Help VDARE.COM Stop Another Kennedy Immigration Disaster!

Peter Brimelow writes[04-13-06]: This is what Senator Edward Kennedy said when he was piloting the 1964 Immigration Act.

"First our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same…Second, the ethnic mix of the country will not be upset…Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia"

Every one of these predictions proved false. But nevertheless, Kennedy is now unblushingly promoting another huge increase in immigration. (To read what he says about this one, look at my blog posting on April 12).

VDARE.COM exists to expose Kennedy's type of falsehood so that America will not make the same mistake again. The political and media establishments will not do it. But we believe the truth can set us free. Please scroll to the bottom and give whatever you can—it's just above the link to today's postings.

Peter Brimelow writes [04-12-06, 10:00 pm EDT]:

Maybe I sounded too cheerful last night – donations have abruptly slowed, with less than a thousand dollars coming on Thursday. (But many small donors – bless them all!)

Yet need is greater than ever. Today, there are reports of a great increase in illegal border crossings, inspired by the prospect of an amnesty cave-in. There are reports that the Republican leadership is again trying to facilitate that cave-in, intimidated by the illegal alien demonstrations (see VDARE.COM blog). And (also see VDARE.COM blog tonight), a reader has sent us an email he received from Senator Kennedy's office, making chillingly clear his determination to sacrifice America on the altar of liberal dogma and plutocratic class interest.

We need your help NOW. Scroll down to the bottom of this page and PLEASE give. Anything will help, but THIS IS THE TIME to give large amounts if you possibly can.

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Peter Brimelow writes [04-11-06]: If you're wondering how illegal alien arrogance is playing in Americaland (as opposed to the MSM), here's a hint: VDARE.COM's Easter Appeal has raised over $6000 in just over 36 hours—easily a record. And here's an important point about the guest worker amnesty from one of our many sharp e-correspondents:

"One big question I don't see anyone raising is:  will 11 million people get preferences as soon as they are legal?  Will we have just put them at the front of the bus while Americans walk to the back? Most people may not know this, but there is a Hispanic-surname box to check on every college application, most scholarship applications, and society is shot through with hiring and contract set-asides.  Adding 11 million people and their families to the head of the list will hurt even Hispanics now legally here."

Of course, the answer is that ALL the illegals will be eligible for Affirmative Action quotas—even though they have suffered no historic wrong in America because, by definition, they weren't here. Quotas are a zero-sum game, so everybody else will be that much worse off.

Apparently, it hasn't occurred to Congress to exclude illegals from this gravy train. Isn't that odd?

As it happens, VDARE.COM carries the ONLY published estimate of the cost of Affirmative Action to the American economy. (Search the site under "When Quotas Replace Merit.") For that matter, we've pulled out of the technical literature the only estimate you're going to see of the cost of the immigrant presence to American workers: over $300 billion, or more than $2,578 each annually. (Search the site under "Immigration Policy Costing American Workers $2,600 A Year.")

But we can ONLY provide these facts and analyses if YOU provide money. PLEASE scroll down to the bottom and donate. Bonus: here's a link there to tonight's postings, including Allan Wall on Mexican gloating and the blog.

At VDARE.COM we have more immigration disasters to expose than ever before!

Assuming, that is, we can raise the money to do it.

As I write this, on the evening of Sunday April 9, reports have been coming in of yet another huge demonstration, maybe half a million strong, by illegal immigrants in Dallas. As in many other cities, they are demanding—demanding—that America cave in and ratify their law-breaking.

America is losing control of its national territory.

The Mainstream Media and the political establishment, both liberal and "conservative," are in panic over this unexpected (by them) development. One symptom: a constant attempt to downplay the number of Mexican flags carried by the demonstrators, because it reveals all too clearly their arrogance and revanchism.

Yet readers of the VDARE.COM's blog know that we just eavesdropped on a supposedly-private phone conference held by the Reconquistas themselves to organize their May 1 demonstration—and they rejected the suggestion, made by an Anglo participant, that U.S. flags be emphasized.

One Reconquista said: "We're going to move forward, and we're not going to impose the American flag on anyone."

So now we know!

And where exactly are we "going to move forward" to? Ask the students at Longmont High, CO, who last week were forbidden to display Old Glory by a cowardly principal who feared violence.

The ban was reversed because of patriotic protests—but the truth is that the principal was probably right to fear violence.

Next question: will he protect American students when they are assaulted by immigrants? Will the mainstream Media even report it?

Answer: no and no.

That's why it's vital that we develop our own patriot organizations and networks to get the word out —and why we have to ask you for the money to do it on VDARE.COM—now.

This is not just a matter of symbols. Nor is it about a future danger. Americans are being hurt by immigration right now.

We get heart-rending letters about this all the time at VDARE.COM, more than we can post. Here's another that arrived today:

"I live in Eastern Washington State and have read some of the letters posted on VDARE.COM, especially the one commenting on bilingual workplaces. Here you have to be bilingual to get a job. I even applied at McDonald's here, and they asked if I was bilingual and when I said no, they told me that maybe I should look for work elsewhere. It makes me rather upset that it apparently doesn't matter if you don't speak English. That is all from here in the desert.

"Yours Respectfully [Name Withheld]

This from a part of the country that was entirely English-speaking just a few years ago.

Maybe we aren't supposed to care about our fellow-citizens who would like to work in hamburger stands, no matter how touchingly earnest and patently honest their letters are. That's what the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page would probably say.

But here at VDARE.COM, we do care.

And we think there are many positive things that could be done to help—even apart from securing the borders. For a start, why aren't politicians debating laws compelling American businesses to operate in English, the way the Quebec government compelled businesses there to operate in French? Why should Americans be refused employment in their own country because they can't speak a foreign language?

Why isn't the Mainstream Media debating ideas like this?

Or why don't they come up with some other solution?

Any other solution?

Our job at VDARE.COM is to provide the facts and analysis that will lead to these ideas and solutions. We believe no-one else will do it.

Of course, the best news that immigration patriots have had for many years is that the appalling Establishment plan to push through a "guest worker" amnesty for illegal aliens and a massive increase in legal immigration was derailed in the U.S. Senate last week.

This happened ONLY because of an enormous unexpected outpouring of patriotic grass-roots opposition frightened the Senators.

Needless to say, the immigration patriot network doesn't get the same fawning coverage in the Mainstream Media that Reconquista demonstrations do. But, especially over talk radio and the internet, it is unmistakably achieving critical mass. At VDARE.COM, we blogged on the Senate debate as it was in process. Our traffic, already at record levels, soared. We are confident that this played a part in alerting America.

Of course, the battle will be rejoined when Congress reconvenes. In the short run, it's impossible to predict the outcome, although there's a real chance that patriotism will prevail and the amnesty be defeated. In the long run, however, this will prove to have been a key moment in the emergence of the patriotic immigration reform movement.

Personally, I took particular pleasure in two subtle developments in this debate.

The first is the increasing tendency for the cliché that immigrants do jobs Americans "won't do" to be met with the question: at what price? (Answer: greedy employers are really just trying to cut wages.) The wage consequences of immigration have been a constant VDARE.COM theme, for example in the "National Data" columns of our Edwin Rubenstein.

The second is the dawning realization that Americans may respond to an amnesty betrayal by simply refusing to vote. Politicians cannot, contrary to the conventional wisdom of a few years ago, assume that their supporters have no place to go. This has been a theme of our Steve Sailer's election analyses since 2000.

VDARE.COM is high up the intellectual food chain. We develop ideas. Then our ideas pass into the public debate. There are other worthy immigration reform operations—we link to them all the time—but no-one quite does what we do.

Later this week, I'll give some more examples of ideas we need to promote further.

If I had the money, I'd probably get public relations help to get our writers on television so they get the credit they deserve.

But I don't have that kind of money. Right now, I just want to keep them eating, and to provide them with a place to publish…and producing those ideas.

As summer approaches and our funds run down, we need your help, urgently. Anything you can give, however small, will be received most gratefully.

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