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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: 908
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  


#14. To: Phaedrus (#12)

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.

Putting the illegal issue aside .. my point is that THEY are cohesive.. and their identity is not that they're illegal but that it's their race that they identify with.. they see CA and Texas etc.. as their land.. and our government is doing NOTHING.. well worse they are enabling.. If you had seen the video in question that I saw.. you'd understand exactly what I'm talking about.. its no dodge.. people need to wake up and understand what they're up against..

Zipporah  posted on  2006-03-31   13:34:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Zipporah, all (#14)

This is the kind of thing that makes me feel more like a Cassandra than a mehitable, but I've been telling people for years now that the United States is either going to have to fight for or lose the Southwest in a few years. I thought it would take another generation but things are moving faster than I realized. Unlike stupid, self-loathing white people in America, the Mexicans think very highly of themselves (which I don't mind, by the way) and think they should own this real estate and run things themselves. And they won't be very nice to the white folks who happen to be around. Nor the black folks either. they don't like black people. Kind of puts the black "leadership" in a quandary. Who to side with? the dreaded white oppressor or the Mexicans who would be as happy to kill you as oppress you. Decisions, decisions. People had better figure out what side they're on as the Mexican-American war is coming.

mehitable  posted on  2006-03-31   14:50:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: mehitable (#28)

People had better figure out what side they're on as the Mexican-American war is coming.

The Mexicans had better bring help. Americans have done a pretty good job of arming themselves and I doubt they'll hesitate to protect their own and their property. It's only the government that's ambivilant.

Phaedrus  posted on  2006-03-31   15:11:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: Phaedrus (#31)

I wish I were as optimistic as you Phaedrus. It's not so much that I doubt the American people (or a good portion of them anyway) - it's that I doubt OUR GOVERNMENT and I believe they work against our interests. For example, if American citizens started fighting back against the Mexicans, our govt would take the side of the Mexicans and start killing Americans or imprisoning/fining them. We are seeing this already with the Minutemen. And our alleged president, Bush, was down in Mexico yesterday firmly applying his lips all over the backside of Vincente Fox.

One hope I do have is that the veterans of this current Iraqi war when they do return home will at least have the benefit of having used arms and explosive and being able to stand up under fire and handle themselves under war conditions. That's a big advantage over the Mexicans whom I think currently restrict their fighting to internecine gang wars.

mehitable  posted on  2006-03-31   15:16:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#42. To: mehitable (#33)

... it's that I doubt OUR GOVERNMENT and I believe they work against our interests. And our alleged president, Bush, was down in Mexico yesterday firmly applying his lips all over the backside of Vincente Fox.

No argument. Our disgusting little Wannabe Emperor Bush has done a better job of trashing the nation than Clinton, which I would not have thought possible.

Phaedrus  posted on  2006-03-31 15:28:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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