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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
February 19, 2008
Mass Border Wedding on Valentine's Day
In case you didn't hear about this, there was a mass wedding on the Mexican side of the border on St. Valentine's Day. Here's what was reported:
Nearly 600 Mexican couples tied the knot in a mass Valentine's Day wedding by the U.S. border on Thursday, many of them undocumented migrants who met while working illegally in the United States.
So many of them were Mexicans who didn't even know each other until they met in the U.S.
More Immigrant Meatpackers Committing The Animal Cruelty That American Workers Don't Want To Do
In an earlier post, I said that the media were unlikely to say if the accused in the slaughterhouse case were immigrants, but a reader poinsts out that the LA Times has actually done so:
They Just Come Here To Swamp Us--Illegal Immigrants From India
An article in Monday's San Jose, CA Mercury-News [Illegal emigres defy the image: Fastest growing source? It's India, by Mike Swift, February 18, 2008] offers some startling numbers regarding illegal aliens from India. For example, the ubiquitous Jeffrey Passel of the Pew Hispanic Trust estimates that the number of "illegal Indians" in the U.S. is about 400,000.
Very Affordable Family Formation in England
In contrast to yesterday's Muslim fellow in Egypt who can't afford to start a family, today we take a look at a Muslim fellow in England who quit his job teaching math because he gets paid more to sit at home in Manchester with his wife, who is also his first cousin, and their eleven (soon to be twelve) children. He has so many kids that four [correction: five] of them are named Muhammad. It's pure comedy gold.
Obamamania and Trudeaumania
Canadian blogger I, Ectomorph offers an instructive analogy to the rise of Pierre Trudeau to power in 1968:
A California Reader Wonders: If Aliens Become Educated, Who Will Do The Jobs "Americans Won't?"
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