the Nazis.  We sailed for America in early August 1949 and settled in the lower East Side of Manhattan.

In America we did not receive any public assistance but the support of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), a nonprofit organization founded in 1881 to assist Jewish refugees, and is now known only as HIAS as its mission is to help as many refugees as possible.  

The solution to our intractable immigration problem is quite simple: anyone who wants to come to America needs to obtain sponsors who would be responsible for their well being until they become financially independent.

As far as the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in America are concerned, they should become permanent residents with no path to citizenship since they did not follow the rules as tens of millions of immigrants did before them. After all we are a nation of laws, or are we? The so-called dreamers could have a path to citizenship, which should be open to negotiations

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Germany introduces women-only trains

Billionaires like Samuel Irving Newhouse (estimated net worth:  $9.5 billion) and Donald Edward Newhouse (estimated net worth: $10.5 billion) live in a bubble. They wouldn't know what real life was if it jumped up and bit them on the arse (which we suspect to be their fondest dream).  Like the Koch brothers, the Newhouse boys like to throw their money around to remake the world the way they want it.  That's what all that money does to you.  It makes you a crazy megalomaniac with god delusions.  

The Newark Star-Ledger is owned by the Newhouse boys.  In fact, Donald is the 2nd richest resident of New Jersey and the 56th richest person in the United States.  That makes him real nuts -- off the charts god delusional.  Recently he had his newspaper editorialize about opening up women's toilets to men, with penises, who fantasize about being women.  Only in bubble-world does this make sense.

In the real world, responsible people are trying to make the world safer for women and girls.  So while the Newhouse boys and their organ, the Star-Ledger, advocate making New Jersey women and girls less safe, in Germany they are advancing international efforts to make women and girls more safe.  Here is a story that appeared yesterday in a European newspaper, the Daily Mirror:

German train operator introduces women-only carriages amid fears over 'migrant sex attacks'

A German train operator has announced it is introducing women and children-only train carriages amid fears over sex attacks in the country.

The Regiobahn line between Leipzig and Chemnitz will introduce the carriages to increase security for women.

The carriages will be next to the train conductor in a bid to make women feel more safe.  

A spokesman for the railway said: “The local proximity to the customer service representative is chosen deliberately.”

Germany is still reeling from a string of sex attacks in Cologne on New Year's Eve, allegedly carried out by dozens of migrants.

In total more than 800 complaints were made to police and the incidents have sparked criticism over German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to refuse to limit the number of refugees allowed into the country.

But the railway has said the measure is not a direct reaction to the Cologne incidents but is about increasing security generally.

The idea of gender segregated carriages was suggested by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn last year as a measure to reduce sexual harassment on public transport.

He said: “Some women have raised with me that a solution to the rise in assault and harassment on public transport could be to introduce women-only carriages. 

“I would consult with women and open it up to hear their views on whether women-only carriages would be welcome – and if piloting this at times and on modes of transport where harassment is reported most frequently would be of interest.”

The measure is also currently in place in countries such as Brazil, Mexico and Egypt.