Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster
Author Peter Brimelow
Description
The controversial, bestselling
book that helps define the debate about one of the most important and hotly
contested issues facing America: immigration.
From Publishers Weekly: Forbes
senior editor Brimelow's alarmist, slashing anti-immigration manifesto is
likely to stir debate. He maintains that the 1965 Immigration Act and its
recent amplifications choked off immigration from northern and western Europe
while selectively reopening U.S. borders to a huge influx of minorities from
Third World countries. Many of these latter entrants are unskilled and require
welfare support, and those who do work may adversely affect opportunities for
poorer Americans, especially blacks, according to Brimelow. Because of multicultural programs, he charges, the new immigrants
are not expected to assimilate, and thus they retain their separateness. Illegal immigration?two to three million entries a year?plus one
million legal immigrants annually are causing, by his reckoning, an
"ethnic revolution," because Asians, Hispanics, Middle Easterners and
others shift America's balance away from the white majority, creating a
strife-torn, multiracial society. Brimelow calls for an end to all illegal
immigration, a drastic cutback in legal immigration, policies favoring skilled
immigrants and elimination of all payments and free public education for
illegals and their children. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal "Immigration has consequences," Brimelow (a
Forbes senior editor and a contributor to the National Review) interjects
repeatedly through this scattershot, argumentative tract against current
immigration policy and practice. Claiming that the 1965 Immigration Act and
later legislation in 1986 and 1990 have worsened a host of economic, political,
and social problems in the United States, Brimelow cites supporters and critics
alike of American immigration policy and his own interpretation of immigration
statistics to disprove commonly held beliefs about immigrants' contributions to
America, which he believes have been overemphasized. Brimelow argues that our
environment is endangered, our public health threatened, our economy strained,
our national unity diluted, and our politics fragmented all by an immigration
policy that is out of control and captive to a ruling "elite," which
he associates with the liberal establishment and political correctness. Though
Brimelow scores some points in his shrill attack, his highly politicized and
provocative language which often relies on ethnic stereotypes makes this book a
polemic guaranteed to rally the faithful and offend most others.
Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity
Author Samuel Huntington
Description
In his seminal work The
Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel
Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold
war, “civilizations” were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in
international politics.
Now in his controversial new work, Who Are We?, Huntington focuses on an identity crisis closer to home as he examines the impact other civilizations and their values are having on our own country.
America was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture, says Huntington, including the English language, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of immigrants that later came to the United States gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, our national identity has been eroded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of primarily Hispanic immigrants and challenged by issues such as bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, and the “denationalization” of American elites.
September 11 brought a revival of American patriotism and a renewal of American identity, but already there are signs that this revival is fading. Huntington argues the need for us to reassert the core values that make us Americans. Timely and thought-provoking, Who Are We? is an important book that is certain to shape our national conversation about who we are.
Now in his controversial new work, Who Are We?, Huntington focuses on an identity crisis closer to home as he examines the impact other civilizations and their values are having on our own country.
America was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture, says Huntington, including the English language, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of immigrants that later came to the United States gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, our national identity has been eroded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of primarily Hispanic immigrants and challenged by issues such as bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, and the “denationalization” of American elites.
September 11 brought a revival of American patriotism and a renewal of American identity, but already there are signs that this revival is fading. Huntington argues the need for us to reassert the core values that make us Americans. Timely and thought-provoking, Who Are We? is an important book that is certain to shape our national conversation about who we are.
Brokaw: ‘Hispanics Should Work Harder at Assimilation’
27 Jan 20192,712
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Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,”
former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw offered theories on as to why
Republicans tend to be against immigration from Latin America.
Brokaw identified politics and
racial aspects, but went on to add assimilation by Hispanics was a hurdle as
well.
“A lot of this, we don’t want to
talk about,” Brokaw explained. “But the fact is, on the Republican side, a lot
of people see the rise of an extraordinary, important, new constituent in
American politics, Hispanics, who will come here and all be Democrats. Also, I
hear, when I push people a little harder, ‘Well, I don’t know whether I want
brown grandbabies.’ I mean, that’s also a part of it.”
“It’s the intermarriage that is
going on and the cultures that are conflicting with each other,” he continued.
“I also happen to believe that the Hispanics should work harder at
assimilation. That’s one of the things I’ve been saying for a long time. You
know, they ought not to be just codified in their communities but make sure
that all their kids are learning to speak English, and that they feel
comfortable in the communities. And that’s going to take outreach on both
sides, frankly.”
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the
creation of a one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open
borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to
California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the CIS has
documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few
skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them
access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegals
were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6
million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
What will America stand for in 2050?
The US should think long and hard about the high number of
Latino immigrants.
By Lawrence Harrison
It's not just a
short-run issue of immigrants competing with citizens for jobs as unemployment
approaches 10 percent or the number of uninsured straining the quality of
healthcare. Heavy immigration from Latin America threatens our cohesiveness as a
nation.
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE U.S.
POPULATION
By Tom Barrett
At the current rate of invasion (mostly through Mexico, but also
through Canada) the United States will be completely over run with illegal
aliens by the year 2025. I’m not talking about legal immigrants who follow US
law to become citizens. In less than 20 years, if we do not stop the invasion,
ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the dominant population in the
United States.
Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity
Author Samuel Huntington
Description
In his seminal
work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel
Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold
war, “civilizations” were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in
international politics.
Now in his controversial new work, Who Are We?, Huntington focuses on an identity crisis closer to home as he examines the impact other civilizations and their values are having on our own country.
America was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture, says Huntington, including the English language, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of immigrants that later came to the United States gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, our national identity has been eroded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of primarily Hispanic immigrants and challenged by issues such as bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, and the “denationalization” of American elites.
September 11 brought a revival of American patriotism and a renewal of American identity, but already there are signs that this revival is fading. Huntington argues the need for us to reassert the core values that make us Americans. Timely and thought-provoking, Who Are We? is an important book that is certain to shape our national conversation about who we are.
Now in his controversial new work, Who Are We?, Huntington focuses on an identity crisis closer to home as he examines the impact other civilizations and their values are having on our own country.
America was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture, says Huntington, including the English language, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of immigrants that later came to the United States gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, our national identity has been eroded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of primarily Hispanic immigrants and challenged by issues such as bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, and the “denationalization” of American elites.
September 11 brought a revival of American patriotism and a renewal of American identity, but already there are signs that this revival is fading. Huntington argues the need for us to reassert the core values that make us Americans. Timely and thought-provoking, Who Are We? is an important book that is certain to shape our national conversation about who we are.
Atlantic Magazine: Immigration is Fracturing America into Rival
Tribes
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23 Sep 20181,266
Immigration is splitting the United States into
warring tribes, says an unusual article in the strongly pro-migration Atlanticmagazine.
The causes of America’s resurgent
tribalism are many. They include seismic demographic change, which has led to
predictions that whites will lose their majority status within a few decades;
declining social mobility and a growing class divide; and media that reward
expressions of outrage.
But the mass immigration of 44.5 million people is the primary cause of the three other factors —
“declining social mobility and a growing class divide; and media that reward
expressions of outrage.”
Yet the authors do not even suggest
any changes whatsoever to the replacement-level immigration which brings in one
foreigner every year for every four Americans who turn 18, which lowers wages, and ensures an expanding array of rival languages and civic
rules in the United States:
In 2017, there were 85 cities in which a
majority of residents spoke a foreign language at home. These include:
- Hialeah, Fla. (95%);
- Laredo, Texas (92%);
- East Los Angeles, Calif. (90%)
- Elizabeth, N.J. (76%);
- Skokie, Ill. (56%);https://cis.org/Report/Almost-Half-Speak-Foreign-Language-Americas-Largest-Cities …
- Hialeah, Fla. (95%);
- Laredo, Texas (92%);
- East Los Angeles, Calif. (90%)
- Elizabeth, N.J. (76%);
- Skokie, Ill. (56%);https://cis.org/Report/Almost-Half-Speak-Foreign-Language-Americas-Largest-Cities …
Almost Half Speak a Foreign Language in America's Largest
Cities | @CIS_org
The two Yale authors, professors Amy
Chua and Jed Rubenfeld, describe the diversity created by immigration:
All of this has contributed to a
climate in which every group in America—minorities and whites;
conservatives and liberals; the working class and elites—feels
under attack, pitted against the others not just for jobs and spoils, but for
the right to define the nation’s identity. In these conditions, democracy
devolves into a zero-sum competition, one in which parties succeed by stoking
voters’ fears and appealing to their ugliest us-versus-them instincts.
Again, the authors do not suggest
any immigration changes that could lower public fears over the elite’s
determination to change the nation’s identity to suit their elite interests.
Elite groups openly acknowledge that
immigration is the force which now drives American politics — including the
shocking election of real-estate developer Donald Trump in 2016. As New York Magazine says in a review of Chua’s
earlier book:
Perhaps the most bitter of all
contemporary political battles — and a Trump favorite — is immigration, which
behind the ideological posturing is a referendum on whose tribe will control
the country’s demographic future …
Similarly, a new study by authors from the University of
Michigan argues that the nation’s tribal polarization is driven by rising
racial and ethnic conflict:
Race/ethnicity now cleaves the
parties more neatly than ever, and not simply because Democrats and Republicans
disagree in their attitudes about race itself. In fact, whites are sorting out
of the Democratic party at a significant rate while minorities are standing
pat. Figure 1 presents evidence in this regard using the American National Election
Studies time-series data starting from
1952. The growing racial gap between the two parties is evident. As the share
of Whites among self-identified Democrats is rapidly decreasing (outpacing
demographic changes in the country as a whole), the Republican Party remains
overwhelmingly White. Our conjecture is that it is these changes in race and
ethnicity that drive most of the affective polarization we have witnessed over
the last 30 years.
By failing to identify immigration’s
role in the problem, the two Yale authors are left with a few
recommendations so vague as to be useless.
They urge that conservative
Americans step up their efforts to persuade minorities that they are equal
— as if Americans have not been trying to do that at enormous expense
since the civil war, and as if immigration does not fuel the ethnic politics
which denies equality between Americans and immigrants.
The Atlantic authors do offer some cautious criticism of the
progressive left which has worked with business to impose and preserve mass
migration, even after the 2016 election:
For its part, the left needs to
rethink its scorched-earth approach to American history and ideals. Exposing
injustice, past and present, is important, but there’s a world of difference
between saying that America has repeatedly failed to live up to its
constitutional principles and saying that those principles are lies or smoke
screens for oppression.
But neither of those two
recommendations address what the Yale authors admit is the primary
cause of rising tribalism — the elite’s policy of importing foreign workers and their tribes into the United States.
Nor did they provide readers even a
cursory description of President Donald Trump’s promised fix, his Four Pillars reforms.
Moreover, neither author
acknowledges the basic reality that their peers in the elite do want tribalism
to overthrow Americans’ shared, non-racial, civic culture, which the elites
prefer to dismiss as merely a “white” culture. Chua indirectly admits this goal
in her 2018 book, Political
Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, as the New York Magazinereviewer
describes:
Better-educated whites, who dominate
the country’s political and cultural institutions and are the main
beneficiaries of the globalized economy, have adopted as their “tribal”
identity a sort of post-national cosmopolitanism, defined against what they
regard as the provincial culture of poor whites …
it seems inevitable that American
whites will lose their majority status sometime around the middle of the
current century. More cosmopolitan whites tend to view this prospect with
indifference or even excitement.
it is clear to many thoughtful
liberal scholars and journalists that immigration-driven cultural change has
greatly contributed to right-wing populism. On the other, they view slowing the
pace of immigration as a complete non-starter. As they see it, the only option
is to double down on the status quo and hope that the storm passes—even if this
approach risks triggering a crisis for open societies, such as the one we are
arguably living through today. It is as though these thinkers are convinced
that … that conservatives who worry about the pace of cultural change must be
crushed rather than accommodated.
For example, Bloomberg writer Noah
Smith welcomes the government-imposed foreign populations because it means that
Americans cannot expect the millions of foreigners in their midst to follow
Americans’ collective civic rules about how people are supposed to behave.
Smith claims:
Diversity provides a backstop
defense against the natural tendencies of homogenization and conformity … A
country with institutions strong enough not to have to rely on homogeneity will
be the strongest country imaginable.
But the civic culture destroyed by
diversity includes shared expectations of civic equality within freedom, of
Internet-enabled free speech and organization, and of debates over facts not
feelings. The civic rules help Americans prevent their elite from
segregating themselves into “oligarchical socialism,” globalist virtue-signaling, elite colleges and gated
communities, stock-market wealth, and technological power over political
debate.
Smith does admit his experiment with
imposed civic variety may prove disastrous to American people:
I believe that there is a chance our
experiment might fail. That building a free society from people of all races,
religions, and national origins might in fact prove too hard a task …
But no matter the risk to 300
million non-elite Americans, Smith insists “the America experiment [with
diversity] must continue.”
Smith counters polite criticism of
his diversity-first argument by describing his critics as racists, so
exemplifying the tribalism which Smith uses and which the two Atlantic authors claim to
oppose:
1/Tucker Carlson's question - "How is
diversity our strength?" was not asked in good faith, but for purposes of
racist demagoguery.
But I will try to answer it in good faith, because it's an important question in its own right.https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1038222675322318850 …
But I will try to answer it in good faith, because it's an important question in its own right.https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1038222675322318850 …
Tom Jawetz is the vice-president for
immigration policy at the Democrats’ primary think-tank, the Center for
American Progress. He argues that immigration is about the treatment of all
people worldwide, not about Americans’ concerns. That radically universal view
demotes his moral duty to his fellow Americans down to the same level as his
moral duty to distant peoples of Singapore, Lichtenstein, Nepal or
Indonesia.
Conversations about #migration are
about something so much more fundamental. They are about how we value other
human beings. They are about whether we stand by our universal principles. @MJRodriguesEU #GlobalCompactMigration
So of course, ordinary Americans —
of all colors and classes and
variations — are collectively pushing
back against their hostile or uncaring elite. New York Magazine insists on defining them see as
“whites,” but the members of Trump’s multi-colored coalition have:
defined their tribal identity in
opposition to the [elite] Establishment, which they perceive as a distant,
occupying foreign power, indifferent to their interests and intent on elevating
minorities and foreigners to pride of place within “their” country.
The Atlantic article can be read here.
Four million young Americans will
join the workforce this year, but the federal government will also
import 1.1 million legal immigrants, and allow an army of at least 2
million visa-workers to work U.S. jobs, alongside asylum-claiming migrants and
illegal aliens.
Overall, the Washington-imposed
economic policy of economic growth via immigration shifts wealth from young
people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white-collar and
blue-collar foreign labor.
That flood of outside labor spikes profits and Wall Street
values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar
and white-collar employees. The policy also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling
with opioid addictions. Immigration also pulls investment and wealth away from
heartland states because investment flows towards the large immigrant
populations living in the coastal states.
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