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Title: March Diary [Derbyshire on Immigration]
Source: National Review Online
URL Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200603310749.asp
Published: Mar 31, 2006
Author: John Derbyshire
Post Date: 2006-03-31 12:46:35 by Peetie Wheatstraw
Keywords: None
Views: 939
Comments: 73

The issue of immigration was suddenly all over the news this month. The interesting question here is: Why does the federal government find it so difficult to do anything? It would seem to be a pretty elementary thing, and a basic function of government, to secure the nation’s borders and monitor who comes in, who goes out. Why can’t we do that? You hear all sorts of reasons. Big Agriculture wants fruit pickers and hog gutters; Elite America wants domestic servants; Middle America wants gardeners (sorry “landscapers” — hard to keep up with job-title inflation); the Dems want future voters; the Catholic Church wants souls; and so on.

The real reason we find it so hard to do anything about immigration, or even to talk about it, or even to think straight about it, is that it has a large intersection with the race issue, about which Americans have a humongous collective neurosis. Those huge protests the other day weren’t just made up of illegal immigrants — you can’t tell me that. What they were was, demonstrations of racial solidarity. This is well-nigh unmentionable — for sure nobody in the MSM mentioned it — yet it was perfectly obvious from the crowds and their placards.

This is the wind from the south predicted in Amy Chua’s book World on Fire, the wind that blew Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales into office, the wind that may soon bring us a People’s Republic of Mexico. But no, that can’t be right. There is no such thing as race. Never has been, never will be. A couple more “diversity” workshops, and everything will be fine. No need for further action. Everything will be fine, everything will always be fine.

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#4. To: Peetie Wheatstraw (#0)

What they were was, demonstrations of racial solidarity.

Oh, this is just nonsense. I sick to death of hearing about everything in terms of race. It's a national neurosis.

Phaedrus  posted on  2006-03-31   13:10:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Phaedrus (#4)

Oh, this is just nonsense. I sick to death of hearing about everything in terms of race. It's a national neurosis.

Then explain why 'they' themselves identify with La Raza??

Zipporah  posted on  2006-03-31   13:14:09 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Zipporah (#6)

Then explain why 'they' themselves identify with La Raza??

Words. What part of "illegal" don't you understand?

Phaedrus  posted on  2006-03-31   13:20:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Phaedrus (#7)

Words. What part of "illegal" don't you understand?

What?? I totally understand that they're illegal.. Words DO have meaning.. it's the word THEY have chosen to identify with race.. personally I dont care if they were Icelanders.. Have you ever seen any of the videos of these people?? I have and its frightening.

Zipporah  posted on  2006-03-31   13:23:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Zipporah (#9)

What?? I totally understand that they're illegal.. Words DO have meaning.. it's the word THEY have chosen to identify with race.. personally I dont care if they were Icelanders.. Have you ever seen any of the videos of these people?? I have and its frightening.

Well maybe we're agreeing vehemently. To characterize this "{issue" as racist from the American POV is off-point and a dodge, is my point. They don't frighten me and if our government had any spine, they would simply inforce the law or change it. They dissemble.

Phaedrus  posted on  2006-03-31   13:29:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Phaedrus (#12)

They don't frighten me and if our government had any spine, they would simply inforce the law or change it.

10 years in the Bay Area for me. They didn't scare me there. In fact, I had four of 'em deported. Two for trying to break into my apartment (never pick the lock on an armed man's house when he is home) and two for breaking into my car.

Those two arrests helped break up a *HUGE* goods-smuggling ring. Where were the goods going? South of the border.

Everyone in California knows what is going on - with the dotcom boom, nobody really cared. You'd get another five-figure bonus or another batch of stock the next week so you wouldn't miss a TV or a window. So long as things stayed in a predictable pattern, nobody cared.

Now everyone cares because the Genie has left the bottle. Even the *CHINESE* I know down there are ready to take up arms....and are seriously pissed off.

The street protests backfired in every single way imaginable. It has united people in a way nobody thought possible - they are becoming Americans again, at least for a short time.

People whose sole concern was abortion are now "single issue voters" over the border now.

This is like a miniature Pearl Harbor; the sleeping tiger has awakened and its not the "Nation of Aztlan"....these are going to be VERY interesting times going forward.

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#27. To: mirage (#22)

Well, there you go. Runnin' scared is a bad habit.

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