[Original posting in the Juan Mann Archive on VDARE.com]

The focus of VDARE.com is on immigration and the National Question. It’s a noble endeavor, but I believe it represents only one component of a much greater problem.

The root of the evil: our apparent forced march toward a "comprehensive" New World Order of regional and ultimately global government, where nation-busting mass immigration is just one part of the process.

Though hardly a recent development, the excellent recent work by Jerome R. Corsi exposing the North American Union, the Amero currency, the NAFTA Superhighway—and its Texas highway segment which is already underway—leaves little doubt that the collectivist, internationalist agenda of America’s ruling elite continues full steam ahead whether the public likes it or not.

The late Dr. Sam Francis identified this danger.

Shortly after the Mohammedan jihadist attacks of September 11, 2001, Dr. Francis wrote that a "large bucket of cold reality has been splashed into my face" by a Chicago Council on Foreign Relations poll on elite vs. public attitudes concerning mass immigration. [10/24/02 - Poll Exposes Elite-Public Clash On Immigration]

Dr. Francis wrote:

"The [Summer 2002] poll shows that there is a vast gulf between the elite and the public at large on immigration, but more than anything it also shows that if the American majority that favors reducing mass immigration because they see it as a ‘critical threat’ to themselves and their nation really wants to meet that threat, then they must first remove from power the entire class of ‘leaders’ who are unable to perceive the dangers of immigration even when its dangerous consequences literally blow them out of their own skyscrapers."

Yes, America’s ruling class already knows that America is being transformed by massive legal and illegal immigration. And they reply: so what?

They want it that way. They made the decision long ago.

The made-for-TV conflict between dueling immigration bills (S. 2611 and H.R. 4437) illustrates that the wishes of the American people—not to be transformed in their nation and displaced out of their livelihoods—only go so far in influencing the will of Congress.

In the U.S. Senate, the mass immigration fix is in. But in the people’s House of Representatives, there is hope . . . well, at least a glimmer of hope.

But what should real immigration law enforcement fans be hoping for anyway?

As I have written before, one of the most critical components of the so-called "enforcement" provisions of H.R. 4437 is really a serious step backward for immigration law enforcement.

As I wrote in December, 2005:

H.R. 4437 undercuts the [Immigration Act Section 235(b) Expedited Removal] laws already on the books by scaling back the expedited removal authority granted (but never implemented) by Congress in 1996. The bill allows the summary removal of illegal aliens found within 100 miles of a land border within 14 days of entry. But in 1996 Congress previously authorized the removal of any [illegal] alien found anywhere in the U.S. within 2 years of entry!

So not only has there been a quiet rigging of the nationwide expedited removal provisions by successive administrations, but now the much-celebrated H.R. 4437 "enforcement" bill actually destroys the possibility of there ever being nationwide summary removal (outside of border areas).

And without the summary removal of illegal aliens—sending them packing without years of immigration litigation — there will be no real immigration law enforcement in this country . . . because no one will be leaving anytime soon.

[ . . . Read the full story on VDARE.com]

The Washington Times' Charles Hurt on tomorrow's Utah primary election:

Rep. Chris Cannon, the five-term Republican facing a stiff primary challenge here over his stance on immigration, has lost a comfortable lead and heads into tomorrow's primary in a statistical tie, according to the latest poll by the Salt Lake City Tribune.

Virtually unknown prior to his surprise victory over Cannon at a state GOP Convention in May, Jacob's new prominence -- and very real chance of winning in tomorrow's election -- is entirely the product of his opposition to Cannon's wildly unpopular stance on immigration.

The story continues:

Of those polled by Mason-Dixon, 91 percent said the issue was important. Among backers of Mr. Jacob, 97 percent said the issue is important and 69 percent said immigration is the primary reason they support him. And among supporters of Mr. Cannon, 64 percent said immigration is the primary reason they back him.

While Mr. Cannon says that he opposes granting amnesty to any of the estimated 10 million to 12 million illegal aliens in the U.S., he has convinced many Republicans here that he's soft on the issue.

With defeat and early retirement looming, Cannon seems to have suddenly realized that shilling against the interests of the vast majority of your constituency can hurt come election day. Thus the Congressman's extremely lame recent efforts to pass himself off as a born-again restrictionnist, as in this exchange with Charles Hurt:

Mr. Cannon now says he opposes the Senate immigration bill that would grant citizenship rights to millions of illegals. He does, however, support a "guest-worker" program that would allow illegals to remain in the country indefinitely.

"But they wouldn't get citizenship," he said.

If they give birth to children while in the U.S. as "guest workers," do they then become citizens?

"Well, yes," Mr. Cannon replied when asked by The Washington Times. "But I'm willing to address that problem."

That's really convincing, especially given Cannon's track record. Here's how the Congressman addressed the issue back in 2002:

"We love immigrants in Utah, and we don't often make the distinction between legal and illegal."

Cannon may not make this distinction but the citizens of Utah do -- and will, if all goes well, at tomorrow's election.

RELATED:
Note to Utah: Fire Cannon!
Utah Primary Election: First Sign of Trouble to Come for GOP Immigration Enthusiasts

On Tuesday, June 27th, Utah Republicans will be heading to the polls to vote in the closely watched primary election pitting fifth-term Congressional incumbent Chris Cannon against upstart challenger John Jacob.

Supporters of immigration restriction are placing their hopes (and their money) on a Jacob victory. In a replay of Matt Throckmorton's 2004 primary campaign -- Cannon won but only after outspending Throckmorton 9-to-1 -- Jacob has done his best to turn the election into a referendum on Cannon's stance on immigration. While Cannon's immigration voting record is not exceptionally lousy -- Numbers USA gives Cannon a gentleman's 'C' on the issue -- his actual votes are only half the story.

Chief Congressional sponsor of the ill-starred AgJOBS bill, Cannon is deep in the pocket of every open borders lobbyist who will have him. The Deseret News reports:

Just days before his Republican primary election, U.S. Rep. Chris Cannon is seeing more than $134,000 flowing into his war chest, much of it from organizations known to favor cheap immigrant labor.

The pro-immigration groups have given Cannon, R-Utah, at least $58,200 in the past 12 days alone, a review of federal campaign reports shows.

That includes at least $30,000 from agricultural interests — such as the California Farm Bureau and the Dairy Farmers of America. Additional money is coming from businesses known for hiring inexpensive labor —including Wal-Mart and the National Roofing Contractors Association.

And lest we forget...

• Cannon was the proud recipient of a 2002 Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) "Excellence in Leadership Award". Accepting the award, Cannon infamously stated: "'We love immigrants in Utah. And we don't make the distinction very often between legal and illegal. In fact, I think Utah was the first state in the country to legislate the ability to get a driver's license based on the matricula consular [the Mexican government's illegal-alien ID card] and of that I'm proud."

• Cannon has in the past received money from the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

• More than a hint of corruption lingers over Cannon's Congressional tenure. Cannon, whose brother Joe is the state GOP chairman, was a past recipient of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff's lucrative attentions. His ex-chief of staff, David Safavian, was recently found guilty of corruption in connection with Abramoff's activities.

• In 2004, Marco Diaz, a Cannon campaign aide, illegally urged illegals to contribute to Cannon's war chest.

A Jacob victory in Tuesday's election will do wonders to refocus legislative attention on the enforcement-first approach favored by a majority of Americans and already endorsed by the House. A Cannon victory, by contrast, will embolden all those nervous Republicans who have, at least for the moment, chosen to distance themselves from the President's reckless amnesty schemes.

The polls have the two candidates in a neck and neck race. On Tuesday, Utah Republicans have a great chance to do themselves and the rest of us a favor by firing Cannon.

RELATED:
Bilbray Victory a Harbinger of Things to Come.
Utah Primary Election: First Sign of Trouble to Come for Gop Immigration Enthusiasts.

In a recent article for Human Events Online, Jerome R. Corsi describes the Bush administration's behind the scenes plans to construct a super highway stretching from the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas through the US to southern Canada.

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.

As Corsi shows, plans for the super highway are already well-advanced (construction may begin as early as next year). Despite the dramatic nature of the plan, public authorities -- and, first and foremost, the White House -- have done their best to keep the public in the dark about it.

As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North American Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality.

This gives context to the President's reckless support for the McKennedy guestworker amnesty. Sometime in the mid-nineties, important segments of the policy elite convinced themselves that the future belonged to internally confederated economic regions of the type first established in Europe. The various failures and shortcomings of the European Union -- democratic deficit, bureaucratic excess and a fundamental of lack of political cohesion -- have apparently done nothing to disturb their globalist dream of world power and indefinite growth.

The wonderful thing about the President's plan is that every aspect of it opens the way to new migration and thus further pressure to integrate the three economies. The McKennedy guestworker amnesty, from this point of view, is convenient but not strictly necessary.

After all, putting American immigration policy into the hands of Mexican truck drivers will accomplish the job just as well.

[Original posting in the Juan Mann Archive on VDARE.com]

The Senate’s immoral and treasonous "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006" (S.2611) peddles the Big Lie that an illegal alien non-deportation amnesty and massive foreign worker importation program is somehow "necessary" in order to "secure the border."

I'd have thought nothing could be further from the truth. That is, until I read the bill’s "Immigration Litigation Reduction" section (Title VII, Subtitle A). Despite its title, this is in reality an obscene pork barrel project of the federal immigration litigation bureaucracy.

The final "engrossed" version of S.2611 passed by the Senate on May 25 is now posted on the Thomas web site. The strikingly dissimilar "Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005" (H.R. 4337) passed by the House of Representatives on December 16 contains no such provisions.

The supposed "Immigration Litigation Reduction" text (Title VII, Subtitle A, Sections 701 to 703) calls for hiring at least 1411 new government attorneys and an accompanying phalanx of support staff scattered throughout the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security through the year 2011.

And the bill allows them seemingly unlimited funding to hire even more! The sky’s the limit!

All of these government legal eagles, including taxpayer-funded public defenders in the federal district court system, will be working full-time to CREATE EVEN MORE federal immigration litigation, not REDUCE immigration litigation.

More lawyers create more litigation. That’s what they do.

"Immigration Litigation Reduction" is the biggest of the BIG LIES of S.2611. These sections are in reality a brazenly mislabeled "federal immigration litigation bureaucracy full employment act of 2006" for both government attorneys and the Treason Lobby’s legal wing in the private bar – the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Maybe I’m new to analyzing garbage legislation emanating from the Senate . . . but I have never seen such an outrageous lie in labeling legislation. Is there no limit to such double-speak?

Hiring at least 1411 more government attorneys to feed the already bloated federal immigration litigation monster is NOT "immigration litigation reduction." It’s bureaucracy-building opportunism at its worst!

So here’s the tally. If S.2611 were to become law, each year from fiscal years 2007 through 2011, the federal government will hire at least 1411 attorneys:

. . . read the full story in the Juan Mann Archive on VDARE.com.

Yesterday's New York Times reports on Brian Bilbray's victory in the California special election for the state's 50th Congressional District.

From a national perspective, the outcome suggests the extent to which immigration could be a critical issue in some contests — in a way that could pose complications for Mr. Bush. Mr. Bilbray directly criticized the immigration program backed by Mr. Bush and the Senate because it includes measures that would allow some illegal immigrants to gain amnesty.

He told CNN early this morning that his campaign turned around in this district near the Mexican border, after he specifically distanced himself from that immigration plan, instead calling for a tough enforcement measures that included building a fence on the California-Mexican border.

"A president proposing amnesty was absolutely a big problem," he said. "It was not until I was able to highlight the fact that I did not agree with my friends in the Senate or my friend in the White House on amnesty that you really began to see polls changing."

At the same time, Ms. Busby was hurt, aides to both parties said, when she was recorded on tape making remarks that made it appear as if she was encouraging illegal immigrants to vote for her illicitly. Ms. Busby denied that was what she meant, but those remarks in the final days of the campaign permitted Republicans to push the immigration issue even harder, at a time she was trying to turn the campaign on the issue of corruption.

Bilbray's victory is important because it shows that, even without the support of party bigwigs, the enforcement-only message is a winning one. It now remains to be shown that this political logic cuts both ways -- that taking the wrong stance on immigration can just as easily torpedo a campaign.

Several races promise precisely that. In Utah, Tennessee and possibly Indiana (I'll keep my fingers crossed), Republican incumbents may face an uphill battle over their support for the Bush-McCain-Kennedy guestworker amnesty. Incumbent defeat in any of these races will likely lead to an abandoment of the Party's recent immigration-enthusiast stance. After all, nothing hurts like failure.

In the meantime, the tide will continue to turn in our favor. Whatever Congress decides to do with the legislation recently forwarded it by the Senate, voter anger over immigration is not going away any time soon. True, an important part of the political elite continues to collude in ignoring the issue, something nicely illustrated by a recent US News and World Report article on the various ways in which the immigration issue is playing out in local elections. But what the article shows above all else is the sheer resistance of the powers that be to changing political circumstnaces. As Peter Brimelow notes in an important recent summary of America's immigration predicament:

On the immigration issue, the American elite has reacted with a bipartisan intransigence exceptional in democratic politics. The astonishing spectacle of a seriously unpopular President expending the last of his political capital to impose a policy that alienates his own base and dooms his party to ever-worsening minority status is merely the latest example of this phenomenon. There are several reasons for this bizarre behavior, but the consequence is the same: no evasive action in the face of the gathering storm.

If recent controversy has done anything, it has been to ensure that the great immigration debate finally breaks into the open. And it has, it is there, it is not going away. Republican incumbents have good reason to worry. But, eventually, even Democrats will need to think twice.

Immigrationwatchdog.com has prepared this disturbing video (right click to open) featuring the voices of prominent Latinos figures dubbed over images from the recent illegal immigrant marches.

Much of what you hear in the video was actually recorded several years ago. That doesn't make it any the less sinister. I've read all of this stuff before but hearing it spoken, sometimes in a voice quivering with hatred, is another experience altogether.

(H/T: Nicholas Stix for forwarding the video)

UPDATE: Seems the video has been circulating online for the past several weeks.