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Reading Assignment: Gird for Looming Battles with the “Great Books” of Immigration Sanity

By Pa u l Na c h m a n 1. Scoping Our Subject 2. Life in the Trenches (or Immigration in One Country) In t r o d u c t i o n 3. Mexico and Mexicans 4. The Nation-Wreckers Reveal Themselves irst a confession: No books are dis- 5. Larger perspectives (A): Is it the Rest against cussed here! This is an article about the West? articles, but “Great Articles” just 6. Larger Perspectives (B): The Auto-Immune doesn’t have the same cachet as Sickness of Western Civilization “Great Books.” 7. Three Memorable Perorations FThere are, of course, some (literally) great 8. Our Heavy Artillery books on America’s immigration madness, too. But 9. A Statement for Our Side my aim here is to put before you seminal readings that are less daunting projects than reading whole I. Scoping Our Subject books. By 2000, it was rare to have a realistic article The approximately 30 items cited below (and about immigration published anywhere prominent, linked in the online version) are articles (plus a including conservative video and a poster) that have impressed me, over outlets. So, even though about the last ten years, as particularly memorable he had an in with David and instructive. Horowitz, it was notable Because I want people to actually read these that Robert Locke was able to works without getting sidetracked, I’ve omit- get his piece “Close the Borders!”1 ted references to anything besides the items before the public in Horowitz’s online themselves. If you want a reference on FrontPageMagazine. (Originally, the ar- something that I’ve merely asserted ticle included an introductory disclaimer by here, try emailing me (PNBL48@ Horowitz that he disagreed with it but that it was hotmail.com) about it. offered for the sake of public discussion. That dis- I hope you’ll read your claimer has vanished.) Locke wrote it to refute an way through the entire col- article by someone else, but there’s no need to read lection. The writing in the the refuted article — Locke’s piece stands on its selected articles is good to own as a tour de horizon of our immigration can- superb, so I think you, too, cer. will find these items to be The article really doesn’t make arguments. memorable and their ag- Rather, it’s a collection of assertions about immi- gregate to be a broad-spectrum resource for your gration that won’t be controversial if you’re a long- immigration-sanity endeavors. term Social Contract reader. If you wanted to write To make the present article more tractable, I’ve a comprehensive book on U.S. immigration, this ar- divided the recommended readings into the follow- ticle would be a splendid source of topics. When I ing nine themes: first read it, I viewed it as a hyper-condensed subset

32 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t of Lawrence Auster’s Huddled Cliches, to be dis- principle must be enthroned that immigration cussed later. is the exception, not the rule. Locke opens with a smorgasbord of “bads” The Locke article is brief. Its natural follow- about immigration organized into categories — up is the collection of 20 “one-minute essays” (each economic, social, environmental, and moral — takes about a minute to read) in Common Sense on and follows with several policy recommendations. Mass Immigration,2 a gem of a resource instigated Herewith, a sampling. by , publisher of The Social Contract Economic reasons, e.g.: and founding father of the immigration-sanity cause People who say immigration causes (and who is discussed further below). economic growth are right only in the sense These micro-essays, which can be read in any of aggregate GNP. Per capita GNP is the order, cover many of immigration’s intellectual rational goal, and immigration lowers this battlefronts such as assimilation, resources, public by diluting our economy [with] poor, i.e. health, education, and crime and are authored by a unproductive, workers. host of stalwarts, most of them familiar names to Social Contract readers. My favorite among the Social reasons, e.g.: essays is “Mass Immigration and Basic Freedoms”3 Immigration undermines the social, cultural, by John Vinson of the American Immigration and ethnic cohesion necessary to sustain our Control Foundation, since it strikes me as the one society. These factors are more important most likely to disturb the apathy of our naive, than people think. cliche-enthralled fellow citizens. Here’s Vinson’s Environmental reasons, e.g. parting shot: Immigration-driven population growth [F]ree speech among people with little in drives sprawl, traffic congestion, and the common can easily cause someone to take costs of suburban growth. It also drives up offense. For the sake of keeping peace, some the demand for housing, pricing natives out people will say “we must limit free speech.” of the regions where they grew up, fraying European countries and Canada, influenced the social fabric and squeezing middle-class by , have already moved families. Southern California is the best in this direction. We Americans still enjoy example of this. legally protected free speech, but for how long? We must make a choice. We can have Moral reasons, e.g.: the multiculturalism made inevitable by mass “America is a nation of immigrants.” First, immigration, or we can have freedom. But this is a flat statistical falsehood. The vast we can’t have both. majority of Americans were born here. In another example, the late John Attarian distilled Second, there is no “ergo” in this argument; some of his scholarship on Social Security into why does the fact that many of us are a micro-essay “Mass Immigration and Taxes: descended from immigrants oblige us to take Social Security Costs.”4 We’re often told that immigrants today? immigration, including illegal immigration, will Policy prescriptions, e.g.: rescue Social Security from a disastrous future. What we want is the lowest possible number John Attarian explained why not: [of immigrants] compatible with true (not Adding such huge numbers of workers would Santa Claus) humanitarian principles and the depress labor productivity unless matched fact that some individuals make exceptional by trillions of dollars in investment. Since contributions. The presumption must be “no,” immigration is already making labor incomes with a few exceptions. The fundamental stagnate, much higher immigration would

33 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t almost certainly depress wages, and perhaps the social-welfare and quality-of-life burdens on even reduce Social Security revenues. And the rest of us). In the process, they drive employ- most immigrants are poorly-educated and ers who want to obey the law out of business. Free- unskilled, hence earn low incomes, making lance journalist Mark Cromer, who’s also a senior them poor Social Security revenue sources. writing fellow at Californians for Population Sta- 7 Common Sense on Mass Immigration is also bilization, wrote the story (“Immigration: When available as a printed booklet, to hand out or to put doing the right thing hurts,” San Diego Union-Tri- in the mail (needing no envelope, just a single first- bune, March 22, 2007) of Kirsten Stewart, a wom- class stamp). Filled with such hyper-short essays, an in Santa Monica, CA who routinely used ille- there’s a realistic chance that people upon whom you gal-alien day laborers in her landscape-design busi- bestow the booklets will actually read them. Bulk ness until she had an epiphany from talking with purchases of this non-virtual version are available her nanny: for prices as low as 40 cents apiece.5 “[The nanny] told me that she was so happy What should be the fundamental criteria for that she was having her baby here because our immigration policies? John Miano nailed these (her child) would get a real Social Security years ago with his very brief “Ten Principles of number. She told me how surprised she was Immigration” at VDARE.com.6 His first principle at all the ‘free’ neonatal care she was getting would likely shock most Americans, steeped as and all the other ‘free’ health services,” they are in all the cliches about immigration’s Stewart says. “That’s when the light bulb wonderfulness: went off.” The purpose of immigration policy is to The article is brief and powerful. I recom- benefit the citizens of the . mend, also, this 7-minute video interview of Stew- 8 I sometimes employ this idea when talking art by (off-camera) Cromer. I gather from Cromer with people about immigration, first asking that Stewart ultimately did have to fold her business them “What’s the purpose of the United States?” because her costs, using legal workers only, were Answer: To benefit the citizens of the United States no longer competitive. (This nicely exposes the hy- — see the Constitution’s Preamble (“to secure the pocrisy of the wealthy “progressives” in a hotbed blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity”). of “living wage” sentiment such as Santa Monica. Then I ask, “What’s the purpose of our immigration These sensitive souls routinely opted for the lower policy?” It’s no leap to use Miano’s first principle bids from contractors who relied on illegal labor.) at that point. His other nine principles include some The death-by-illegal-immigration of an honest- simple, creative ideas. Please check them out. ly-run small business is one modern American ex- perience. The effect of a sustained surge of concen- 2. Life in the Trenches (or Immigration in trated legal immigration from a Third World coun- One Country) try to a small city in the American heartland is an- 9 “Life in the trenches” alludes to the impacts other. In “The ordeal of immigration in Wausau” mass immigration is having on American life. Of (The Atlantic Monthly, April 1994), Roy Beck tells course this encompasses a myriad of particulars, so us how a large influx of Hmong (late refugees from I just present here a few memorable sample articles the Vietnam War) has affected life in Wausau, Wis- in that vein plus a couple of items that point to the consin. His 6,100-word article opens: predictable new chaos that will result if the amnesty It all began simply enough, when a few fanatics get their way. churches and individuals in Wausau, Illegal immigration, specifically, has mush- Wisconsin, decided to resettle some Southeast roomed into a catastrophic problem partly be- Asian refugees during the late 1970s. To most cause some cynical American citizens employ ille- residents, it seemed like a nice thing to do. gal aliens in order to save a buck (while dumping Nobody meant to plant the seeds for a social

34 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t transformation. But this small and private pledge smaller numbers than the government charitable gesture inadvertently set into wants to bring in? “That is hypothetical; motion events that many residents today feel it never occurs,” a State Department are spinning out of control. Wausau — the spokeswoman says. Actually, the voluntary county seat of the nation’s champion milk- agencies tend to lobby the government to producing county — has learned that once bring in many more refugees nationwide the influx starts, there’s little chance to stop than it chooses to each year. They receive it. Regardless of how many newcomers failed compensation for each refugee. to find jobs in this north-central Wisconsin As Beck points out, this is Wausau’s second city of 37,500, or how abraded the social bout with immigration-induced anomie: fabric became, the immigrant population just Various Wausau residents told me they favor kept growing. a “cooling-off period” before more refugees By 1994, Wausau was home to about 4,200 are resettled in their city. Few residents know Hmong, its schools were crowded-to-bursting, it, but such a period played a major role in and the previously bucolic micro-metropolis was creating the homogeneous Wausau they now starting to experience the attentions of Asian gangs [1994] consider the norm. After the turn of spilling over from Milwaukee and Minneapolis/St. the century [i.e. 1900], immigration caused Paul. a social upheaval in Wausau. Back then the Germans and the Yankees were distinct ethnic groups, neither of which found particular strength in diversity. From 1880 to the start of the First World War, Germans streamed into Wausau, eventually overwhelming its New England Yankee founders. Jim Lorence, a local historian, says that the Germans became the predominant ethnic group around 1910. By the end of the decade the immigrants had turned the once conservative Republican town into a Socialist powerhouse. After the November, 1918, elections nearly every county office and both of the county’s seats in the state assembly were filled by German- elected Socialists, Lorence says. Amid the political turmoil, natives felt like foreigners in their own home town. Quoting historian Lorence, Beck notes that it took about two generations for the Germans Beck also explains the mechanism behind and the Yankees to adjust to each other after the Wausau’s pain: immigration cut-off of the mid-1920s. Whether Federal officials say that refugees cannot be today’s much-more-diverse Wausau will, ever brought into the country unless a voluntary again, reach a satisfactory equilibrium seems to me agency is willing to settle them. The agencies an open question. sign an agreement — voluntarily — with the The crush of illegal immigration is, among State Department to resettle everybody the many other effects, breaking down institutions of the government wants to bring in. At the time federal government. A frank article10 (“Immigration of the annual agreement could the agencies Crisis Tests Federal Courts on Southwest Border”)

35 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t from an official magazine, The Third Branch: “The challenge that my border colleagues Newsletter of the Federal Courts (June 2006), have is astonishing,” Downes said. “I’ll go describes the understandable, yet impossible, down there for two weeks and I go home burden on federal district courts in the southwest. exhausted. But I can go home. They stay, day A few choice points: in and day out.” Not only judges are affected; all in the Altogether, the article describes a classic ex- criminal justice system struggle to keep ample of consequences that slowly build toward di- pace. “You can add Border Patrol agents but saster when — for convenience, and under political if you do, you’d better think upstream. You’d pressure — a society gets in the habit of winking at better think marshals, you’d better think its basic laws. prosecutors, probation and pretrial services By actually thinking about such mundane mat- officers, defense lawyers, judges, and clerk’s ters, one can readily predict that a mass amnesty staff — all of those things,” said Judge will cause chaos in — maybe even collapse of — Robert Brack [District of New Mexico] in the government’s immigration bureaucracy. This Las Cruces. apparently wasn’t even the tiniest consideration for our congressional Masters of the Universe who tried [snip] to arrange mass amnesty in 2007. But right when “Security is a main concern,” said Alex we were in the heat of that battle, Kris Kobach, Pro- Ramos, the deputy U.S. marshal in charge fessor of Law at the University of Missouri (Kansas of the Laredo division. The overwhelming City) and immigration-policy counsel (2001–2003) majority of the prisoners offer no threat of to then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, laid it 11 violence, but their sheer numbers make full all out in his “Rx for Breakdown” (New York Post, restraints necessary. “In most federal courts, May 27, 2007). Wrote Prof. Kobach: the ratio of prisoners to deputy marshals is One of the biggest — and least discussed one-to-one or two-to-one,” Ramos said. — problems with the immigration bill now “Here, as it is in most other border courts, it’s before the Senate is the sheer impossibility more like 30-to-one even though we enlist of implementing it. help from other law enforcement agencies.” The measure would triple the workload at the [snip] U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [USCIS] — an agency that the Government A person who enters the United States illegally Accountability Office says is already at the to look for work and has no other criminal breaking point. It’s an invitation not only to charge pending typically may be ‘voluntarily fraud, but to any terrorist group or criminal returned’ to Mexico more than a dozen times gang that’s looking to insert minions into before facing the charge of illegal entry. America. Some did not get into federal court until they amassed 60 voluntary returns. [snip]

[snip] The bill allows the federal government only one business day to do a “background check” Chief Judge William Downes of the District on each applicant. of Wyoming has served in Las Cruces as a visiting judge. In Wyoming, he said, he may The bill’s authors seem ignorant of what sentence 75 people a year to long prison this means in practice. The government has terms. In Las Cruces, he has sentenced 50 in no single, readily searchable database of all a week. the world’s dangerous people. Much of the

36 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t relevant information exists only on paper, enterprise — one that can be incomplete if while foreign governments are the source for reliable data is lacking on a person. And these other data. are background checks that are conducted Kobach estimated the number of amnesty into the lives of people who have legitimate, applications that would have to be processed discernable footprints in our society: credit every day, put the number in context with the histories, educational backgrounds, property existing dysfunction at USCIS, and concluded that records, employment references, family “Fraudulent applications would sail through by the history, civil litigation and, sometimes, millions. It’s a recipe for bureaucratic collapse.” criminal records. For the rest of a powerful case, read Cromer’s brief article. 3. Mexico and Mexicans Immigration would be a much more tractable problem if we didn’t have a Third-World neighbor like Mexico, with all the accompanying ethnic subtext. (People have suggested, plausibly, that if we were confronted with massive, unwanted immigration from, say, Iceland, there would be no problem getting our government to squelch the inflow.) So insights into Mexico and Mexicans are important. Well-traveled newspaper reporter Fred Reed retired to Mexico and, until recently, provided a continuing stream, online, of frank observations University of Missouri Professor of Law about the world, periodically focussing on his cur- Kris Kobach rent surroundings. His column of March 26, 2008, Most of a year later, during the calm between “Scoping Out Pepe: Why We Should Get It Right, 13 amnesty storms, Mark Cromer zeroed in on one But Won’t,” covers a lot of ground in just 1,100 aspect of what concerned Kobach: How would words. Sample observations from the article: one actually establish the identities of illegal aliens It is one thing to have Mexicans in America being legalized? In “Documenting Illegals” 12 while they still fearful of being deported. They (Washington Times, February 26, 2008), Cromer are polite and brown and eager to work. This drew on his experiences as a reporter and presented encourages the tendency to which Americans the picture for us lay people. Here’s the central are prone, to patronize them as just the nicest idea: babysitters and garbage men. Why, they are [T]he prospect of actually conducting almost like real people. legitimate background checks on illegal It will be a different thing when they are legal immigrants is, in fact, the absolute pinnacle and have a voting majority in the Southwest. of the bald-faced lies that typifies the security They understand perfectly that their day is assurances offered by the proponents of coming. amnesty. [snip] Journalists who have conducted investigative research into the background of individuals Inequality can be seen in the streets here. In know that it is a time and resource intensive Guadalajara, una ciudad muy guera, a very

37 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t white city, you have highly sophisticated These preambles to politics, based on a goal people who talk of the arts on the radio as of man that is beyond politics, are imbedded intelligently as any in America. They go to deep in the Western psyche, and are the opera, buy in good bookstores, and serve fundamental to America’s founding. They are competently as doctors and technicians. In the indispensable to the history, the institutions, villages you find people with far more Indian and the rationale of freedom. blood and almost no academic achievement or interest. Out in the hills there is, dead Mexico, I am afraid, does not have them. Zip. serious, a lot of witchcraft. Zero. Nada. Eighty years ago, these values were hatefully scorned, abandoned, and It’s a different world. And coming to a mall persecuted by the PRI — the “Institutional near you. Revolutionary Party” — the very name is a Although only a rare visitor to the website of parody, hilarious and sick... libertarian Lew Rockwell, years ago I somehow Manion goes on in his 2,200-word essay to stumbled upon “Cultural Suicide”14 by Christopher detail the sway of anti-virtue in the Mexican polity, Manion (July 19, 2001), an unforgettable article especially the centrality of mordida (bribes), and to about the character of Mexican civilization and tell us one consequence for the illegal aliens among the implications for our civilization of mass illegal us, a consequence that also matters to us. immigration from Mexico. Manion’s analysis is at [W]e must underscore the fact that, as far as a deeper level than Fred Reed’s, focussing on first the illegal Mexican is concerned, he is here principles: “legally.” That is, he has paid all his bribes, to Briefly stated, the legalization of this illegal the coyote who spirited him across the border, alien population amounts to American cultural to the petty official in his hometown who suicide (because it is done intentionally, rather would otherwise plague his family, and to the than by accident) and a political disaster. contact in the U.S. who will supply him with a false ID and bogus Social Security number. [snip] He has done all this according to the only Legalization’s’ disastrous consequences will legal code he knows: playing the system, and not be visited so much on one party, or one bribes. He is as legal as he knows how to be. ideological faction, rather than another. The Note that Manion’s version of an illegal alien’s damage is deeper, far more abiding, and worldview is quite different from reconquista — irreversible by any future election or other but equally alarming. invocation of the political process. It will While Manion was considering principles powerfully contribute to the ruin of our free and consequences, the Mexicanization of South society and rule of law. Gate, a close-in eastern suburb of Los Angeles, was providing Manion’s validation. Former UCLA Every society before Aristotle recognized and Cal State Northridge history professor Roger and underscored the importance of good McGrath assembled the story in “South Gate: habits to social survival and prosperity. Mexico Comes to California”15 (The American Aristotle gave these habits names — virtues. Conservative, May 19, 2003), a story I remember He delineated certain virtues required of a coming out in bits and pieces in the Los Angeles polis, virtues known to us all, because they Times. We jump in as McGrath introduces political have remained virtually unchanged for the entrepreneur Albert Robles: past two millennia. Robles moved to South Gate when the demo- [snip] graphics turned to his favor and was elected

38 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t to the city council in 1992. At that time the Gate’s consequent near bankruptcy, and reflect on job was part-time, and council members were the subtitle of McGrath’s article, along with his paid $600 a month. A few years later, while conclusion: “[Robles] will be back, if not in South still serving as a councilman, he was elected Gate then in another California town that is on its to the local water board at a compensation of way to becoming a Mexican village.” $23,000 a year. In 1997, he won the race for city treasurer and began collecting an annu- 4. The Nation-Wreckers Reveal al salary of $69,000. Meanwhile, Robles had Themselves seen to it that his friends and business associ- The Los Angeles Times is generically an enthu- ates were awarded city contracts worth mil- siast for mass immigration and a steadfast apologist lions. What Robles was getting out of these for the illegal variety. This is surprising from the deals is anybody’s guess, but his political op- point of view of self-preservation, since the Mexi- ponents were not faring nearly as well. City fornication of Los Angeles is destroying their read- councilman Henry Gonzalez was shot in the ership base, as the paper’s plummeting circulation head but survived the wound. Another politi- numbers attest. cal rival had his car firebombed. The crimes But occasionally, a startling quantum of truth remain unsolved. slips through. Such was the case on July 28, 2006 In the spring of 2002, just when Robles was when, to the astonishment of us immigration-sanity on the verge of turning South Gate into his activists, the Times ran an article, “6 + 4 = 1 Tenu- 16 personal fiefdom, he was arrested on felony ous Existence,” by Sam Quinones. “Hero” and threat charges. Astonishingly, after his arrest “heroine” of this infuriatingly revealing tale were his cronies on the city council appointed him a married couple, Anzaldo and Angela Magdaleno, deputy city manager at $110,000 a year and both illegal aliens from Mexico, both in our country ordered the city to pay his legal bills. more than two decades (but dumb in English) and recent parents of quadruplets, to supplement their By 2002, then, the city was decisively in existing brood of six, which included triplets. Of banana-republic mode. Nevertheless, a contingent course, the Magdalenos were heavily on the dole, of civically-virtuous South Gaters, with assistance especially since one of those triplets had spent most from California Secretary of State Bill Jones, of his three years in the hospital. collected enough signatures to force a January, 2003 You need to read the article to absorb all its recall election for most of the city government, horrifying details. Most memorable though, is the including Robles. As McGrath describes, those side story of Angela Magdaleno’s nine (!!!) sib- targeted by the recall campaigned for their jobs in lings, who had also come illegally to California but, the style of the old country: somehow, obtained legal status since, perhaps in Campaigning could have taken place 1986’s IRCA amnesty. As sentient beings, they had somewhere in Jalisco or Michoacan. Robles seen how things were going in California and all & Co. had the city give everyone a month high-tailed it out of the state. We focus on Angela’s of free trash collection, hand out baskets sister Alejandra: filled with groceries, present a plan for free Alejandra was the first to leave. In Los medical care at a new city health clinic, and Angeles, she and her husband were barely hold a drawing for a house. The drawing for able to make ends meet. As in Mexico, “there the house was held at City Hall, gaily dressed was little work and it’s poorly paid,” she with yellow balloons and reverberating with said. ranchera music. The recall was ultimately successful, but Eight years ago, she and her family moved to do read McGrath’s article to learn about South Kentucky, where a friend said there was more

39 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t work and were fewer Mexican immigrants action: bidding down the wages for unskilled jobs. Late last month Puente learned of another, [snip] little-known option for patients with certain healthcare needs. If she notified U.S. Today, the Magdalenos in Lexington earn Citizenship and Immigration Services that more than they did in Los Angeles, in a city she was in the country illegally, state health where the cost of living is lower. Kentucky is officials might grant her full Medi-Cal now their promised land, and they talk about coverage. Puente did so, her benefits were California the way they used to talk about restored and she is now awaiting a fourth Mexico. transplant at UCLA.

“What we weren’t able to do in many years Of course, that’s only what Puente expected: in California,” Alejandra said, “we’ve done quickly here. “It doesn’t matter if I’m undocumented,” she said. “They should take care of me at UCLA “We’re in a state where there’s nothing but for the rest of my life because I’ve been there Americans. The police control the streets. It’s since I was a baby.” clean, no gangs. California now resembles This does have a sort of logic: “You Americans Mexico — everyone thinks like in Mexico. have been patsies long enough that I’ve developed California’s broken.” a lifestyle to which I’ve become accustomed,” Readers who are going to be discussing Puente might well think. What judge would turn immigration from points south with uninformed her down? audiences need to have the story of the Magdalenos, Also of interest in the liver-transplants-for- especially the quotes from Alejandra, close at hand. illegal-aliens story — by no means limited to Puente Alejandra’s parting observation about California — is the penetrating insight of some American has visibly impressed most people to whom I’ve medical professionals: read it. Dr. Michael Shapiro, vice chairman of the The poster child for demanding and repellent ethics committee for the [United Network for illegal aliens may be Ana Puente. As a Los Angeles Organ Sharing], said illegal immigrants have 17 Times article (“Immigration debate hits home for just as much right to organ transplants as U.S. liver transplant patients,” by Anna Gorman, April citizens. He said it is likely that more illegal 13, 2008) explains, immigrants donate organs than receive them. Ana Puente was an infant with a liver disorder [Evidence?? – PN] when her aunt brought her illegally to the U.S. to seek medical care. She underwent two “People are people, and when you make an liver transplants at UCLA Medical Center as incision in an organ donor, you don’t find a child in 1989 and a third in 1998, each paid little American flags planted on their organs,” for by the state. Shapiro said. No flags on the organs! Who would have But when Puente turned 21 last June, she aged guessed it? out of her state-funded health insurance and Nation-destroying immigration can be the was unable to continue treatment at UCLA. project of individuals such as Alejandra Magdale- And, in April 2008, she needed yet another no (who seems to have an inkling of her impact) liver transplant. Each such transplant costs about and Ana Puente (who appears to be a solipsist) or of $500k. Not a problem! A through-the-looking-glass ethnic-chauvinist organizations. For the mentality feature of California public benefits swung into of the latter, it’s worth examining carefully a sign

40 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t that was used in some of 2006’s earlier illegal-alien a subsistence diet, and the manners of those marches. This sign [see below] was a joint product who, to survive at all, have had to fawn and of the Mexican-American Political Association and scrape for centuries before callous, arrogant of Hermandad Mexicana (the “Mexican Brother- landlords and bureaucrats. When I started hood”). Pay particular attention to the four demands doing office work in London, the -compa printed just below “We Want!” Three of the four nies were full of Indian bookkeepers who clearly add up to amnesty for everyone here illegal- ly, even for those who just jumped the border five minutes ago. But the other one, “No Border Walls,” is what’s really revealing: Obviously “Amnesty for all!” isn’t good enough — they also demand “Ille- gal immigration without end, amen!” While we’re on the subject of those “in-the- shadows” people waving signs in our faces, take a look [online only, using link provided] at their own photography of the “Gran Marcha” in Los Angeles, later in the spring of 2006 (keep scrolling down, down, down!).18 Beyond these damning stories and images that are useful for making our case, there are flagrant statements made by Hispanic personages when they presumably thought that the larger society couldn’t listen in. My VDARE article “CCIR’s Greatest Hits: The Reconquista Rant Audio Clips”19 pro- vides links to such revealing utterances. 5. Larger Perspectives (A): Is It the Rest Against the West? The phrase “the rest against the west” comes from a cover feature on immigration by historians Matthew Connelly and Paul Johnson in The Atlantic had to be restrained by force from begin- Monthly, December, 1994. (Kennedy and Connelly ning their business letters: “Esteemed Sir...” launched their discussion from the ideas in Jean’s and ending them: “I beg to remain, esteemed Raspail’s dystopian immigration novel The Camp Sir, with consideration, your most humble, of the Saints.) The answer to the question appears most obedient servant...”. Their children ..., to be “Yes,” since being pushovers for incompatible raised on an ample diet, tower over them, immigration seems to be a universal characteristic and are physically a match for any gang of of modern Western societies, from the Continent, white English skinheads. Products of mod- across North America, to the Antipodes. ern western culture and an educational sys- This pushover impulse for the case of England tem steeped in psychobabble, they esteem no was described in May 2001 by John Derbyshire one but themselves. in his “The Island Race ... Riots,”20 written to explain the domestic violence across England that [snip] spring. A couple of enticing excerpts from Derb’s In 1968 a leading English politician, Enoch unforgettable article: Powell, made a well-publicized and colorful The first generation of south Asian- immi speech in which he deplored the incoming grants had the physique of people raised on flood of immigrants, and predicted, pretty

41 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t accurately, the problems his country would Which is all very well, but such intellectual face in the future if the process was not re- and emotional repression does not usually versed. Powell was promptly sacked from his end benignly. post in the Conservative party (then in oppo- [snip] sition) and all the panjandrums of the Brit- ish establishment denounced him. Yet a poll For the real issue is not the number of taken at the time showed that 74 percent of Nigerians living here, nor even the absurd the public agreed with his opinions. Why did and unacceptable dependency of so many of that 74 percent not translate into actual gov- them on this State. No, it is the abject refusal ernment policies through the ballot box? Pre- of the Irish people, both through the media sumably because, when time came to vote, and the [parliament], to have an open debate people thought other things were more im- about the biggest issue facing this country. portant; and also because citizens were will- Those two sample articles plus a plethora ing to be browbeaten by their elites into being of others from all precincts of European-derived ashamed of their own feelings — to believe, civilization make clear that both the symptom because politicians, intellectuals, clergymen, (harmful mass immigration) and the cause (terror at and TV talking heads told them so, that their being called “racist”) are pan-Western. own instinctive national pride, which had preserved their country’s independence for a 6. Larger Perspectives (B): The Auto- thousand years, was a sinful thing, a species Immune Sickness of Western Civilization of that greatest of all modern sins, “.” At the start of Alien Nation (1995), Peter Another interesting example is Ireland. An arti- Brimelow, founder of VDARE.com, wrote, 21 cle that could have been titled, ala Roy Beck, “The There is a sense in which current immigration Ordeal of Immigration in Ireland” but is actually ti- policy is Adolf Hitler’s posthumous revenge tled “Risible lies about immigrants no substitute for on America. The U.S. political elite emerged honest debate” (from The Independent [Dublin], by from the war passionately concerned to Kevin Myers, August 15, 2008) gives details about cleanse itself from all taints of racism or the highly disproportionate use of Irish public bene- xenophobia. fits by newcomers from Nigeria. Please read the ar- ticle for its appalling facts. Here I’ll just quote part Maybe social scientists would demur, but to of Myers’s ruminations about the situation: a simpleminded physicist such as me, those two sentences have enormous explanatory power. Why are so many people, from a country to And their power goes beyond explaining which we have no moral or legal or historical why we can’t seem to shut off unwanted mass obligations, living off this state? Why are immigration. So much of today’s decay in Western they being allowed through immigration, societies seems (to me) to originate in the generally if they have no jobs to go to? Why are unstated notion that “Everything is as good as they choosing to come to Ireland, when 20 everything else, unless it’s — yuck! — Western.” countries or more lie between their homeland That notion is obliterated in the second greatest and ourselves? And finally, and perhaps most polemic essay (to my taste) that I’ve ever read, important of all, why is no one else asking Thomas Sowell’s “Multicultural Education.” 22 (The why? Why did no one else pick up on the greatest polemic essay is discussed further below.) immigration digest so thoughtfully provided The piece is brief, and quoting extensively from by the [Central Statistics Office]? it would deprive you of the pleasure of reading it intact. So here’s a single nugget, from mid-essay: Is it because we are too polite? Too timid? Too stupid? Too scared about being called racist? Why are the traditional classics of Western

42 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t civilization written by dead white males? Next, an arresting passage about diversity itself: Take it a step at a time. They are written by dead people for two reasons: First, there It would be edifying to count the number of are more dead people than living people. public and private organizations that exist in Second, a classic is not something that is hot the United States only because of its diverse at the moment but something that survives population, and that are not needed in places the test of time. There may be things written like Japan or Norway. The U.S. Civil Rights today that will survive to become classics, Commission, Equal Employment Opportu- but we won’t be here when that happens. nity Commission, Office of Federal Contract The things we know are classics were almost Compliance, the Justice Department’s Civ- by definition written by dead people. il Rights Division, and every state and lo- cal equivalent of these offices exist only be- Why were they white? Do we ask why cause of racial diversity. Every government the great classics of China were written by office, every university, every large corpora- people who were Chinese? If we found that tion, and every military installation has em- the great classics of China were written by ployees working full-time on affirmative ac- Swedes, wouldn’t we wonder what the hell tion, discrimination claims, and other “diver- was going on? sity” issues. When you read it, you may learn more Countless outreach programs, reconciliation about the suppression of slavery from Sowell’s commissions, blue-ribbon panels, and may- two paragraphs on that subject than all you knew oral commissions fret professionally about before. race every day. Not one of these would be A worthy, longer (~5,600 words) companion necessary in a nation of a single race. There for the Sowell article is “The Myth of Diversity: must be tens of thousands of Americans con- Seldom have so many pretended to believe suming hundreds of millions of dollars every 23 something so absurd,” ’s classic year enforcing, adjusting, tuning, regulating, torpedoing of our diversity-mania. “Torpedoing” and talking pure nonsense about the racial di- is an appropriate word, since when Taylor points versity that is supposed to be our strength. out the absurdity of received ideas, one tends to remember it, in my experience. [snip] Of course, immigration is part of his subject. If diversity were a strength people would For example: practice it spontaneously. It wouldn’t require Immigrants do not teach us about Cervantes constant cheer-leading or expensive lawsuits. or Borges or Lady Murasaki and it would be If diversity were enriching, people would silly to think they did. Chinese stowaways seek it out. It is in private gatherings not do not arrive with a curator’s knowledge governed by some kind of “civil-rights” law of Ming ceramics and copies of the Tao-te that Americans show just how much strength Ching in their pockets. and enrichment they find in diversity. Such gatherings are usually the very opposite of [snip] diverse. High culture and world history cross It is an article worthy of many re-readings. borders by themselves. Who in America first learned of Tchaikovsky or the Mayans 7. Three Memorable Perorations from an immigrant? Nearly every good-sized It would have been exciting to have been pres- American city has an opera company but it ent for any of these speeches, and they work well as wasn’t established by Italians. essays, too.

43 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm Since America must now adapt to immi- gave a brief, after-dinner talk,24 “I Have a Plan to grants (rather than the reverse) perhaps we Destroy America, And Many Parts of It Are Under- should abolish our culturally insensitive laws way,” at the Federation for American Immigration against statutory rape. Reform [FAIR] annual meeting’s banquet in Oc- Following his litany of facts are Feder’s com- tober 2003. Lamm was on the program with Vic- mentary and conclusions. An example of the for- tor Davis Hanson, author of the then-recently-pub- mer: lished Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, and Lamm refers admiringly to Hanson’s book at the end of his The old immigrants were grateful to be here talk, jumbling Hanson’s name a bit in the process. and touching in their eagerness to adapt to To give you the flavor of this brief, perceptive their adopted land. As a whole, the new im- gem, here are two parts of Lamm’s “plan”: migrants are decidedly ambivalent. They want the economic/political advantages of We must first make America a bilingual-bi- living here while maintaining their old loyal- cultural country. History shows, in my opin- ties. They demand that their children be edu- ion, that no nation can survive the tension, cated in Spanish, Chinese, Russian or Lao conflict, and antagonism of two competing and instructed in the swellness of the coun- languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an tries they couldn’t wait to leave. individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. VDARE’s spoke about immi- gration in 1998 at a conference on multiculturalism [snip] and education held at Windsor Castle in England. 26 I would find a word similar to “heretic” in the His speech-become-essay, “Immigration’s Impact 16th century — a word that stops discussion on Education and Multiculturalism,” dwells in my and paralyzes thinking — a word like “rac- memory because of several of his observations, col- ist” or “xenophobe” that halts argument and orfully made. conversation. Why has it been so hard for immigration real- ists to get traction — or even consistent public at- Evidently I’m in tune with Gov. Lamm when tention — for our subject? To my mind, Brimelow’s I refer to the charge of “racist” as “the all-occasion, explanation has the ring of truth: politically-correct thought-stopper”! Columnist and world-class phrasemaker Don [B]ecause this issue didn’t exist before the Feder had addressed FAIR’s 1999 banquet. In his late 1960s, most of the people who are cur- “How the Grandson of Jewish Immigrants Became rently in positions of authority in politics and an Anglo-Saxon, Nativist Xenophobe, in Three journalism and so on, were mature adults — Easy Lessons,” 25 Feder first rattled off his own par- well, at least adults — before the issue re- ticular list of disagreeable facts about today’s im- ally took hold. Most people are not capable migration, e.g. of grasping new ideas after they’re about 21 or so, some people not at all, of course! And More than 50,000 members of the Caribbean a lot of them are just not up to speed on this Santeria cult have settled in South Florida, question. [emphasis in original] where they are enhancing the state’s diver- sity by sacrificing chickens, goats and other Brimelow’s musing about inability to grasp small animals in voodoo rituals. unfamiliar ideas brings to mind the Bertrand Rus- sell quote, “Most men would rather die, than think. and Many do.” — quite appropriate, since immigration In Lincoln, Neb., in 1997, two Iraqis were is an existential threat to the United States. arrested for marrying sisters, ages 13 and Continuing with points worth remembering, 14. Such unions are common in Arab lands. Brimelow explains:

44 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t Occasionally you get people who argue [im- migrants,” you know, the basic stupid thing migration] is not big by historical terms and that people say when they’re confronted with standards. It is. There are about 1 million le- this issue. gal immigrants a year and there are maybe 8. Our Heavy Artillery 300,000–500,000 illegal immigrants net a year.... These are large numbers by historical In his later years, legendary American diplo- terms. But they’re excep- mat and historian George F. tionally large compared to Kennan, who died in 2005 at the birth rate of the native- the age of 101, was pessimistic born American population, about our civilization’s pros- which is the way a demog- pects. One component of that rapher would look at it. pessimism blended his con- cerns about our unsustainable In the nineteenth century population and about immigra- and the early twentieth cen- tion’s effects on both our pop- tury, when we last saw these ulation numbers and our civ- very large numbers, the na- ic cohesion. He wrote about tive-born Americans were both concerns in the chap- reproducing themselves at ter “Dimensions” of his 1993 a fantastic pace, and that book Around the Cragged Hill: kind of swamped the im- A Personal and Political Phi- migrant impact. But in this losophy. The Social Contract century, right now, native excerpted part of that chapter, born Americans of all rac- making Kennan’s striking re- es have brought family siz- 27 George F. Kennan marks readily available. We es down to the point where jump in at his first remark about the Census Bureau says the population is sta- population, followed by a segue onto immigration: bilizing — we’re stabilized at about 270 mil- lion, absent immigration. If, as my first ambassadorial chief, Bill Bul- litt, once said, mankind is “a skin disease of The speech/essay makes other basic points that the earth,” then there is an optimal balance, activists for immigration-sanity need in their intel- dependent on the manner of man’s life, be- lectual armories. But I’ll offer up, instead, another tween the density of human population and memorable vignette from Brimelow’s experiences the tolerances of nature. This balance, in the discussing our subject with the non-thoughtful: case of the United States, would seem to me When I was talking to the NEA [National to have been surpassed when the American Education Association], in the days that they population reached, at a very maximum, two would let me interview them, I actually asked hundred million people, and perhaps a good them once why they haven’t spoken up on the deal less. question of immigration. Don Cameron was [snip] there and also the previous head of the NEA, Keith Geiger, and they were astonished. They This is a big world. Billions — rapidly couldn’t have been more amazed than if I had increasing billions — of people live outside hit them on the head with a wet fish — it just our borders. Obviously, a great number of literally never occurred to them that anybody them, being much poorer than they think most would even raise this question. They even of us are, look enviously over those borders said the usual “Well, we’re a country of im- and would like, if they could, to come here.

45 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t Just as water seeks its own level, so relative iar verbal ploy of the open-borders lobbies and then prosperity, anywhere in the world, tends to demolishes it, relentlessly taking one after another. suck in poverty from adjacent regions to (To confirm the obvious, the essay’s main title is a the lowest levels of employment. But since play on the phrase “huddled masses” in the Emma poverty is sometimes a habit, sometimes Lazarus sonnet that sullies the famous statue stand- even an established way of life, the more ing in New York’s harbor.) Before quoting a sam- prosperous society, by indulging this ple demolishment, a couple of points from the In- tendency, absorbs not only poverty into troduction: itself but other cultures in the bargain, and is I will make no attempt at “balance.” Since sometimes quite overcome, in the long run, immigration is a vast phenomenon involving by what it has tried to absorb. millions of human beings, it would be In that last passage, Kennan was clearly think- astonishing if there were not many good and ing along the same lines as Christopher Manion, wonderful things to be said about it. And quoted in Section 3, above. Kennan goes on to spell these things have, of course, been said for out the many consequences and the futility of con- many years, but in such emotional and all- tinuing on our present course. Here’s such a pas- embracing terms that they paralyze critical sage, parts of which I’ve incorporated in some let- thought. Since the American mind is already ters-to-the-editor: soaked with open-borders clichés, true What we shall then have accomplished is balance only requires us to show how those not to have appreciably improved conditions clichés are wrong. in the Third World (for even the maximum [snip] numbers we could conceivably take would be only a drop from the bucket of the planet’s Writing in the pro-open borders Wall Street overpopulation) but to make this country Journal some years ago, author George itself a part of the Third World (as certain Gilder denounced proposed cuts in legal parts of it already are), thus depriving the immigration because a tiny number of planet of one of the few great regions that recent immigrants (the ones he mentioned might have continued, as it now does, to be were all from Europe or East Asia) were helpful to much of the remainder of the world scientific “geniuses” who had made valuable by its relatively high standard of civilization, contributions to U.S. industry, particularly by its quality as example, by its ability to in the computer field. “A decision to cut shed insight on the problems of the others back legal immigration today, as Congress and to help them find their answers to their is contemplating, is a decision to wreck the own problems. key element of the American technological So Kennan is quite quotable on our sub- miracle,” Gilder wrote. But how did the ject (and others!). Equally quotable is conserva- acquisition of a few talented inventors justify tive writer Lawrence Auster, author of the follow- the continued immigration of a million Third- ing two works. These are extended essays, requir- World people per year, most of whom were ing some commitment of time, for which you will low-skilled and poorly educated? Gilder be well rewarded. First up is Auster’s Huddled Cli- didn’t expect his readers to ask that question. ches: Exposing the Fraudulent Arguments That He just wanted them to get so excited about Have Opened America’s Borders to the World,28 all those immigrant “geniuses” that they originally published in 1997 by American Immigra- would reject any immigration restrictions. tion Control Foundation, which still has the printed [emphases in original] version available.29 Once you’ve read Huddled Cliches, you’ll In Huddled Cliches, Auster sets up each famil- likely refer back to it often for ammunition in talk-

46 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t ing with immigration-cliche-saturated fellow citi- period, California would have done just fine, zens — unless, of course, you have a photograph- as it in fact did. ic memory and can keep it all in your head. How- From this we derive a maxim: Large-scale ever, some of Auster’s points are made so vividly immigration creates the illusion of its own that you will probably remember them, anyway, indispensability. [emphases in original; one even without being so endowed. Such is the case paragraph break added for readability] with the following example, the only one I’ll pres- ent. The targeted cliche is “If we didn’t have im- Finally, we come to Mr. Auster’s seminal migrants doing all kinds of jobs in America today, 1990 work, The Path to National Suicide: An Essay 30 there would be nobody to do them.” Auster’s re- on Immigration and Multiculturalism [henceforth joinder, in full: “PNS”]. This provided my own first deep look at immigration when a friend bestowed a paper [This] widely believed idea is empirically copy (now out of print) on me in 1996. I read it false. It is also based on a false assumption. straight through, the project of a couple hours. The assumption is that the American economy (It’s 84 pages, with smaller type than Huddled’s could only have developed in one way, with 57 pages.) In Alien Nation, Peter Brimelow called lots of immigrants coming here and taking lots PNS “perhaps the most remarkable literary product of jobs. Therefore, the thinking goes, without of the Restrictionist underground, a work which I the immigrants there would have been no one think will one day be seen as a political pamphlet to else to do those jobs and the economy would rank with Tom Paine’s Common Sense.” have been crippled. In fact, most of those The only way to do justice to PNS is to read jobs only exist because of immigrants. it and then read it again. A few excerpts here may We can illustrate this by means of a encourage you to jump in. First, from “Introduction: thought experiment. Imagine that back in Breaking the Silence”: the late nineteenth century there had been [Our] current immigration debate is to be no Chinese Exclusion Act, and that large noted mainly for its astonishing triviality. The numbers of Chinese had continued to settle major news media treat the issue as a simple in California after 1882. Over the following matter of humane generosity and “progress,” decades, the Chinese would have filled devoid of any larger meaning. all kinds of existing jobs in the California [snip] economy, and would also have created new types of businesses and employment niches The United States is in a situation without that hadn’t existed before. Let us imagine precedent in the history of the world. A free and further that in 1920 Californians began to great people have embarked on a course which call for immigration restrictions against the must result in their own total and permanent Chinese. The pro-immigration lobby in our transformation, without ever having had a fictional 1920 (using the same arguments that serious public debate on whether or not they the pro-immigration lobby uses today) would want to be so transformed. The purpose of have replied: “Without Chinese immigrants this essay is to help open up such a debate. here, who would have done all these jobs?” There is a need for the information, ideas and The truth, of course, is that the Chinese in arguments that will make it intellectually and our imaginary 1920 are doing all those jobs morally respectable to question our current only because they had come to America in policy and the orthodoxy that upholds it. We the first place. Had there been no Chinese need to break free from the paralyzing notion immigrants between 1882 and 1920, which that because “we are all descended from was the actual case in the actual 1882 – 1920 immigrants,” we therefore have no right to

47 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t make such a fateful choice about our nation’s intelligence to make conscious choices.... we future. always discriminate, only the basis of it is Of course, as Auster acknowledges in his cur- different, each of us think[s] our own way is rent writings, that “astonishing triviality” persists wise and right... I think there is a rational basis to this day in the national conversation on immi- and a reasonable basis to give a preference to gration. This only means that many more people — Holland over Afghanistan, and I hope I am and surely all serious Social Contract habitues — not entertaining a very iniquitous thought need to read PNS. when I entertain that honest opinion. In doing the research that lead to PNS, Auster Here’s another sampling of Auster’s own think- dug through the New York Public Library’s holdings ing on a theme that he has continued to emphasize of Congressional proceedings, including hearings throughout the nearly 20 years since the publica- of the Senate Judiciary Committee on what became tion of PNS: the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act Amend- ments. Thus he was able to assemble and recount This brings us to yet another kind of for us the story of how this disastrous legislation reductionism we ought to beware of: the was spawned. Parts of the story, such as Sen. Ed- tendency to see our society as a mere ward Kennedy’s (D-MA) soothing — but 100 per- abstraction of freedom and human rights. Yes, cent wrong — predictions of the Act’s consequenc- America stands for, and is based on, certain es, are familiar to those knowledgeable about immi- universal principles; but we must insist that gration. What sticks in my mind, though, is some America also happens to be a country. Surely of what Sen. Sam Ervin (D-NC; later of Watergate the Founding Fathers saw no contradiction Committee fame) had to say during the hearings. between being devoted as philosophers to So here’s Auster quoting Ervin: universal principles of republicanism and the rights of man, and as patriots to a particular Mr. Secretary [Secretary of State Dean nation, a particular people. To ignore our Rusk]... do you know of any people in the national individuality—in an effort to make world that have contributed more to making America seem instantly accessible to every America than those particular groups?... In person and culture on the planet — is to turn other words, you take the English-speaking our country into the blank slate of which we people, they gave us our language, they gave spoke earlier, on which the social engineers us our common law, they gave us a large part and all the migrating masses of the world of our political philosophy.... The reason I can write whatever they please. In other say this bill is discriminatory against those words, America needs to revive the original people is because it puts them on exactly the name and meaning of the Statue of Liberty same plane as the people of Ethiopia are put, (now quite forgotten): “Liberty Enlightening where the people of Ethiopia have the same the World” — a shining example for other right to come to the United States under this nations to achieve in their own lands and bill as the people from England, the people of in their own ways what we have achieved France, the people of Germany, the people of here, not a simply a mindless invitation for Holland, and I don’t think... I don’t know of the whole world to move here. [emphases in any contributions that Ethiopia has made to original] the making of America. 9. A Statement for Our Side [snip] Dr. John Tanton, a retired ophthalmologist in I do not think you could draft an immigration Petoskey, Michigan, is the founding father of the bill in which you do not discriminate. I think modern immigration-restriction movement. Tanton discrimination is ordinarily the exercise of grew up on a Michigan farm in the 1940s and 1950s

48 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t (before the era of “big” agriculture) and, naturally, smear — really a badge of honor for Dr. Tanton — has an environmentalist’s/conservationist’s view of but it won’t be said here and now. the world. So, naturally, he was concerned about Instead, what’s important for us here is Tan- human population and its sustainability, and that ton’s rejoinder to the SPLC’s thuggery: His “The concern lead to thinking about immigration — it Puppeteer Replies” 31 is the greatest polemic essay was all straightforward intellectual development. I’ve ever read (that’s according to my taste, again). It’s about 3,800 words, and you really need to read it. I’ll just quote key parts of the civics lesson that I think are the heart of the essay: What the vast majority of us who want to limit mass immigration are guilty of is ex- pressing self-interest. In that respect we are no different from the immigrants themselves and those interests in this country that sup- port high levels of immigration.

Immigration, it is worth noting, is always in the self-interest of the immigrant. To my knowledge, no one has ever left his or her homeland to settle in a foreign country in order to be worse off! People immigrate to the United States (or anywhere else) because they believe it serves their economic, politi- cal, religious, social, or other interests. Dr. John Tanton in his office circa 1998. Then why would there be controversy? That’s [snip] because many modern “environmentalists” are cas- If it is noble and laudable for immigrants to es of arrested development, unable (or unwilling) come to American to “make a better life” for to grasp the connections among population, immi- themselves and their families, then it must gration, and sustainability. Plus, the environmental be equally noble and laudable for ordinary movement has increasingly mired itself in the polit- Americans to oppose mass immigration ical left, with all it faux-multicultural sensitivities. that erodes the prospects for a better life for So, after a stint as a Sierra Club activist, Tanton themselves and their families. If it is ignoble of left the environmental-powers-that-be behind and ordinary Americans to deny some prospective focussed his volunteer energies on U.S. immigra- immigrants the opportunity to come here in tion policy, being crucially involved in the found- pursuit of something better, then it must be ing of FAIR (1979) and later, through his own or- equally ignoble of immigrants to harm the ganization U.S. Inc., other mainstay organizations interests of any American by coming here in the immigration-sanity movement, including the (and even the most fervid advocates of open Center for Immigration Studies, ProEnglish, and borders concede that some people are hurt as NumbersUSA. a result of immigration). By 2002, Tanton was a primary target of the Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC], which made I happen to be one of those Americans who him the feature bogeyman of their Summer 2002 believes that my interests and the interests of Intelligence [sic] Report, dubbing Tanton “The my family are ill-served by policies of mass Puppeteer.” There’s a lot that can be said about this immigration. As noted in “The Puppeteer,”

49 Fa l l 2009 Th e So c i a l Co n t r a c t my initial interest in curtailing immigration 6. John Miano, “Ten Principles of Immigration,” VDARE. was motivated by a longstanding concern for com, October 10, 2001. http://vdare.com/miano/011010_ the environment — a motivation that even the contest.htm article concedes is sincere and “passionate.” 7. Mark Cromer, “Immigration: When doing the right thing hurts,” San Diego Union-Tribune, March 22, 2007. http:// Over the years, as I have explored the issue, legacy.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070322/news_ I have come to question the wisdom of mass lz1e22cromer.html immigration for many additional reasons. 8. Video interview of Kirsten Stewart, Californians for Population Stabilization [CAPS]. http://www.capsweb.org/ [snip] content.php?id=226&menu_id=30&menu_item_id=44 If immigrants can have advocacy groups 9. Roy Beck, “The Ordeal of Immigration in Wausau,” The to lobby and disseminate information on Atlantic Monthly, April, 1994. http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/immigrat/beckf.htm behalf of their interests, and the businesses 10. “Immigration Crisis Tests Federal Courts on Southwest that profit by hiring low-wage immigrants Border,” The Third Branch: Newsletter of the Federal can have armies of high-priced lobbyists Courts, June, 2006. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/06-06/ doing their bidding on Capitol Hill, and border/index.html the immigration bar can argue for more 11. Kris W. Kobach, “Rx for Breakdown,” New York Post, immigrant clients, why is it illegitimate for May 27, 2007. http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/ there to be organizations that advocate the print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/05272007/ interests of ordinary Americans with regard postopinion/opedcolumnists/rx_for_breakdown_ opedcolumnists_kris_w__kobach.htm to immigration policy? [Dr. Tanton italicizes 12. Mark Cromer, “Documenting Illegals,” The Washington the “mass” in “mass immigration” throughout Times, February 26, 2008. http://www.washingtontimes.com/ his essay.] news/2008/feb/26/documenting-illegals/print Why indeed? Tanton’s plainspoken statement 13. Fred Reed, “Scoping Out Pepe: Why We Should Get It of honorable motives needs to be internalized by all Right, But Won’t,” FredOnEverything.net, March 26, 2008. http://www.fredoneverything.net/Pepe.shtml patriotic immigration reformers In conclusion, the battles ahead need an army 14. Christopher Manion, “Cultural Suicide,” LewRockwell. com, July 19, 2001. http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/ of patriotic citizens whose heads are chock full of manion7.html the facts, ideas, and arguments in all of the “great 15. Roger D. McGrath, “South Gate: Mexico Comes to books” above. Patriots, go to it! California,” The American Conservative, May 19, 2003. http://www.amconmag.com/print.html?Id=AmConservative- En d n o t e s 2003may19-00015 16. Sam Quinones, “6 + 4 = 1 Tenuous Existence,” Los 1. Robert Locke, “Close the Borders!” FrontPage Angeles Times, July 28, 2006. http://articles.latimes. Magazine, October 20, 2000. http://97.74.65.51/Printable. com/2006/jul/28/local/me-quadruplets28 [Note: Click aspx?ArtId=22967 through to the three following pages.] Also at ... 2. Table of contents, Common Sense on Mass Immigration, http://web.archive.org/web/20080620213725/http://articles. 2004. http://www.commonsenseonmassimmigration.us/ latimes.com/2006/jul/28/local/me-quadruplets28 articles/contents.html 17. Anna Gorman, “Immigration debate hits home for 3. John Vinson, “Mass Immigration and Basic Freedoms,” liver transplant patients,” Los Angeles Times, April in Common Sense on Mass Immigration, 2004. http://www. 13, 2008. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me- commonsenseonmassimmigration.us/articles/art_vinson.html liver13apr13,0,2519283,print.story Also at http://www. 4. John Attarian, “Mass Immigration and Taxes: Social latimes.com/news/la-me-liver13apr13,0,3303223,full.story Security Costs,” in Common Sense on Mass Immigration, March/rally poster of Hermandad Mexicana and Mexican 2004. http://www.commonsenseonmassimmigration.us/ American Political Association: http://blog.vdare.com/wp- articles/art_attarian.html content/uploads/2007/06/engfly.jpg 5. Mail-order form, Common Sense on Mass Immigration, 18. “A Photo Summary of the Great March, March 25, 2004. http://www.commonsenseonmassimmigration.us/ 2006.” http://www.mexica-movement.org/granmarchapart2. order_form.html htm

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19. Paul Nachman, “CCIR’s Greatest Hits: The Reconquista 26. Peter Brimelow, “Immigration’s Impact on Education, Rant Audio Clips,” VDARE.com, January 14, 2009. http:// Multiculturalism: Reflections by the author ofAlien Nation,” www.vdare.com/nachman/090114_ccir.htm The Social Contract, Fall, 1998, page 27. http://www. 20. John Derbyshire, “The Island Race ... Riots,” National thesocialcontract.com/pdf/nine-one/ix-1-27.pdf Also at Review Online, May 31, 2001. http://www.nationalreview. http://www.vdare.com/pb/051026_windsor_speech.htm com/derbyshire/derbyshireprint053101.html Also at http:// 27. George F. Kennan, “U.S. Overpopulation Deprives www.olimu.com/WebJournalism/Texts/Commentary/ Planet of Helpful Civilization,” The Social Contract, Spring, UKRaceRiots.htm 1993, page 192. http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/three- 21. Kevin Myers, “Risible lies about immigrants no three/Kennan.pdf substitute for honest debate,” Independent.ie, August 15, 28. Lawrence Auster, Huddled Cliches: Exposing the 2008. http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/ Fraudulent Arguments That Have Opened America’s Borders kevin-myers/risible-lies-about-immigrants-no-substitute-for- to the World, American Immigration Control Foundation, honest-debate-1456226.html 1997. (See note 29 to order printed booklet.) Revised version 22. Thomas Sowell, “’Multicultural’ Education.” http://www. (2008) available online: http://jtl.org/auster/Huddled.pdf [PDF] tsowell.com/spmultic.html and http://jtl.org/auster/Huddled/Huddled.html [HTML] 23. Jared Taylor, “The Myth of Diversity.” http://www.lrainc. 29. To order printed copies of reference 28, go to http:// com/swtaboo/taboos/jt_diver.html www.aicfoundation.com/BuildingBlocks/Pages/Products. aspx?CategoryId=4 and scroll down to the third item. 24. Richard D. Lamm, “I Have a Plan to Destroy America: And many parts of it are underway,” The Social Contract, 30. Lawrence Auster, The Path to National Suicide: An Spring, 2004, page 180. http://www.thesocialcontract.com/ Essay on Immigration and Multiculturalism, American pdf/fourteen-three/xiv-3-181.pdf Immigration Control Foundation, 1990. (Out of print) Available online: http://jtl.org/auster/PNS.pdf [PDF] and 25. Don Feder, “How the Grandson of Jewish Immigrants http://www.jtl.org/auster/PNS/PNS_Contents.html [HTML] Became an Anglo-Saxon, Nativist, Xenophobe, in Three Easy Lessons.” http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/ 31. John H. Tanton, “The Puppeteer Replies.” http://www. showthread.php?t=48950 thesocialcontract.com/answering_our_critics/puppeteer.html

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