{"id":71332,"date":"2015-07-20T17:31:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T01:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71332"},"modified":"2015-07-21T07:05:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T15:05:17","slug":"america-the-worlds-flophouse-emma-lazarus-would-be-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71332","title":{"rendered":"‘America, the world\u2019s flophouse. Emma Lazarus would be proud.’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* It\u2019s odd how desperate people like Flores are, to come to the most racist, evil nation on the planet.<\/p>\n

My legal resident wife (of Scandinavian extraction) remarked to her mother recently about an openly illegal immigrant in her public university class. Her mother was confused\u2013why hasn\u2019t she been deported? Why isn\u2019t anyone telling the authorities?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s really all that\u2019s broken about our immigration policy.<\/p>\n

* In all fairness, Jeffrey Toobin and The New Yorker have been long supporters of open immigration to Israel from Sub Saharan Africa and Islamic countries in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a good guy. Totally being honest and fair. There is no agenda or double standard going on.<\/p>\n

* If Mexico was sending it\u2019s creme de la creme to The United States, you would be seeing affluent Mexican neighborhoods popping up all over the Los Angeles metropolitan area, but you don\u2019t. Mexican neighborhoods in the Los Angeles metropolitan area are all lower working class.<\/p>\n

It seems that Iran though tend to send it\u2019s creme de creme to The United States, because Persians are over represented among Los Angeles affluent class. Same for China and India. Lot of Chinese nationals are buying up big beautiful expensive homes in affluent neighborhoods in Southern and Northern California. The same can not be said for Mexican nationals.<\/p>\n

* \u2018A job in a nearby city would have required a high school certificate, while she only had a middle school certificate\u2019.<\/p>\n

Yup. The implication being that entry level accreditations are somehow lower in the USA than in Mexico. An interesting proposition to say the least.<\/p>\n

* At one time, there were non-Spanish Whites, Middle Easterners and others who found in Mexico an opportunity, but it would be slim pickings today for most even if they could legally go there to work. That goes double for Americans, who are not really wanted in Mexico except as rich dumb tourists.<\/p>\n

For most nonwealthy people, the United States is still the place where one has the best chance of \u201csuccess\u201d in the entrepreneurial sense. However, I will say that French truck drivers and German autoworkers and European aircraft mechanics generally probably live a more secure and comfortable life than their American counterparts. Being a factory worker in western Europe means you don\u2019t worry about healthcare, college for your kids, or about getting fired unless you commit some enormously grave offense. You have a smaller house and if you have a car it\u2019s a little schumerbox, and if you need to be De Gaullebladdered in France plan on several months on the waiting list. If you need a MRI anywhere in Europe it\u2019s a big deal.<\/p>\n

Most of us are not entrepreneurs, and since only a small number of us can be successful entrepreneurs by definition, the hassle of trying to do a startup in Europe isn\u2019t why we wouldn\u2019t like living there. The lack of living space is.<\/p>\n

* I listened to Rick Santorum being interviewed on Fox\u2019s Special Report tonight. I was very impressed with what he had to say about immigration. I think he\u2019s making the best argument, one that would be the hardest for Democrats to respond to. Main points:<\/p>\n

\u2013Immigration policy must be based on what best serves the interests of Americans, not some altruistic or idealistic vision.
\n\u2013Use e-verify and enforce employee sanctions to drive illegals from the workplace.
\n\u2013Illegal immigration is depressing the wages of Americans and largely accounts for wage stagnation since the 1970s.
\n\u2013We don\u2019t need more unskilled workers when we don\u2019t have enough work for our own.
\n\u2013The so-called skilled workers we\u2019re bringing in are mostly ordinary programmers replacing American workers and contributing nothing of great value.
\n\u2013Cut LEGAL immigration by 25 percent. We don\u2019t need to import over a million new workers a year.<\/p>\n

* What strikes me is the massive evil of taking these people from their tribal homes and forcing them to try to live in Western Civilization. The results of that experiment have been the greatest social disaster in history for both the Africans and the Europeans. When you watch the African in his native habitat and culture, so much of what you see in the American ghettos begins to make sense. It is every bit as cruel and perverse as it would be to force Europeans to live in African villages and abide their customs. The only possible result is destruction.<\/p>\n

* The early American and Australian settlers came to undeveloped territory where they had two options: (1) work very hard (and intelligently) to scrape survival from the land or (2) die. Conflating this with the current immigrant is nonsense. The current immigrant bears zero risk of hunger or death (unless shot during commission of a crime). He has no need to work \u2013 the State will provide him a luxurious air conditioned home, food, transportation, and medical care. To the extent he may decide to work, his income is supplemented by State welfare gifts along with what he may steal (by avoiding taxation).<\/p>\n

This is such obvious common sense that when you hear someone conflating immigrants prior to the 1920\u2032s to current immigrants its an immediate red flag that the speaker is an anti-white (or anti Western Civilization) fanatic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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