The article below hints, but doesn’t say outright, that some of the people who are streaming into the U.S. from Mauritania were slaves there. According to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Maryam Bint Al-Sheikh of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) stated in a June 18, 2020 interview: “Unfortunately, there is still slavery in Mauritania. More than 20% of people in Mauritania suffer from slavery – a situation where a person owns another person and does whatever he wants with him at any given moment. This situation exists here in Mauritania, unfortunately.” Why does Mauritania continually drag its feet about eradicating slavery, and persecute anti-slavery activists? The dirty little secret here is that it is because slavery is sanctioned in Islam.
Islamic mores are strictly enforced in Mauritania: also in 2020, seven people charged with “contempt for the Muslim religion” and “terrorism” for criticizing Islam.
Are the Mauritanians who are entering the U.S. now being vetted, so as to ensure that only the former slaves come in, and not their slavers? What do you think? Is anything being done to explain the importance of the freedom of speech to the new arrivals? What do you think?
“Thousands more Mauritanians are making their way to the US, thanks to a route spread on social media,” by Jake Offenhartz, Patrick Orsagos and Renata Brito, Associated Press, August 19, 2023 (thanks to SW):
CINCINNATI (AP) — Aissata Sall was scrolling through WhatsApp in May when she first learned about the new route to the United States. For Ibrahima Sow, the discovery came on TikTok a few weeks later.
By the time their paths crossed at the tidy one-story brick house in Cincinnati, they had encountered hundreds of other Mauritanians, nearly all of them following a new path surging in popularity among younger migrants from the West African nation, thanks largely to social media.
“Four months ago, it just went crazy,” said Oumar Ball, who arrived in Cincinnati from Mauritania in 1997 and recently opened his home to Sow, Sall and more than a dozen other new migrants. “My phone hasn’t stopped ringing.”
The spike in migration was made possible by the discovery this year of a new route through Nicaragua, where relaxed entry requirements allow Mauritanians and a handful of other foreign nationals to purchase a low-cost visa without proof of onward travel.
As word of the entry point spreads, travel agencies and paid influencers have taken to TikTok to promote the trip, selling packages of flights that leave from Mauritania, then connect through Turkey, Colombia and El Salvador, and wind up in Managua, Nicaragua. From there, the migrants, along with asylum seekers from other nations, are whisked north by bus with the help of smugglers.
“The American dream is still available,” promises a video on TikTok, one of dozens of similar posts from French-speaking “guides” that help Mauritanians make the trip. “Don’t put off tomorrow what you can do today.”…
The influx of Mauritanians has surprised officials in the U.S. It came without a triggering event — such as a natural disaster, coup or sudden economic collapse — suggesting the growing power of social media to reshape migration patterns: From March to June, more than 8,500 Mauritanians arrived in the country by crossing the border illegally from Mexico, up from just 1,000 in the four months prior, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
The new arrivals likely now outnumber the estimated 8,000 foreign-born Mauritanians previously living in the U.S., about half of whom are in Ohio. Many arrived in the 1990s as refugees after the Arab-led military government began expelling Black citizens.
Some who left say they’re again fleeing state violence directed against Black Mauritanians. Racial tensions have increased since the May death of a young Black man, Oumar Diop, in police custody, with the government moving aggressively to crush protests and disconnect the country’s mobile internet.
The nation was one of the last to criminalize slavery, and the practice is widely believed to persist in parts of the country. Several Mauritanians who spoke to The Associated Press said police targeted them because of anti-slavery activism.
“Life is very difficult, especially for the Black Mauritanian population,” said Sow, 38, who described himself as an activist in the country. “The authorities became threatening and repressive.”…
Human rights groups have called on the Biden administration to grant Temporary Protected Status to Mauritania, pointing to reports of abuse against Black residents who are deported after fleeing….
On a recent Friday evening, more than a dozen Mauritanians carpooled to a nearby mosque to pray. After the service, they piled into the living room of another friend’s house for dinner: steaming bowls of lamb and couscous served on the floor, with cans of Coca-Cola. A women’s World Cup game played as the group discussed their pasts and futures….
rbla says
There must be a billion people abroad living under some form of oppression who would love to come here. Is America supposed to be the dumping ground for the world? Will that help our social cohesion? Would that not weaken our ability to stand up to “Evil” Putin? Would hundreds of millions of additional residents in our high consumption society be good for the environment? Where are all of the global warming worriers on this issue?
Hoi Polloi says
Average IQ in Somalia: 68
Average IQ in Mauritius: 86
Ilhan is jealous.
Somalia: 90% muslim
Mauritius: 17.3% muslim
That tracks.
And here was I, thinking our betters meant it when they lied that the future would require a highly educated population. They clearly just wanted to grind the populace through their leftist diploma mills.
Hoi Polloi says
My bad. It wouldn’t return results for Mauritania and, no geology expert, I assumed that was a names frequently changing in that part of the world issue and didn’t listen to bells ringing. Mauritania: average IQ 76 and “nearly all muslims,” so that still tracks. Sorry.
somehistory says
Are the reporters trying to say that these thousands of people “fleeing’ here, coming from Africa through South America are fleeing because they are **slaves***?
Where do “slaves” get the money for computers to look up things on “social media”?
Where do slaves get the money to travel from Africa to South America in order to buy a “low-cost” …or any cost…visa to travel further?
Of course, once these slaves…probably all mozlum…get inside the U.S., they don’t have to worry about where they can get travel money. Or money for phones, computers, clothes, housing, food or anything else.
They have it made and laid in the shade.
Deodata says
In the UK the illegal immigrants are paying up to £14000 to the traffickers, where did get the money?
John Pepple says
Yes, I noticed that, too. Are these slaves fleeing from their masters? And did they steal money from him to be able to afford these things?
I do think, though, that every Social Justice Warrior should be reading things like this. Maybe learning that there is still slavery in the world and that it is not being perpetrated by white Americans will give them a sense of perspective.
GreekEmpress says
Latest from here on the border—harder to get flights out of Tucson. Seats are being given to the migrants. Friend got bumped this morning from an early flight for that reason.
somehistory says
That’s disgusting, to say the least. thanks for the update.
James Lincoln says
GreekEmpress,
What city was the flight to?
GreekEmpress says
Hi Mr. Lincoln—
He was going to Denver.
He got on a flight today—texted that there were about 20 migrants on board this flight.
James Lincoln says
Thank you for your reply.
Fitna says
Someone once mentioned a report that shows it is far cheaper to help migrants in their own country by sending them money/aid than to let them come to western countries.
Plus there are 4 billion people who live below the poverty line, are we going to let them all in?
It’d be better for companies to set up business on their land and employ them, then to let them come here and compete.
Looks like the US is also headed the way of Europe…expect rapes, murders and other crimes to skyrocket. What a mess.
Leftists are the absolutely worst people to have in power…while they have some ideas right, the rest are insane.