June 15, 2007

Tancredo House Triumph Bad News For Axis of Amnesty?

By Peter Brimelow on June 15, 2007 at 9:28pm

To almost no national notice that I can see, Representative Tom Tancredo scored a great victory on Friday morning:

WASHINGTON, D.C. â€“ The U.S. House of Representatives this morning voted to withhold federal emergency services funding for "sanctuary cities" that protect illegal immigrants.

War On America--In The Name Of Cucumbers?

By James Fulford on June 15, 2007 at 5:40pm

Kerry Howley at Reason.com [Send her mail] has a post called The United States Is Full, Chapter MCXVII, saying "The war on cucumbers continues"

[Farmer's whining about not having cheap labor omitted. ]

Immigration Ramifications of Putin Blasting the WTO

By Randall Burns on June 15, 2007 at 4:44pm

Alex Nicholson writes at Associated Press:

Speaking at an economic forum in Russia's second-largest city of St. Petersburg, Putin lamented that today's international economic organizations "look archaic, undemocratic and awkward" by protecting the interests mainly of developed economies.

"Today protectionism which the WTO is intended to fight oftentimes comes from developed economies that set up this structure," Putin told the conference.

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Reader Asks About Balkanization and Brain Drain

By Randall Burns on June 15, 2007 at 4:36pm

In response to my article on talent based visas, one reader wrote:

One guarantee of "diversity" is Balkanization and then in the right circumstances formal separation. Bringing nonwhites into America who have high IQs will do what, as America formally separates into separate countries?

The Value Of Citizenship

By James Fulford on June 15, 2007 at 12:41pm

There are a number of ways of computing the cash value of American citizenship, which patriots may consider above price, but which the American government is more or less willing to sell to rich foreigners, via the Immigrant Investor Visa program, which Michelle Malkin wrote about in 2001, and which is still running.