August 13, 2003
"Britons" - Part Two; etc.
A while back I did a story about an
Islamic terrorist in Israel who held a British
passport, and who the press referred to as a “Briton.” I
called it "Glory
in the Name of Briton," a phrase from George III's
speech on ascending the throne. (Remember George III?)
“Britons” are in the news again. The New York
Times reports that a British subject has been
arrested for trying to sell terrorist weapons to be used
on American soil. [U.S.
Holds Briton on Missile Charge, By David
Johnston and Philip Shenon, NYT, August 12, 2003]
In fact, the main suspect is “Hemant Lakhani, a
British citizen of Indian origin” according to
MSNBC, which helpfully had a newspaper artist draw a
picture of Mr. Lakhani.
The
surname Lakhani can be either
Hindu or
Muslim. But MSNBC doesn’t say, of course.
It’s good that the United States and Britain are
allies. But what kind of alliance is possible with
"Britain"?
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Bush Backs Bad Bill
On Monday, we posted
The Arizona Amnesty Bill – Two Disasters In One!
in which Juan Mann reported on the horrible new
stealth-amnesty bill put up by some Arizona Republicans.
Juan concluded:
"No word yet on where
the Bush Administration stands. Let’s be hopeful, but
watchful."
A
watchful Arizona reader instantly sent us this breaking
news:
"The
president was enthusiastic about the bill," said Kolbe.
"He is supportive and told us to take the legislation up
with his staff."
The
controversial
guest-worker proposal would allow millions of
foreigners — including
illegal immigrants already in the United States — to
live and work here with temporary visas.
Kolbe,
McCain and the other sponsor, Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.,
say the bill would reduce
migrant deaths on the U.S.-Arizona border, fill
needs
for low-skilled labor nationwide and improve
national security.
[Bush
says he supports Kolbe-McCain-Flake immigrant worker
bill Aug. 11, 2003, David Pittman, Tucson
Citizen].
Now we're just watchful.
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American Flight
In his latest column
The real voting, Thomas Sowell says that
Americans in California are voting with their feet
against immigration.
"The latest census data
show -- for the first time -- that more Californians
have been moving to other states than people in other
states have been moving to California. Between 1995 and
2000, California had a net loss of more than 600,000
people to other states. People are voting with their
feet.
"California's total population has not gone down,
however. Immigrants have replaced Americans. Apparently
California is still considered to be preferable to
Mexico or Central America."
This has been a VDARE.COM theme for
some time. But while immigration is most noticeable near
the borders and the East and West coast, there’s nowhere
in the US you can go, from
Colorado to
Iowa to
rural Michigan, that won’t be affected by mass
immigration.
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Rico, Rico, Rico
The Center for
Immigration Studies has a new Backgrounder on the use of
RICO legislation against employers of illegal
immigrants:” RICO: A New Tool for Immigration Law
Enforcement” August 2003,By Micah King (of
FILE) [Click here to read it in
HTML or
PDF.] it covers the lawsuits initiated by Howard
Foster, on which we’ve reported here before. [see
Psst! Wanna Join A Class Action Suit Against Employers
of Illegal Immigrants? And
TODAY'S LETTER: Howard Foster Reports A Victory Against
Illegals’ Employers]
For those people,
especially those people on the Editorial Board of the
Wall Street Journal, who don’t understand how
RICO laws can be used in fighting illegal immigration, I
offer my short form explanation of the legal issue from
Illegals’ Employers Meet RICO Doomsday Machine:
RICO is a brutal weapon.
It has been misused in the past, for example to attack
political dissent.
But these suits are
legitimate:
-
A crime has been
committed. If Tyson is guilty, they’ve violated the
Immigration and Nationality Act in order to make
money. The technical name for this is “enterprise crime”
and of course, it’s “Organized Crime” even if they don’t
have guns.
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Tyson made money from it.
Tyson has 120,000 employees. (Every dollar an hour that
they can lower their average wages is worth roughly a
quarter of a billion dollars annually.)
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American workers lost
money. (See above.)
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They’re suing.
We at VDARE.COM wish them
luck.
We still do.
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