Wake up, conservatives! Stopping amnesty is not going to save America!

As I argue in my below response to Terry Morris, as long as we remain focused on the no-brainer of stopping illegal immigration and the legalization of illegal aliens (a.k.a. amnesty), and continue to ignore legal immigration, we are finished.

Terry Morris writes:

I recently read an entry at Center for Immigration Studies saying that the likely scenario is that there will be no push for “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” by Congress and the Obama administration until after the midterm elections in 2010. In the same article it was reported that the Hispanic vote in this election was nearly double that in the election of 2000, approximately ten million in this election versus 5.5 million in 2000. So while there’s apparently no immediate move to amnesty millions of illegals in America and to provide them a pathway to citizenship, we’re continuing to naturalize millions of foreigners whose predispositions towards America can in no way be said to be favorable. In one report I read Obama was said to have received something on the order of 76 or 78 percent of the Hispanic vote in this election. [LA replies: I’ve read 66 percent.] I’d have to crunch the numbers, but if this percentage is correct it might be said that the Hispanic vote put Obama over the top as far as the popular vote goes, would it not?

LA replies:

Of course it did; or at least, the total changes in the U.S. population due to recent immigration put him over the top. And this shows how pathetic are the conservatives. They think they can solve the immigration problem by opposing amnesty. Amnesty is so obviously outrageous that people can oppose it without dealing with the more difficult issue of immigration overall. But legal immigration can destroy our country as much as illegal.

Consider my mantra, adapted from something Howard Phillips said years ago: Democrats will take us over the cliff at 90 miles an hour. Republicans stay within the speed limit, but they will still take us over the cliff. That is the single most succinct account of modern politics. Now apply the same idea to immigration. Illegal immigration will take us over the cliff at 90 miles an hour. Legal immigration stays within the speed limit, but it will still take us over the cliff. Yet the energy of conservatives is focused almost exclusively on illegal immigration, and if you try to bring up legal immigration, you’re told, with annoyance, that the country is not ready to deal with that issue, we must focus only on illegal. And it’s true that there would not have been the hundreds of thousands of callers to Congress stopping the immigration bill in 2007, if the issue had been legal immigration. People are able to grasp violations of law—it doesn’t make them “racist” to oppose violations of law. But to oppose turning our country into a Hispanic country, well, that seems racist, or at least it’s something they don’t feel comfortable discussing.

When it comes to immigration and national survival, race is the supreme issue, the issue on which all others hang. On one side, our country is steadily being changed into a different country by the immigration of people of different race. On the other side, we are letting this happen because, controlled by liberalism, we are morally incapable of saying that we should not allow our country to be re-populated and transformed into a different country by people of other races. So: racially diverse mass immigration is undoing us, and our irrational, immoral, and cowardly fear of being “racist” makes us incapable of stopping that racially diverse mass immigration.

It all comes down to race. You may not want to think about race, but race is thinking about you.

Terry Morris writes:

Here is the posting at CIS I was referring to. The 78-22 figure I referred to is in the article, but it reflect exit polling of new Hispanic voters in L.A. and Miami, not Hispanic voters as a whole. Your figure is the more accurate one.

LA to Terry Morris:

This shows how pathetic conservatives are. They think they can solve the problem by only addressing the “safe,” no-brainer issue of illegal immigration.

Terry Morris replies:

Yes; and they apparently think that in opposing only illegal immigration they can maintain their stand against abortion, gay marriage, and other radical leftist agendas.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 13, 2008 10:43 AM | Send