Category Archives: IMMIGRATION

How Black South Africans 'Deal' With Illegal Immigrants

Africa, IMMIGRATION, Race, Racism, South-Africa

Blacks, who now rule the South African roost, “deal” with illegal immigrants and foreigners, shall we say differently to the way Americans do. And white South Africans did. Under minority rule this cruelty did not occur. Neither did illegal immigrants dare brave the ferocious Afrikaner border guards and their assistants: four-legged predators. Yep, Africa moves in mysterious ways. (But the Minute Men are maligned much more than these killers of newcomers!!)

I’ve ventured into the township of Alexandra, in which some of the killings are now underway. It’s about 3 kilometers from the once-magnificent, very wealthy suburbs of Sandton and Morningside, where my father had a synagogue. Shopping in Sandton City used to be out of this world.

Notice how Goodly Helen, like most members of the liberal media, resorts to the passive voice to catalogue the rioters’ crimes: Helen says the “unrest has killed” all those illegals; no, Helen, the killers killed them.

Over to Helen Long of Reuters:

“May 19 – A wave of xenophobic attacks escalated in South Africa’s seething townships, with mobs beating and murdering foreigners.

The unrest has killed more than 20 people since it began last week and increased political instability at a time South Africa is struggling with dire power shortages, rising inflation and growing disaffection among the poor over President Thabo Mbeki’s pro-business policies. Police fired rubber bullets at rioters in communities around Johannesburg and in the central business district, where scores of foreigners live. High levels of poverty, crime and unemployment have fuelled resentment toward foreigners. Since the end of apartheid South Africa has become a magnet for millions of African immigrants escaping poverty and persecution.”

Update 2: History Of Traditional Levels Of US Immigration

Conspiracy, IMMIGRATION, Politics

Courtesy of Numbers USA, here is the exponential, unsustainable increase in immigration into the US since the 1965 and 1990 Immigration Acts. The trend is quantitavely and qualitatively different from decades past.

This is top-down central planning that swamps the local, founding peoples (Anglo, Afro, and Indian-American). I’m surprised at those who’ve shrugged it off as an inevitable natural phenomenon.

Update 1 (May 20): A few of our valued contributors seem unfamiliar with the term “central planning.” They confuse it with conspiracy thinking. I’m not a conspiracy thinker. I’ve written about the flaws of that kind of thinking in “On Conspiracy Thinking.”

Applied to immigration policy, my critique of conspiracy means that “the state presides over the disintegration of civil society, but it does so reflexively, rather than as a matter of collusion and conspiracy. … most of what the behemoth does nowadays [is] contrary to the good of the individual, and aimed reflexively at increasing its own power and size.”

In other words, immigration central planners began with good intentions and dollops of the usual stupidity and hubris never in short supply among the political class. Progressively, as with any sphere that has been brought under government control—and not as a matter of collusion and conspiracy—immigration policy evolved into an industry, with stakeholders, powerful vested interests, and power-conferring constituencies.

This is politics, not conspiracy. This is also why you want to keep these natural-born social engineers away from as many spheres as possible—an impossibility in contemporary America.

I can’t locate the reference I once made in a column to Samuel P. Huntington’s conclusion that the “denationalized elites” of the American state are unique in the modern political landscape in acting entirely against the interests of a “patriotic public.” (Maybe a reader can find this citation. Larry located it; thanks.)

Update 2: And this is also why I wrote in “Bush Answers Kennedy’s Calling” that,

“[A]ll immigration policy by definition amounts to top-down, statist, central planning. But the least invasive policy is one that respects a nation’s historical and cultural complexion and the property rights of its taxpayers. Bush’s batch of soon-to-be amnestied illegal aliens are voracious tax consumers, who will cost more in social services than they pay in taxes over a lifetime. By contrast, immigrants who arrived between 1870 and 1920, during the Great Migration, although poor, did not constitute a burden, because the Welfare State as we know it did not exist.”

“Moreover, what Bush in his dotage termed ‘the great American tradition of the melting pot’ is no more. In previous decades immigrants assimilated. In the spirit of the times, they are now encouraged to acculturate to the politics of petulance. As a result, too many seem to harbor a vestigial resentment toward the host society and to cling to an almost-militant distinctiveness.”

“Clearly, unfettered immigration and the interventionist state, as Ludwig von Mises noted, cannot coexist.”

Updated: Israel: Role Model For America

America, IMMIGRATION, Israel

This excerpt is from my new WND.com column, “Israel: Role Model For America”:

[T]he majority that dare not speak its name is on the wane.

“A couple of election cycles down the road and [Anglo-Americans] will comprise less than half the population. If mass immigration continues at current levels, predicts the U.S. Census Bureau, by 2050, approximately 130 million people will have been added to the United States, mostly from the Third World. Embittered Americans may still cling to guns and God, as their founding fathers did, but they will no longer decide elections.

Ironically, Bill Clinton has spoken glowingly about the prospects of the demise of the very historical majority upon which his wife’s candidacy now depends. Likewise, Barack Obama would hardly be inconsolable. If his immigration policies are any indication, McCain, to whom Bush has passed the baton, has also embraced this end-of-days scenario.

Israel hasn’t. The plucky Jewish state can teach the US a thing or two about cultural and creedal survival. Israel has endured to celebrate its sixtieth birthday in so small part because it has rejected American style immolation by immigration…”

Comments are welcome.

Update (May 17): To the extent the discrimination accusations come from elements on the American Right, we must take it to mean that this faction denies Israel the selective immigration policy it advocates for the U.S.—one that favors the founding people.

American Jewry is another faction that contradicts itself on Israel. Jews, who generally defend Israel, like to insist that it is a pluralistic, multicultural society. They ought to practice some honesty. If Jews are prepared to acknowledge Israel has a right to retain its Jewish character and choose who will be admitted to the polity, they must concede the same right to the Europeans and to the English-speaking peoples.

Dissolving The People, Electing Another

Democracy, Elections 2008, IMMIGRATION

Benjamin Shapiro asks a question and answers it (incompletely I think):

“What do you call a candidate who wins 90 percent of the African-American vote, between 30 percent and 50 percent of the Hispanic vote and 40 percent of the white vote in a tight Democratic primary race?

A general election loser. … In a general election, candidates must appeal to the broadest base of support in order to win. Relying on small coteries of like-raced voters simply will not do it.”

This is valid… for now. The “broadest base of support” is indeed Anglo-American, for the near future. But in a few decades, given unchecked immigration, the majority—Anglo-Americans—will be dwarfed demographically by Hispanics. Afro-Americans, who together with Anglo-Americans (and Indians) made up the historical majority, will be usurped too. Birthrates in these populations are similar.

Since voting patterns diverge from one demographic group to the next, it is not unreasonable to deduce that each has different interests and concerns. It is probably fair to say that both Anglo- and Afro-Americans are unhelped by the unchecked influx of Hispanics.

On a related topic: I’ve brought up the flight of the native-born to the heartland before on the blog. Michael Barone has documented this “Realignment of America.”