Comments on: Steyn On Arizona

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:35:13 +0000

I am glad others are pointing out that importing third world people to save social security is complete bull.

Look at Japan and South Korea. Both have low fertility and face the same social security type trouble that the West does. However, neither have resorted to mass immigration. They still will have to deal with an elderly population being supported by fewer workers, as will the West, however they won’t have to deal with the problem of diversity.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:57:34 +0000

The figures from the world bank sound like so much wildebeest droppings. How can adding 14,000,000 illiterates, not to mention 25 or 30 million, to the welfare rolls help a tax paying population. Not to mention that the current population will be sacrificing quality of life and the fabric of the very nation which is more of a consideration than a mere 0.0035 of the economy. If it can be kept that cheap, which I doubt.

By: Van Wijk

Van Wijk — Thu, 06 May 2010 06:14:30 +0000

At VFR, Lawrence Auster pointed out this part of Steyn's column: "The majority of Arizona's schoolchildren are already Hispanic. So, even if you sealed the border today, the state's future is as a Hispanic society - that's a given." I believe Pat Buchanan said that inevitability is the language of the tyrant. Steyn is great for taking jabs at the left, but I don't believe he really stands for much of anything. History has a way of providing disasters and miracles seemingly from thin air. If the nationwide cataclysm that I believe is in the cards comes to pass, all demographic bets are off.

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Thu, 06 May 2010 03:52:55 +0000

Yeah, but how much do Third World immigrants to the West, especially the US and Canuckistan, benefit from race based programs, initiatives, preferences and set-asides?

Can some epistemologist from the World Bank put pen to paper and tell us how much?

Here in Texas the state spends an estimated $600 million each year on bilingual education alone.

So, $137 billion is like pissing in the ocean.

It feels good, but is meaningless.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Thu, 06 May 2010 03:48:58 +0000

1. Steyn made a good point about FDR. In fact, very few on the left were upset when that great man ordered American born citizens shipped to what he himself referred to as “concentration camps”. To his credit, Justice Murphy called it “racist” in his dissent in Korematsu v. US (1944).

2. Meanwhile, Linda Greenhouse thinks that Arizona trying to send trespassers back to their own country is like shipping Danish Jews to Auschwitz (Mexico is a death camp!!). So much for realism!

3. The Arizona police can ask questions of those caught drunk driving or “homeless” on the streets such as “where do you live?” (Etc.) and if the people cannot answer questions (this is NOT an issue of having dark skin or an accent), then the police should ascertain legal status. Does anyone think that China allows Koreans to float around their country (or would Mexico allow Americans just to hang out?)?

4. Anyway, we have tens of thousands of walls lining our interstate highways – we could make a 2-layer wall for 2000 miles with acoustic, optical, and seismic sensors and the million/year infiltration rate will be cut to a trickle.