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(RNC Chairman
Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL), Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and
Teddy Kennedy (D-Mass) gloating at the May 17 press conference
announcing the Kennedy-Bush Amnesty/ Immigration Surge Bill).
By Peter
Brimelow
Probably
they’re laughing even more tonight. But not for long—if
VDARE.COM can help it.
As I
write this, my computer screen shows two very bad pieces of
news:
- The
U.S. Senate has voted 69-23 for cloture on the Kennedy-Bush
Amnesty/ Immigration Surge Bill, meaning that debate will be
limited in order to make ramming it through easier.
- A
Federal Judge has blocked the ordinance passed
overwhelmingly by the voters of Farmers Branch TX to punish
landlords who rent to illegal aliens.
Neither
of these setbacks are fatal. Both can be overcome—with effort
and skill. But to do so, and to reclaim America, takes
resources.
I must
ask you to give generously—now.
For
example, if I had the resources, as editor of VDARE.COM I would
now be asking questions about Farmers Branch like the
following—and finding writers to answer them:
- What
about the legalities in this case—how can federal law
possibly trump local ordinances?
- Who
is this federal judge anyway? (He’s Sam Lindsay—a black
Clinton appointee.)
- Why
not impeach him? (It’s in the U.S. Constitution—remember the
Constitution?). Let’s ask the local elected officials!
But I can
only get those answers if we can pay for them.
It’s five
months since our last fund-raising appeal.
Which is
not, goodness knows, because we don’t need the money. We are
determined to keep paying our writers, albeit modestly, because
we know it makes all the difference in the world—witness the
many excellent blogs that have stopped posting in the last year
or so because their writers burned out.
And,
although many of you responded generously to our Christmas
appeal, we did have extra expenses in the shape of the prolonged
illness of a key member of our team, Joe Guzzardi. (He’s out of
hospital now, fortunately, and recuperating.)
But I’ve
delayed launching this first fund-raising appeal of 2007.
There’s always so much to write about—I just hate to take
the spotlight off the issue of America’s immigration disaster
even for a moment—even to raise the money that’s necessary to
keep that spotlight shining.
It’s
fascinating to see how this popular outrage is forcing the
President and the Senate sellouts to dissimulate about what
they’re trying to do—emphasizing border security, workplace
verification, assimilation.
Of
course, these are all things Bush could and should have done
something about at any point in his six years in office. But his
dissimulation is the homage that vice pays to virtue—popular,
patriotic outrage. And at VDARE.COM we pride ourselves on
playing a part in stimulating and shaping that outrage.
But
President Bush remains fanatical about his obsessions: a
“temporary worker” program (“to fill jobs that Americans
aren’t doing”) and amnesty (which as usual he says is not
amnesty) for illegals (whom he estimates at 12 million, although
we’ve published credible estimates they may number 20 million.
The scandalous truth is that nobody knows how many there are,
but Bush wants to amnesty them all anyway).
Much of
what we do at VDARE.COM is frame questions that Americans can
ask when confronted with such Bush-type bafflegab. So instead of
writing this appeal, what I really want to do is blog as
follows:
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How can
anyone talk about “jobs that Americans aren’t doing” without
some mention of price?—i.e.
wages that American employers don’t want to pay?
Particularly when, as we have repeatedly documented at
VDARE.COM, American wages have been stagnating since the
immigration floodgates were opened after 1965?
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How can
anyone propose a “temporary worker” program without
correcting the citizen-child interpretation of the 14th
Amendment?
At present, this means that if a temporary worker has a
child here, that child is considered an American
citizen—entitled to the full panoply of benefits, even able
ultimately to sponsor its parents as immigrants. It’s a huge
hole in the bottom of any “temporary worker” program.
Fourteenth Amendment reform has been an issue at VDARE.COM
since our inception.
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How can
anyone propose to “resolve the status” a.k.a.
amnesty any illegal
immigrants without ending legal chain migration through the
wildly extravagant “family reunification” provisions in
current law? Twelve million amnestied
illegals will ultimately be able sponsor in some multiple of
that number of relatives as legal immigrants.
I believe
that ideas have consequences. To the extent Americans are aware
of these questions, they will see through the Bush-Pelosi
immigration
One of
the gratifying developments in the years I have been running
VDARE.COM is to see the number of times questions we raise, like
the ones I’ve just outlined, show up in the discussion threads
that Mainstream Media outlets are now obliged to run after their
rah-rah immigration stories. Americans have an increasingly
sophisticated awareness of what their ruling class is doing to
them—and of how false its arguments are.
It is
because of this increasing American awareness that immigration
enthusiasts, like President Bush, are obliged to disguise their
proposals as “immigration reform”—rather than
“immigration expansion” or “immigration capitulation”—and
to lie about whether their amnesty is, in fact, an amnesty. It
is because of this American awareness that the drive to expand
immigration has repeatedly been derailed over the last six
years—and, hopefully, will be again.
But it
takes money to develop these questions—and it takes money to
spread the word, even on the internet.
Perhaps
the questions we asked that have gotten us most attention since
our last appeal are the ones we asked after the shootings at
Virginia Tech.
In the
MSM, this has been spun as “An American Tragedy” and a
case study in the need for gun control.
At
VDARE.COM, we pointed out that this was really an immigration
tragedy—shooter Seung-Hui Cho came from Korea in 1992,
although tellingly he never took out U.S. citizenship or even
Americanized his name—and a case study in the need for
immigration control.
But when
we first wrote in the hours after the killings, a google search
revealed 45,000 stories mentioning “Virginia Tech” and
“gun control”—but only 230 mentioning “Virginia Tech”
and “Immigration Control”, most of them random junk.
As I
write this on May 14, there are no less than 826,000
stories mentioning “Virginia Tech” and “gun control”!—and
just 604 mentioning “Virginia Tech” and
“Immigration Control”.
I am
happy to say the top two stories on “Virginia Tech” and
“Immigration Control” are both from VDARE.COM.
I’ve
been a professional journalist for thirty-five years. But even I
am shocked by this astounding imbalance.
The more
so because, in the days after the shootings, we at VDARE.COM
were able to document literally dozens of similar killings by
immigrants in the last thirty years, including several on
campuses and one—at Case Western Reserve University in 2003—that
eerily foreshadowed Virginia Tech, but was mercifully cut short
when police shot the perpetrator, an Indian immigrant.
We call
it “Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome”. It’s not even that
difficult to understand. As our Brenda Walker wrote, wisely and
compassionately:
“The media chatter
constantly about how wonderful diversity is and ignore the
stress of adjusting to a different society. Immigrants are
expected to be happy and grateful, while many are not. Stress is
cumulative, and when the difficulties of cultural adjustment are
piled on top of the normal problems of young adulthood, some may
explode.”
But in the
Mainstream Media there is literally no mention of these facts,
or of this analysis.
This is not just a
debating point. Americans will die because of it.
I will mention just
one other question we regularly ask at VDARE.COM because it
appeals to me as a financial journalist: who is getting the
jobs?
Every month, the
federal government publishes employment statistics. But it takes
work to figure out whether immigrants or Americans are getting
the new jobs. The government, as usual, doesn’t make it easy.
You won’t hear about it in the MSM. But our Ed Rubenstein does
that work, and has develped what we call VDARE.COM’s American
Worker Displacement Index—VDAWDI.
We report
on VDAWDI regularly. In April, all categories of workers lost
ground—but Hispanics (a proxy for immigrants) lost least.
Since
Bush’s inauguration, non-Hispanic employment has made virtually
no gains. But Hispanic employment has risen by more than a
quarter. More than half of all new jobs have been captured by
Hispanics. Our research also points to the reason: Hispanics are
systematically lower-paid. Hispanics in particular, and
immigrants in general, are simply displacing Americans in the
workforce at a remarkable pace.
The facts
are there. Eventually, the issue will get into politics and you
will read about it in the Mainstream Media.
But right
now, the only place you can find this reporting is in VDARE.COM.
We need
your help to keep VDARE.COM going. Please give generously. Help
us develop the ideas that will save America.
Peter
Brimelow
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