Report: Chechen jihadists entered U.S. via Mexico

I don't lnow if everyone else agrees with this, but I think it's time, past time for the National Guard to take over the Mexican border enforcement.

The numbers of illegals coming across the border are unacceptable. This Chechen Muslim entry report is veryt bothersome. Something, besides American culture, has to give.

"I don't lnow if everyone else agrees with this, but I think it's time, past time for the National Guard to take over the Mexican border enforcement"

I concur, however the globalists who pushed through the NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO agreements won't stand for such an idea. They are STILL running the country!

Also, neo-con run business leaders will also have fits since it will impede the flow of labor that can be prostituted on the cheap; and by the time the lawyers for the La Raza movement pounce on the idea it will never come to be.

Besides, you will be scorned as a "rabid isolationist, nationalist, bigot" and etcetera; and be written off as a probable "gun nut" on the lunitic right wing fringe of "Christian" extremeism.

Worse yet, you sound like a true American patriot that actually believes in the sovereignty of the United States -- a true enemy to be reviled lest your ideas are actually given serious consideration. Those in Congress don't like your kind around the capitol.

Perhaps you would consider UN observers on the US border to "monitor" the situation,as long as they are being invited here by some of our congress members to "oversee the fairness of the election," anyway?

I loath the notion personally, as I am sure you must, but this has a better chance of becoming reality given the stated goals of either presidential candidates and their respective parties.

Besides, according to one of the candidates as long as these Chechens coming from Mexico are willing to accept employment from a willing employer (say a school district) and there are no Americans who want to fill the position (i.e. janitor, minimum wages or less, on call, no beneifts, etc.) then I suppose they can be granted a "guest worker card" so they won't have to be "in the shadows."

The fact that those two were not verbally lynched with serious questions last night, is indicative that we will get the kind of government we deserve -- and the porous borders to go with them.

One of those two globalists WILL be the next president, a truely disasterous set of circumstances for our country in my opinion.

DCWatson, did you ever consider running for president? I might just write you in anyway!

I also wonder about the following (found on
little green footballs ) . . .

Under topic about Chechen rebels cross border -

>>>>>>>

Having witnessed & reported two possible "probing" events recently, I'm a bit more sensitive to this type of report.

In July I witnessed three young 'middle eastern' looking men - walking together, no female companions or children - no conversation - they shouldered several cameras with sophisticated lenses - one fella was photographing the atrium ceiling of the Gaylord Opryland Resort.

Then in late August, my family encountered an earily similar flight incident (similar to article) on Jet Blue this summer.

this was a BS scare story from the most credible paper... the washington times give me a break. do people actually take the garbage that is printed in there as truth? it really shocks me that conservatives can embrace a paper owned by a cult leader.

October 14, 2004
Explosion at ammo storage in Tenn.?
Explosion at a refinery in Calf?
25 Chechens [white terrorist] links to Islamic Terrorist enter the USA by Mexico? Why does no one talk about the Verona papers?
Kerry people say good-by to FREE speech if they win? Kerry’s people Break arm of GOP worker in Fla.?
Wine country on fire yesterday in Calf? Could this be Islamic Terrorist who hate drink or make a distraction?
IAEA worried about Mac’s missing in Iraq that can be use to make an atom bomb? How can this be I thought they had nothing?
Lava @ Mt. St. Helens flows? How can this be the science-ist said they thought it was over they had no clue so what does this mean about global warming?
USA & Iraqi are Killing Islamic Terrorist!! New mas graves found in Iraq women and Children shot in the head?

Seams on the Afghan border they killed those who Kidnapped the Chinese science-ist who worked on missiles? ? What were they doing there?

Iraqi Ambassador to the USA says that they can’t train 125,000 by the end of the year? Is she saying that the Iraqi People are just to stupid? I mean look at how many Americans Were trained in 6 weeks in WW2? Thought saddam had all this army trained? Don’t they want FREEDOM they keep telling us how well read and train their pop is but they can’t fight for their on freedom?
I keep hearing all this crap! If the Iraqis want to be Free they have to help Fight for it!!!

For nearly three decades the U.S. Navy has depended on a missile designed in 1948. The MQM-8 Vandal was derived from the ramjet-powered Talos missile that protected the Navy during the Cold War. The massive missile duplicated the performance of deadly Russian anti-ship missiles, flying faster than a rifle bullet for more than 50 miles at extremely low altitude.
In 1991, the Navy canceled the replacement for the Vandal. The AQM-127 SLAT (Supersonic Low-Altitude Target) project was terminated because of climbing costs and long delays. The move left the Navy with a limited inventory of usable Vandal missiles to act as realistic targets.
In 1992, the Clinton administration took over and three years passed before a replacement for the aging Vandal was selected. However, President Clinton decided to purchase a Russian-made missile for the U.S. Navy.
The Clinton decision came after Vice President Al Gore tripped to Moscow in 1995 and shook hands with Russian leaders. As a result of U.S.-Russian politics, the Navy was stuck with the Zvezda-Strela MA-31 – a derivative of Zvezda's Kh-31 NATO, code name "Krypton," anti-ship missile.
Yet the Russian Krypton was not ready. It required more money and lots of additional development to turn it into an operational weapon. Thus, the Clinton administration gave U.S. defense dollars to Moscow.
In 1995, according to the official U.S. Navy documentation, McDonnell Douglas proceeded under Clinton administration orders to help Russia develop the Krypton missile as part of a U.S. Navy target drone project. The catch: The missile did not work, was highly dangerous to fire and needed improvement to meet the specifications.
U.S. Improves Russian Missiles
According to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, U.S. Navy and McDonnell Douglas engineers suggested a series of "P3I," or "pre-planned product improvements," to extend the range of the Krypton, improve its flight performance and enable jet fighters to safely fire the weapon without blowing up.
"The MA-31 [Krypton] target will need P3I [pre-planned product improvements] in order to meet the range and ground/surface launch requirements for the Supersonic Sea Skimming Target program (SSST). The range of the MA-31 target in its FCT configuration is approximately 15 nm [nautical miles] at low altitude," states the 1995 review document.
According to the 1995 McDonnell Douglas review, one "extended range option" given to the Russian contractor Zvezda "adds an auxiliary fuel tank, a reduced drag nose cone, changes the fuel to JP-10 (which has a higher specific energy content than the Russian fuel), and modifies the ramjet nozzle. The extended range modification is intended to increase range to approximately 42 nm [nautical miles] at 10m [meter] altitude."
Another more crucial design improvement given to Russia involved "Ground Jettison Testing" done by the U.S. defense contractor against the Russian missile. According to a 1995 program review document, the Russian-built AKY-58M missile launcher for the Krypton was fatally flawed and could destroy the firing plane.
"In three emergency jettison tests, the lanyard stayed with the launch rail instead of with the target. In all cases the booster would have been armed, and ignition could have occurred for any of several reasons," stated the 1995 report.
"MDAC [McDonnell Douglas] has determined that use of a longer lanyard and slower separation velocity would allow proper operation of the emergency jettison sequence. The problem has been turned over to the Russians for resolution," states the 1995 review document.
Russia Sells Missiles to China
Despite the lucrative deal with Washington, Russia began to market the missile on the open market as soon as the U.S. engineers worked out all the bugs. In 1999, Russia negotiated a multibillion-dollar arms deal with China for the now operational and newly improved Krypton.
One such export deal supplied the Krypton missile as part of the Russian SU-30MK fighter jet sale to China. Both the SU-30MK N-001 and the J-10 Zhemchoung radars are designed to support the advanced Zvezda Kh-31 Krypton cruise missile supplied by Russia to the People's Liberation Army Air Force.
In fact, according to the new Russian weapons pact with Beijing, China will eventually manufacture and export the improved Krypton under license to the Middle East and Asia. Ironically, the Krypton would not have been available to China without the assistance of the Clinton administration and the U.S. tax dollars sent to Moscow.
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Missile Madness
Charles R. Smith
Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004
Remember we are using the same CIA who bombed the Chinese embassy in Kosovo??
What are the Chinese doing on the border with the Talabin who just got out of Getmo??

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Sarin Nerve Agent Bomb Explodes in Iraq

Monday May 17, 2004 4:01 PM
By CHRIS TORCHIA
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent exploded near a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military said Monday. Two people were treated for ``minor exposure,'' but no serious injuries were reported.
``The Iraqi Survey Group confirmed today that a 155-millimeter artillery round containing sarin nerve agent had been found,'' said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the chief military spokesman in Iraq. ``The round had been rigged as an IED (improvised explosive device) which was discovered by a U.S. force convoy.
``A detonation occurred before the IED could be rendered inoperable. This produced a very small dispersal of agent,'' he said.
The Iraqi Survey Group is a U.S. organization whose task was to search for weapons of mass destruction after the ouster of Saddam Hussein in last year's invasion.
``The round was an old binary-type requiring the mixing of two chemical components in separate sections of the cell before the deadly agent is produced,'' Kimmitt said. ``The cell is designed to work after being fired from an artillery piece.''
He said the dispersal of the nerve agent from a device such as the homemade bomb is ``limited.''
``The former regime had declared all such rounds destroyed before the 1991 Gulf War,'' Kimmitt said. ``Two explosive ordinance team members were treated for minor exposure to nerve agent as a result of the partial detonation of the round.''
In 1995, Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult unleashed sarin gas in Tokyo's subways, killing 12 people and sickening thousands. In February of this year, Japanese courts convicted the cult's former leader, Shoko Asahara, and sentence him to be executed.
Developed in the mid-1930s by Nazi scientists, a single drop of sarin can cause quick, agonizing choking death. There are no known instances of the Nazis actually using the gas.
Nerve gases work by inhibiting key enzymes in the nervous system, blocking their transmission. Small exposures can be treated with antidotes, if administered quickly.
Antidotes to nerve gases similar to sarin are so effective that top poison gas researchers predict they eventually will cease to be a war threat.

Just a reminder and think of all the drugs that make it in this country now look at what the Democrats have done to dumb down what the American People hear??

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Newly declassified documents show that President Bill Clinton personally approved the transfer to China of advanced space technology that can be used for nuclear combat.
The documents show that in 1996 Clinton approved the export of radiation hardened chip sets to China. The specialized chips are necessary for fighting a nuclear war.
"Waivers may be granted upon a national interest determination," states a Commerce Department document titled "U.S. Sanctions on China."
"The President has approved a series of satellite related waivers in recent months, most recently in November, 1996 for export of radiation hardened chip sets for a Chinese meteorological satellite," noted the Commerce Department documents.
These special computer chips are designed to function while being bombarded by intense radiation. Radiation hardened chips are considered critical for atomic warfare and are required by advanced nuclear tipped missiles.
Judicial Watch obtained the documents through the Freedom of Information Act, a Washington-based political watchdog group.
Several documents were withheld from release by the U.S. Commerce Department for commercial and personal privacy exemptions, but none of the documents were withheld for national security reasons. Judicial Watch is expected to appeal the withholdings.
Decade of Betrayal
U.S. intelligence sources stated that the newly released documents illustrate the extent to which the Clinton White House placed trade – and trade with China specifically – above national security.
"In all likelihood we will be glowing in the dark before we discover the true extent of the Clinton decade of betrayal," stated Rick Fisher, Asian Security Fellow at the Center for Security Policy.
"If it was indeed intended for a new PRC weather satellite, then it is possible that it was used for their new polar orbit weather satellites. This is significant because the Chinese themselves acknowledge that their polar orbit weather satellites directly contribute to their long-range missile targeting capability. This becomes even more important for their new smaller but more accurate warheads, used on their new DF-31, DF-31A, DF-5 Mod2 and JL-2 missiles. If they encounter significant weather, warhead accuracy degrades, reducing their utility," stated Fisher.
"Inasmuch as similar U.S. military weather satellites perform the same missions, the Clinton Administration had to have known they were assisting a PLA strategic military capability," concluded Fisher.
In addition, the Chinese military is clearly interested in acquiring advanced radiation hardened computer chips for its strategic nuclear arsenal.
U.S. Chips for PRC Nukes
Currently, China has only liquid fueled, long-range missiles, and the majority of them are based inside underground silos. These long-range rockets are reported to be "bore-sighted" – meaning the underground silos are aimed directly at target cities inside the United States.
The Chinese army is now attempting to shift its strategic nuclear arsenal to a solid-fuel "launch on command" capability. These new missiles are rail- and road-mobile and require sophisticated electronic guidance systems to accurately strike their intended targets.
As part of this upgrade, the Chinese army is also modifying its nuclear warhead designs to arm new survivable missiles such as the DF-31 and JL-2. Chinese engineers are planning to equip these new missiles with MIRV technology, allowing each missile to carry multiple nuclear warheads.
Again, the U.S. radiation hardened computer chip technology is a logical addition to the reconfiguration and upgrade of Chinese nuclear weapons.
Stolen U.S. Chips
Another critical element of the Clinton-supplied waiver is the fact that it took place during an investigation of Chinese espionage into missing U.S. radiation hardened satellite chips.
In February 1996, a Chinese Long March rocket carrying a Loral Intelsat satellite failed and crashed on lift-off. The Loral Intelsat payload was badly damaged. The Chinese intended to launch the Loral satellite into deep space as they had been paid to do by Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz.
However, fate took a twisted path, and so did the Chinese rocket. The Long March rocket failed on launch and crashed into a nearby Chinese village, killing over 200 innocent civilians. The failure of the Long March allowed the U.S. to recover the sealed satellite guidance box, which revealed the control board of radiation-hardened chips was missing.
The missing board from the Loral Intelsat satellite is no mystery. It quickly became obvious that Chinese engineers removed the special electronics and kept the board for examination. The stolen Loral electronics consist of radiation hardened, encrypted telemetry chips, stored in a secure flight control box similar to those found on airliners. The NSA changed all U.S. satellite codes as a result of the stolen Loral chips, costing American taxpayers millions of dollars.
1996 Illegal Campaign Donations
Another factor involved in the November 1996 waiver issued by then-President Clinton is the fact that illegal money entered the U.S. elections from the Chinese army. The money was donated to the DNC from a variety of sources including convicted Chinagate figures John Huang, Charlie "Yah-Lin" Trie and Johnny Chung.
The 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign readily accepted much of the money from the Chinese army sources without question, and in some cases took these donations in cash. The allegations of Chinese espionage and illegal campaign donations were never investigated properly.
The successful effort by China to obtain U.S. microchip technology included espionage, sabotage and perhaps bribery. The red intelligence windfall freed the Chinese army to more accurately target American cities with atomic weapons using advanced U.S technology.
The legacy that President Clinton left for the 21st century is a modern Chinese army equipped for global nuclear war.
Clinton Gave China Chips for Nuclear War
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Charles R. Smith
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2003

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PS
Remember they said it was all about sex?
What do you think Kerry will do he is more of a Lib???

I don't lnow if everyone else agrees with this, but I think it's time, past time for the National Guard to take over the Mexican border enforcement.

The numbers of illegals coming across the border are unacceptable. This Chechen Muslim entry report is veryt bothersome. Something, besides American culture, has to give.

Posted by: DCWatson at October 14, 2004 10:11 AM

No we don't need the military we give the Old folks in moterhomes to line up on the border and give them a line of fire a line that is crossed and they shot for cig.s and drugs and beer and big screen TV I'm sure the Old Americans will want to help when they find out they lose their Doc. because of all the Hospitals who have to treat the illegals first they will be mad enough to Fight again!!
OH YEA they are already there and Armed!

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PS
If you are resgerted as an I in America you will be getting a letter from a Brit telling you how to Vote?

Don't they know that we fought a war because we don't like the way they ran this country?

catherine you have ZERO proof that those accidents are related to this false story about chechens sneaking into our borders. but what this really shows is that your a person overcome with fear and are willing to believe anything regardless of the logic or likelyhood of it being true.

I live in one of the two mountainous areas that border Mexico in AZ and found this article a bit alarmist. One range, the Huachucas near Naco and Sierra Vista AZ is bordered by Ft. Huachuca military base. The other range, the Chiricahuas running north from Douglas AZ is rugged, but covered pretty well by Border Patrol. One or two crossers might evade observation, but 25? Coming out of the mountains you hit open valleys and the people who live around here are always on the look-out for suspicious activities. I won't say it couldn't happen, but I'll say not likely. One lone Mexican ia suspect, 25 Chechens might as well be waving flags.

A question about the Middle East looking flyers' obsession with bathrooms. Don't flights dump their waste in mid-air? What mix of chemicals or bio agents could you flush down to the holding tank that might be dispersed this way?

Wow... I wonder how many border patrolmen, air marshalls, import customs inspectors, and Arabic translators could have been hired with the 200 Billion (taxpayer) dollars spent in Iraq?

Wow... I wonder how many border patrolmen, air marshalls, import customs inspectors, and Arabic translators could have been hired with the 200 Billion (taxpayer) dollars spent in Iraq?

ribo
I aint afraid I am a realist and have made no asume? Just the FACTS I like to think out of the box?

you are the one who lives in FEAR i am a spider killer not one who is afraid of them Like the Iraqi People and what seams to be also British People Here in America we just squises them or step on them there are many things going on and like I said most people dont know what is happening in the next county that is why there are 36,000 people die every year driving in cars? and how many people die of the Flue in the USA what is it over 30,000 do we stop living no??

But when you imform the people of the trains and other things little though they may seam they do add up? and by adding them up maybe we can save our country before there is no inferstructure!!

so ribo you are the one with your head in the sand not me I am in a short skirt hair washed and down and locked and loaded!!

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no you are not a realist a realist would be able to distinguish what is true and what is being used as a tool to drive fear. you post false information and believe things with the least shred of proof only because it confirms your fear even though its not true.

oh and one final thought that is off subject. was it this site that was up in arms over the allegations of UN trucks being used to carry missles by the palistinians? well that story was debunked by the israelis as false just further strengthens my argument that you guys are way to quick to make judgements and seem to lack and rational ability to discern the truth.

here is the article where the IDF debunks the allegation about un trucks carrying missiles

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/487866.html

read it....

ribo
are you trying to tell me the refinery in calf. didn't catch fire?

are you trying to tell me that the ammo storage in TNN didn't blow up?
or the two Churches didn't burn down in TNN?
or are you trying to tell me that the Islamic terrorist who was caught with a bomb in his SUV in TNN didnt happen?

Or are you trying to tell me that Calf wine country is not on fire?

are you trying to tell me that this moring that 2 robers who crashed a U-haul didn't run in a Clac. ele.School??

I don't get your point?

Seams that the Lib Democrats talked about not connected the dots but if you aint got the dots how can you connect them??

As far as the OTM on the Mexican Border the TX report said that their are over 20,000 OTM missing so this is how they probley know of the 25 they had been caught and reliced to come back to court and didn't show up?? Seams that the LIB Democrats don't let us hold these MONSTERS NO MATER WHAT COUNTRY THEY COME FROM??

and in 2000 we were catching 100,000 illegals coming across AZ alone no one seams to care You bet we are catching OTM's but the Press is more conserned to be on the side of the Democrats and want this country hit again to bring down Bush?

the People see it different Just look at how many people showed up in L.V. to see the President bet there was over 20,000

OH!YEA are you trying to tell me the poll [done by CAIR] that says 76% of mulsum Americans are going to vote for J.Kerry??

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RIBO
NO BUT IF YOU READ THIS STORY YOU WILL SEE THE un DOING WHAT IT CAN TO HELP PALI GUNMEN?
אמבולנס אונר"א כ"שירות מוניות" לפינוי מחבלים חמושים משדה הקרב בשכונת זייתון שבעזה
המקור: צפייה בכתבה של "ערוץ 10"
המשך ללקט המידע שהופץ ב- 18 במאי 2004.

FINS THIS STORY AND YOU WILL SEE FOR YOURSELF CAUGHT IN THE ACT? AND ON FILM jw DID A STORY AND HAS THE LINK AND Pictures!!

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DC:

Don't hold your breath waiting to see any National Guard troops patrolling the border. Trust me when I say we've pretty much reached the bottom of that particular barrel.

I'm down in Louisiana right now watching one of their so-called "enhanced" brigades as it bumbles its way through a Mission Rehearsal Exercise.

All I can say is, I'm glad they're going to be halfway around the world when they issue those clowns their live ammo...

Welcome back LOBO!!!!

here is what Ribo would like for our country along with others who would like to see an open border policy.

This about immigration.

Please take the time to look at it.

Exposing the Open-Borders Arguments
By Lawrence Auster
FrontPageMagazine.com | October 14, 2004

Anyone who has followed or participated in America's long‑running immigration debate knows that opposing the open‑immigration ideology is like wrestling with Proteus: as soon as you think you have your adversary pinned, he changes his shape, maybe into a bird or sea‑monster, and escapes your grasp. As a result of this mercurial quality of the open-borders arguments, there never seems to be any closure in the immigration debate, even on the most obvious and irrefutable points.

For example, one of the perennial assertions of open‑borders wisdom is that "current immigration is not high by historical standards," a plausible‑sounding statement that has the effect on many people of sweeping away, or at least of silencing, all doubts they may have on the subject. But as a matter of fact the statement is untrue, because the "historical standards" it refers to are based on just two decades of exceptionally high immigration at the turn of the twentieth century. It is also irrelevant, since large‑scale immigration in the past tells us nothing about how much immigration we should have today. But no matter how many times the "not high by historical standards" slogan is discredited, the open-immigration advocates will just turn around and say that America is a nation of immigrants, or that immigration is a historical force that cannot be stopped, or that immigration restrictionists are intolerant and racist. And as soon as the next opportunity presents itself, the mass-immigration advocates will come back and repeat the argument that "immigration is not high by historical standards," and with the same triumphant, conclusory air.

It is not only immigration reform activists who find themselves discouraged at times by the inexhaustible energy (backed by the seemingly inexhaustible funds) of the open-borders lobby. A large majority of Americans are deeply troubled by current immigration and would like to see it reduced, but they are perplexed and intimidated by the never‑ending stream of clichés, myths, catch‑phrases and fallacies, disseminated by the news media, the political parties, and other powerful institutions, that are used to promote it. In this article, which is adapted from a longer work, I will examine a few of these slogans. The discussion will not be systematic. Think of it rather as an attempt to pin the open‑borders Proteus to the ground even as he keeps changing his shape before our eyes. Or think of it as a series of forays against the outposts of an occupying army, in which I will seek to expose the false premises, the deceptive assertions, the illogical leaps of thought, and the brain‑numbing sentiments by which the open immigrationists have kept America in thrall.

In doing so, I will make no attempt at "balance." Since immigration is a vast phenomenon involving millions of human beings, it would be astonishing if there were not many good and wonderful things to be said about it. And these things have, of course, been said for many years, but in such emotional and all‑embracing terms that they paralyze critical thought. Since the American mind is already soaked with open‑borders clichés, true balance only requires us to show how those clichés are wrong.

The idea of "balance" (so beloved—in theory!—by the news media) is supposed to mean that the pros and cons of any issue must be given a formulaic equal weight, regardless of their inherent merits. To get an idea of how misleading and dangerous this notion can be, consider the following statements:

‑ "Third‑World immigrants are not assimilating."

‑ "Third‑World immigrants are assimilating."

Let us imagine that we accept the first statement (that Third-World immigrants are not assimilating) and radically reduce immigration. If it turns out to be wrong, no permanent harm will have been done to the country. But if we accept the second proposition (that the immigrants are assimilating) and continue our current immigration policy, and if that statement turns out to be wrong, we will have irretrievably damaged the country. Thus the two statements are not of equal importance. To put it another way, if it is true that many immigrants are not assimilating, that fact would not be "balanced" by the fact that other immigrants are assimilating, since the net effect of immigration is to introduce a non‑assimilating population into this country.

Another specious "balancing" device used by immigration proponents is the non sequitur, in which some negative fact about immigration is countered by some positive—but wholly unrelated—fact about immigration. For example, if you say that "Immigration is balkanizing America," you're likely to hear responses such as these:

‑ "Hispanic immigrants are better workers than blacks."

‑ "Diversity enriches us."

‑ "Immigrants are needed to fill jobs."

‑ "Immigrants strengthen the economy."

‑ "Immigrants bring good family values."

Even if all of those assertions were true, they would be completely beside the point. If you learned that a glass of milk you were about to drink contained an ingredient that would make you seriously ill, the fact that the milk also contained lots of vitamins and minerals would not matter to you. Similarly, if current immigration is causing irreversible harm to our country, then the fact that immigration may also provide some benefits is irrelevant. It is the total impact of immigration that matters. Immigration proponents who stress the positive, transient effects of immigration while ignoring the negative, irreversible consequences are engaged in a dangerous con game.

In the same way, it is dishonest to stress the "desirable" immigrants while ignoring the "undesirable" ones. Joel Kotkin, an open‑borders enthusiast, once wrote that "already roughly one‑quarter of all new immigrants possess professional or technical backgrounds, compared to only 15 percent of our overall population."(1) But what about the other 75 percent of immigrants who are not skilled? As Dan Stein of the Federation for American Immigration Reform pointed out:

[N]early 50 percent of all immigrants are working in the low‑skilled category, a much higher percentage than is found in the U.S. labor force as a whole.... Joel Kotkin has conveniently manipulated statistics to show a supposedly cost‑free boon from immigration in the 25 percent, while virtually ignoring the impact and implications of the other 75 percent. That's not fair.(2)

It may not be fair, but it is typical of the deceitful manner in which immigrationists have conducted the debate. Writing in the pro‑open borders Wall Street Journal some years ago, author George Gilder denounced proposed cuts in legal immigration because a tiny number of recent immigrants (the ones he mentioned were all from Europe or East Asia) were scientific "geniuses" who had made valuable contributions to U.S. industry, particularly in the computer field. "A decision to cut back legal immigration today, as Congress is contemplating, is a decision to wreck the key element of the American technological miracle," Gilder wrote.(3) But how did the acquisition of a few talented inventors justify the continued immigration of a million Third‑World people per year, most of whom were low‑skilled and poorly educated? Gilder didn't expect his readers to ask that question. He just wanted them to get so excited about all those immigrant "geniuses" that they would reject any immigration restrictions. Which, by the way, is exactly what the Republican‑controlled Congress did a few months after Gilder's article was published.

Far from raising American intelligence, as Gilder claims it will do, continued Third‑World immigration will result in a serious decline in American skill levels over the coming century. In the sort of frank analysis of American racial and cultural problems that seems to come only from foreigners, Japanese economist Yuji Aida has argued that it will be very difficult for America to remain a leading industrial power if Hispanics and blacks at their current skill levels become the majority in this country:

Do blacks and Hispanics, for instance, have the skills and knowledge to run an advanced industrial economy? If the answer is yes, America will maintain its vitality through the next century and beyond. But I'm skeptical.

To compete in a high‑tech age dominated by microelectronics requires a disciplined, well‑trained labor force. Brilliant inventors and innovative engineers are not enough. [Italics added]. Workers themselves must be highly motivated and equipped to meet the stringent norms of standardization imposed by precision‑perfect high‑tech manufacturing.

Blue‑collar employees have to work steadily, day in and day out, at jobs requiring great concentration and manual dexterity. They must continually hone skills and improve personal performance and products through quality control.

Unfortunately, relatively few national groups meet these exacting requirements. I doubt that many African or Latin American countries, for instance, will become high‑tech societies in the foreseeable future.... [T]he experience of the last 500 years leaves little room for hope. Blacks and Hispanics will not be able to run a complex industrial society like the United States unless they dramatically raise their sights and standards in the next 40 years.

Burdened with a handicap of this magnitude, how will the United States cope?(4)

How indeed? Aida suggests that as the United States becomes increasingly Third-World it will have no choice but to employ its vast low‑skilled population in agriculture. America will thus become "a premier agrarian power ... the breadbasket of the world," while ceasing to be a great industrial power.

A brutal prognosis such as Aida's—which does not evade reality by means of slogans and non sequiturs, but instead calculates the ultimate costs of mass Third-World immigration—appears in the U.S. media only at rare intervals, while every day America's elites keep spreading their unceasing barrage of propaganda about the wondrous benefits of immigration, the absence of any harm from immigration, and the immorality of opposing it. In this article, let us begin to redress the imbalance somewhat.
The Economic Argument

The prevailing view of immigration among mainstream elites is that it represents a great boon to the economy. That immigration is only to be considered from the standpoint of its economic effects has become such an accepted notion over the past 25 years that it has not occurred to many people what a bizarre idea it really is. The implication is that our well‑being as a society is solely a function of economic output. Matters of quality of life, social cohesion and continuity, aesthetic enjoyment, political liberty, national identity, and all the other intangibles that make up the life of a society—since these cannot be stated statistically, they don't count. Or so the economists seem to believe. The late Julian Simon, with his crack‑pated idea that every immigrant, regardless of his cultural origin, level of education, or legal status, represents a net economic gain for this country, was the most extreme of these "economystics."

Notwithstanding the veneer of scientific expertise with which its claims are advanced, the economystic faith boils down to an almost vacuous proposition: immigration is good because it increases population, and thus (assuming more economic output from more people) proportionately increases gross product. A doubling or tripling of the U.S. population will lead to a doubling or tripling of economic output. Voilà—immigration makes us a "wealthier" nation! One of the problems with this logic is that individual wealth does not necessarily increase, only the aggregate wealth. Meanwhile, our congested coastal and metropolitan areas have become two or three times more crowded. Pressure on open spaces and parks, stress on resources (increasing the need for burdensome regulations), crippling traffic congestion, displacement of older residents, as well as ethnic conflict, all become worse. Even as economic output goes up, overall quality of life can decline. But the economystic cannot see these things because for him the only reality is that which can be stated in economic terms.

For the economystic, the swelling of Los Angeles due to immigration has been a wonderful thing. According to the Los Angeles Times, "Development policies over the last decade have sought to make the Los Angeles area the magnet of the burgeoning Pacific Rim economy. The region's growth has been phenomenal, as measured by trade revenues, number of building permits issued and aggregate income." Sounds great, right? But the article continued: "The success of Los Angeles' integration into the international economy, however, is not matched by success in integrating its immigrant and ethnic minority populations." The article then discussed the uncontrolled ethnic rivalry and violence in this new "world‑class" city of Los Angeles.(5)

In other words, the great economic growth of Los Angeles has not necessarily been a boon for the people living there. By most standards, Los Angeles over the last 30 years has become an immeasurably worse place to live in as a direct result of the very things that have led to the growth of its aggregate wealth. The economystic cannot see this. He looks at a table of statistics, notices the upward trend in population and aggregate income, and rushes into print telling us how immigration is turning America into an earthly paradise.

The deeper problem with economism is that no true values, including the values of a distinct political system, culture and way of life, can be comprehended in economic or utilitarian terms. Solely on the basis of measurable, quantifiable, pragmatic facts it is impossible to preserve any society or institution, even so basic an institution as the nuclear family.

Suppose there were two families, the Smiths and the Joneses, living next door to each other. The two families get along, the children play together, the parents occasionally socialize with each other. Then one day the Joneses announce that they want to move in permanently with the Smiths. When the Smiths seem less than enthusiastic about this proposal, the Joneses say: "What's your problem? You have enough room, your house is bigger than ours, and we get along together. Besides, the nuclear family is only a modern invention. A dual family will enrich all of us." To back up these claims, the Joneses bring in an economist who says that two‑family households have larger aggregate wealth than one‑family households. They bring in a sociologist who cites studies showing that the children raised in two‑family households have superior abilities in adjusting to different types of people in a diverse society. Faced with this aggressive challenge to their existence as a family, what can the Smiths say? Their family, as a unique, autonomous association, is an intrinsic, irreplaceable value to its members. It cannot be defended on the basis of quantifiable facts. In the same way, the nation is a family whose distinct character and values cannot be defended on a purely rationalistic basis. To insist that it do so is to deny its right to exist.

Now that we've considered some of the underlying problems with economism, let us look at some claims that have been made about the economic benefits of immigration and its "vitalizing" impact on society.

"Academy's Report Says Immigration Benefits the U.S."

This was the way the New York Times, in a front page headline, characterized a 1997 report on immigration by the National Academy of Sciences. But as Dan Stein pointed out in a letter to the Times, all that this "benefit" amounted to was a $10 billion annual increase in gross national product in a $7 trillion economy—an increase of one‑seventh of one percent. When balanced against the substantial costs of immigration, such as downward pressure on wages, disastrous population growth in southern California and elsewhere, and increasing welfare and tax burdens on state and local governments, this "benefit" disappeared.

"We need smart Asians to fill high‑skill jobs in engineering and the sciences because Americans are not going into those fields."

Although the argument sounds hard‑nosed and realistic, relying on a constant supply of high‑skilled immigrants has the somewhat the same effect on a society that welfare dependency has on an individual: it destroys the need and incentive to become independent. It is an escape from reality, shielding us from the painful fact that we are failing to prepare our own citizens to carry on our civilization. If we stopped concealing that failure from ourselves, we would be forced to respond to it in a serious way, doing whatever was necessary to remain a self‑sustaining society.

We must also point out that the supposed shortage of American scientists and engineers has been overblown. Because of immigrant competition, many American science graduates have been unable to find work in their fields and have been forced to defer their careers or go into other fields, as reported in the New York Times.(6) Far from "saving" us, low‑wage immigrant engineers and scientists are depriving many Americans of rewarding careers.

"If we didn't have immigrants doing all kinds of jobs in America today, there would be nobody to do them."

As Roy Beck demonstrated in his powerful account of American workers displaced by immigration, this widely believed idea is empirically false. It is also based on a false assumption.(7) The assumption is that the American economy could only have developed in one way, with lots of immigrants coming here and taking lots of jobs. Therefore, the thinking goes, without the immigrants there would have been no one else to do those jobs and the economy would have been crippled. In fact, most of those jobs only exist because of immigrants. We can illustrate this by means of a thought experiment. Imagine that back in the late nineteenth century there had been no Chinese Exclusion Act, and that large numbers of Chinese had continued to settle in California after 1882. Over the following decades, the Chinese would have filled all kinds of existing jobs in the California economy, and would also have created new types of businesses and employment niches that hadn't existed before. Let us imagine further that in 1920 Californians began to call for immigration restrictions against the Chinese. The pro‑immigration lobby in our fictional 1920 (using the same arguments that the pro‑immigration lobby uses today) would have replied: "Without Chinese immigrants here, who would have done all these jobs?" The truth, of course, is that the Chinese in our imaginary 1920 are doing all those jobs only because they had come to America in the first place. Had there been no Chinese immigrants between 1882 and 1920, which was the actual case in the actual 1882‑1920 period, California would have done just fine, as it in fact did.

From this we derive a maxim: Large‑scale immigration creates the illusion of its own indispensability.

"Even if immigrants are not needed in all fields, we need immigrants for low‑status, low‑paying jobs that Americans are no longer willing to do, such as work in fast‑food restaurants and hotels."

Once again, immigration creates the illusion of its own indispensability. The predominance of immigrant employees in the hotel industry in some major cities creates the impression that without immigrants there would be no one to do those jobs. But if true, how is it that in low‑immigrant regions of the country, such as the Midwest, hotels are staffed quite adequately by Americans?

Immigration restrictionist and California radio host Terry Anderson, a black who once worked as a self‑employed mechanic, has made a similar observation:

Pro‑immigrant groups say the jobs immigrants are taking are jobs that black Americans don't want. Why is it then, that when you go outside Southern California or Texas—to Phoenix, say, or Washington—you see black people holding the same jobs they used to hold here in Los Angeles? Black people want to work. But the jobs they used to have, paying $5 to $7 an hour for unskilled labor, now go to immigrants for $3 an hour.(8)

As for fast‑food restaurants, a major factor in the growth of that industry has been the increasing number of low‑skilled people, many of them immigrants, who have made industries based on a low‑skilled work force a more viable investment. Entrepreneurs choose businesses based partly on the skills of the available labor market. If we had had a more highly educated labor force, entrepreneurs would have developed more of the kinds of businesses that use highly‑skilled workers instead of low‑skilled workers. Instead of the multiplication of fast‑food restaurants across the land, which has not exactly raised the quality of American life, we might have had a greater number of real restaurants with real cooks and waiters serving real food.

"Tighter restrictions on immigration will not be the answer. On the contrary, high levels of immigration to the United States will be necessary into the next century, if for no other reason than to provide enough working men and women to support our aging population."

The flaw in this argument—which was made by Michael Lind and Mark Lagon in the neoconservative journal Policy Review—is that the same immigrants whose taxes are expected to support aging whites will also grow old (obviously) and require old‑age assistance themselves. Indeed, the average age of immigrants is only a little lower than that of the native population. By bringing in so many immigrants, we are simply augmenting the dependent elderly population of the future, which will make it necessary to bring in even more immigrants to support them.

Michael Lind himself eventually conceded that his position was wrong. Financing retirees through immigration, he declared in a letter to National Review, is an "unworkable Ponzi scheme," since "the immigrants brought in to pay for Social Security would require even more immigrants when they retire, and so on ad infinitum." Adding that mass immigration intensifies competition for jobs and lowers wages, Lind concluded: "Mark Lagon and I were wrong. . . . Tighter restrictions on immigration are the answer."(9)

There are other problems with the notion that young immigrants will supply the government revenues to support older Americans. First, under our family‑oriented immigration laws, many immigrants are already old, and begin collecting public assistance as soon as they enter the country. Second, the average educational level of younger immigrants has been steadily dropping; it is unlikely that immigrants with a fifth grade education will contribute much to government revenues. Third, an "aging" population is not a crisis but is simply the natural result of population stabilization. As a Canadian writer pointed out, "European countries already have the high percentage of older people that Canada (and the U.S.) will have in the next century and they are doing fine. Even with ordinary increases in productivity the whole question of supporting an aging population just disappears."(10)

"Immigrants are revitalizing our cities."

In fact, upwardly mobile immigrants are bypassing the cities and heading straight to the suburbs. According to U.S. News & World Report, immigrants

have turned once‑depressed urban neighborhoods into thriving ethnic enclaves. But healthy cities need a middle class, and ... today's immigrants, upon reaching middle‑class status, tend to move to the suburbs. Many of those who remain are political refugees with fairly high rates of welfare dependency. The revitalization claim also ignores another problem: gang crime. Today police in Chicago are fighting not just black and Hispanic gangs but Greek, Filipino, Assyrian, Chinese, Cambodian and Vietnamese gangs.(11)

So it is not necessarily true that immigrants are "re‑energizing" the cities, whatever that means. Indeed, such "revitalization" was only needed because middle‑class whites had left the cities to get away from an increasingly alien populace made up of immigrants and the urban underclass. Immigration is not so much replenishing depopulated cities as it is forcing many Americans to leave cities where they would have otherwise preferred to stay. When immigrants move on to the suburbs, whites move to more distant parts of the country. Many blacks have also been leaving immigration‑affected areas and moving back to the South. As far as white (and black) America is concerned, there is no revitalization in this process, there is only displacement.

Besides, what do people really mean when they say that a city is being "energized?" "Energy"—which is always presented as an unquestioned good—is one of those reductive concepts, like economic growth, that ignore intangible values such as the quality of life, the level of a culture, the cohesiveness of a society. Surely the cities of China—with their fearsome pollution and their streets jammed with humanity day and night—have fantastic amounts of "energy." Does that mean that Americans would be better off if their cities become "energetic" like China's? Stretching for three miles through Manhattan's Harlem Heights and Washington Heights, upper Broadway with its largely Dominican population has abundant "energy"—block after block of tacky stores, cheap wares being sold from bins on the sidewalk, people sitting in chairs on the sidewalk and otherwise milling about, and the incessant sound of boom boxes from passing cars. Such "energy" may be normal and healthy in the context of Caribbean cultures, but is it desirable from the point of view of Western civilization? Accompanying the famous Latino exuberance are low levels of standards, infrastructure and social order that are incompatible with North American society.

There is yet another kind of "energy" that is applauded by the immigrationists—the "energy" produced by ethnic diversity. True, the psychic stress and the unresolvable cultural conflicts generated by the squeezing together of totally unrelated peoples in a city such as New York or Los Angeles do provide a sort of "energy"—but it is an "energy" that most people flee if they can, which explains the middle‑class exodus from areas with high concentrations of immigrants.

Thus, when people speak of America's being "energized," what they mean in many cases is that America is being Third‑Worldized. If we had never acquired all that Third‑World energy, American cities would have remained more attractive to Americans, and would not have required the continual influx of foreigners to maintain their population base.

"Without immigration, the U.S. population will decline because of low native birthrates."

Immigration does not "replenish" a country's population, it replaces it. American history is instructive on this point. Between 1790 and 1830, a period in which the total number of immigrants was about 385,000, or under 10,000 per year, the U.S. population increased by an astonishing nine million (from 3.9 million in 1790 to 12.9 million in 1830). This tripling was due mainly to the natural increase of the 1790 population, not to immigration. As population expert Francis A. Walker noted in a famous essay published in 1891, this very high native birthrate dropped subsequent to the upward turn of immigration after 1830 and the even sharper increase of immigration after 1840. The reason for this, Walker argued, was that immigrants lowered living standards, wage levels, and working conditions, which resulted in reduced prospects for the native population, which made having large families less attractive. Immigration thus caused a drop in the native birthrate, replacing those lost native births with immigrants.(12) The same effect of mass immigration on wages and working conditions is clearly in operation today, along with the same effect on the native birthrate.

Another factor related to America's changing ethnic composition which is pushing down the native birth rate has been the deterioration of the public schools. In earlier decades, when New York was still a white majority city, middle‑class parents sent their children to New York's excellent public schools. But today's public schools, dominated by blacks and Hispanics along with a continuing influx of Third‑World immigrants, have sunk to an academic and behavioral level that is unacceptable to most whites. Some years ago a professional Manhattan couple of my acquaintance sent their two sons to private school, at an annual cost of $12,000 each. They had wanted to have more children, but the cost of schooling made a larger family economically prohibitive for them. The swelling nonwhite population has a direct negative impact on the ability of middle‑class whites to raise families. Immigration is not strengthening the American people—it is weakening and replacing them.

Immigration also has psychological effects that tend to lower the native birthrate. As Virginia Abernethy has argued in Population Politics, fertility rises when people feel hopeful about the future, and declines when they are pessimistic about the future. It is a remarkable fact that women emigrating from Third‑World countries to the United States, where they perceive that their prospects are much improved, have more children than their countrywomen who stay at home. Conversely, whites in an increasingly Third‑World America, where they foresee a less promising future for themselves and their children, are having fewer children than they would otherwise have done.

The surest way to raise the native birth rate back up to replacement level is to reduce immigration drastically. We do not need an ever‑expanding population in this country, as the growth ideologues believe. Our long‑term prospects for environmental sustainability, cultural cohesion, political freedom, and a high quality of life will be much improved if our population were stabilized at the current 280 million (or at a lower number), instead of doubling to half a billion over the coming century and doubling again in the century after that, which is what will happen if immigration continues at current rates.

"Immigration makes society dynamic."

Mass immigration, especially culturally diverse mass immigration, creates turmoil and disruption, but that's not necessarily the same thing as dynamism. Was America not dynamic from the early 1920s to the mid 1960s, when immigration was low and largely restricted to Northern Europeans? Is not Japan—with no immigration at all—one of the most dynamic and confident societies on earth? Some economists predict that Japan with its cohesive and high-morale society is poised to surpass an increasingly troubled and divided United States in coming years.

Sustained vitality—as distinct from the overheated frenzy of a society that expands like a balloon until it explodes—requires demographic and cultural stability, strong and self‑supporting families, abiding moral traditions, and the values that lead to productive enterprise. A culturally fragmented, ethnically conflicted, demoralized, low‑skilled, Third‑World America won't be dynamic. As political scientist James Kurth has pointed out, the most dynamic nations in this new century will be those that maintain their internal cultural cohesion, and thus their ability to be effective actors on the world stage. The societies that become multicultural, ceasing to be nations, will find themselves unable to act in a coherent fashion, and will join the ranks of the "acted‑upon."(13)

This, by the way, is why a furor was sparked in Europe this past summer when Islam scholar Bernard Lewis told a German newspaper that Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century. Asked whether the European Union could serve as a global counterweight to the United States, Lewis replied, “No,” adding that he saw only three countries as potential “global” players: China, India, and Russia. “Europe,” he noted matter-of-factly, “will be part of the Arabic west, of the Maghreb.” Significantly, Lewis was not warning about any loss of European culture stemming from the increasing numbers and influence of Muslim immigrants. If he had been talking about such things, the EU elites would probably have ignored him, for the simple reason that they do not care about their historic civilization and the manifest threat Islam poses to it. The EU types are not concerned about the Islamic threat to European culture, because to destroy that culture is the agenda of the EU itself. What they do care about is the expansion of the EU's bureaucratic and transnational power and its ability to play a leading role on the world stage, and that was what Lewis said is doomed by Islamization.

However, given the fact that Third-World immigration is also weakening and dividing America, though less slowly than Western Europe, the EU doesn't need to worry too much about serving as a counterweight to the American "hyperpower"; all it needs to do is wait for America to follow Europe into the "acted-upon" status.

In light of this analysis, it is an amazing irony that the people who are most desirous of maintaining and expanding America's role as a global hegemon—namely the neoconservatives—support immigration policies that are turning America into a self‑conflicted, multicultural hodgepodge.

"Immigrants strengthen America."

Military conquest is not the only way that countries lose their freedom. Throughout history, nations have inadvertently lost their independence by asking other nations to help them meet some challenge that they couldn't handle themselves. Depending on the kindness of strangers may yield short‑term benefits, but it further weakens the host nation. Sensing that weakness, the guests soon drop all pretense of being guests and take over.

Sometimes the help sought from foreigners has been military. The ancient Greeks asked the Romans, the Romans asked the Visigoths, the Celtic Britons asked the Anglo‑Saxons, to help them ward off their respective enemies, and in each case the helpful ally soon became the ruler. Sometimes the help is economic. The Romans after they gained their empire imported a vast population of foreigners into Italy as artisans, merchants, servants, slaves, and soldiers, and as a result the old Romans and their culture were gradually marginalized. In the twentieth century Indians were brought to the island nation of Fiji to work as merchants and civil servants, and within a few decades the Indians had taken majority control of the island away from the Fijians. The American South imported African slaves, and today the descendants of those slaves are busy dismantling whatever remains of the symbols and traditions of their former masters. In each case the host people initially congratulates itself for its cleverness in getting foreigners to fight its enemies, perform its hard labor, care for its children, or provide it with exotic cuisine or inexpensive produce. And in each case the host people ends up losing control over its own country, and disappearing from the pages of history.

This is not to deny that immigrants who bring particular skills, or "cultural capital," may be of great help in building up a society, as Thomas Sowell has demonstrated in his several books on the subject of ethnicity and economics. But as Sowell himself acknowledges, the large‑scale immigration of people who are culturally distinct from the host population is a very different matter. Such immigration, he writes, "can profoundly affect the fabric of a society and even dissolve the ties that hold a nation together."(14)

To recognize the dangers of immigration is not to propose sealing America off from the world. Nevertheless, if America, or any nation, is to survive in the long run, it must maintain a basic degree of self‑sufficiency, foregoing the short‑lived luxuries both of global hegemony and of mass immigration.

This article is adapted from the first part of Lawrence Auster's pamphlet, Huddled Clichés: Exposing the Fraudulent Arguments that Have Opened America's Borders to the World, available from the AIC Foundation. Mr. Auster offers his traditionalist conservative perspective at View from the Right.

References

1. Joel Kotkin, "Europe Won't Work," The Washington Post, 9/15/91.

2. Dan Stein, letter, Washington Post, 9/30/91.

3. George Gilder, "Genuiuses from Abroad," The Wall Street Journal, 12/18/95.

4. Yuki Aida, "America's Ethnic Achilles' Heel," San Francisco Examiner, 4/9/91.

5. Halford H. Fairchild and Denise G. Fairchild, "World-Class Tensions: Ethnic Rivalry Heats up Southern California," Los Angeles Times, 5/5/91.

6. "Top Graduates in Science also Put Dreams on Hold," New York Times, 6/6/93.

7. See Roy Beck, The Case against Immigration (New York: W.W. Norton), 1996.

8. Terry Anderson, "The Culture Clash in South Central L.A.," Social Contract, Fall 1996, p. 50.

9. Michael Lind, "Immigration Epiphany," letter, National Review, 3/7/94.

10. Daniel Stoffman, "Pounding at the Gates: Why Canada Must Reassess its Wide-Open Immigration Policy," Toronto Star, 9/20/92.

11. Paul Glastrus, "Thinking Straight about Immigration," U.S. News & World Report, 5/20/91.

12. Francis A. Walker, "Immigration and Degradation," in Oscar Handlin, Immigration as a Factor in American History (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959), p. 71.

13. James Kurth, "The Post-Modern State," National Interest, Summer 1992.
14. Thomas Sowell, Migrations and Cultures: A World View (New York: Basic Books, 1996), p. 387.
Posted by: susan_b [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 14, 2004 04:02 AM

When Immigrants Strengthen America - If they come

Susan, people like KeithJoy are Eager to see them come- so they can influence the election for Kerry, legal vote or no.

catherine YOU HAVE ZERO EVIDENCE that those fires, explosions, and accidents are related let alone being carried out by people with ill will or even islamic terrorists. has it maybe dawned on you that its just a pure coincidence that most of them are just accidents. catherine also you say there is footage of the missiles being loaded in the trucks correct? well that footage is what the IDF you know the israeli military has said was not accurate and false.

Susan_b, fine post. Very informative. One bit that leaped out at me was:

"In each case the host people initially congratulates itself for its cleverness in getting foreigners to fight its enemies, perform its hard labor, care for its children, or provide it with exotic cuisine or inexpensive produce. And in each case the host people ends up losing control over its own country, and disappearing from the pages of history."

We are experiencing an Islamic "5th Column" effect, designed especially to accomplish precisely this "takeover" in Europe and the U.S.

The Saudis import much of their labor, including professional, skilled and unskilled. With some clever "tweaking" of their system, perhaps we could turn the tables on them.

D'Artist says:

"A question about the Middle East looking flyers' obsession with bathrooms. Don't flights dump their waste in mid-air? What mix of chemicals or bio agents could you flush down to the holding tank that might be dispersed this way?"

Could definitely be done. . . a pressure- sensitive explosive to release the chemical/biological agents at the desired altitude, calculated to go off over the desired target at the desired time... Could be done.

ribo

People like dined there is a big hole in the grown in the middle of NYC but there is so buss off little fly the swaters are comming!!

Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength and Courage to stay the course to Defeat the Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Amen

PS
Remember ribo I don't need to prove in a court of law nothing I aint no Democrat I'm a redneck!!
I can look at the tree and see that a deer has been around !

I would worry more about Chechens already in this country more that a handfull reported to be coming in.
Get on with national IDs!

Pigs r us-
You don't have to read it. I do.

Piggy,

If you don't want to take the time to read the post and actually learn something, that's your choice.

Most that come here, do so to educate themselves on what is happening here as well as the rest of the world.

Expand your mind or not.

Artist,

That's a good point about the toilets. Forgot that they do flush out into the jetstream.

There should be hidden cameras in every airplane so that these incidents could be looked at by the so-called experts. You get the feeling that they think that all these reports are just hysterical people whose imaginations have run wild. If someone had suggested the events of September 11, 2001 a few days before they happened, I wonder if they would have listened. It is time for a little bit of healthy paranoia.

Artist,

That's a good point about the toilets. Forgot that they do flush out into the jetstream.

Posted by: susan_b at October 14, 2004 05:07 PM

Thought they stopped that after they got all the cem and bio therats of course if you ride trains in the EU that is another story!!

Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA amd her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight and Courage to stay the course to Defeat the Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Amen

PS
usealy me getting picked on?LOL

Just about two months ago, in August, the very United States of America granted political asylum to a certain ILYAS AKHMADOV, a "foreign affairs' minister" of CHECHNIA. The guy resides in Washington, DC, a few blocks away of the White House.

Will you ever learn?

http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/397/13683_Akhmadov.html

awesome so can we blame the Bush administration for that?????

Slow down, do not get excited, Riboflavin - look, what your democrats installed in Europe: an islamic statelet in the Balkans

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095953/posts

The former foreign minister of Greece, Mr. Theodoros Pangalos once stated: " United States is a giant with an infant's brain".

I'm really afraid he was right ...

"The former foreign minister of Greece, Mr. Theodoros Pangalos once stated: " United States is a giant with an infant's brain."

I'm really afraid he was right ...

Sad, but the giant is run by politicians that don't give a crap about their own citizens and are under the delusion that they are in a position to "rule the world," when in reality they have been elected to run just own country.

It's not stupidity; it's old fashioned corruption.

The trouble is and always will be that the "wee-folk" will pay their salaries and pay the consequences for their violation of the public trust -- not to mention their dereliction of oaths of office.

Don't be surprised if you discover that this Bosnian radio station was built in part with moneies from the US taxpayers!

This whole problem will be solved if we just give these Chechen murderers Bush's new "guest worker" card. That way they can enter the country, commit massacres of the innocent, and then leave on schedule. Aren't you glad the bright lights in Washington have the whole border thing under control?