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Demography is Destiny, and America’s deliberate demographic transformation is transforming our politics, though the GOP elite either doesn’t get it or just doesn’t care. The Obama Administration, on the other hand, knows exactly what it’s doing. By expanding Administrative Amnesty, fighting voter ID and in many other ways, it is hastening the transformation of the U.S. to something unrecognizable to the historic American nation.

Recently, Washington Post has confirmed much of what we have been saying through the years here at VDARE.COM, though written from a different point of view.

First was a blog post by Chris Cillizza (who has appeared on VDARE.COM before, for example, via James Fulford here.): Republicans have a major demographic problem. And it’s only going to get worse. [Chris Cillizza, Washington Post, April 22, 2014]. Here’s how it begins:

It's no secret that Republicans have a demographic problem when it comes to national elections. In 2012, roughly nine in every ten people who voted for Mitt Romney were white—even as the white vote continued its steady decline as a percentage of the overall electorate. He got crushed among Hispanics and African American voters.

This is indeed no news to VDARE.COM readers or even to the  Main Stream Media, which claims it’s a Bad Thing—although mysteriously it’s not Bad that over 90% of blacks vote for the Democrats.

Cillizza’s point is that, unless “something big changes” that this is going to get worse for the GOP as the demographics change, that “…the 2016 presidential election will be a tough one for Republicans to win given the demographic changes in the country but it won't be nearly as difficult for them as the 2024 or 2028 elections could be.”

Thus the youth minority population is growing, which presumably means these younger generations will be producing more Democrats. Using Romney’s results as a base, the trends show the increasing difficulty of Republicans winning presidential elections if the Hispanic share of the electorate increases.

Geography also is a big factor, as Cillizza points out, “It's where the under 20 minority populations live that could prove politically problematic going forward. “ And it’s no longer just the Southwest, in the future it’s potentially the South as well:

The concentration of young minority population in the Southwest and South means that states like Texas and Arizona as well as Georgia and South Carolina—all of which have been conservative redoubts at the presidential level for decades could be in real jeopardy for the party in the medium and long term.”

Thanks a lot, GOP elite, for helping to bring this situation about. Immigration could have been cut way back in the 1990s, in accordance with the recommendations of the bipartisan Jordan Commission (and Peter Brimelow’s 1992 National Review cover story, which became Alien Nation in 1995). But Republicans donors wanted their cheap labor. Look where it’s gotten them.

Cillizza ends the blog post thusly:

Republicans have a demographic problem. And it is going to get way, way worse unless they find a way to improve their numbers among Hispanics.

That sounds like the typical Hispanic Hype, we must surrender to appease the Awakening Hispanic Giant blah blah blah. But not so fast! Shortly after, WaPo ran a follow-up blog post: Why immigration reform isn’t the answer to Republicans’ demographic woes (by Peyton Craighill , April 26, 2014):

We reported on Tuesday about the major demographic problem facing Republicans. So, how can the GOP start

Pride comes before the fall, and the anti-American Left is flaunting its arrogance with its latest campaign—freeing criminal aliens from detention. This time, the push isn’t coming from the Regime, but cultural Marxists in the Main Stream Media and local government.

Thus a recent editorial in Salem OR’s Statesman Journal:

Cities, counties and states do not belong in the immigration-enforcement business. Instead, they must follow the Constitution.

The latest evidence came last week. Marion, Polk and several other Oregon counties stopped jailing foreign-born individuals who were being held for up to 48 hours simply at the request of federal immigration officials.

The decision to stop that practice might sound like sacrilege, but it’s prudence. In many cases, residing in the United States unlawfully is not a crime; it is a violation of civil law. But the even greater issue is that we are a country of freedom. One of our foundational beliefs is that the government should not detain people without cause.

[Editorial: Judge, Jails Right On Immigration , April 19, 2014]

But the government is not detaining people “without cause.” The cause is Federal law. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) Section 236 and Title 8 of the United States Code, Section 1226, authorizes the arrest and detention of aliens who are deportable or inadmissible. In fact, the authority to hold an alien is not even reviewable by a court.

The Statesman-Journal editorial continues:

A federal judge ruled a week ago that Clackamas County had broken that principle: It violated a woman’s constitutional rights by holding her for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (known as ICE) without a court order to do so. The magistrate’s decision followed a similar ruling last month from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The practical result is that Portland metro and Mid-Valley jails will require more than an immigration detainer—a request from ICE—to hold an undocumented immigrant. Marion County Sheriff Jason Myers and his colleagues have acted appropriately by ending that practice. In doing so, they have set an example for law enforcement across the country.

But officers of the Department of Homeland Security (of which ICE is a part) do have authority to issue warrants for the arrest of aliens. They can also use “detainers” to hold aliens for up to 48 hours. (This is critical because the editorial later claims judges must follow precedent).

The Statesman-Journal editorial assures readers that

[T]heir action does not imply that dangerous criminals will go free. Individuals still will be jailed on criminal charges or if ICE obtains a court order for them to be detained for immigration purposes.

Unfortunately, there is no process for a Federal court to order a local jail to hold a Federal prisoner or immigration violator.

The Statesman-Journal continues:

It would be easy for critics to attack the court rulings as judicial activism, but they are in keeping with American legal precedent. Courts consistently have ruled that immigration is a federal issue. And unlike the judicial systems in much of the world, where individual judges have wide discretion, the U.S. has adopted the British system in which legal consistency—case law and precedents—trump a judge’s personal preferences. [Emphasis added].

But this is precisely a case of a judge’s personal preferences trumping precedent:

• First, precedent is that any State officer can hold a Federal prisoner or immigration detainee. That is how it has been for a hundred years.
• Secondly, detention of aliens is not reviewable by any court.

From Title 8 United States Code, Section 226, Paragraph (e):

(e) Judicial review

The Attorney General’s discretionary judgment regarding the application of this section shall not be subject to review. No court may set aside any action or decision by the Attorney General under this section regarding the detention or release of any alien or the grant, revocation, or denial of bond or parole.

The U.S. Magistrate Judge who issued the order, Janice M. Stewart, (appointed during the Clinton administration) is acting outside the law and precedent. Why? And why is the Main Stream Media also against detaining illegal aliens? 

The answer is that Cultural Marxists want amnesty but can’t openly say it. Instead, they create the straw man of a “broken” immigration system.

There is no question that the U.S. immigration system is broken. But any anger at the court’s decision should be directed at Congress, which lacks the political will to rewrite the nation’s outdated and erratic immigration laws. [Emphasis added]

“Outdated and erratic immigration laws?” The Statesman Journal editorial doesn’t explain, but it seems to object to the fact that we have any kind  of laws at all.

Actually, our immigration laws are indeed outdated. In the 21^st century, you would think that this country would need immigrants with advanced technical training and education. But most of the immigrants who come here have little or no education.

We know that the editorial thumbsuckers at the Statesman Journal are not really worried about excluding foreign PhD’s. These are criminal aliens who are detained that they are trying

I remember the day I realized that Mitt Romney would lose the 2012 presidential election. The headline read: Ed Gillespie Joins Team Romney [By Jonathan Martin, Politico, April 5, 2010].

As soon as Romney tapped one of the country’s highest-paid and hardest-working cheap labor lobbyists as a senior strategist, it was obvious—or at least it should have been obvious—that his campaign was doomed.

Under the guiding hand of Ed Gillespie, Mitt Romney gradually switched gears, abandoned the many promises of stronger enforcement that he made during the primaries and began to signal renewed support for Amnesty for illegal aliens. Not surprisingly (at least to us VDARE.co readers), this reversal of strategy won him few Hispanic votes and discouraged many whites from voting at all—and it was low white voter turnout, not the Hispanic vote, that cost Romney the election.

Now Ed Gillespie aspires to take his losing ways to the U.S. Senate by seeking the Republican nomination in Virginia.( He's the favorite, but there are three other minor candidates—the convention is June 7.) His opponent, Democrat Mark Warner (NumbersUSA D), may be no better, but he surely can’t be any worse. 

Ed Gillespie has carried a lot of water for the Treason Lobby over the years. From 1985-1995, he served as a top aide to Open Borders fanatic Rep. Dick Armey. Next, he became Communications Director for the Republican National Committee under another Open Borders advocate, Haley Barbour.

In 2000, Gillespie joined the presidential campaign of George W. Bush where one of his duties was to oversee the 2000 Republican National Convention. Gillespie deliberately sought to strike a multicultural theme among the convention speakers in order to attract more minority votes (remember George P. Bush’s telling  a Hispanic Republican rally in 2000 that  his mother "told me we have to fight for our race”? [Reuters, August 2, 2000]

During that same year, Gillespie founded a “bipartisan” lobbying firm with Jack Quinn, a longtime Democratic operative who served in the Clinton Administration. Quinn is perhaps best known for arranging the infamous pardon of fugitive plutocrat Marc Rich.

Together, Quinn and Gillespie have tirelessly done the bidding of the Cheap Labor Lobby, with clients such as Bank of America, General Electric, Microsoft, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

In 2002, for example, the Justice Department prosecuted Tyson Foods for perpetrating a brazen illegal alien smuggling scheme. Tyson had been smuggling Mexican illegals into the country by paying an immigrant middleman $200 per illegal, and even arranged for phony documents for them. They then paid the illegals low under the table wages at more than a dozen of their chicken processing plants. It’s hard to think of a better example of Big Business contempt for American workers.

So when Tyson Foods was finally busted, who did they hire to do damage control? Quinn Gillespie Associates, who conveniently blamed our “broken immigration system” for the scam rather than their clients.

Indeed, it is hard to think of anything that better illustrates the false paradigm of Democrat v Republican than the partnership of Jack Quinn and Ed Gillespie. While Jack Quinn, like all Democrats, employs the language of race and class warfare to advance a left-wing agenda, Ed Gillespie, like most Republicans, employs patriotic language to reach essentially the same treasonous ends. It’s a difference in style that masks a similarity in substance.

For example, in 2005 Gillespie founded Americans for Border and Economic Security, a Republican political action committee that engaged in superficial tough talk about immigration enforcement but was in substance a slush fund to promote the Open Borders policies of President George W. Bush. Other board members included Dick Armey and former Democratic Rep. Cal Dooley (NumbersUSA F) who left Congress to become an agribusiness lobbyist. Corporations, including Tyson Foods, Walmart, and Microsoft, paid as much as $250,000 for a seat at the table. And you can bet that they didn’t pay that kind of money because they wanted a stronger border fence.

According to The New York Sun, many of the initial meetings of Americans for Border and Economic Security were held in the Washington offices of Quinn Gillespie Associates.  [Tough Talk on Illegal Immigration Scaring Bush Business Allies, By Warren Vieth, November 21, 2005]

Gillespie has spearheaded other PACs that trumpet patriotic themes to camouflage nation-breaking objectives, such as The Committee for the Preservation of Capitalism, Defend America,

John Boehner mocked his own caucus last week, frankly declaring his allegiance to the American oligarchy of GOP donors lusting for cheap labor. But Democrats may get the last laugh, as political momentum is unmistakably building behind media darling Thomas Piketty’s plan for redistributive taxes on the wealthy.  This is a both a dangerous crisis and a priceless opportunity for immigration patriots and National Conservatives—but they’ll need to take on a Stupid Party that seems determined to prove Karl Marx right.

After all, how can the Reds lose when the orange-skinned buffoon masquerading as the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives attacked his own colleagues for saying it was “hard” to pass Amnesty. Boehner then pretended to cry, an unfortunate tactic for a man who can’t seem to keep himself from weeping in public. It’s also the exact opposite of the political reality for House Republicans. They are under extraordinary pressure, from racial terrorism, corporate bribes, and Main Stream Media hysteria, to sell out the historic American nation.

Quin Hillyer at National Review guessed that Boehner must be stepping down after this “adolescent” attack that gave “no credit” to the good faith of his fellow Republicans. [Boehner Must Be Stepping Down as Speaker, April 25, 2014]. Even Rep. Raul Labrador, hardly a militant on the issue, expressed “disappointment” with the Speaker for “catering to the media and special interest groups.” [Labrador Slams Boehner Immigration Comments, by Eliana Johnson, National Review, April 25, 2014]

But the special interest group that is most important to Republicans like Boehner is the Donor Class.  And, unfortunately for America, it is important to Conservatism Inc. too. Thus National Review published the same day some Open Borders agitprop, arguing for replacement of America’s “static” population in favor of more skilled and unskilled immigrants who show the “courage,” “selflessness,” and “risk-taking” that we evidently lack. The authors, unsurprisingly, are talk radio executive Lee Habeeb and Sheldon Adelson employee and gambling executive Mike Leven. [Immigration, America’s Advantage]. Left undiscussed, needless to say: the sweeping political transformation inevitable in the new Hispanic United States. Hispanics want, and will impose

 Exactly ten years ago, May 26, 2004, I published my first major VDARE.com exposé of how big-city police departments were systematically fudging statistics to “disappear” urban crime. Now a white-hot exposé in Chicago Magazine, and a major academic study, have confirmed I was right. I don’t get credit, of course, but whatcha gonna do.

 Journalists David Bernstein and Noah Isackson write:

With the stroke of a computer key, [Tiara Groves] was airbrushed out of Chicago’s homicide statistics….

For the case of Tiara Groves is not an isolated one. Chicago conducted a 12-month examination of the Chicago Police Department’s crime statistics going back several years, poring through public and internal police records and interviewing crime victims, criminologists, and police sources of various ranks. We identified 10 people, including Groves, who were beaten, burned, suffocated, or shot to death in 2013 and whose cases were reclassified as death investigations, downgraded to more minor crimes, or even closed as noncriminal incidents—all for illogical or, at best, unclear reasons.

And it’s not just corpses that get misclassified:

This troubling practice goes far beyond murders, documents and interviews reveal. Chicago found dozens of other crimes, including serious felonies such as robberies, burglaries, and assaults, that were misclassified, downgraded to wrist-slap offenses, or made to vanish altogether….

Of course, this calls into question the much-touted improvement in crime rates in Chicago as nationwide:

And has there ever been improvement. Aside from homicides, which soared in 2012, the drop in crime since Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy arrived in May 2011 is unprecedented—and, some of his detractors say, unbelievable. Crime hasn’t just fallen, it has freefallen: across the city and across all major categories.

[The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates, May 2014.]

Chicago has several huge Main Stream Media operations, including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and the network affiliates. Yet none of them broke this story. Instead, Chicago Magazine commissioned a year-long investigation, supported its reporters as they devoted hundreds of hours to the gumshoe work, and had the guts to publish their findings.

The MSM giants didn’t commission an investigation—because they didn’t want to know the truth.

I’ve been mocking the Chicago PD’s numbers for three years (also here) because they were so manifestly phony. Going back to Police Superintendent Jodi Weis in 2009, for over 30 months, the CPD would report astronomical numbers of shootings and murders every month, even for Chicago, while asserting that “overall crime is down.”

As a practical matter, it is impossible for shootings and murders to remain constant or rise, while crime overall declines.

It was, to my knowledge, the Philadelphia PD that pioneered

The crisis in Ukraine illustrates the rise of ethnic politics and secession—and mass Mexican immigration into America means it is coming here. Conservatives treat this as fodder for satire today, but it will be in the headlines tomorrow.

Ukraine and Russia are attempting to protect their interests and the key weapon has been ethnic populations. Crimea’s referendum contained irregularities, but what’s undeniable is that the ethnic composition of the population resulted in support for a union with Russia. Though they may have been technically citizens of Ukraine, many Crimeans were Russians in heart and spirit and when the status quo collapsed, the Bear was able to exploit it.

Of course, American Exceptionalism holds that rules just don’t apply to us. Thus on March 23, a piece appeared on the The Daily Caller entitled Mexico sees Russian gambit in Ukraine as chance for American land grab, by Eric Owens, labeled “satire”:

On Friday, in Geneva, Mexico signaled alarm at the treatment of its large Mexican minority in the United States, comparing American actions to prevent the use of Spanish to attempts in Ukraine and Estonia to prevent the use of Russian…

Russia has maintained that annexation of the Crimea peninsula is justified because it has the right to protect Russian speakers outside of Russia’s borders. Mexican political leaders have taken note, perhaps sensing an opportunity to gain long-lost territory and increase the size of its economy by expanding northward into areas currently administered by the United States.

Mexico has begun enthusiastically supporting protections for linguistic minorities, a Mexico City diplomat told the United Nations Human Rights Council. “Language must not be used to segregate and isolate groups,” the diplomat said, according to details provided to The Daily Caller by the U.N. Mexico has officially expressed concern about “steps taken in this regard by belligerent elements in the United States.”…The Mexican diplomat then forthrightly compared the treatment of Mexicans in the United States to the treatment of Russian speakers in Ukraine. Mexico, the diplomat said, has the right to protect Spanish speakers who have migrated without documentation to the United States in search of economic opportunity. He further noted that, unlike in Ukraine, these migrants very often remain full Mexican citizens.

Owens’ article was patterned on a March 19 Reuters article by Robert Evans: Moscow signals concern for Russians in Estonia:

“Russia signaled concern on Wednesday at Estonia’s treatment of its large ethnic Russian minority, comparing language policy in the Baltic state with what it said was a call in Ukraine to prevent the use of Russian. Russia has defended its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula by arguing it has the right to protect Russian-speakers outside its borders, so the reference to linguistic tensions in another former Soviet republic comes at a highly sensitive moment"

But Owens’ satire cited actions and statements similar to things the Mexican government has already actually done and said.

In Ukraine, you had the volatile mix of

1. A large ethnic-Russian minority, dominant in certain regions of the country.
2. A meddlesome neighboring county, with which this minority identifies.
3. A change of government in the Ukraine and a breakdown in relations between Ukraine and Russia.

In America, you have:

1. A large Mexican minority, increasingly resistant to assimilation, and pandered to by the government.
2. A neighboring country, Mexico, which meddles in American politics and works to retain or attract the loyalty of the Mexican-American minority.
3. A change in the American government, which no longer demands assimilation and now promotes non-assimilation.

Mexico openly tries to manipulate its neighbor by using its expatriate population