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IMMIGRANTS DISPLACING AMERICANS IN WORKFORCE€”ANOTHER REASON YOU NEED TO
HELP VDARE.COM NOW!

By Peter Brimelow, Editor, VDARE.COM

"Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the largest
monthly loss of jobs since 1974 as the recession gathers force.

Theres lots of political posturing and lots of plans to spend money to
boost the economy.

But one central problem is not even being reported€”much less being
addressed.

The American economy created a lot of jobs in the great boom that has
finally come to an end this year.

But the bulk of them went to immigrants.

Employment of native-born Americans barely grew€”and their wages
stagnated.

The current contraction has not yet reversed this trend.

You dont know this because the federal government does not report the
data in a way thats easy to understand.

And the Main Stream Media does not choose to ask.

But VDARE.COM, our Ed Rubenstein figured out a way to measure it.

We call it VDAWDI€” VDARE.COM's American Worker Displacement Index. And
weve been reporting it since 2001.

Tonight, Ed analyzes Fridays data from our unique perspective.

You wont find this analysis anywhere else.

I dont know why not. Its a huge social phenomenon. What is the Main
Stream Media€”and the entire American Establishment€”thinking?

I dont know why no-one else has though to ask whether these mooted
infrastructure jobs will be reserved for American citizens€”as Roosevelt
did in the New Deal€”or whether we would need so much infrastructure if
public policy wasnt driving up our population so much.

But I do know that we need your help to keep providing these analyses, and
to keep asking these questions.

On our blog today, Patrick Cleburne analyzes the finances of the
€œSouthern Poverty Law Center€�, the left-wing enforcement racket that
is devoted to preventing these and all other politically-incorrect
questions from being raised in American public debate.

In its last reports filed with the federal government, the SPLC reported
nearly $200 million cash and securities and income of some $45 million.

Its not a secret why it is able to bully press and politicians.

Im not asking for that much. We have better arguments that the SPLC.

But we must have your help to make those arguments.

€œWe come to it at last, the great battle of our time.€�

Like everyone else in the patriotic immigration reform movement, I feel a
little like Gandalf, the good White Wizard, who makes this comment while
calmly watching the war clouds gathering over the evil land of Mordor at
the climax of The Return Of The King, the last of the Lord of the Rings
movie trilogy.

And its not just because of my hair!

The Orcs are really marshalling out there, after Barack Obamas defeat
of John McCain in the presidential race (being ultra-pro-immigration
didnt help him, as we repeatedly predicted) combined with the
Democrats near-veto-proof Congressional majorities.

People who should be on our side sometimes seem, frankly, to be suffering
from an inexplicable debilitating curse.

And the gloom and doom in the stock market and the economy casts a dark
shadow over all of us who, not having the Ford Foundation or the academic
establishment on our side, must depend upon individual American patriots
for our support€”upon, in other words, people like you.

Frankly, we are all worried.

Nevertheless, I think that we in the patriotic immigration reform movement
also feel somewhat like the Soviet political prisoners facing deportation
in the great Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyns The First
Circle:

€œBut there was peace in their hearts. They were filled with the
fearlessness of those who have lost everything, the fearlessness which is
not easy to come by but which endures.€�

I quoted those words in 2006, when a bill combining amnesty for 12-20
million illegal aliens and a massive increase in legal immigration was
being pushed by the Democratic Congress and the Republican-controlled
White House. It seemed certain to pass.

But it didnt pass. And it didnt pass in 2007 either.

It was stopped by the greatest patriotic upsurge seen in America for many
years€”not once, but twice.

We can do this again.

However, we can only do it with your help.

Because the Orcs really are gathering. Here are some recent signs:
President-elect Obamas immigration €œPolicy Working Group€�
currently consists of Georgetown Universitys T. Alexander Aleinikoff
and Stanford Universitys Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar. Cuellar is a
token Hispanic, a bad sign in itself, and a member of La Raza (€œThe
Race€�), the Ford Foundation-funded Hispanic pressure group. And
Aleinikoff is a long-time immigration enthusiast who once objected to the
term €œAmericanization€� because he said it implied that €œdisunity is
a problem caused by immigrants which will be solved once they are
Americanized.€� (What a scandalous idea!)

Another fanatical immigration enthusiast, Cecilia Munoz, a full-time
operative of La Raza, has been named Obamas Director of
Intergovernmental Affairs. La Razas President put out a statement
praising Munoz service to €œthe Latino community€� and saying that
€œno one will work harder for her country and for the ideals and
priorities of the Obama Administration€� (whatever they are).
VDARE.COMs question: what country is that? Munoz is the child of
Hispanic immigrants and shows no evidence of €œAmericanization€�.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Detroit Free Press just before
Thanksgiving that €œon immigration, there's been an agreement between
[President-elect Barack] Obama and [Arizona Republican Senator John]
McCain to move forward on that. ... We've got McCain and we've got a few
others. I don't expect much of a fight at all.€�

(See what I mean about an inexplicable debilitating curse?)

Of course, immigration enthusiasts were making exactly the same sort of
arrogant trumpeting noises in 2006 and 2007. They were wrong then. And we
can prove them wrong again now.

But it depends on you€”individual patriotic Americans outside of
Washington D.C. and the major media centers.

With the internet, we can do it. Remember the pro-amnesty newspaper editor
who wrote ruefully after amnesty was defeated

€œThe opponents of the bill prevailed and they did so in a grand manner
that I had to respect. It was democracy at its best€”and an instructive
lesson for anyone interested in politics. Countless times a day, I
received messages from a variety of groups that had Freedom or American or
Liberty as part of their title.

€œThe discipline of these groups was a sight to behold. Someone created a
set of talking points that declared opponents need only focus on one
word€”amnesty€”to denounce the legislation. And every group that came
out against it did precisely that.€�

Note that this pro-amnesty editor was getting €œmessages€� i.e.
email€”and he had obviously never heard of the groups he was getting
messages from, i.e., they were grass-roots organizations.

At VDARE.COM, our role is to create those €œtalking points€� and make
them available to patriots. (Are archives are all online€”and we dont
charge!) Im happy to say we ran an article discussing the critical
importance of the word €œamnesty€� way back in 2004.

Because this is, indeed, €œthe great battle of our time€�. Immigration,
both illegal and legal, is right on the verge of irreversibly transforming
America. But the Establishment Media, both liberal and €œconservative€�,
still wont talk about it.

Let me just give two examples:
The Presidential Election

For reasons which continue to puzzle me even after thirty five years in
journalism, the Main Stream Media is extremely reluctant to report the
simple facts about the racial breakdown of the Presidential vote. Maybe
its because it shows that America is coming apart: whites voted heavily
(55%-45%) for McCain; blacks, Hispanics and other minorities even more
heavily€”in fact overwhelmingly€”for Obama.

Weve discussed at length on VDARE.COM. But we have also done the math:
projecting this years racial voting pattern back, adjusting for
Americas racial balance as it is shifted by mass non-traditional
immigration. The result is startling: John McCains share of the white
vote would have been enough to win him the Presidency in 1976. In other
words, he ran better than President Ford, who was defeated that year by
Jimmy Carter.

Projected forward, assuming immigration continues at its present pace, we
find that even the share of whites that President Bush achieved in 2004
would not be enough to win the Presidency in 2012.

Public policy is changing America that quickly. Why is this being done?

You will only find these facts, and this question, on VDARE.COM.
The Financial Crisis

The Crash of 2008 was a €œperfect storm€�€”it needed several elements
to come together.

But a key element was the loosening of mortgage lending standards, imposed
on the industry by a bipartisan consensus of politicians, in order to
subsidize/ bribe minorities and immigrants, disproportionately
uncreditworthy.

This loosening inflated the housing bubble€”and precipitated the housing
bust, as the uncreditworthy borrowers turned out to be, well,
uncreditworthy.

As weve said bluntly at VDARE.COM, the U.S. has been plunged into a
€œDiversity Recession€�€”driven by a €œMinority Mortgage Meltdown€�.

Our Steve Sailer has documented this phenomenon in half a dozen
full-length articles this fall.

But at VDARE.COM, we highlighted this problem way back in March 2004€”in
Thomas Allens eerily prescient article The Mortgage Monsters Meet The
Immigration Invasion. They Like Each Other, about the Federal National
Mortgage Association (€œFannie Mae€�) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage
Corporation (€œFreddie Mac€�) and their irresponsible pursuit of
immigrant, often illegal alien, clients.

Allen concluded: €œWeve known for some time that current mass
immigration is politically unstable. Now it turns out that its
financially unstable as well.€�

Remember, that was in 2004!

The moral of this story, to use an old Wall Street adage: things that
cant go on, dont. Washingtons manipulation of the mortgage market
was doomed to fail and it did, injuring many innocent people in the
process. Its manipulation of immigration policy will fail too.

But you need non-bipartisan, non-consensus sources like VDARE.COM to keep
reminding you of reality.

And we can only do it if you help.

So Im starting our annual year-end VDARE.COM fundraising drive now.

Weve only had one fund-raising drive this year. And that was back in
June.

Our advisers are mad at me, again. They think I should remind you every
few weeks that its only your generosity and patriotism that keeps
VDARE.COM going.

(Many thanks, by the way, to those of you who do donate even without my
prodding, especially those who donate monthly€”for details of how to do
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morale when we see your donations come in.)

I know our advisors are right. But asking for money gives me the creeps.

And, frankly, management (me) is pretty stretched pretty thin at
VDARE.COM. If I spend time organizing an appeal, I cant spend it
editing.

And we post every day at VDARE.COM, an enormous amount of material. There
are just so many targets!

And what we post is prepared to the highest professional
standards€”Ive not been working in the Mainstream Media for 30 years
for nothing. And we use hyperlinks, not the least of the advantages of
this wonderful new medium, better than anyone else on the internet...at
least, I think so. They help us document our case. Readers who are new to
the cause of patriotic immigration reform find our hyperlinks particularly
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What this means: essentially everything you give goes to pay writers and
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Writers will often write for love€”because they passionately believe in
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orthodoxy of the Mainstream Media.

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