Obama Speaks, VDARE.com Refutes!

By Peter Brimelow on May 10, 2011 at 1:00am

My quick thoughts on President Obama's much-promoted May 10 immigration speech:

But he is urging not merely the amnestying of millions of undocumented Democrats, allowing them full access to the American job market, but also increasing legal immigration—already at record levels. 

Simply put, under Obama the Democratic Party has definitively abandoned the American working class. Based on his priorities in this speech, it has now unmistakably become an alliance of ethnic chauvinists and plutocrats like Michael ("Billionaire Golfers for Open Borders") Bloomberg.

  • Still, Obama still felt compelled to disguise his argument in economic terms.

This is a confession of political weakness. Obama knows that Americans oppose amnesty and are against more immigration,

But in fact, among economists the consensus on immigration has been clear for 20 years, and was confirmed by the National Academy of Sciences report The New Americans back in 1997. My paraphrase:

Americans do not benefit, in aggregate, from immigration. It does increase Gross Domestic Product—but the bulk of that is captured by the immigrants themselves, through their wages. Once transfer payments are factored in, American taxpayers are paying for their own dispossession. However, immigration does cause a transfer of income within the native-born community—from labor to the owners of capital, through its impact on wages. (See Bloomberg, above).

Nevertheless, Obama can still get away with citing his "economic" flim flam—because the truth has been suppressed.

This is an expression of the Treason Lobby's cultural power—and a reason you should give to VDARE.com.

[Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform in El Paso, Texas, May 10, 2011]

Put aside the appalling phenomenon of a U.S. President again praising immigration law-breakers among his audience, as he did in his Miami-Dade commencement speech.

Look what happened when Obama claimed, albeit with stunning disingenuousness, that the Border Fence has been built:

THE PRESIDENT: The fence is --

AUDIENCE:  Booo!

THE PRESIDENT:  The fence is now basically complete.

AUDIENCE MEMBER:  Tear it down!"

[Houston Chronicle Transcript Of Speech, As Delivered]

Obama did not reprove his audience. These are Reconquistas that the Democrats are enlisting.

Again, look what happened when the President claimed, with more stunning disingenuousness, that—

"…We have gone above and beyond what was requested by the very Republicans who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement.  All the stuff they asked for, we've done.  But even though we've answered these concerns, I've got to say I suspect there are still going to be some who are trying to move the goal posts on us one more time.

AUDIENCE MEMBER:  They're racist!"

In Obama's America, of course, "racism" is essentially illegal—the charge is meant to end debate, and probably get the utterer charged with a "hate crime".

But again the President did not reprove his audience—indicating his utter indifference to sincere concerns for the American worker. And for the American nation.

Well, at VDARE.com, we want to move the goal posts. And we don't care what names we're called.

These are the prerequisites that we regard as fundamental to any renewed immigration debate:

And by "subsidies",, we include ending free education for illegals (overthrow Plyler vs. Doe) and ending Birthright citizenship.

You won't hear these prerequisites discussed anywhere else.

That's why you must support VDARE.com now!

Peter Brimelow (email him) is editor of VDARE.COM and author of the much-denounced Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster, (Random House - 1995) and The Worm in the Apple (HarperCollins - 2003)