Most Jewish-themed tours of China skip Kaifeng, focusing instead on the immigration of persecuted European Jewry, in cities like Shanghai, Harbin, Tianjin and Beijing.
One conservative commentator, Ted Byfield, wrote last month that Canada's Liberal government, instead of promoting the immigration of 200,000 people a year, should rejuvenate Canada's aging population by encouraging women to bring unwanted pregnancies to term and to place the babies up for adoption.
Instead of the alienation of immigration, Nora faces estrangement at home: "Nora found herself wondering if there was somewhere she could go, if there was a town, or a part of Dublin with a house like this one … where no one could visit them and they could be alone there, all three of them.
But instead of walking out of the immigration office with a green card, Karla was given a deportation order on the spot.
David Olusoga cites the report by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) as "providing facts and evidence to dispel the myths surrounding immigration" ("Instead of immigration myths we now have facts. But will we act upon them?", Comment).
And instead of making immigration policy serve the nation's values and workforce needs, government, egged on by conservatives, aspires to emulate East Germany along the Rio Grande, spending scores of billions to militarize a border bristling with hardware bought with previous scores of billions.
Prashanthi Reddy, an attorney in New York City who offered pro bono help to some of the students, said most people she helped chose to leave the US voluntarily instead of facing immigration court.
"I would suggest the president look over the proposal himself, get more involved," instead of outsourcing immigration policy to a "thirtysomething hardliner," said Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), vice chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, referring to Miller, who is 32.
Instead of supporting immigration reform, she urged Republicans to follow the party's 2012 presidential candidate's example.
On top of that, instead of comprehensive immigration reform, we have an enforcement-only approach passing in the Senate and the House that are controlled by the Democrats and signed by the Democratic president.
