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

In taking a step back from the immigration and National Question orbit recently, I discovered the fascinating work of economic freedom heroine Catherine Austin Fitts. Here’s probably the most significant piece of advice she gives to freedom-loving Americans: stop worrying that there’s a conspiracy against you . . . you need to start one!

In the immigration law enforcement sphere, VDARE.com readers across America are already forming the building blocks of an immigration law enforcement conspiracy. The trouble is that the plan is still in its formative stages, the parties don’t know each other and aren’t collaborating…and all of the pieces of the puzzle haven’t even been dreamed up yet.

But nevertheless, there is great cause for hope. Through the miracle of the internet (as Peter Brimelow frequently points out), there’s a formidable assemblage of brain-power among the broad coalition of folks visiting VDARE.com just waiting to be tapped.

The Treason Lobby has made millions profiting from the illegal alien invasion over the years. Now it’s time for patriotic Americans to put their heads together and figure out some contrary incentives, monetary and otherwise, to get some immigration law enforcement rolling in America again.

I regularly see some great conspiracy ideas are scattered throughout my e-mail in-box.

Here’s some of the latest wisdom of three entirely unrelated VDARE.com readers, which I’ve fashioned into one downright smashing conspiracy . . . if I do say so myself.

Here’s the plan: put illegal alien-hiring companies under surveillance, report their illegal alien workers, figure out a way to take down their businesses using the muscle of the Internal Revenue Service—all while making money in civil class action lawsuits against them too!

Now start conspiring! . . . legally, of course.

It’s time for patriotic Americans to put our heads together.

Read the complete story in the Juan Mann Archive on VDARE.com

In the current City Journal, I examine the conservative open-border myths about the redemptive Hispanic. Few hold up to scrutiny. Hispanic teen births and high school drop-out rates are the highest in the country. If we are going to increase the flow of Hispanic immigrants, as Bush and the Senate propose to do. we should at least get our facts straight about the population we are admitting.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg defiantly promised at last week's Senate immigration hearings that New York City would continue to shield illegal aliens from the federal government.

Thanks for the heads up, Mike. The Mayor, you see, also tried to talk tough on immigration enforcement. But his solicitude for immigration law-breakers provided an irrefutable argument why the Bush-Hagel-Martinez "comprehensive" approach to immigration reform won't work, as I argue here.

They just don’t get it.

Compare the front page of today’s New York Times (national print edition) and the Los Angeles Times.

New York Times lead story: “Israel Steps Up Gaza Raids.” Accompanying articles: a new partnership between John McCain and George Bush; a rise in corporate headquarters located in Manhattan; a marijuana club on Fisherman’s Wharf; internet phone calling; and a blueprint found on a computer for the terrorist attack in Bali last October.

Now check out the Los Angeles Times: “Confusion Grips Mexico Election,” splashed across four of the five front page columns, and occupying nearly half the page. Three additional stories on the Mexican elections are bill boarded on page one.

Is this difference in perspective explained by the three hour time difference that allows LA Times editors to put later-breaking stories on their front page?

No. The New York Times does have a comparable article to the front page LA Times story—discussing the razor-thin margins in the election returns—but it puts it on page eight, without any front-page notice.

No, it was editorial judgment, not time zones, that explains the complete absence of a Mexican election story on the New York Times’s front page, and the all-encompassing coverage in Los Angeles. Mexican immigration is the dominant reality in Southern California. Ten percent of all Mexicans now live in the U.S., most of them in California. Mexican politics have become central to California’s fate: if Mexican governments continue to promote illegal immigration as a solution to their failed economic policies, California’s political and cultural fabric will continue its transformation, for better or worse, into a modern-day Aztlan.

Following each illegal immigration march this Spring, the Los Angeles Times mutated into what was basically a set of lavish advertising supplements for amnesty: full page after full page of photos and text celebrating the explosion of illegal immigrant power. No East Coast paper poured anywhere near the resources into demonstration coverage.

When the establishment elites in New York and Washington pronounce on the inevitable assimilation of Mexican immigrants and invoke Ellis Island to buttress their argument, they are speaking from a position of pure ignorance. Few have spent much time, if any, in California, which many regard with barely concealed contempt. Before they issue their next bromide, they might visit a few California cities and talk to residents, both Anglo and Hispanic, about how they see their communities. They might talk to jail wardens and hospital executives about their clients populations, and to school leaders about the cultural identity of their schools and curricula. Or they might speak to the editors on W. 1st St. in Los Angeles about what drives their editorial decisions.

The Beltway and Manhattan power brokers might still reach the same conclusions about the minor role that immigration is playing in shaping the country’s future, but at least they would be forewarned.