Donald Trump Upsets The Apple Cart

John Derbyshire writes: Donald Trump has single-handedly upset the applecart of official blather about immigration, the style of diction that Steve Sailer has called, quote, “comically mercenary fraud covered up by pious cant.” The apples are rolling all over the street now, and the faithful minions of Chambers of Commerce racketeers, foreign governments, globalist bankers, and ethnic lobbyists are scurrying and squealing all over trying to get them back in the cart.

Speaking as a political observer, this is the most fun I’ve had for ages. More popcorn!

But if patriotic immigration reform has a hero in Donald Trump, it also has a heroine. That would of course be Ann Coulter.

Ann’s book Adios, America! has been soaring through the bestseller lists. It debuted June 21st at number two on the New York Times hardback nonfiction list; eight weeks later it’s still at number sixteen.

That’s a simply wonderful showing for a book that lays out in detail, with full supporting references, all the stupidity and dishonesty of our immigration system, displaying it all to public view.

To take one small example at random, from a hundred I could have taken: You know how politicians come up on your TV screen, look you straight in the eye, and tell you that they support Amnesty for illegal aliens but only if the alien pays a fine, pays back taxes, and learns English?

Well, that’s all bogus. As soon as Congress passes Amnesty, all those conditions will be dropped.

How do we know this? Because we already had one Amnesty: IRCA, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. IRCA had those fees, those fines, those requirements to pay back taxes, and, yes, a requirement that the alien — and here I quote from the actual text of the IRCA law, Title II, Section (b), subsection (1), item (D), paragraph (i):

(I) meets the requirements of section 312 (relating to minimal understanding of ordinary English and a knowledge and understanding of the history and government of the United States), or (II) is satisfactorily pursuing a course of study (recognized by the Attorney General) to achieve such an understanding of English and such a knowledge and understanding of the history and government of the United States.

What happened to those requirements? Let Ann tell us. From Adiós, America!, page 44:

The last Amnesty was loaded up with fines, fees, back taxes, and English lessons for illegal aliens. Let’s review how that panned out: English-language requirement — dropped by the INS; fines — dropped by the INS; fees — waived by the INS; back taxes — dropped by the IRS.

That politician promising you those conditions and requirements for Amnesty is lying, lying, LYING. The conditions and the requirements will all be waived as soon as the Amnesty program goes into effect—just as happened with IRCA thirty years ago.

I urge you to read Ann’s book if you haven’t already done so. For those of us who’ve been toiling for years in these vineyards, it’s wonderful to see the topic getting front page exposure at last.

I can claim to be a fifteen-year veteran of patriotic immigration reform. That’s how long ago I published my first article at VDARE.com. VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow was pruning the vines eight years before that with his ground-breaking cover article Time to Rethink Immigration? in the issue of National Review dated June 22nd 1992.

We flatter ourselves that Ann got some of her facts from reading us, along with other sites exposing the current sham, sites like Center for Immigration Studies and NumbersUSA.

Immigration has been a niche interest, though. Those of us trying to bring it to the political front burner have been working…how shall I put it?…ah…in the shadows, as respectable opinion has for decades deemed any criticism of immigration policy to be motivated by malice and cruelty.

Now the ice is breaking at last. A lot of the credit for that goes to Ann Coulter. Thank you, Ma’am.

Let’s take a glance at how the new openness on immigration is affecting the course of the Cold Civil War — that everlasting conflict between wise, moral, progressive goodwhites on one side, and dumb, evil, reactionary, gap-toothed redneck hillbilly badwhites on the other side, with minorities conscripted in to feed the horses and dig field latrines when necessary.