December 23, 2003
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WTC Mother Is Rebuffed By Sen. Edward’s Office
A Former U.S. Consular Officer Is
Flabbergasted by WSJ’s George Melloan
A reader writes from inside the US Government’s
Consular Service:
From George Melloan’s [email
him] recent Global View column: [subscriber-only]
"The US has absorbed 20
million immigrants over the last two decades, most of
then in the
prime of their productive lives. Unlike the huddled
masses entering the
"golden door" of the
Lazarus inscription, those coming in today are more
often than not
doctors,
corporate transferees,
computer specialists, and others with skills that
expand the productive life of society."
Huh? Most of them are
poor unskilled workers.
This remark is flabbergasting. Perhaps sheer
ignorance helps explain the Wall Street Journal’s
view on immigration.
Anyway, after serving as a consular officer in the
Dominican Republic (and being a native Californian),
I have become a huge fan of VDARE.com and of immigration
reform.
Peter Brimelow
comments: “More often than not…”? In fact, the deterioration in
relative skill levels of the flow produced by the 1965
Immigration Act is one of the best-established
conclusions in the technical literature. We had
hopes for old George
Melloan, the last survivor of the old Midwestern
Wall Street Journal
now that Bob Bartley has
passed on. Either we
were wrong—or the
neoconservative
commissars who now control the Edit Page are rewriting
his column.
