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Mud Slinging Now The Only Weapon Left For The Open Border Crowd

By Donald A. Collins

"On Tuesday, September 15, 2009, the Washington Post, featured a story entitled, Lots of Fear Remains Over Economy, Job Losses [By Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta] while on Page A4 it reported that Immigration, Health Debates Cross Paths (by Spencer Hu)—a story which seems designed to show that mudslinging is the only weapon left to immigration enthusiasts who want open-border importation of low wage employees or more members for their ethnic or religious factions. [VDARE.com note: The original headline on the web page was Immigration Overhaul Supporters Ratchet Up Rhetoric, which puts the blame on America's Voice [email them] but it was changed for some reason.]

The Fear article notes that Americans are apprehensive about the
economy. Gee, not surprising. The Post says, "Lower-income respondents
have felt the brunt of the economic contraction more directly, with
more than a third of those with annual household incomes under $50,000
reporting a job loss at home, compared with about two in 10 of those
with higher incomes."

Not a great time to bring in a bunch more low wage workers, eh?

Then take the main point of the Post Immigration/ Health article: To
say that those people who think immigration should contain simple
features like, oh, enforcing present laws and making sure legally
resident workers get employed by businesses, are "racists".

Yes, patriotic immigration reformers are concerned that health care
money goes to illegal aliens. So are the vast majority of Americans.
The studies on this issue are very clear and without major overhaul of
the present bills the problem will not be fixed.

However, this quote from Hsu’s article tells you what’s happening:

"Trying to beat back a furor over whether President Obama's
centerpiece initiative would subsidize health care for illegal
immigrants, liberal supporters of an immigration overhaul on Monday
called a main proponent of that claim a hate group,’ citing its
founder's ties to white supremacists and interest in racist ideas,
such as eugenics.”

This "founder", John Tanton, a retired ophthalmologist, from a small
Michigan town, perceived years ago in the 1970s that importing without
need or care another 50 million aliens and their offspring would not
be sound policy. Essentially, the Washington Post is giving ink
(again) to the Southern Poverty Law Center smears.

Now, apparently, the time has come to pull out all the stops to tie
this gentle, caring intellectual, whose perspicacity on the
immigration issue has been incredible, to Joe Wilson, who shouted "You
lie!" during Obama's speech to Congress.

Tanton has for many years been expounding real immigration arguments
which make sense for the good of the entire country–see my piece
Democrat Says: Without (Patriotic) Immigration Reform, All Reforms Are
Imperiled—Including Health Care.

For those totally reasonable, practical and patriotic ideas, Tanton is
now being targeted for ad hominem attack—the only weapon those who
want cheap labor and open borders have left. Here is a section headed
in bold type so you can't miss it:

"Focus on FAIR Founder

"In a series of reports, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-
Defamation League have focused on Tanton, who founded FAIR in 1979.
The groups quote from Tanton's correspondence with Holocaust deniers
and white nationalist thinkers, his expressed interest in anti-Semitic
writers and the study of eugenics, and concerns about the
"educability" of Hispanics and the loss of a ‘European American’
majority.

"We want to keep that drumbeat going so politicians know when FAIR
lobbyists speak to them, this is who they represent," said Heidi
Beirich, an SPLC researcher."

At least WaPo’s Hsu quoted Dan Stein, FAIR's President, but it almost
seems like "When did you stop beating your wife"?

"Stein defended FAIR's track record, cited its diverse membership and
said the group ‘stands four-square against discrimination based on
race, ethnicity or religion.’ He said attacks on Tanton are taken out
of context and ‘simply do not reflect the true character of the
person,’ whom Stein described as a ‘Jeffersonian or Renaissance man or
intellect’ whose interest and writings span a wide range of issues.

“He criticized America's Voice and allied groups as ‘juvenile mud
throwers who seem unprepared to engage in serious public debate.’"

Let's have a real debate. Health care reform of course should not mean
tax dollars to illegal aliens. Saying that is reasonable, although it
is frankly being used by the opposition to call Dr. Tanton and other
real reformers "racists". The vast majority of thinking Americans
which include so many citizens of Hispanic heritage, understand that
trying to bring in more and more unneeded people, blowing our
population up to 500 million by 2050, is simply madness and must be
stopped.

As the Post's Cohen and Agiesta tell us: "Nearly six in 10 Americans
are now concerned about job or pay losses in the coming months, little
changed since February, and there has been no increase in the
percentage who see the federal government's stimulus efforts as having
an impact, even as the pace of layoffs has eased in recent months. And
there is lukewarm public confidence that the government is enacting
measures to stave off another financial crisis."

What better time for real patriotic immigration reform?

As Dan Stein so often and eloquently notes, when asked about what to
do about the millions of illegal aliens now in our midst, patriotic
reformers have never argued for rounding up and deporting all these
folks. If we simply enforced our laws and made it impossible for
people here illegally to get a job, then they would melt away over
time.

The deportation bogeyman was the creation of the same people who are
now resorting to ad hominem arguments.

The key to starting real reform is the permanent extension of E-verify—
the website through which, in short order 99% of the time, the legal
residence of job applicants can be verified.

E-verify is now inserted into various bills in the Congress.
Hopefully, it will be permitted to function beyond its present
expiration date of September 30."

http://www.vdare.com/collins/090916_open_border.htm