Bush likes Miers, so we should put her on the Supreme Court; Bush loves Mexicans, so we should open our border to them

For years, VFR has discussed George W. Bush’s personal relationships with Mexicans as an explanation for the inordinately emotional quality of his support for open borders. A week ago Diana West at the Washington Times considered the same angle on Bush. And now the New York Times has an article called “Bush’s Stance on Immigration Has Roots in Midland,” which includes this:

As a boy, and later as a young, hard-drinking oilman, his friends say, Mr. Bush developed a particular empathy for the new Mexican immigrants who worked hard on farms, in oil fields and in people’s homes, and went on to raise children who built businesses and raised families of their own, without the advantages he had as the scion of a wealthy New England family.

The symbiosis fit with the Bush family’s Northeastern, free-trade Republicanism, which took on a Mexican flair, especially after Mr. Bush’s parents hired a live-in Mexican maid in Texas who became part of the family, and his brother, Jeb, married a young woman from Mexico who initially spoke little English.

I’m not claiming VFR as the source of this sudden mainstream media interest in Bush’s Mexican connection. The source is Bush’s own recent statements about the immigration bill, in which he has gone on and on (and on and on) about his lifelong acquaintance with and his deep admiration for and his undying personal bond with Mexicans as his reason for wanting to let them invade and take over America. He has even told senators things like (this is a close paraphrase), “I’m from Texas, I understand Mexicans, therefore you should support this bill,” acting as if his own personal experiences and feelings were the final authority on a subject of national fatefulness.

We live in the Age of Personalism, and Bush is as much a part of it as anyone else. That’s bad enough. But when his personalism is combined with his dictatorial tendencies and his belief in the dissolution of the national boundaries between Mexico and the United States, it becomes a downright menace.

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Mark Jaws writes:

The problem with rich white boys, such as Bush The Lesser, playing out a sense of noblesse oblige with respect to Mexican immigrants, is that these spoiled, pampered, and sheltered scions have no idea that their level of contact with Mexicans is on a completely different plane that with that of regular white Americans who have had their neighborhoods invaded, their streets turned into gang playgrounds, and their schools downgraded. I can absolutely guarantee you that not one Bushie kiddie had to attend a school with a Mexican population more than one percent.

Bush reminds me of my suburban Jewish cousins. Having grown up on the lower East Side of New York I had a very realistic attitude about Puerto Ricans. I was molested on several occasions by some of these dark-skinned Latin perverts and knew bad when I saw it—and said so. My Jewish cousins living in white neighborhoods in Long Island, had no idea what my life was about in the housing project, and did not care for what I had to say about these “persecuted and oppressed minority groups.” Three of my cousins after graduating from college moved into the city and within two years every one of them had moved back to whiter snowfields.

Had El Presidente Boosh grown up with real Mexicans, he would be singing a much different song today.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 23, 2007 04:42 PM | Send