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Does America lack "compassion" and "humanity" for uninvited foreigners? Quite the contrary. While open-borders activists rail against "injustice" and demand new "pathways to citizenship," official U.S. policy rewards countless line-jumpers with permanent residency and taxpayer-subsidized benefits.

Case in point: the massive "Temporary Protected Status" (TPS) program run by the Department of Homeland Security.

In theory, as the DHS website describes it, the Secretary of Homeland Security "may designate a foreign country for TPS due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country's nationals from returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where the country is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately." Those conditions include hurricanes, environmental catastrophes, civil war, epidemics and other "extraordinary and temporary conditions."

The U.S. allows illegal aliens from TPS-designated countries to live here, work here, be protected from detention or deportation, and travel freely. It's essentially a bad-weather pass into the U.S. Whenever a natural disaster strikes, we allow legions of foreigners who entered illegally—mostly from Latin America—to stay here while their homelands recover.

In the meantime, TPS winners can apply for a panoply of other immigration benefits and protections and file for "adjustment of status" to pave the way to permanent legalization. In fact, the official draft application for Obamacare lists "Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Applicant for Temporary Protected Status (TPS)" as an "eligible immigration status."

Yep, that means you don't even have to be a legit, approved TPS designee to qualify for

Introduction

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. First please allow me to introduce myself.

My name is John Derbyshire. I am a freelance writer, the author of five books—soon to be six. Copies of my last book, number five, are available at the book table.

I’d like to tell you how I came to be addressing an American Renaissance conference. It’s a curious story with an amusing twist of irony in it.

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I saw Jared Taylor’s book Paved With Good Intentions reviewed in National Review Magazine [by VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow(!) here] when it came out twenty years ago. I liked the book and became a subscriber to the American Renaissance newsletter.

Four or five years after that I myself became a regular contributor to National Review. At about that time Jared and I struck up an occasional email acquaintance. I had dinner with him once or twice when he was visiting New York.

In September 2006 I debated Jared at the Robert A. Taft Club in Arlington, Va. You can find the text of my talk on my website, and I think AR has a sound recording of the whole event on their site somewhere. Jared was kind enough to put me up overnight at his home in Virginia, and I had the pleasure of meeting his delightful family.

Now and then, during that slight and occasional acquaintance, Jared had extended invitations to me to speak at an AR conference. I always declined on the grounds, which I expressed frankly to Jared, that I did not want to jeopardize my relationship with National Review. Nor did I attend any AR conferences as an auditor, though that was more just a matter of not being a very keen conference-attender.

In 2011 Jared booked his conference for the Sheraton airport hotel in Charlotte, NC. As I am sure you know, the Mayor pro tem of Charlotte, Patrick Cannon, intimidated the Sheraton into canceling their agreement with AR.

I was very indignant about this. I wrote up my indignation for National Review Online—but they would not publish it. [Takimag did.]

I was still indignant when AR announced that they would have a conference in 2012 at a non-commercial location not susceptible to intimidation by politicians. I decided I would attend the 2012 conference as an auditor, to show solidarity with Jared and AR. I registered for the 2012 conference and bought plane tickets. The conference dates were March 16-18.

Unfortunately when those dates came round I was unwell and could not fly. I apologized to Jared by email.

After the conference, Jared sent me a gracious reply, commiserating with my health problem and telling me the conference had been a great success. He told me there would be another conference in 2013 at the same location, and once again extended an invitation to me to be a speaker.

I replied to Jared with an email dated March 26. Jared has given me permission to show you that email. First, though, let me just give you another date.

The email I’m going to show you was, I repeat, dated March 26 last year.

Ten days after that date, on April 5, I published a column in one of my other outlets in which I struck back at some of the nonsense being written about the Trayvon Martin affair, which was then in the news. National Review took exception to that column and dropped me from their contributor rolls on April 8.

Now I’ll show you my March 26 email to Jared, and you can savor the irony.[Click to enlarge.]

John Derbyshire <@#$@gmail.com>
3/26/12

to Jared
Jared:

I am flattered to be invited.  My inclination is, that I WOULD like to
speak.  One thing about a cancer diagnosis, it gives one a different
perspective, a certain je m'en fous & damn the torpedoes.  Also, I am
getting quite seriously fed up with the timid careerists at NR & while
I'd like to continue the connection for financial reasons, I feel
pretty sure I shall do something to get myself canned in the next year
or so nolens volens.

So that's a provisional yes.  HOWEVER, the Mrs & I get a free cruise
out of NR this November -- the post-election cruise (nice opportunity
to get away from the race riots if Obama loses) & she looks forward to
that, so please no publicity before then that might scupper the
cruise.  Is that doable for you?

Shall the 2013 conference be in the state park again?  The place looks
lovely, & if so I want to book in a day or two early & get some hiking
in.

So Mrs. Derbyshire missed her November cruise. Fortunately she is of a supportive and philosophical cast of mind, so she took the disappointment in her stride. I have promised her that we shall have a prime cabin on the next American Renaissance cruise…

2. The Topic: “First Encounters of the Close Kind”

This is to be one of those talks that is more in the nature of “notes towards a research project” than a finished product. If you wanted to be unkind, you might say that it is a half-baked collection of observations and hypotheses; but I’m sure you are all kind people.

My idea is to examine the earliest encounters between races of which anything interesting can be said.

I should first make clear what I mean by races. I am sure everyone here knows the paleoanthropological background. Our species, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa around a quarter million years ago.

Around 60,000 years ago there was an exodus into the Arabian Peninsula. It wasn’t the first time Homo sap. had left the home continent, but the previous excursions seem to have had no lasting consequences. This one did. The exodus population—which may have been very small, perhaps

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The mob of Open-Borders extremists descending upon the Washington DC April 10 will include a prominent contingent of persons of the cloth. This religious window-dressing demonstrates that the Cultural Marxist assault on traditional standards of morality is reaching into America’s churches….plus, of course, there’s the selfish desire to boost dwindling congregations; and money. [D.C. immigrant activists optimistic ahead of Wednesday rally, By Pamela Constable, Washington Post, April 6, 2013]

The concept of virtue has been rejiggered through the Leftist doctrine into victimology, where the most publicized sob story wins. Plus, the immigration issue now contains a strong tribal aspect, in which victimhood is conflated to include whole races and nationalities.

The gimme-Amnesty mob will be headed up by hardcore Treason Lobbyists like the Raza Gang and the Leftist SEIU. But why are useful idiot clergy giving moral cover?

Consider the ethical position—take jobs from poor Americans to give to poor law-breaking foreigners. The belief in such activities comes from Marx, not Jesus. Why do church representatives believe it is moral to cause more pain to Americans in order to make life easier for Mexicans?

We live in a stagnant economy with a shrinking workforce. The April 5 monthly jobs report was a shocker, with only 88,000 new jobs added and the lowest rate of employment participation since 1979.

The current “recovery” from the terrible recession of a few years ago is the weakest in many decades. Little is said of the harm that comes from the long duration of the economic pain, but job loss in hard times means unemployment benefits ending, depletion of savings and homes being sold or repossessed. The suffering is cumulative, but the Opravda press doesn’t want to show its beloved leader in a bad light.

It took a British newspaper to report on formerly middle class Americans living in tents in New Jersey.

How can any religious person (much less an ordained one) support mass amnesty in such a painful economic environment? According to Senator Jeff Sessions (during an April 3 phone call to Fox news), eight million foreigners would be morphed into legal workers as soon as legalization is enacted. (Naturally, not every single illegal alien among the official 11 million will be grabbing

Demonstrators outside the American Renaissance conference, April 6, 2013

Peter Brimelow writes: It’s worth studying the placards carried by these demonstrators, reportedly efficiently contained by the Tennessee police. They explicitly call for violence (“This Machine Kills Fascists”—the picture is of an AK-47) and mass murder of whites (“Repeat Dresden”). Imagine the MSM hysteria if the equivalent were seen at a Tea Party rally! But of course we don’t have to imagine this double standard—we have the utter silence of the MSM, and its Conservatism Inc. collaborators, when American Renaissance conferences were suppressed by threats of violence in 2011 and 2010. As he did last year, Jared Taylor appears to have countered this by using a government facility in a Heartland state. We post here his remarks to the conference about two earlier veterans of the struggle between Cultural Marxism and truth.

By Jared Taylor

Last year, the world lost two giants in the field of race realism. Jean Philippe Rushton on October 2, and Arthur Robert Jensen just 20 days later on October 22.

Arthur Jensen was 89, but Phil Rushton was only 68, and died of complications from Addison’s disease, a rare disorder of the adrenal gland.

Both men spent their careers battling for the truth, mainly the truth about the nature of intelligence, its heritability, and its distribution. Both men also endured years of insults, professional ostracism, and endless lies about what they thought and wrote. Both withstood these torments with great calm and cheerfulness, and always replied politely and generously, even when their critics were ignorant and insulting. They were gentlemen as well as scholars.

I’m not sure that many young scholars will follow in their footsteps. Our period is, if anything, more ferociously closed minded than ever, and not many people have the courage to seek or defend the truth when there is a heavy price to pay for doing so.

It was my privilege to know both of these remarkable men.

My first encounter with Arthur Jensen was entirely indirect. It was in 1970, shortly after he shot to notoriety because of that famous article on race and IQ in the Harvard Educational Review. [PDF]I was a student at Yale, and Jensen had been invited to give a lecture. Like virtually everyone on campus, I was an uncompromising egalitarian and I was sure Jensen was wrong, but I wanted to hear what this wicked man had to say.

When I got to the lecture hall, there was a crowd outside but no one was allowed in. The talk had been canceled because of threats of violence. Most of my friends were happy: The “racist,” they said, had been defeated. Although, as I say, I was convinced Jensen was completely wrong, it seemed cowardly and shameful to silence a man, no matter what his views.

It didn’t occur to me, though, that I was behaving shamefully in my own way. I knew nothing about genetics or IQ testing—nothing at all—and yet I was convinced I was right Jensen was wrong. I was convinced I knew better than a scientist who had studied the subject thoroughly. How embarrassing to have been such an arrogant ignoramus! But that is how our species works. Most of us just soak up whatever we hear around us, and I had heard only one thing. And what is maybe even more important, most of us would never dare have an opinion that was unfashionable, and Jensen was about as unfashionable as you could get.

The thugs who shut down Jensen’s talk accomplished at least one thing. Probably it was thanks to them that it took me another 15 years to realize that Jensen was right, and that I was wrong. I’m sure Jensen would have given a calm, factual talk and perhaps I would have avoided a decade of ignorance if I had heard him speak.

Jensen was almost the prototype of the cloistered academic without any political axe to grind. Until 1967, he had believed, just like most people, that differences in IQ—both for individuals and groups—are almost entirely governed by childhood environment. In fact, he even got a Guggenheim fellowship to do research for a book he planned to write on how cultural deprivation depresses the intelligence of blacks.

As part of his research, he looked into the genetics of intelligence,

All I know is what I read in the newspapers, And according to them, “white supremacists” have joined in the past nine weeks to murder a prosecutor in Texas, a state prison chief in Colorado, and then a second Texas prosecutor and his wife. Another Texas prosecutor responded to the carnage by quitting a federal case involving “white supremacists.” [U.S. prosecutor quits Aryan case, citing security by James Pinkerton, Houston Chronicle, April 2, 2013]

(I’m putting “White Supremacist” in quotes because, as Anonymous Attorney has pointed out, these gangs are not formed not out of “supremacism” but simply out of the need to survive in America’s hellish integrated prisons. The MSM never calls the black/ Hispanic gangs “black/ Hispanic supremacists.”)

 Clearly, America is overrun with these bloody “white supremacists.” What to do? Suspend the Constitution? Use drone strikes? Eliminate habeas corpus, and all other constitutional and common law protections for white supremacists? Shoot them and their children down like dogs?

(Oh, we did that already—at Ruby Ridge).

A fearful nation demands answers—and immediate action!

The Huffington Post says so!

KAUFMAN, TX—Suspicion in the slayings of a Texas district attorney and his wife shifted Monday to a violent white supremacist prison gang that was the focus of a December law enforcement bulletin warning that its members might try to attack police or prosecutors.

The weekend deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, who were found fatally shot in their home, were especially jarring because they happened just a couple of months after one of the county's assistant district attorneys, Mark Hasse, was killed near his courthouse office.

And less than two weeks ago, Colorado's prison chief was shot to death at his front door, apparently by a white supremacist ex-convict who died in a shootout with deputies after fleeing to Texas.” [Mike McLelland Dead: Suspicion in Texas DA Death Shifts to White Supremacists by Nomaan Merchant and Juan A. Lozano, AP/Huffington Post, April 1, 2013, 10:43 p.m. ET EDT.]

The late Evan Ebel, from a quite different “white supremacist”

Richard Spencer’s Radix Journal arrived in our office early this year and I’ve had the great pleasure of slowly making my way through it over the last couple of months. (Website here). As promised, it is both powerful and beautiful (although the cover photo is a bit on the craggy, masculine end of beauty for my taste). Saying “’the Death of Print’ has become a tired cliché,” Spencer, the creator of Alternative Right and before that editor of Takimag, bucks the trend with Radix Journal by emphasizing it is designed as an actual physical publication based on trees, not pixels. This, of course, is the direct opposite of VDARE.com’s strategy and it will be interesting to see if hardcopy actually survives in our increasingly digital reader-scape.

This is the first edition of Spencer’s biannual journal. Each future edition will focus on a different theme. The theme of Radix Vol. 1 is “The Great Erasure: The Reconstruction of White Identity.” The Great Erasure is the title of Alex Kurtagic’s contribution, the first essay listed in the table of contents (and was also the title of Kurtagic’s shorter article featured on Amren.com in 2012). Unfortunately, I found his title piece for Radix academic and impenetrable (tl; dr).

Generally, though, Radix Journal hangs together very well. There is an emphasis on South Africa and the white farmer experience there, and for a good reason. In fact, this publication came at a good time for me, a moderately informed lay reader, since I recently became interested in the white struggles in South Africa after a friend of mine started sharing some of the (grossly underreported) horrors going on there. Radix provides an excellent overview of perspectives (K.R. Bolton, historical; Andy Nowicki, correspondence; Derek Turner, think-piece) on the issue. It wisely avoids the more graphic descriptions of the gruesome crimes to which Boer families have fallen prey—not because the details should be overlooked, but because their sickening cruelty is distracting from a sober discussion of the wider context that made the savage crimes possible.

The numbers alone are compelling, with nearly 2,000 murders

As the approaching Amnesty/ Immigration Surge beast bears down on America, Senator Jeff Sessions is stepping up his game. While many in the GOP seem to be fearfully hunkering down and parsing their words (lest the Open Borders media notice a tiny misstep), the Alabama Senator has been a one-man watchdog.

Consider his recent actions:

• In January, Sessions called for ICE Director John Morton’s resignation because he was not implementing the law as the position requires. Sessions commented: “What purpose is served to pass new laws if the ones we have are ignored by the officials charged with enforcing them?” [Sen. Sessions calls for ICE Director Morton’s resignation: ‘No comprehensive immigration reform as long as he’s the person in charge’, By Caroline May, Daily Caller, January 29, 2013]
• In mid-February, Sessions and David Vitter warned from the Senate floor that the new amnesty was shaping up to be an expanded replay of the 1986 law, noting that “for 30 or 40 years the American people have asked us to end the lawlessness” but “we’ve gone the opposite direction in a number of ways.”[Senators Caution Against 1986 Repeat On Amnesty, Video]

Senator Dave Vitter (R-La.) responded to a rhetorical question from Sessions about the history of immigration enforcement legislation:

No single major promise has been kept, whether it’s the fence, whether it’s the US-Visit program, whether it’s the overall promise of enforcement in 1986, none of those promises have been kept.

• In late February, Sessions condemned the Obama

Fresh from disrupting CPAC’s minority pandering plans, Matthew Heimbach and his Towson University White Student Union struck again last week—this time conducting campus safety patrols. Needless to say, the Towson University administration is not amused, harrumphing “we do not encourage the general public to take the law into their own hands for both their personal safety and legal protection.”

Towson claims that crime is down. But the school does send out “crime alerts” which Heimbach reports consistently feature young black males attacking females. [PDF]On Tuesday evening (April 3), Towson President Maravene Loeschke (email her) joined a student government-organized rally against the WSU, causing Heimbach to remark, entirely accurately: "Anything that doesn't fall in the far-left agenda is labeled as either a hate group or extreme." Hundreds of Towson University students walk for unity | Students react in wake of 'White Student Union' nightly patrols,  WBAL-TV, April 3, 2013.

Main Stream Media [MSM] reaction to Heimbach has been hostile, of course. [White Student Union’s plan to patrol the Baltimore area’s Towson University in response to 'black crime wave' sparks controversy, By Victoria Taylor, New York Daily News, March 28, 2013]

One of the more significant came from Total Frat Move, a news/comedy website that glorifies the stereotypical fraternity experience.

TFM reads like a Stuff White People Like for young, conservative, suburban whites, with music, merchandise, advice columns, and humor, all targeted to this specific demographic. It celebrates drinking, wealth, hazing, fratty fashion, Republicans, and most importantly, Kate Upton. (Shown right).

College fraternities are classic Burkean institutions, with as the President of Delta put it in Animal House, a “long tradition of existence to [their] members, and to the community at large.” They incorporate elements of hierarchy, tradition, and initiatic ritual—all anathema to the modern campus mania for endless equality.

In an age when separate men's and women's bathrooms are seen as incipient fascism, fraternities remain a bastion of male identity and exclusivity. Even when unconscious of their own roots, fraternity men proudly claim superiority to the masses. Predictably, most fraternity men lean to the Right. [Colleges, Fraternities, and ‘Natural Conservatives’, By Jordan Bloom, January 28, 2013]

But, surprisingly, TFM posted a smear piece on Matt Heimbach, by one “BlutarskyTFM,” so formulaic and whiny it could have come from Jezebel. [Crazy Towson Students To Patrol Campus For Crime, March 26, 2013] “BlutarskyTFM” moaned that the WSU seems “scary” and appealed to the eminently reliable Southern Poverty Law Center ($PLC to VDARE.com) to prove that the White Student Union is “extreme.”

Highpoint of the piece: BlutarskyTFM’s gloating that soon the headlines will read: “Group of small, intrusive white kids viciously beaten by Towson Football and Basketball Team Members as Cheerleaders Watch and Laugh.”

BlutarskyTFM's white male humiliation fantasies would be par for the course for Jezebel, but TFM depends on a totally different market. Just like The Blaze, Breitbart, or the Daily Caller, TFM is utterly reliant on generating traffic by posting news items about the latest Politically Correct outrage:

• UNC Drops Term “Freshman” In Order to be More “Gender Inclusive”
• Professor Fired For Forcing Students To Sign Pledge To Vote For Obama
• Vegetarians At Stanford Compare Struggle To Civil Rights Movement, Are Crazy

These are mixed with jokes that could lead to outright expulsion or severe punishment given the Orwellian speech codes at many American universities.

Feminists hate TFM and its “rape culture.” But the internet is still a liberated zone, and the webzine can continue to be TFTC (“Too Frat To Care”) about its shrill critics. TFM can hardly censor its comments for being “offensive” or “racist”—it would have none left.

But this is not at all the case on America’s campuses. Greek life on American campuses has been in retreat for