- Mario H. Lopez, (email him) president of the Hispanic Leadership Fund, invoked the ghosts of Thomas Malthus, Paul Ehrlich, Sir Francis Galton, and Margaret Sanger to smear FAIR’s Dan Stein, VDARE.com columnist Donald A. Collins, and Dr. John Tanton—a real-life immigration patriot hero whom VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow described in Alien Nation ., echoing Robert E. Lee, as “a citizen who has taken up arms for his country.” [Hijacking Immigration?, Human Life Review, Fall 2012]
- Linda Chavez [Email her] echo-chambered Lopez in in her Creators Syndicate column, saying that immigration patriots, because of these fantasized associations with “pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia and assisted suicide” ideas, constitute Strange Bedfellows For Conservatives. In the New York Post this became the Anti-immigration lobby’s ugly roots. [February 8, 2013].
Ms. Chavez, a former member of the Young People's Socialist League, is at best a
neoconservative but she gets to lay down the law.
- Bob Quasius [Twitter] the white guy at “Café Con Leche Republicans” is attacking Ann Coulter with many references to dead nativists, and makes a drive-by attack on Charles Murray, who is allegedly “hardly a credible source on demographics” because of the familiar accusations of racism which are (a) unfounded, and (b) irrelevant to credibility since Murray doesn’t just assert demographic facts, but always provides data.
Of course, this is an old, tired argument for
Conservatism Inc. immigration enthusiasts—for our
Washington Watcher’s documentation and debunking, see
here. Even
National Review’s immigration beards have been induced to whimper—see
Krikorian and O’Sullivan
here and
here.
All the current smearers are Hispanic, even Quasius. (Well, actually he’s
married to a Hispanic woman, and makes a living, GOP-campaign consultant style, by running
Café Con Leche Republicans and whining about “Hate.”)
They apparently
are Republicans. And they
say they’re conservatives. But they’re favoring radically transformative levels of legal and illegal immigration, a program supported by the worst elements of the hard Left—including the current President of the United States.
So, if we’re looking at motives, here are the “ugly roots” of immigration enthusiasm:
The 1965 Immigration Act replaced the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, which was an
anti-Communist bill. The breakdown of the McCarran-Walter Act was a major objective of the Communists, as Congress
heard in testimony in 1965, and
pro-Communist writers are still
gloating over its defeat. See, more recently,
Communist Party Resolves: Immigrant rights is a struggle for democracy, CPUSA website, May 27, 2010.
Mexico is a much more
socialist country than the United States, and more immigration will tend to make the
US more socialist. American socialists know this [
Socialism and Immigrants’ Rights, By Teddy Shibabaw, SocialistAlternative, June 22, 2010] and perhaps, once again, we should include
the current President of the United States in their number. Elected with the votes of many Hispanic legal immigrants, he’s the man who installed
socialized medicine in America—which is
also, contrary to advertisement, being provided to immigrants.
Cultural Marxism, the opportunistic mutation of generic Leftism especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, explicitly seeks to exploit racial antagonism—a strategy dating
back to Trotsky. For example, Cultural Marxists are currently using the arrival of immigrants and their “cultures”
to suppress the inculcation of American patriotism in public schools.
Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party said in 199:."Remember, [Proposition]187 is the last gasp of white America in California. Understand that.”
He wasn’t
fired for this racist remark. He was still Chairman in 2009 when Paul Nachman
quoted him here.( He’s still a State Senator.)
Fabian Nunez , Speaker of the California Assembly, proposed a threatening million-person march on Washington, DC so that "those rednecks that are out there making decisions for the betterment of their communities will think twice before they push forward anti-immigrant legislation against our community."[Listen
to both clips here.]
Non-Hispanic Democrats also gloat over what they’re doing to America. For example, in 2007,
Journolister Ezra Klein
wrote on his
personal blog that
I'm at a panel on immigration and American politics that is really quite convincing on how screwed the Republicans are. In a couple of decades, Hispanic immigrants will make up almost a quarter of the country. Even now, 70 of the 100 largest cities are in the South and the West, and are that large because of Hispanic immigration. [Links added by VDARE.com.]
Democratic National Committee Chairthing Debbie Wasserman Schultz has also
publically boasted about establishing a Democratic hegemony by displacing the historic American nation. She has
described the partisan conflict in explicitly racial terms:
Just look at the chamber at the State of the Union. Look at the side of the chamber that the Democrats sit on and the side of the chamber that Republicans sit on. And you can notice a dramatic difference in who chooses to affiliate as Democrats and who chooses to affiliate as Republicans...
...the Democratic Party is…the natural home, politically on major issues to Hispanics, to women, to Jews, to Asian-Americans, the diverse spectrum—to African Americans.
Of course, the Democrats
have reason to think that immigration will deliver them hegemony.
And this is the world into which the
GOP campaign consultants, and their “Hispanic” mouthpieces, wish to lead us.
Crony Capitalism, in the form of Big Business seeking favors from government, usually
at the expense of American workers, is an even bigger influence on
the American political process than Communism or socialism. I don’t know where Mario H. Lopez and Bob Quasius get their funding, but I
noted in 2002 that in a full disclosure statement, Linda Chavez had thought it necessary to mention that
Linda Chavez serves on the board of directors of ABM Industries, Inc., a publicly held company.
She’s still there, ten years later. [
See picture.] ABM Industries, Inc is a
janitorial company, and the
janitorial industry is
totally dominated by illegal labor.
Chavez was also a director of
Pilgrim’s Pride, the world’s largest chicken producer—as
Patrick Cleburne noted in 2008 when Homeland Security arrested 400 illegals working at
Pilgrim’s Pride plants nationwide.
There’s a
lot of capitalist money in promoting immigration enthusiasm. Tamar Jacoby’s ImmigrationWorksUSA gets
millions from its
“Trade Association Partners”—the
employers of cheap, illegal, labor that displaces American workers:
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Leonard Glickman, president and CEO of the
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and formerly a spokesman for the U.S. Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, was quoted
here on VDARE.com in 2003 as saying
"The more diverse American society is the safer [Jews] are." [Community Questioning 'Open Door', by Nacha Cattan, Jewish Daily Forward, November 29, 2002.]
This seems to be th
e same idea that Earl Raab expressed, the first time the Census reported that whites would become a minority in America:
We have tipped beyond the point where a Nazi-Aryan party will be able to prevail in this country.
We [Jews] have been nourishing the American climate of opposition to bigotry for about half a century. That climate has not yet been perfected, but the heterogeneous nature of our population tends to make it irreversible—and makes our constitutional constraints against bigotry more practical than ever."
[Earl Raab, San Francisco Jewish Bulletin, July 23, 1993]
Emanuel Celler, a
Jewish Congressman from Brooklyn, made his first ever speech in the House of Representatives against the massively popular and extremely necessary Johnson act of 1924. Celler, who served in the House for over 49 years, was able to
reverse this success with the Hart-Celler Act, which was to become the Immigration Act Of 1965. His biography
in the Jewish Virtual Library makes it clear that he opposed immigration restriction and endorsed mass immigration for ethnic reasons. As the JVL puts it ”Today, nearly 75 percent of American Jews descend from immigrants from Eastern Europe. In this season in which we celebrate the ancient Hebrews' exodus to freedom, it is fitting to recall Emanuel Celler's efforts to make America a
promised land for Jewish immigrants, and for all victims of persecution.”
Teddy Kennedy, on the other hand, was the floor manager of the same law in the Senate. Kennedy was no 40 year veteran, but elected on
pure nepotism, and less qualified than Senator Barack Obama. But he was Irish, and apparently full of Irish resentment at
Anglo-American immigration restriction. He even used to
say that he’d seen (mythical ) signs saying “No Irish Need Apply” as a young man. [
"No Irish Need Apply": A Myth of Victimization, By Richard Jensen, Journal of Social History 36.2 (2002) 405-429 ]
Neither Celler nor Kennedy seemed concerned with the effect of wide-open immigration on the rest of America. And neither of them predicted that both Irish and Jewish immigrants would be displaced by the massive Third World influx.
Reconquista is a special case of the
ethnic resentment motives shared by a Celler, Kennedy, and to a certain extent by capitalist
Tamar Jacoby. You see, there’s a whole country to the south of the United States called Mexico. They learn in school that the United States stole a large part of their country in the Mexican War.
Their desire to move in, settle down, and take over is not pretty.
Here’s a
sign from an Arizona rally:
"To the diplomats in Arizona talking of illegal deals, why R U so hipocratics [sic] when we know that almost 1/2 of what it was Mexico, was bought illegally by the US. Santa Ana was a conquestee from France, he was not the president of Mexico or Mexican. 1845-1847 we were fighting our own independence with their own people and also fighting the French. The US took advantage N offered Santa Ana money for the Mexican's land. Do U call this legal?"[Reconquista Is Real, By Michelle Malkin on May 2, 2006 ]
This is exactly what the Main Stream Media claims
we are: semi-literate, with conspiracy theories, hating the government, made-up history—and a potential for violence.
In fact, off course, immigration patriots are usually peaceful “middle-aged men in suits” as Jared Taylor
put it once. But the Mexican Reconquistas are indeed like that, and they get a good deal of
intellectual support from the Left—
tenured professors of ethnic studies and so on—and also from “Hispanic Republicans.”
In contrast,
Hispanic “hate crimes” against
whites and the deliberate,
ethnic cleansing of blacks from what are now Hispanic neighborhoods is not part of the MSM narrative. But it’s much, much larger.
Mexico is dominated by white Mexicans, not by its
Indian and mestizo majority. This is partly due to racism—Mexican racial attitudes are quite old-fashioned:
Similarly, many “Hispanic Republicans” are
white Cubans—for example, the American Conservative Union’s
Al Cardenas...or
Marco Rubio. Their sense of arrogant entitlement has led
Steve Sailer to dub them “
Conquistador-Americans.” And they seem to be bringing it here.
It may be that the desire of
Ted Kennedy,
Ezra Klein, or even Barack Obama to change the ethnic composition of the United States for their own political benefit could be called treason—and we have said so at VDARE.com—but in many of those cases it would be hard to say what country they’re betraying the United States
to.
But in the case of many Mexican-American politicos, who belong to a
National Association Of Latino Elected And Appointed Officials, the answer is: “
They’re betraying their country to Mexico.”
Thus this picture of
Speaker Of The California Assembly Fabian Nunez, saluting the Mexican flag in the Mexican manner while listening to the Mexican national anthem in Mexico City, Mexico on Friday August 26, 2005.
My conclusion: if immigration enthusiasts want to talk about “evil roots,” well—to quote George W. Bush at unfortunate but typical moment—
bring it on.
James Fulford [Email him] is a writer and editor for VDARE.com.
