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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
Blog Posts
Diversity before Diversity: Cheech Marin
Everybody knows these days that the 35 million or so people in the country of Mexican descent are making "extraordinary contributions", as President Obama explained last week in his amnesty speech. Granted, he did not name any making extraordinary contributions. And, indeed, the number of American-raised high achievers of Mexican descent appears to be remarkably low at present relative to their numbers.
Video: Steve Sailer on Human Biodiversity
Here's a 13-minute interview of me shot by Craig Bodeker back in 2010 at the H.L. Mencken Club meeting. I was pretty rocky in the beginning, but it came out okay:
Contra Marco Rubio, 70% Of People In Mexico Are Overweight
It's a cliche that illegal immigrants are fleeing starvation. Yet, Mexico has more overweight residents than even notoriously fat America. From The Economist in 2010:
SEVENTY metres (230 feet) long and slathered with cream and cheese, the world’s biggest enchilada was cooked up in a suburb of Mexico City on October 17th.
Eric Holder And The Board of Immigration Appeals Escalating Attack On DOMA
America's own Andrey Januarevich Vyshinsky, Eric Holder, and his minions at the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) are maneuvering for an amnesty for homosexuals to mirror the Department of Homeland Security's amnesty for illegal aliens under age 31. The BIA recently remanded to U.S.
Even Cato's Open-Borders Libertarians Don't Like Obama's Unconstitutional Amnesty
Gene Healy is vice-president of the Cato Institute and therefore an open borders guy—he's fine with illegal immigrants being allowed to stay. However, he's also the author of "The Cult of the Presidency," and therefore he does not approve of Obama's unconstitutional amnesty.
Ombamnesty Effect on American Workers Is Considered (Weakly)
The Contra Costa Times immigration reporter tried his liberal best to present both sides of the Obamnesty, including the downer of more workers being unleashed on jobless citizens. (California statewide unemployment in May was 10.8 percent, so joblessness is a big concern here.)
But Matt O’Brien’s questionable attempt at “fair and balanced” was neither. The piece starts out with emotional stories from several young illegals and their dreams for the future. One version in the San Jose Mercury posted a sympathetic photo of one, Fiona Cruz.
For the other side, the reporter interviewed CIS’s excellent researcher Steve Camarota, and cited a couple relevant quotes. But O’Brien followed Camarota’s reasonable analysis with an immediate refutation beginning: “Those are assumptions many economists don’t hold. . .”
However, the most egregious element was the omission of young citizens who already struggle to find jobs. Why are their dreams for the future not considered worthy? How hard would it have been for the reporter to go to a local campus or unemployment office to find Americans who cannot find work?
The media constantly barrages the public with tearful stories of illegal aliens, as in this case. But young Americans, whose parents have obeyed the law and paid the taxes, are not even an afterthought to liberal journalists.
For that reason, I propose a new visa category for journalists to increase diversity in the newsroom and educate current scribblers about what the rest of America faces. Fifty thousand new journalist immigrants should do nicely for a start.
Immigration reprieve means thousands of new workers in California, By Matt O’Brien, Contra Costa Times, June 19, 2012
Test Prep Gains By Race
Chris Hayes argues in his new book Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, the real reason that blacks and Hispanics are making so little progress over the generations at qualifying on their own merit for selective academic institutions is because rich whites are hogging all the test prep.
The Wisdom Of Marco Rubio
Senator Marco Rubio (R-Cuba), prominent Vice-Presidential Timber, has written (according to Matthew Yglesias in "The Wisdom of Marco Rubio on Illegal Immigration"):
"Many people who came here illegally are doing exactly what we would do if we lived in a country where we couldn't feed our families," he writes in An American Son, which was released Tuesday.
Wonders Of Competition: TWO Bills To Block Obama's Youth Amnesty
Rep Schweikert versus Rep Quayle: Sad - but a silver lining?
Chicago Tribune Disinformation Campaign: Daily Runs Story on 25 Saturday Night Chicago Shootings, NONE of Which was Committed by a White...
...Accompanied Only by Mug Shots of White Suspects from Unrelated, Out-of-Town Misdemeanors
Mugs in the news
Defendant: Suzi Schmidt [above, left]
( Lake Villa Police Department photo / June 13, 2012 )
No First Amendment for You, Whitey: Miami-Dade Fire Captain Who Criticized Trayvon Martin Hoax is Busted All the Way Down to Fireman,
Humiliated, and Ordered to Undergo Psych Evaluation and Still More Diversity Training
Derb Response to Jared Taylor
I'll respond at length to Jared Taylor's anti-miscegenation essay in a day or two ─ I'm a little backed up & preparing for a road trip. In the meantime, VDARE.com readers might want to chew over this post by blogger Half Sigma on the just-released Pew report about Asian Americans. Sample:
Houston Illegals “Bombard” Immigration Lawyers
Here’s a new word for your diverse vocabulary: “charla.” It’s Spanish and means a Q&A session with an immigration lawyer. The one pictured below was put on in Houston, courtesy of Catholic Charities, which routinely acts as an active anti-sovereignty enabler of lawbreaking aliens.
Mexico's Calderon Cheers Obama's Amnesty Valor to Mexicans; Plus Numbers
As expected, Mexico’s Presidente Calderon was thrilled with his pal Obama’s pre-election amnesty reversal. More freebies for illegal Mexicans on the US taxpayer’s tab means more disposable income to be sent home to Mexico as remittances. El Presidente likes that just fine.
California v. Texas: U2 property rights
From my new column in Taki's Magazine:
The struggles of even the best-connected California celebrities to nail down every last one of the permits they need to build on their own property helps demonstrate why differences in topography drive Californians toward voting for environmentalist Democrats and Texans toward pro-business Republicans.
HR 5957 - Next Best Thing To Impeachment To Block Obama's Administrative Amnesty?
Congressman David Schweikert (AZ-5th)
Kanazawa On The Disadvantages Of Intelligence
I admire Satoshi Kanazawa's lively intelligence, although I'm not totally persuaded to trust every idea he comes up with. From The Economist:
... less intelligent people are better at doing most things. In the ancestral environment general intelligence was helpfuhelpful only for solving a handful of evolutionarily novel problems.
Pollaganda on Obamnesty: If MSM Asks The Right Questions, It Polls Well, Otherwise Not
It's being reported all over that that Obama's unconstitutional administrative amnesty is polling welll:
Janet Napolitano's Dream Decree—A Pack Of Lies, With Loopholes You Could Drive Three Elephants And A Mariachi Band Through
This is an excerpt from the official memo from Janet Napolitano on Obama's unconstitutional Administrative Amnesty. You can read the whole thing as a PDF on the DHS site. Link via Stanford Law School Fellow William Baude, who describes it as "short on legal specifics".
Sean Trende: Why The Sailer Strategy Dooms Obamnesty
Sean Trende writes in RealClearPolitics on why Obama's Administrative Amnesty is a bad thing for Obama—for reasons that we've been talking about for more than ten years, and that we call the Sailer Strategy. (This is an excerpt, and the links in it are Trende's)
1) Latinos are underrepresented in swing states. While the Latino vote is frequently portrayed as a critical voting bloc, in truth it is concentrated in only a few swing states with just a handful of electoral votes. The only states where Latinos make up more than 10 percent of the electorate are: Arizona (16 percent of the electorate in 2008), California (18 percent), Colorado (13 percent), Florida (14 percent), Nevada (15 percent), New Mexico (41 percent), and Texas (20 percent).
Of these, only Colorado, Florida, and Nevada are swing states; New Mexico and Arizona are at best borderline swing states. In Florida, the Latino vote largely (though decreasingly) comprises voters of Cuban descent and is therefore atypical of other Latino electorates.
So in the end, we’re talking about Colorado and Nevada as the states where this is likely to produce dividends of any size, for a total of 15 electoral votes.
2) There is a trade-off here. Fifteen electoral votes could still be crucial in a close election. But here’s the rub: The analyses that focus only on the potential effect among Latino voters miss half of the equation: The potential effect among white voters.
I’ve made this point before, but consider the case of Arizona. For many liberal commentators, the silver lining to