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Add “bilingual” preference on the part of business to the increasing ways that Americans face unfair treatment in our own nation. More and more, citizens are expected to know the language of the invader while Spanish speakers do not need to speak English.

We already pay for translations of official documents into various languages for the convenience of immigrants, as the city of Oakland has been doing for a decade.

There is wide recognition that Rick Perry’s recent faltering stems largely from the fact that his atrocious weaknesses on immigration policy - exemplified by his obstinate stupidity on the acid test of the Border Fence - is becoming better known.

The war against immigration enforcement continues. No More Deaths, an organization with the explicit mission of ending immigration law enforcement has published a report created by its own interviewers of sad tales of depravity committed against illegal aliens by Border Patrol Agents. The litany of complaints is itself laughable as not returning shoe laces is one of the major concerns reported by illegal aliens. One only has to go to the No More Deaths website and see their graphic of a illegal alien holding a sign "Migra Hands Off Of Our Community." Of course, that needs a comma somewhere, but what do you expect from those with less than a command of English? And, more tellingly, an agenda.

Our findings include the following:

• Border Patrol agents denied food to 2,981 people and gave insufficient food to 11,384 people. Only 20 percent of people in custody for more than two days received a meal.

• Agents denied water to 863 people and gave insufficient access to water to 1,402 additional people. Children were more likely than adults to be denied water or given insufficient water. Many of those denied water by Border Patrol were already suffering from moderate to severe dehydration at the time they were apprehended.

• Physical abuse was reported by 10 percent of interviewees, including teens and children. The longer people were held in custody, the more likely they were to experience physical abuse.

I see three reasons why the modern races split along the same lines as those older , much more divergent groups.

Barry Estabrook, author of Tomatoland (aee below) says that "Florida's largest farmworker community, Immokalee is the town that tomatoes built." It's also an extremely high crime community.

This evening’s GOP Presidential debate was interestingly blogged about by both NumbersUSA and Dick Morris.

NumbersUSA commendably pulled out their check book and ran a (very PC) ad on immigration during the debate! (Ad targeting legal immigration to air during GOP debate By Josh Lederman The Hill 09/22/11.) This probably cost more than VDARE.com’s annual Budget, but it was an enterprising idea.

Dick Morris has said and done silly things over the years, but he has a long history of being alert to the immigration issue, and a remarkable record joining the winning side as it wins. So it is pleasant to find him stressing the potency of the question in the midst of his currently enthusiastic Republicanism.

Numbers USA’s most extensive quote was of Michelle Bachmann:

"9:44 First immigration question to Bachmann. She was asked if she believed if it's okay for states to enforce immigration laws even though the Constitution grants the power over naturalization to Congress.
Bachmann said that "the Federal Government has failed the American people and the states. Pres. Obama has sued the state of Arizona

Nicholas Wade writes in the NYT:

Go here to see what NumbersUSA has to say.

Fox video below:

Governor Rick Perry (R-Texas) has pointed to job growth in Texas during the current economic downturn as one of his main accomplishments. But analysis of Current Population Survey (CPS) data collected by the Census Bureau show that immigrants (legal and illegal) have been the primary beneficiaries of this growth since 2007, not native-born workers. This is true even though the native-born accounted for the vast majority of growth in the working-age population (age 16 to 65) in Texas. Thus, they should have received the lion’s share of the increase in employment. As a result, the share of working-age natives in Texas holding a job has declined in a manner very similar to the nation as a whole. 

Among the findings: 

Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived immigrant workers (legal and illegal).  

In terms of numbers, between the second quarter of 2007, right before the recession began, and the second quarter of 2011, total employment in Texas increased by 279,000. Of this, 225,000 jobs went to immigrants (legal and illegal) who arrived in the United States in 2007 or later.