Archive for April 2008

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What does the emergence of Mexifornia mean for the U.S.? What consequences are likely to arise from it?

If illegal immigration continues and we reach 30-40 million illegal residents from south of the border, who don’t fully assimilate in rapid fashion, then look at the Balkans, Rwanda, Iraq, and elsewhere for the sorts of factionalism and sectarianism we will soon experience. We are already beginning to see towns and communities in the American Southwest resort to apartheid status, where English is not spoken and Mexican nationals here illegally comprise the vast majority of the resident population.

Why is the U.S. allowing this to happen?

The libertarian/corporate Right likes cheap, exploitable labor, while the identity-politics on the Left wants more constituents. And the majority in between was asleep at the wheel for thirty years, afraid to speak out lest they be called “protectionists” and “nativists” by elites who read the Wall Street Journal and “racists” by the academic and political left.

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Statistics have finally been compiled and released by the government as to the effects illegals or undocumented aliens are having on our surffering economy and the results are shocking:

1. $90 billion per year on welfare and social services spent on illegals.

2. $2.2 billion per year on food stamps and free school lunches to

illegals.

3. $2.5 billion yearly on Medicaid for illegals.

4. $12 billion yearly on primary and secondary education for illegal students who speak no English.

5. $17 billion yearly on anchor babies born to illegals.

6. $3 million a day to incarcerate illegal criminals who now make up 30 percent of inmates in Federal prisons. Illegals have a crime rate two and a half times that of white non-illegals and last year they committed nearly 1 million sex crimes.

7. at least $200 billion in suppressed wages to Americans caused by illegals. (They take jobs at a lesser pay rate).

8. In 2005, 4-10 million illegals crossed our southern border and in 2006 illegals sent home $45 billion to their countries of origin.

9. the National Policy Institute estimates it would cost $206-$230 billion over a five-year period for a mass deportation program to fix a problem that’s costing taxpayers $124.2 billion yearly now, without taking the suppressed wage issue into account.

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Gianni Alemanno, the new right-wing mayor of Rome, has pledged to reinforce law and order and crack down on immigrants. And he says he wants to be mayor for all citizens in Rome.

Alemanno said: “This group that’s been in power for 15 years can no longer meet the needs of the city. I stood against Veltroni two years ago, when he seemed unbeatable, but in two years we reversed that. I think it’s an important sign.”

The result is a blow to former mayor of Rome from the centre-left Francesco Rutelli.

He said: “We have to seriously look into how the centre-left deals with questions related to security. Also, there’s been a demand, and maybe it’s natural, for a break after a cycle of government.”

The result in Rome comes after Berlusconi’s decisive victory over the former centre-left mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni in national polls.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators of various political stripes are expected to take to central streets Thursday for rallies and protests on the May Day holiday.

The Communists are expecting 50,000 demonstrators to gather at Kaluzhskaya Ploshchad at 10 a.m. Thursday and march to Teatralnaya Ploshchad, where Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov will address the crowd, a party spokeswoman said Monday.

The demonstration will likely feature anti-government sentiment. Several hundred activists from left-wing youth groups are expected to participate in the march, including Red Youth Vanguard, whose web site promises a “Day of Anger” with the slogan “Down With Succession to the Throne!”

President-elect Dmitry Medvedev, President Vladimir Putin’s handpicked successor, is to take office May 7.

A less confrontational rally will join together almost 30,000 activists from the pro-Kremlin party United Russia and the pro-government Federation of Independent Trade Unions, spokespeople for both organizations said.

The demonstrators will gather at Belorussky Station at 9 a.m. and march down 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya and Tverskaya Ulitsa to the Mayor’s Office, said Natalya Burtseva, a spokeswoman for United Russia’s Moscow branch.

Between 3,000 and 4,000 United Russia activists will march, Burtseva said. Around 25,000 trade unionists will participate, Mikhail Shmakov, a spokesman for the trade union federation, told Interfax.

Children will also participate in the march, which will feature banners with slogans such as, “United Russia: Together We Will Win,” Burtseva said.

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Los Angeles Police Department officials announced Tuesday that they investigated more than 300 complaints of racial profiling against officers last year and found that none had merit — a conclusion that left members of the department’s oversight commission incredulous.

It is at least the sixth consecutive year that all allegations of racial profiling against LAPD officers have been dismissed, according to department documents reviewed by The Times.

In 2007, the LAPD’s Internal Affairs Group closed 320 investigations into allegations that officers stopped, questioned or otherwise confronted someone solely because of the person’s race. Nearly 80% of the time — 252 of the cases — the claims were dismissed outright as “unfounded,” according to an annual complaint report presented Tuesday to the civilian Police Commission. In the remaining cases, there was either insufficient evidence to reach a conclusion or no misconduct was uncovered.

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Lawyers have played down fears that a test case for “reverse discrimination” being heard in London will prevent hospitality operators from employing staff based on their nationality.

A former British employee of a Korean investment bank is seeking six-figure compensation amid allegations of discrimination against non-Korean employees.

The case has sparked fears that restaurants that employ staff based on their nationality to retain the authenticity of the establishment could be forced to open up their recruitment practices.

But Nick Treppass, employment law expert and partner at Howard Kennedy, said employing staff based on their ethnicity remains protected by the Race Relations Act, although he cautioned that this only applies to certain roles.

“If there is a genuine requirement for staff based on their ethnicity, such as retaining the authenticity of an ethnic restaurant, then that is fine,” he told Caterersearch.

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The race industry and its elite enablers take it as self-evident that high black incarceration rates result from discrimination.

At a presidential primary debate this Martin Luther King Day, for instance, Sen. Barack Obama charged that blacks and whites “are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates, (and) receive very different sentences . . . for the same crime.”

Not to be outdone, Sen. Hillary Clinton promptly denounced the “disgrace of a criminal-justice system that incarcerates so many more African-Americans proportionately than whites.”

If a listener didn’t know anything about crime, such charges of disparate treatment might seem plausible.

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If the USA seems too crowded and its roads too congested now, imagine future generations: The nation’s population could more than triple to 1 billion as early as 2100.

That’s the eye-popping projection that urban and rural planners, gathered today for their annual meeting in Las Vegas, are hearing from a land-use expert.

“What do we do now to start preparing for that?” asks Arthur Nelson, co-director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech, whose analysis projects that the USA will hit the 1 billion mark sometime between 2100 and 2120. “It’s a realistic long-term challenge.”

The nation currently has almost 304 million people and is the world’s third most populous, behind China (1.3 billion) and India (1.1 billion). China passed the 1 billion mark in the early 1980s.

Nelson’s projection assumes that current fertility rates remain constant but that longevity and immigration will continue to rise.

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INDIANAPOLIS, April 28 –Crime, terrorism and dependency on scarce government dollars are some of the major reasons why the nation’s largest veterans organization is concerned about illegal immigration. So concerned, in fact, that The American Legion today began a nationwide outreach to alert Americans to the dangers posed by illegal aliens and the government’s reluctance to seriously address the issue.

Through a radio spot campaign, news releases from posts across the country, letters to newspaper editors and a concerted outreach to America’s leading media pundits, at both the national and local levels, The American Legion will offer a free booklet about illegal immigration that not only discusses the far reaching problems it is causing but also provides a cogent strategy to address the issue.

“American Legion members have served in the U.S. Armed Forces throughout the world so that Americans can feel safe at home,” said Marty Conatser, national commander. “We have seen Third World countries. We have seen poverty, political instability, disease and war. Today we see the threat that open borders present to our homeland.

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PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) - A small group of people from Hood River are interesting in making eastern Oregon its own state.

Consultant Paul Koch, 69, his partner Ernie DeRocher and DeRocher’s wife, Rita Swyers, both 82, are pushing the effort. Koch said people in Eastern Oregon are fed up with how Salem has treated them.

If they got their wish, the stateline would stretch from east of the Cascade Mountains to the Idaho border.

Koch has done consulting and strategic planning work for Milton-Freewater, Baker City, the Umatilla County Special Library District and Blue Mountain Community College.

He said during his travels around Eastern Oregon in recent years, he and his partner heard a steady theme of how the western part of the state gets all the benefits.

“We started asking people, ‘Gee, why don’t we start our own state?”‘ Koch said.

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