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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
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National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein | December Jobs: Hispanics And Immigrants Are The Only Winners. And an Immigration Moratorium Could Have Cut Unemployment In Half.
From a distance i.e. from the Main Stream Media’s viewpoint, the December employment report released Friday [PDF] shows an economy continuing to expand at a gradual pace. The 155,000 jobs added by U.S. employers were enough to keep up with growth in the labor force (although millions are still unemployed or are too discouraged to even look for work).
But the “other” employment survey, of households rather than employers, which also reports immigration and ethnicity, provides troubling details. Household employment crept up by a minuscule 28,000 in December—with the gains redounding exclusively to Hispanics.
In December 2012:
- Total Household survey employment rose 28,000 (+0.02 percent)
- non-Hispanic employment fell by 58,000 (-0.05 percent)
- Hispanic employment rose by 86,000 (+0.39 percent)
Over the past 12 months the number of employed Hispanics grew by 7.2%, or 8.5-times the 0.85% growth reported in non-Hispanic employment.
Put differently, Hispanics are 16% of the labor force but they received 60% of the jobs created in the past year.
Hispanic employment is, of course, a proxy for our primary interest: the displacement of native-born workers by immigrants. Since January 2009—the month Barack Obama took office—data on foreign- and native-born employment has been included in the monthly employment report. Coincidence or not, this means we can piece together the monthly points to track the long-term impact of Mr. Obama’s policies:
The blue line tracks native-born job growth; the pink line immigrant job growth; while the yellow line is the ratio of immigrant to native job growth, which we call the New VDARE.com American Worker Displacement Index (NVDAWDI).
NVAWDI rose in December, indicating that immigrants received a larger share of the jobs created that month than in November. In fact, our analysis of Household Survey data finds that immigrants garnered the entire 28,000 rise in December employment while native employment remained unchanged.
Conclusion: immigration explains as much as one-third of December’s rise in Hispanic employment.
Resurgent American worker displacement is also confirmed by comparing
Alabama vs. Notre Dame—Politically Correct Football vs. Historic America
Majority white Notre Dame is pitted against mostly black Alabama in Monday night’s national championship college football game.
Despite having a black quarterback, Everett Golson—whose performance had to be salvaged several times this year by his white backup, Tommy Rees—Notre Dame starts up to twelve whites at a time and probably has a 70 percent white roster (judging from the sidelines). Alabama starts only four whites (out of 22 starters) and sports a roster that is over 70 percent black.
College football has long been an obsession in America. A new book examines the racial politics behind the game—both on and off the field—and shows how we arrived at the point where Alabama’s storied football team—all white until the 1970s— is now overwhelmingly black.
Opiate of America: College Football in Black and White is a collection of essays by Paul Kersey, who runs the popular Stuff Black People Don’t Like blog and writes frequently for VDARE.com. Kersey is a keen observer of pop culture and often devotes his blog to racial trends in music, movies and sports.
His book starts off with the 1960s, describing how white coaches, fans and administrators reacted to the demands of black players and the black power movement.
Kersey goes into painstaking detail about controversies at Oregon State, the University of Washington, Syracuse and other colleges where white coaches tried to enforce the rules of their teams on black players. Seemingly minor things like asking a black player to shave his moustache or benching a black player in favor of a white athlete would spur protests and race activism—all supported by the (exceptionally liberal) sports media.
At the University of Washington (UW), Jim Owens was a popular coach who led his team to numerous conference titles and Rose Bowl wins throughout the 1960s. UW had long played black players but that was not enough to save Owens from constant harassment from his own black players starting in 1968.
The thirteen blacks on the roster presented Owens with a list of racial demands, such as hiring a black coach, firing a white trainer they didn’t like, and having a four man “black athletic committee” oversee any roster changes made by the coaching staff. Owens, like most of the supposedly authoritarian white coaches profiled in the book, meekly gave in to the black power demands. A Sports Illustrated article from 1969 notes,
“Owens lives in a glass house. His every move is catalogued. The University’s Student Athletic Committee grills him on student seating and other procedural matters and on the athletic department’s requests for funds. Owens is questioned about black athletes, about discrimination, about jobs.”
[Shave Off That Thing! By John Underwood, September 1, 1969]
Only one coach didn’t give in so easily. The University of Wyoming (of all places) used to recruit black players from the South. During the 1969 season, a group of black Wyoming players wanted to wear armbands during their game with Brigham Young University (BYU) to protest the Mormon Church’s racial theories. Coach Lloyd Eaton—known as a stern disciplinarian— denied this request and simply threw the fourteen disgruntled blacks off the team.
(Eaton and the University refused to back down, but with 14 players suspended, Wyoming started losing games, and Eaton resigned and took a job with the Green Bay Packers.)
In the Southeastern Conference (SEC) many of the top schools such as Georgia, Louisiana State (LSU), Arkansas and Auburn remained all-white until the early 1970s. This was a sore point for black “civil rights” leaders, since these all white teams from Dixie routinely defeated integrated sides with black athletes.
Of course, these teams paid a price for fielding all-white rosters. The Ole Miss team of 1962 and the Alabama team of 1966 went undefeated yet were not named national champions due to the biases of the sports reporters of the day, who vote for the national champions.
The complexion of the SEC started to change in the 1970s. By the 1980s, teams were often half white and half black.
Main Stream Media sports reporters make a big deal out of a 1970 game between all-white Alabama and an integrated Southern California (USC) team. USC crushed Alabama which purportedly made legendary Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant decide to recruit black players.
But Kersey points out that the 1970 Alabama team was in a down year anyway. The very next year Alabama—with only two blacks on the team—defeated the same integrated USC team.
Nevertheless, the idea that blacks are superior athletes is
War Against Christmas 2012: A Twelfth Night Roundup
Christmas 2012: I II III All Posts
See also: War Against Christmas 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999
Peter Brimelow writes: Sunday January 6th is The Feast of Epiphany, which means tonight or tomorrow night (there’s a dispute) is Twelfth night—traditionally, the end of Christmas. We are hedging our bets by running Tom Piatak’s wrap-up survey of the War Against Christmas tonight and announcing the winner of our annual War Against Christmas competition tomorrow. For Tom’s earlier coverage of the Kristmaskampf, see here and here etc.
On December 6, 2012, the feast of St. Nicholas, I had the good fortune to give a speech on the War on Christmas to an intelligent and engaging audience at the Rockford Institute, publishers of Chronicles Magazine. It was a distillation of what I have written over the past decade on what VDARE.com calls the Kristmaskampf—the drive to strip our culture of references to Christmas. [The War On Christmas | Audio]
I was interviewed at length by Matt Mershon [email him], an earnest reporter for the Rockford FOX affiliate. His report gave a fair summary of my speech, but also contained a twist in War on Christmas Denial I had not encountered before. He used an interview with the organizer of Rockford’s “Festival of Lights”, Joe Marino,[Email him] to suggest to viewers that I was the one waging an unwanted war—not the people who have managed to get displays of Christmas decorations across the country renamed such things as the “Festival of Lights:”
"Talk to the kids that drive through here with their parents and when they see the lights and they get to talk to Santa Claus," remarks Marino. "Talk to them about a 'War on Christmas.' You'll get a pretty different attitude”.... Marino says, although he may prefer to be wished a 'Merry Christmas', he says Christmastime is a time to celebrate and not wage a "war".
Of course, in Main Stream Media outlets far more august than FOX affiliates, the 2012 consensus was overwhelming that those of us resisting the War on Christmas were bad, 1) because we were causing needless strife by imagining this non-existent War; and that anyway 2) the suppression of Christmas is good because that is what “diversity” and “inclusion” require.
Newsweek’s David Sessions led the charge, declaring that “The War on Christmas is Over” and sneering at Bill O’Reilly for being “virtually the last person to continue to fight.” Sessions also wrote that
some Americans say that anger over the perceived purging of Christmas from society was simply absorbed into the right’s more general resentment toward the forces of multicultural inclusion.
Similarly, the Washington Post ran an op-ed piece by Herb Silverman, [Email him] founder of the Secular Coalition for America, arguing first that the War on Christmas was “manufactured,” and then that “Atheists . . . use this seasonal opportunity to join the war by supporting diversity” and that those resisting the War on Christmas are waging a “war against religious diversity.”
Silverman also argued that “Christmas has its origins in the winter solstice festivals that most ancient civilizations observed” and that, since Puritans in both England and America banned Christmas, “Christians initiated the first war on Christmas.”
The New York Times also invoked the Puritans in a rare appeal to tradition: an an op-ed by Rachel Schnepper [email her]arguing that the Puritans were right to conclude that “Christmas represented nothing more
War On Christmas 2012 | Bill O’Reilly’s (Very Moderate) War For Christmas
Christmas 2012: I II III IV All Posts
See also: War Against Christmas 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999
Before Christmas, George Soros’s Media Matters operation had an attack on The O’Reilly Factor’s Bill O’Reilly, constantly denounced by War On Christmas Deniers as the point man in the Khristmaskampf resistance:
Bill O'Reilly Covers The "War On Christmas" More Than Actual Wars, Again
O'Reilly Again Covered The "War On Christmas" More Than Three Times As Much As Actual Conflicts In Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, And Gaza.
By Ben Dimiero, Matt Gertz, & Rob Savillo, December 19, 2012
From December 1 through 18, The O'Reilly Factor spent more than 55 minutes on the "War on Christmas" but only about 17 minutes covering military conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and Gaza.[Mor
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MediaMatters included this helpful graphic, which gives you an idea of the amount of coverage given to the War On Christmas by O’Reilly:
Of course, this is not actually that much. The O’Reilly Factor broadcast a total of 720 minutes—an hour every weekday—over that period. And, while 55 minutes of airtime on Fox Network would be a lot if you had to buy it as ads, it’s not “flooding the zone”.
Anyway, O’Reilly isn’t a war correspondent, he’s a Culture War correspondent. And the War On Christmas is a major front in the Culture War—much more so t
Jonah Goldberg And The Historians: Whose Schlock Is Being Gored?
In a recent assault on the intellectual Left, Jonah Goldberg complained about “the dreck” that is circulating in our culture courtesy of anti-American Leftist historians. [The Stone Truth: Left-Wingers Are Boring, National Review, December 7, 2012]
Jonah is especially exercised by Oliver Stone and his co-author, American University historian Peter Kuznick, who have published a “miasmic 700-plus-page tome”, called The Untold History of the United States Goldberg, whom we are led to assume is a maven on American history, the way he is on “liberal fascism,” is exasperated by how the Left, which he deems “boring,” dares to recycle the same stuff again and again as “new, fresh, and courageous.” He criticizes not so much the “substance” of Stone’s book but “the manufactured rebelliousness, the kitschy nostalgic play-acting of the thing.” He cries out against the “kitsch of leftism” and the “hackneyed left-wingery” which passes for scholarship on American campuses.
Far be it from me, as a forty-year veteran of college teaching, to deny Jonah’s charges about those boring leftists who micromanage American campuses and academic publications.
Indeed, the idiocies of this breed become exponentially more intolerable the farther you descend into the academic cesspool. Those in charge of our less-esteemed colleges have begun to emit the same kind of Cultural Marxism that now dominates the better schools, but in a garbled fashion two generations later.
But I see two problems with Jonah’s screed.
For one thing, I can’t see why he thinks that he and other minicon commentators are more interesting than Oliver Stone. For all his nuttiness, Stone is a talented movie maker.
Moreover, I enjoy watching his intricately-contrived movies more than I do reading Jonah and his buds at NR. Even without seeing their columns, I could easily
John Derbyshire’s Vade Mecum For Diversity Conversations
[VDARE.com note: His what? Helpful definition of vade mecum here).
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens, observes one of Schiller’s characters sagely: “Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.”
We all know the feeling.
And those of us in the tiny minority who keep up with race-realist and patriotic immigration reform websites know the feeling particularly well. So comprehensive is the Main Stream Media [MSM] blackout that policies we have been patiently promoting for years, facts we have long since uncovered, ideas we have worn so threadbare with discussion that we can no longer be much bothered with them, strike too many unreflective ordinary Americans as: astonishing! Radical!! Impossible!!!! Outrageous!!!!!!!! (I have been reading Tom Wolfe.)
Contrariwise, when we engage in discussion on these topics with that Ordinary American, we know with dreary certitude the slogans we shall hear:
Nation Of Immigrants! Culture of poverty! Fix the schools! Etc.
This is what the Ordinary American has heard from the MSM and not bothered to reflect upon. From Fox News or MSNBC, the New York Times or Weekly Standard, it makes very little difference—any more than it makes a difference which party’s politician he most recently heard them from. Seven years ago, a Republican Administration was vowing to “reform our immigration system” (by which it meant amnesty). Now a Democratic Administration is vowing the same thing, in well-nigh the same words.
We live in a one-party state, adrift on an ocean of clichés.
Readers often ask me how to counter the commonest points that opponents make.
There is a misconception there: I am a retired and uncourtly scholar with only meager argumentative skills and a tendency—fatal to success in verbal combat—to see the other guy’s point of view.
A couple of years ago I was invited on The View to discuss something or other. The opportunity for a moment’s fame tugged at me briefly; then I realized what easy meat I would be. I all too clearly saw myself ineffectually mumbling “Well, yes, you may have a point, but...” to some snarling Gyno-American gargoyle who wouldn’t know a database from a dildo. I politely declined the invitation.
But in arenas less fevered than daytime-TV screech-fests, the clichés are, in fact, easy to refute. Here are counters for the half-dozen commonest. I have kept the wordage low enough that you can print them up on a two-sided sheet to laminate and carry round with you as a vade mecum.
But that just shows my age: you will actually bookmark it on your iGadget.
It’s not race, it’s poverty. (By far the most common assertion when black-white gaps in school achievement or criminality are discussed. A third to a half of all race-denial arguments are some version of this. Vast multi-billion-dollar federal programs are premised on it.)
Of our 40 million self-identifying blacks, 25 percent are on food stamps; of our 268 million self-identifying whites-plus-Hispanics-plus-Asians-plus-Amerinds, nine percent are. Put it another way, blacks “commit poverty” at 2.8 times the rate of non-blacks, if we take food-stamp usage as the proxy and ignore the one-in-seven Americans who write “human” or “Klingon” in the census race box.
So if blacks commit crimes at 2.8 times the rate of non-blacks, then crime-wise it could indeed be that “it’s not race, it’s poverty.” But if the multiplier is much different, then the assertion is false.
Guess what? The multiplier is way different, depending on the crime. For homicide it’s about seven; for robbery, eight and a half. Even for white-collar crimes like fraud and bribery, it’s in the four-to-five zone. The statistics are easy to find.
For school achievement, you can remove the poverty factor. Just study test results in an integrated middle-class suburb. It’s been done, years ago. John Ogbu wrote a book about it. Years ago.
And empiricism aside, pure logic tells us that if the poor are more characteristically X (criminal, low-achieving, addicted, whatever) than the non-poor, three possibilities are in play:
(1) Poverty causes X;
(2) X causes poverty;
(3) Some underlying factor causes both poverty and X.
For crime I’d guess all three are at work, weighted about 10-20-70, with feedback loops from one to another. (Try getting a job when you have a prison record).
It’s not race, it’s culture. Notwithstanding that it’s one of the phrases most commonly heard from the inattentive, this is in fact empty of meaning—what logicians call a tautology, like “All bachelors are single.”
“Culture” in the properly anthropological sense, means “the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group.” So if you say: “This group characteristically behaves and thinks like this because of their culture,” you are saying “they behave and think like this because this is how they behave and think.”
This invoking of culture as an “explanation” of culture is a bastard child of some genuine anthropology. The sire of the bastard seems to have been Alfred Kroeber, fl. 1900-1950. Prior to Kroeber’s time—and indeed in his own early writings—what we nowadays call “culture” in this context was called “history.”
Fine, OK: then it’s not race, it’s history. Well, up to a point, Lord Copper. If there’s a big, long migration in your group’s history, then geography comes into play, affecting subsequent history—more feedback loops. So it’s history and geography.
And then, if the environment in which your group lives—geographical, climatic, zoological, nutritional, or social—undergoes some big change, the group’s genetic profile may be affected. But then it is race, because that’s what race is: the genetic profile of a mostly-inbreeding group.
One of the greatest advances in our understanding this past few years is that group genetic change can happen more quickly than was previously thought. Dmitry Belyaev bred the wildness out of Siberian foxes in just ten years.
That’s anecdotal. (Said in rebuttal when you mention some particular anti-white outrage by illegal aliens or other malefactors.)
Oh, you don’t like anecdotal? Fine, let’s talk statistical, then. Which database would you prefer to use: NCVS, Uniform Crime Reports, Supplementary Homicide...? I’m pretty familiar with them all, as I’m sure you are…
The guy who shot up a school just recently was white. Anecdotal!
OK, but serial killers and spree killers are predominantly white. Americans are predominantly white, so if all else were equal, this is what you’d expect.
But all things aren’t equal. Justin Cottrell’s book Rise of the Black Serial Killer does a proper statistical analysis. Conclusion: Per capita, there are at least twice as many black as nonblack serial killers. VDARE.com has reported extensively on the topic: here, here, here...
The only people with any right to be in this country are the Native Americans. If true, this suggests two possible courses of action:
Memo From Middle America| “Oceanside Couple” With Mexican Sex Slave Also Immigrants— How Come MSM Didn’t Say?
The Main Stream Media follows a definite script on immigration. Immigrants are, by definition, good. Therefore, if immigrants have troubles, they must be victims. And if immigrants and native-born Americans have conflict, the native-born Americans must be at fault, probably because of racism and intolerance.
But what happens when real life doesn’t follow the script? Well, in that case, the MSM simply covers up. Reporters with agendas don’t even have to lie—they can just suppress the truth.
Look at an example that’s recently come to light—the disgusting case of the “Oceanside Couple”. At least, that’s what the MSM calls them, since they reside in Oceanside, a city on the California coast in San Diego County.
Here are the basic facts from NBC's San Diego affiliate:
A married couple in Oceanside was arrested on suspicion of human trafficking Thursday, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department confirmed. Inez Martinez Garcia, 43, and her husband, Marcial Garcia Hernandez, 45, were arrested by officials as they left their home in Oceanside at around 7:20 a.m.
Oceanside Couple Accused of Human Trafficking, By Monica Garske [Twitter] and Chris Chan [Twitter], November 30, 2012
Here’s the latest update:
VISTA — An Oceanside couple pleaded not guilty on Tuesday at the Vista Courthouse to felony charges of enslaving a young Mexican girl for sex. Each of the defendants faces up to 390 years to life in prison if convicted of all charges.
Inez Martinez Garcia, 43, and her husband Marcial Garcia Hernandez, 45, allegedly enslaved a 12-year-old girl for forced labor and sex for over two years after she was smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico in the early 2000s.
Oceanside couple pleads not guilty to enslaving young girl, by Rachel Stine, The Coast News, Dec. 20, 2012
What this “Oceanside couple” did was sick, no doubt about it. They deserve to be punished. (Note, however, that their alleged crimes took place twelve years ago—more on this later).
More details from the NBC story:
Marisa Ugarte of the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, a non-profit that provides support to trafficking victims, said her organization brought the case to the Sheriff's Department because the victim wanted justice. The alleged crimes happened in 2000. The female victim in this case—who’s now an adult—came forward with allegations of forced labor and physical and sexual abuse by the Oceanside couple.
Here’s what the “Oceanside Couple” did to this poor girl:
Deputies say the investigation revealed the girl was smuggled into the United States at the age of 12 with promises of a better life and receiving an education.
According to investigators, when the victim arrived at the Garcia household, she was allegedly forced to care for the couple’s three young children, cook and clean the house under constant threat of physical abuse.
Officials said that over the course of a 20-month period, the young girl was also forced to have sex with Marcial Garcia Hernandez.
When she refused to participate in the sex acts or didn’t complete her household labor in a timely manner she was beaten, said investigators.
The victim was also allegedly forced to lie about her age when the couple found work for the girl at a local restaurant. She had to turn over all of her wages to Inez Martinez Garcia, investigators said.
Over time, the couple also allegedly forced the girl into having sex with other older men for monetary gain.
What we have here is a classic case of the exploitation of an illegal alien. She was brought to the U.S. under false pretenses, she was enslaved, sexually abused, and even pimped out to other men.
And apparently the neighbors didn’t
Happy New Year from VDARE.com!
VDARE.com’s first New Year’s message of the new millennium contained an asterisk[ Happy New Year* From VDARE!, December 31, 2000] since, as Editor Peter Brimelow warned, “the Supreme Court may determine at any moment that use of the Gregorian Calendar violates the separation of Church and State, demonstrates Eurocentric bias and is quite probably a hate crime. ”
Here are two quotes for the new millennium:
Mark my words. I am going to have more problems with members of my own party than I will with Democrats…If anybody comes to me demanding this and telling me to do that, they'll be finished. They tried to do that in Texas with English-only [an attempt to dismantle bilingual education]. But I said: "No. You are going to destroy this party by being extremist"…I had to change the imagery in [sic] my party. I had to change the idea that my party was against things. Against immigrants. Against public schools. I wanted people to know I was for something, so that people wanted to hear what I stood for.
- George W. Bush, quoted in London Financial Times, December 12, 2000.
Q: At independence, Bangladeshi women averaged six to seven children. Today, that rate has been halved by a strong family planning program. Yet, Bangladesh still has 120 million people and by the year 2050 will have at least twice that number, according to the U.S. State Department. How will Bangladesh feed, educate, employ and house those kinds of numbers?
A: Sheika Hasina [the (lady) President of Bangladesh]: We'll send them to America! [Laughter].
Interview with Robin Wright, the Los Angeles Times, December 3, 2000
Nothing much has changed since then—the leaders of the Stupid Party are still being stupid, and Bangladesh is continuing to export people. Just this October, a Bangladeshi with a student visa was arrested for plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.
We ourselves have changed, and now insist on providing citations for stories like those above, which look like this:
- Sheika Hasina |Bangladesh Leader Aims to Make Nation More Than a Symbol of Poverty, By Robin Wright, December 03, 2000
- Personable leader aims to bridge divide, By Richard Wolffe, FT.com, December 14 2000
That’s the kind of service you don’t get from the MSM, or for that matter from most bloggers. And that’s what you’re paying for, if you’re one of our donors. (Many thanks to those who donated, and a reminder to those who didn’t that, new calendar year or not, donations are still tax-deductible.)
We hope with your aid to continue this year as we have done in years past.
Happy New Year!
Previous New Year’s Columns
12/31/00—Happy New Year* From VDARE!
12/31/01—Happy New Year – Unhappy Old Nation? By Sam Francis
12/27/02—View From Lodi, CA: A Patriot's New Year Resolution, by Joe Guzzardi
12/31/03—Happy New Year
Democrat Wonders: Why A WaPo Christmas Sob Story About Being Illegal in America—Compared To Being A U.S. Soldier In Afghanistan?
I was lucky to be celebrating Christmas with family and friends gathered about me. Made me think with pain about Americans serving in those cul de sac wars in the Middle East that Messrs Bush and Cheney got us stuck in, starting in 2003.
And about those who made it home alive, but carrying physical and mental scars that will linger all their lives.
It thus particularly annoyed this Democrat (as it would any thinking citizen) to read yet another sob story from one of America’s leading purveyors of such stuff, my hometown Washington Post.
Steve Hendrix [Email him] emitted it: For many a season of separation | record numbers of deportations sunder immigrant families—right there on page B1 on Christmas Day:
Her husband had always put up the Christmas tree, but this year the 36-year-old wife and mother is on her own in Silver Spring. He offered what guidance he could by cellphone from Honduras, but eventually she gave up on the metal stand with the rusty bolts and just plunked the trunk in a five-gallon bucket filled with rocks.
“It has not fallen over yet,” Rosalda said with a mix of pride and fatigue. “It is very, very difficult at this time of the year. My daughter keeps asking when he will come back. I tell her, ‘Next Christmas, we will be together.’?”
She paused, then began to cry. “I hope to God it is true.”
Rosalda, a pizza cook who entered the United States illegally, doesn’t want to give her last name for fear of making her family’s immigration calamity worse. Her husband of five years, Arturo, was deported in January after being picked up in a sweep of undocumented workers.
Golly—Mr. Obama ordering the government to do its job!
But why is “Rosalda” still here herself?
And if she is so anxious to be with her husband, why not go join him?
She could take her anchor babies along. Oh, yes, there are two:
“It’s been hard all year, with most of the family’s meager income gone and wrenching “Where’s Papa?” questions from their two U.S.-born children, 3 and 2. But December is even worse.
“We will have Christmas on the phone with him,” said Rosalda. “I can get a card for 30 minutes.”“
If your big salty tears aren’t pouring out yet, Hendrix has more:
At a time when political momentum for significant immigration reform seems to be building, the holidays remain an especially difficult stretch for families caught up in the system’s fractured, grinding machinery. After record numbers of deportations in recent years, tens of thousands of families find themselves split at Christmas…
“It’s a difficult time for them,” said Marianne O’Riley,[Email her] director of the Herndon Community Resource Center. “We have one grandmother who is trying to take care of two kids, with both of their parents having been deported. They have so little—a lot of times they have to worry about putting food on the table before they can even think about presents.”[Links added by VDARE.com.]
Doesn’t sound like life in the good old USA is all that great. So why stay?
WaPo’s Hendrix continues:
Portillo had her father [immigration status unspecified] move in to help pay the bills and told the kids not to expect much for Christmas. They have a small tree but no lights. She’s taken extra shifts at the Reston hotel where she works
Deport Piers Morgan—Along With About 8 Million Hispanic Immigrants?
In the wake of British journalist Piers Morgan’s over-the-top rants (even by MainStream Media standards) rants in favor of gun control after the Newtown tragedy, over 60,000 Americans have signed a petition to the White House urging that Morgan be deported. The petition states
“British Citizen and CNN television host Piers Morgan is engaged in a hostile attack against the U.S. Constitution by targeting the Second Amendment. We demand that Mr. Morgan be deported immediately for his effort to undermine the Bill of Rights and for exploiting his position as a national network television host to stage attacks against the rights of American citizens.”
In our 140-character-limit culture, Morgan responded on Twitter:
Ironic U.S. gun rights campaign to deport me for ‘attacking 2nd Amendment rights’ – is my opinion not protected under 1st Amendment rights?
—to which James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal tweeted back:
“Your opinion is protected, your presence in the U.S. is not. See Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972).”
[Wall Street Journal columnist explains on Twitter how to deport Piers Morgan, By Patrick Howley, Daily Caller, December 23, 2012.]
Taranto’s little zinger is correct on constitutional grounds. But contrary, to the Daily Caller’s headline, the article does not actually give us any guidance about getting Morgan deported.
In Kleindienst v. Mandel, to which Taranto refers, the Supreme Court held that a Communist professor who was (surprise) invited to speak by many elite American universities, could be denied a visa based on his advocacy of world communism.
But just because the Executive Branch was not barred from excluding Mandel does not mean that it is able to deport all aliens at its own prerogative. Congress had already excluded all aliens who advocated “the economic, international, and governmental doctrines of world communism.” However, there is no statute that authorizes the deportation of liberals, supporters of gun control, or those who generically want to “undermine the Bill of Rights.”
If we want to deport immigrants who oppose the Second Amendment, Piers Morgan, is of course, not alone. Polls consistently show that Hispanics support gun control at a higher percentage than other Americans. A Pew Research poll asked if it were more important to protect the rights of Americans who own guns or control gun ownership. Fifty seven percent of whites said protect the rights of gun owners. However, only 29% of Hispanics supported gun ownership rights, the lowest support from any ethnic group. [More Support for Gun Rights, Gay Marriage than in 2008, 2004, April 25, 2012]
Similarly, last year a poll by Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns found that 69% of Hispanics believed gun control laws should be stricter.
Admittedly, these numbers could be skewed, given the source. However the group found that only 42% of all Americans (this number includes Hispanics, so the overall non-Hispanic support of gun control would be much lower) supported gun control. [Latino Attitudes Toward Gun Safety and Gun Laws, October 25, 2011]
USA Today’s editorial board’s token Hispanic, Raul A. Reyes, argued after the Aurora Colorado shootings this summer that “Perhaps in the future, as our numbers continue to grow, Hispanics will demand laws to limit the possibility of senseless gun violence.” [Latinos may lead the way to gun control in the future, NBC Latino, July 22, 2012]
James Taranto has appeared to improve over the last few years and occasionally has made some insightful points. But by and large he has been a relentless promoter of mass immigration. I found his tweet amusing, and in fact it was the exact same thought I had when Morgan complained about his supposed First Amendment rights. But I found the fact that Taranto seems advocating for the plenary powers in immigration in this particular case is paradoxally emblematic of the problem with the whole “Deport Morgan” meme.
Piers Morgan is just one person— we are letting in hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the country who will eventually become citizens and vote for gun control laws. Yes, Morgan has
Seven Things Parents Can Do Post-Newtown Without Government
These simple common-sense steps are adapted from a post I published on my blog after the horrific Newtown, Conn., massacre. Our hearts ache, but we are not completely helpless or hopeless in the face of evil and the unknown. And we are not alone. This Christmas, cherish life, keep faith and practice self-empowerment.
Christmas in an Anti-Christian Age
For two millennia, the birth of Christ has been seen as the greatest event in world history. The moment Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem, God became man, and eternal salvation became possible.
This date has been the separation point of mankind's time on earth, with B.C. designating the era before Christ, and A.D., anno domino, in the Year of the Lord, the years after. And how stands Christianity today?
Merry Christmas From VDARE.com!
We first went live with VDARE.com on Christmas Eve, 1999, with a leaked internal memo from Clinton Administration Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo, (now Governor of New York). VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow wrote at the time that
The ongoing Kulturkampf against Christmas has now extended to any direct mention of it at all, even when other "holidays" are ritually specified.
Google’s logo for today is a picture of Christmas toys, and the message “Happy Holidays from Google."
That same logo is used by Google all over the world, frequently with messages that mean “Merry Christmas” rather than Happy Holidays. The problem for Google is that those other countries don’t necessarily have a War On Christmas, so that there isn’t even a phrase for “Happy Holidays” in the sense of “Don’t mention Christmas!”
You can see the same thing in this Craig Nelsen photograph of the Main St Post Office in Queens, NY, ca. Christmas 2000.
No matter how you say it, “Happy Holidays”? Well, the people saying “Buon Natale," "Joyeux Noel," and "Fröhliche Weihnachten" think they’re saying Merry Christmas.
VDARE.com has been here for a good many Christmases past, and continues celebrates the Christmas Present. (What Charles Dickens called the Christmas Yet To Come will depend largely on your generosity.)
Many heartfelt thanks to the people who have already donated, and donors yet to come.
No matter how you say it, Merry Christmas From VDARE.com!
VDARE.com’s Christmases Past
2011 VDARE.com Remembers Christmas Eves Past, Broods About The Future By Peter Brimelow
2010: The War Against Christmas 2010: God Bless Us, Every One! By James Fulford
2009: Christians Against Christmas? By Tom Piatak
2008: A Nebraska Atheist Wishes VDARE.COM A Merry Christmas!
2007: Merry Christmas From VDARE.COM! By James Fulford
2006: Diversity Is Strength! It's Also…War Against Christmas By Tom Piatak
2005: Resistance Rampant, Whether National Review Likes It Or Not! By Tom Piatak
2004: Merry Christmas By Peter Brimelow
2003: From The Lawns Of Iowa To The Sands Of Iraq By James Fulford
2002: Christ, The "Other", And Counterfeit Citizens By John Zmirak
2001: A Christmas Meditation: St. Augustine on the National Question By Chilton Williamson Jr.
2000: Merry Christmas From VDARE! By Peter Brimelow
1999: How the HUD Stole Christmas by Peter Brimelow
