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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
Recent News
Bachmann Right, Washington Post (And Treason Lobby) Wrong, About Pre-1965 Immigration System
I've always argued that candidates need merely mention the issue of patriotic immigration reform to give the highly emotional Treason Lobby enough rope to hang itself. This morning's Washington Post editorial, Michele Bachmann’s misplaced immigration nostalgia (Posted September 15, 2011), proves me right.
Michelle Bachmann began by merely saying this, during the September 7 Reagan Library Debate:
But one thing that we do know, our immigration law worked beautifully back in the 1950s, up until the early 1960s, when people had to demonstrate that they had money in their pocket, they had no contagious diseases, they weren't a felon. They had to agree to learn to speak the English language, they had to learn American history and the Constitution.
"And the one thing they had to promise is that they would not become a burden on the American taxpayer. That's what we have to enforce."
[The Republican Debate at the Reagan Library, September 7, 2011, NYTimes Transcript]
(Links added. She said much the same last week at the Tea Party debate).
WaPo responds:
"Ms. Bachmann’s nostalgia is touching but misplaced, unless she really pines for a return to laws that explicitly favored white immigrants from a handful of Northern European countries while excluding or disadvantaging Jews, Asians, Africans and practically everyone else."
This fatally reveals the Treason Lobby's true agenda. It is not interested in the very real concerns that Bachmann raises, about skill levels, disease, criminality, and assimilation. Nor, of course, is it interested in a concern she did not raise, at least directly: that the post-1965 influx has been vastly larger than anyone expected (or at least admitted to). The Treason Lobby is only interested in race—in swamping the historic American nation, which the 1921-1924 reforms were designed to protect.
Note the curious insinuation about the pre-1965 system "excluding or disadvantaging Jews". In fact, the legislation said nothing about Jews. It was entirely focused on countries. Jews from the source countries that had historically peopled America were free to come (and so was anyone else: West Indians came in under the British category). This knee-jerk hyperbole reveals unmistakeable ethnic obsession.
To some extent, WaPo's problem is stupidity, or at least ignorance of the immigration debate as it has evolved in the last twenty years. Thus it writes of the 1965 Act
"The new system gave preference to family reunification and job skills, broadened what had been a narrow pool of immigrants to include soaring numbers of newcomers from Asia and Latin America."
(Link added). In fact, the hallmark of the new legislation was that it put so-called "Family reunification" (which includes "families" that have never been united but are the result of arranged marriages) so far ahead of "job skills" that it triggered chain migration, resulting in a handful of Third World countries capturing the great bulk of the legal slots.
In the process, the historic source countries of Europe have been almost completely shouldered aside. In effect, the 1965 Act has proved the mirror image of the 1921-1924 legislation, discriminating against the historic source countries. What's so great about that?
Indicative of the bubble in which WaPo's writers live, the editorial continues:
"The shift has contributed to the nation’s diversity, dynamism and rich cultural kaleidoscope even as it challenged society, especially schools, to accommodate waves of new Americans whose looks, language and customs were unfamiliar to their neighbors."
Challenge—exactly what America's schools need!
This, of course, gives Bachmann a perfect comeback, redolent of Reagan's famous question, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?", in the 1980 Presidential debate. She could ask
"Is America better off with this 'diversity, dynamism and rich cultural kaleidoscope'? With these 'waves of new Americans [sic) whose looks, language and customs were unfamiliar to their neighbors'?"
Let's have an election on it!
Footnote: WaPo concluded that
"Patrick Buchanan, for example, has blamed the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech on the immigration overhaul, noting that the gunman 'was among the 864,000 Koreans here as a result of the Immigration Act of 1965, which threw the nation’s doors open to the greatest invasion in history, an invasion opposed by a majority of our people.'”
But its link is to its own reporting, not to Pat's April 30, 2007 The Dark Side of Diversity column, which carefully explained how immigration can result in social anomie (and included a Hat Tip to VDARE.com, where we had just started compiling our Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome dossier, still the only record of one of the ways in which the post-1965 influx has proved "challenging ). For immigration enthusiasts, ignorance is bliss
We have complained that Michele Bachmann has not yet fulfilled her early promise on the immigration issue. But here, with four sentences, she has provoked the Treason Lobby into defending the indefensible: the 1965 Immigration Act, which triggered America's ongoing immigration disaster. She is to be congratulated.
Peter Brimelow is editor of VDARE.COM and author of the much-denounced Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster (Random House - 1995) and The Worm in the Apple (HarperCollins - 2003)
An Indian Patriot Sues The People Who Shut Down American Renaissance’s 2010 Conference
When American Indians surrendered our weapons, there was only one hope left for us: the White Man’s law. That same law may be the last hope of American patriots today.
The Cash-for-Visas program
As part of his warmed-over jobs plan, President Obama is repackaging "Buy American" stimulus subsidies to help hard-hit homegrown businesses. At the same time, however, Congress is pushing to expand a fraud-riddled investor program that puts U.S. citizenship for sale to the highest foreign business bidders.
Call it the Buy America Cash-for-Visas plan.
Why Are We Pushing Multiculturalism On France, Russia, The World?
A "Festival of the Cultures of Islam" is now (September 7-17) in full swing in Paris. You're paying for it. Why?
This bit of multiculti showbiz was ginned up by the City of Paris and the U.S. Embassy—which has gone so far as to lend the Stars And Stripes (see right) to the islamopropaganda—along with (what a surprise) Harvard University.
The Institut's website says the Festival has been "organized through a partnership (réalisé en partenariat )between the City of Paris, the United States Embassy in France and Harvard University." Such réalisations always cost you money.
Since Barack Hussein Obama sent former Muppets CEO Charles Rivkin to be the U.S. Ambassador to France (what did his bijou post cost him, I wonder?), Rivkin has pursued a "Minority Engagement Strategy " designed to endear himself to, while increasing the political power of, those residents of France who are not, well, French. [In Smart-Power Shift, U.S. Now Actively Cultivating Muslim Minorities In The EU, By Garret Martin, European Affairs, April 2011]
This very odd, very undiplomatic U.S. interference in France's affairs received publicity after Wikileaks published American diplomatic cables about the program and its assistance to the Islamisation of France.
The cynical/ suspicious/ paranoid among us might think that Obama is using the U.S. State Department to facilitate the dominance of his ancestors' religion over Europe—achieving what Muslim invaders over the course of a millennium could not.
Charles Rivkin, who is billed as a French-speaking lifelong Francophile, evidently has decided to thank the country that has brought him such joy over so many years by doing what he can to destroy it. A graduate of Yale and Harvard and son of a Kennedy-administration ambassador, Rivkin may also serve as yet another example of how our most "elite" institutions are busily breeding an elite that is bent, for whatever reasons, on ruining the country that has offered them so much. Is it coincidental that New York had to endure the spectacle of a "Festival of the Cultures of Islam" in the very week that marks the 10th anniversary of the Muslim jihad-strikes against New York and Washington?
Democrat says: WAPO Poverty Rate Story Demonstrates Immigration Overload—But Doesn’t Mention I-Word
After years of writing sob-sister stories about illegal immigrant hardships, the Washington Post’s page one story today made the point which VDARE.com and others have been trying to make for years.
But, ironically, it fails to put the finger on the culprit! Namely, the importation of tens of millions of unnecessary aliens since 1965.
Immigration Cartoon Of The Day
This daily cartoon contributed to VDare by Baloo. His site is HERE
Report From Occupied America: Lawrence, Massachusetts—A Banana Republic in New England
One evening, in a quiet seaside town in northern Massachusetts, Marco Tejeda pulled a black ski mask over his face and knocked on the front door of a single-family home. When the homeowner answered, Tejeda hit the man over the head with a baseball bat, then struck him repeatedly as he lay on the floor. Tejeda seized some cash and some prescription medication before fleeing. Tejeda was a legal immigrant--his father works for the Dominican consulate.
Fortunately, the police arrested Marco Tejeda quickly, and the judge ordered him held without bail. [Police link two Haverhill men to Salisbury home invasion, By Angeljean Chiaramida, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, August 6, 2010]
But Tejeda had an ace up his sleeve: He submitted to the court a character reference from none other than William Lantigua, Mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the most influential Hispanic politician in the state.
The letter, written on mayoral stationary, was addressed “To whom it may concern” and described Marco Tejeda as “a hardworking individual with a strong set of values and high ethical standards.” [Lantigua endorsee a suspect in assault, By Maria Sacchetti and Sean P. Murphy, Boston Globe, April 26, 2011]
This was not the first character reference that Mayor Lantigua has written for a criminal constituent. Lantigua also vouched for the character of a man charged with armed robbery, and another man charged with assaulting and robbing his own mother. Moreover, these character references were written immediately after the men were arrested for their crimes.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. There were high hopes for William Lantigua when he was inaugurated mayor last year—at least among his Hispanic and white liberal supporters.
A former “community organizer”, William Lantigua was elected state representative from Lawrence in 2002. He then quickly became the de facto Hispanic leader in Massachusetts, and very popular with the local establishment. Hobnobbing with Lantigua allowed the state’s white elite to burnish their credentials among Hispanics and, more importantly, among other white liberals.
Beacon Hill is the perfect place for a token minority legislator. All you have to do is fall in line with the Democratic leadership and pose for pictures at public events.
Charles C. Mann’s 1493: The “Columbian Exchange”, The Homogenocene, And White Guilt
Once or twice per year, my local Costco puts out for sale a big stack of paperback copies of Charles C. Mann’s 2005 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
In 1491, Mann argued that the population in the Americas was probably greater than in Europe before Columbus arrived—accidentally bearing diseases for which New World natives had evolved no defenses. This argument appealed to the sizable and overlapping markets for White Guilt, Environmentalism, and New Age ancient wisdom.
Still, Mann also emphasized that Amerindians weren’t exactly noble savages leaving nature untouched. Instead, they actively manipulated nature for their own benefit, often by setting vast fires to clear out unwanted forests and brush.
I wasn’t wholly impressed by 1491’s evidence on the size of the pre-Columbian population. In a 2006 blog post, I complained—I now think unfairly—that it was “a little slippery.” An overlooked problem with the book: Mann tended to slide back and forth between talking about the Americas north or south of the Rio Grande. Most Amerindians in 1491 lived in what’s now Latin America, but my impression is that most of Mann’s readers didn’t quite grasp that.
Conquistadors like Cortez liked to emphasize the huge numbers of Indians they subdued. In contrast, English-speakers in the past tended to justify their settlement of North America on the grounds that it was not densely populated by indigenous people. In old Western movies, the heroes explain to cruel Indians that the white man will win in the end because there are more of them. Winning the West was
Memo From Middle America (Formerly Known As Memo From Mexico) by Allan Wall | Ten Years After 9/11—Can We Have Israel-Style Airport Security Profiling Now, Please?
The tenth anniversary of 9/11 was the occasion for all sorts of commemorations. 9/11 did change our country in several ways, though not the ways we would have wanted. For one thing, Americans rallied to the flag—ensuring the re-election of George W. Bush.
Certainly, the heroes of 9/11, including the New York City firemen, deserve our honor.
And certainly the 9/11 attack had an impact on my life. As a National Guardsman, I did a tour of duty in Iraq, in 2005. (Click here for a summary of my experience in Iraq).
In October of 2005, I flew back from Iraq for my two-week leave. And both en route to and en route back to Iraq—with my uniform on each time—I went through all the rigmarole of being searched in the airport.
So here I was, deployed to the Middle East as part of the U.S. Army, and I was considered as much of a terror threat as a Muslim Jihadist.
(And what do you know? A few years ago, the Obama Regime’s Janet Napolitano actually did release a profile of conservative Iraq veterans as potential terrorists. I guess I fit that profile!)
And yet, amidst all the hoopla, have we really learned anything that makes our country safer?
The 9/11 attacks were carried out by a group of Muslim Arab immigrants. One would think
The Irrelevance Of 9/11 To The American Renaissance
I stopped memorializing 9/11 on VDARE.com on the sixth anniversary in 2007. I wrote early that morning:
"I suppose a whole generation will always remember where they were when they heard about 9/11, just as an earlier one never forgot where they were when they heard JFK had been shot. I was exactly where I am now, looking at a computer screen behind which, through the window, the Connecticut Berkshires roll away to the horizon, when I glanced at the TV and saw the World Trade Center in flames - just as I now see Mayor Bloomberg presiding over a remembrance ceremony.
"I went upstairs and told Maggy, ill in bed with the cancer that was to claim her life just 17 months later. Together, we watched the utter destruction of an area we'd both known so well when I worked for Alan Abelson's Barron's Magazine some 20 years earlier.
"The same eerie feeling of complete change and no change comes over me when I contemplate the political consequences of 9/11. Osama bin Laden, whose head could surely have been obtained through a traditional commercial transaction with one or other local warlord, remains irritatingly at large. The government of Afghanistan, taken from the majority tribe and given to minority tribes, is obviously reverting, amid the usual chaos. Iraq continues to be the object of Washington's intense attention, as it has been since the first Gulf War, for reasons that deserve analysis but manifestly had nothing to do with 9/11. Domestic terrorism in the U.S., which could have been as serious as the Irish Republican Army's recent bombing campaign in Britain (why no War On Terror against them, by the way?) mysteriously did not materialize - even though episodic outbreaks of Immigrant Mass Murder sydrome have shown how easily individuals with rifles could paralyze the country. Above all, the Bush Adminstration continued with its fanatical drive to accomodate the Mexodus, heedless of border security.
"I find I don't feel like writing a VDARE.COM reflection on 9/11 this year. It's a game. America's elites didn't really care. They just just got on with their agenda(s).
"VDARE.COM has readers who lost loved ones in 9/11 and in the subsequent wars. To them I extend my own commiserations."
This year both Larry Auster and Diane West have issued similar statements of skepticism.
I suppose I can't say nothing has changed. Osama Bin Laden seems to be (finally) dead, for what that's worth. And, again for what it's worth, my personal life has certainly taken a much happer turn, through God's grace.
But the wars continue. And the Establishment's fanatical immigration enthusiasm and its drive to accomodate the Mexodus--most recently through the Obama Regime's Administrative Amnesty and the utter absence of GOP reaction--continues.
And of course, in 2009 Major Nidal Malik Hasan supported my contention that one killer with a gun is all that it takes to mess up America. If terrorism is such a threat, why hasn't this happened more often?
And of course the War Against Christmas--in the underlying form of ruling class Christophobia--continues, indeed is intensifying. [Omitting Clergy at 9/11 Ceremony Prompts Protest, by Laurie Goodman, New York Times, September 8, 2011]
I grieve for the fallen, especially VDARE.com contributor Peter Gadiel, who lost his son James, 23.
But some other event will be needed to spark what we might be able to call an American Renaissance.
In The Sunny Salinas Valley—A Long Weekend In Occupied America
See also Report From Occupied America: The Fall Of Salinas, by Joe Guzzardi
The Salinas Valley, dubbed the “Salad Bowl of the World” by locals, is situated in Monterey County in California. The Valley runs from King City in the south to the city of Salinas in the north and verdant fields lie to each side of Highway 101 which runs through the area.
The fields of lettuce and strawberries may appear serene and pastoral. But the Salinas Valley is anything but bucolic viewed from the towns and cities along the highway. Mass immigration, legal and illegal, spawned a new generation of citizens who are ravaging their communities.
The Salinas Valley is rife with gang activity. Here is a You Tube video put together by one gang, the Salinas Norteños:
Besides the video, one week of news from The Monterey Herald gives just a feel for some of the problems in the Valley.
Democrat Tells Obama And His Opponents: “Immigration Overload” Led To Jobs Mess
I find it more than annoying that, as we look at the dreary employment numbers just posted and the terrible record of new hirings for months and months, we never hear our MSM or our vaunted leaders talk about “immigration overload”!
Yes—immigration overload. That, folks, remains a major factor behind what got us into this pickle.
The Majority Strategy: The Essential Argument--Why The GOP Must Win White America
Peter Brimelow writes: The National Policy Institute is holding a conference on the theme Towards A New Nationalism: Immigration and the Future of Western Nations in Washington D.C. on September 10. A press conference will be held at the National Press Club, Friday, September 9. Everyone involved in these historic events, especially the presiding genius, Alternative Right’s Richard Spencer, deserves the thanks of a grateful nation, and I very much regret that for personal reasons I can’t be there. We post here Richard’s paper, prepared for the conference, on what he calls “The Majority Strategy”, which we at VDARE.com call “The Sailer Strategy” because it was invented by our Steve (America’s Half-Blood Prince) Sailer, even if, in his prima donna-ish way, he has been declining to focus on it recently. Some years ago, I was told (by a former staffer for Senator Jesse Helms!) that suggesting a white-cenric strategy for the GOP i.e. that it should appeal to its own base would lead to instant ostracism inside the Beltway. NPI is breaking that incredible taboo right now.
The National Policy Institute Research & Analysis
September 9, 2011
[PDF version at NPIAmerica.org]
Major Findings
- The GOP is effectively The White People’s Party. Whites cast some 90 percent of total Republican votes, and the party’s 2010 national victory was primarily the result of outstanding White participation.
- In the current multiracial environment, in which minorities consistently vote Democrat, major Republican victories occur when the party’s percentage of White support greatly outstrips that of the general (multi-racial) population.
- Over the past 40 years, Hispanic voting has been remarkably structural and intractable. The GOP’s “outreach” efforts consistently fail, and there’s little evidence that Hispanics would flock to a “Latino-friendly” GOP.
- The GOP could unite a substantial majority of White voters by focusing its platform on immigration restriction.
- A successful Republican strategy would be to “reach in” to its Majority base rather than “reach out” to Minorities. The GOP should not shirk its real identity; it should embrace it.
The Majority Strategy
Introduction
With each new election cycle, the Republican leadership becomes ever more convinced of its need to “reach out” to Hispanics, Blacks, and other minorities, or else risk irrelevance and defeat.
Phil Kent, Jay Bookman—And The "Hitler’s Revenge" Paradox
Jay Bookman [email him], a carpetbagging Treason Lobby shill at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is trying to stampede Georgia governor Nathan Deal into rescinding his appointment of Phil Kent [email him], a patriotic immigration reformer and long-time conservative activist, to the state’s Immigration Enforcement Review Board. [Anti-immigrant extremist appointed to powerful state board, September 6 2011].
Typically, Bookman’s lynch mob has already been joined by the Politico’s Reid J. Epstein [Georgia immigration panel 'hate group' flap, September 7, 2011] and the Anti-Defamation League [ADL asks governor to back off immigration panel appointment, by Jim Galloway, AJC, Sept 7. 2011].
The whole episode is an instructive example of how the Treason Lobby tries to use its MSM power to nullify the democratic process—immigration patriot Deal’s election and the subsequent passage of the anti-illegal House Bill 87—and how it now aims to stamp out absolutely all criticism, or even factual description, of its drive to elect a new American people.
Bookman quotes Kent’s writing in a Shock-Horror Point-And-Splutter style, but even he has to admit that
“Kent is a well-known figure in Georgia politics and has kept none of these sentiments secret. The columns cited above can be found at his website, www.philkent.com.” (Link in original)
So, if they’re not secret, how Shocking can Kent’s views be?
Bookman writes
Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' Curious Omission On The London Riots
I don't know if VDARE.com readers have seen this August 20, 2011 essay in The Wall Street Journal by Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, about the causes of the London riots and how to prevent their recurrence. [Reversing the Decay of London Undone | Britain's chief rabbi on the moral disintegration since the 1960s and how to rebuild] I only saw it today, and only because I get uplifting e-mail bulletins from Rabbi Daniel Lapin—and Mrs. Lapin was impressed enough by Rabbi Sacks's WSJ essay to link to it.
In his essay, Rabbi Sacks offers an eloquent and seemingly well-argued explanation of the social breakdowns that led to the London riots of 2011, and offers hopeful and seemingly plausible suggestions about how to restore social health based on a revival of religious charity and aid societies, Victorian-style. It is a powerful analysis and well-argued. Rabbi Sacks is a very intelligent and articulate man who plainly gives these problems a lot of thought.
But the Chief Rabbi's thinking appears fatally incomplete, on the evidence of this essay. It's an impressive essay indeed, until one notices that‒even though he is discussing riots carried out overwhelmingly by
What’s In A Name? “COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REDUCTION” vs. “Immigration Moratorium” etc.
Some years ago, I suggested to Rep. Tancredo and other immigration reform leaders such as Roy Beck and Peter Brimelow that the movement needed a single slogan that all activists could support. I said that the slogan should evoke an immediate positive response from Americans, who would intuitively agree with its message.
Advertisers spend millions of dollars hiring advertising agencies to create a simple message that resonates with the public. The immigration reform movement ignores this at its peril.
The slogan that I suggested: “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”.
The reaction to this was endlessly quarrelsome. “We cannot say this because of that.” “It is too simple.” “It is too complex.” etc etc.”
In short, the immigration leaders could not get their act together.
Pro-amnesty supporters had no such problem. They quickly adopted “Comprehensive immigration reform” as their slogan. And Americans agreed with them: Comprehensive Immigration Reform was just what they wanted—until they found out that “comprehensive immigration reform” meant “amnesty.”
It is worth pointing out that the Left has a great ability to get on a theme and stick with it. It becomes their central talking point. For example, Sen. Chuck Schumer inadvertently revealed to an open mike that Democratic strategy was to bash the Tea Party as “extreme”. “I always use extreme,” Schumer said. “That is what the caucus instructed me to use.”
I further suggested that Tancredo and the Immigration Reform Caucus should create one omnibus immigration bill and that would encompass all the reforms that immigration activists sought.
This met with stiff resistance from Roy Beck and NumbersUSA. It was Beck’s opinion that legislation should be introduced piecemeal.
Well, how far have any of those individual bills gone?
In contrast, amnesty supporters, including John McCain, were not hesitant in coming up with a “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” bill and trying to push it through the U.S. Congress.
National Data | August Jobs’ Labor Day Message: Immigration Moratorium Now!
Maybe because it was the eve of Labor Day, even Obama’s MSM cheerleaders seemed discouraged by August’s job numbers, released Friday. (Zero Job Growth Latest Bleak Sign for U.S. Economy, by Shaila Dewan, New York Times, September 2, 2011).
To put this “zero growth” in perspective, immigration policy brings around 100,000 new workers into the U.S. each month. This includes green cards issued to working age immigrants plus visas for “temporary” workers, which often attain permanent resident status. (Our friends at NumbersUSA use an estimate of 125,000 new workers imported each month, but I think that misinterprets DHS statistics which tally the number of times temporary visa recipients enter the country rather than the number of such visas issued. Needless to say, this sort of scrupulousness doesn’t get us any credit).
THIS IS WHY AN ANTI-UNEMPLOYMENT IMMIGRATION MORATORIUM IS NECESSARY—NOW!
Still, not for the first time, we think the MSM mewling misses the point. The widely-cited payroll survey does show zero employment growth. But the “other” survey—of households rather than business establishments—showed a strong job gain. Household employment rose by 331,000 positions in August, the largest increase since April 2010. (This divergence baffles Establishment economists: we have argued that it is because the Household Survey counts the employment of illegal aliens.)
But, again not for the first time, August’s data show Hispanic workers captured the bulk of the Household Survey’s job growth:
- Total employment rose 331,000 (+0.24 percent)
- non-Hispanic employment rose 170,000 (+0.14 percent)
- Hispanic employment rose 161,000 (+0.80 percent)
In other words, Hispanic employment grew nearly six times as rapidly as non-Hispanic employment in August, according to the Household Survey. (Race is not broken out in the Employment Survey).
This pushed our old VDARE.com American Worker Displacement Index— VDAWDI, unveiled November 16, 2006—to a record:
No Jobs For Labor Day In Obama's America
The recent jobs report shows zero jobs created, net in August.
- Zero Job Growth Latest Bleak Sign for U.S. Economy, by Shaila Dewan, New York Times, September 2, 2011
California, the most immigration-affected state in the country, has record low employment, especially for women.
- California Employment Level Sinks to Record Low as Fewer Women Find Jobs, By Christopher Palmeri, Bloomberg, September 4, 2011
Black unemployment is staggeringly high. Partly because blacks are less employable on average, partly because of the "shrinking public sector"--Federal, state and local governments all hire a lot of African-Americans, and all American governments are running out of money.
And the US Armed Forces, traditionally considered the employer of last resort, is making harder to get in (higher standards, no waivers for criminal records) or stay in--enlisted personnel are being let go if they're not promoted, owing to a hardening of the "up or out rules."This will have a disparate impact, and tend to make the Armed Forces whiter than they already are.
So, Happy Labor Day! (Assuming you still have a job.)
Many of the people who do have jobs are immigrants, and employers are complaining that they don't have enough immigrants to do their cheap labor jobs.
And meanwhile immigrants are pouring in, a million a year or more legal immigrants, and an unknown number of illegals.
And it seems that no one is talking about an immigration moratorium but us. (And David Frum, believe it or not.)It's hard enough to get Republican candidates to talk about enforcing the law against illegal immigration, and the idea of restricting legal immigration provokes strong negative reactions from neoconservatives.
Previous Moratorium Columns
Democrat Repeats (Louder This Time): Immigration Issue Could Spark Third Party
People who responded to my last column, which favored forming a new major political party, were all negative about the prospect. Recall that I noted the rise of such a major new political party—the Republican Party—which held its first convention in Philadelphia in 1856 and won its first elected President, Abraham Lincoln, in 1860.
Paul Graham, Ben Franklin And The Value of Political Incorrectness
With the school year starting up, I got to thinking about offering some avuncular advice about how to make one’s way in the world.
Fortunately, I resisted the urge. Instead, I’ll merely advise: read Paul Graham.
