Affirmative Action for Immigrants

• Immigrants are taking significant advantage of affirmative action programs originally set up to benefit disadvantaged native-born minorities. This is the conclusion of Washington-based researcher Jim Robb in his book, Affirmative Action for Immigrants: The Entitlement Nobody Wanted.
• The heart of the problem, says Robb, is that affirmative action favors certain races and ethnic groups, irrespective of their country of origin. Thus a naturalized Asian Indian is counted the same, under affirmative action, as a native-born black American.
• Today about 75 percent of all legal immigrants living in the U.S. are Hispanic, Asian, and black, the groups covered by affirmative action. Many of these immigrants are not citizens, but for all practical purposes their lack of citizenship poses no problem to obtaining employment—and benefitting from affirmative action. One reason is a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act which outlaws hiring preference for citizens.
• Robb states his amazement that the government officials he interviewed for the book had little understanding of the legality or extent of affirmative action for immigrants. This has led to a situation which no one can justify, i.e., preferential treatment for newcomers with no historic claims on America.
• There is now a growing national debate on whether to abolish affirmative action or change it, Robb argues that no matter what we do with it, preferences for immigrants must end.

Alien Nation

• Peter Brimelow describes his nationally acclaimed book, Alien Nation, as a tool kit of arguments for immigration control. That indeed it is.
• He affirms that patriotic Americans should go on the offensive and force immigration promoters (he terms them “alienists”) to justify their position. Specifically, says Brimelow, the burden of proof should be on them to justify what current immigration policies are doing, namely the transforming of America into a Third World country. If this is what they want, it is their motives that need explaining.
• Brimelow also maintains that it is not “racism” for European-Americans to wish to remain the nation’s majority. If they lose that position, the nation will lose its Western character and continuity with the past. Without this anchor of stability, insecurities among all groups will rise, and racial and ethnic tensions will increase.
• On economics, Brimelow avoids the endless statistical arguments on as to whether immigration is an economic benefit. He simply points out that we can prosper without massive immigration. Even arch immigration promoter Julian Simon, notes Brimelow, conceded this point.
• Brimelow concludes by observing that cutting immigration presents far less danger than continuing it. Why, he asks, should we take the risk?
• “Brimelow marshals an impressive array of demographic and economic data to press this case, stressing in particular that today’s immigrants differ significantly—for the worse—from those who came in earlier days.” - Peter Skerry, Commentary.

The Camp of the Saints

• This novel caused a furor in Europe and the U.S. when first published. Warning: sexually explicit language will offend some readers.
• “Dismissed by some as merely fantasy, Raspail’s nightmare vision of a Third World invasion of the Western world has become today’s reality....” — Jeffery Hart, Professor of English, Dartmouth College, and Senior Editor, National Review.
• “The liberal reviewers killed it with ridicule or with silence. The plot was intolerable to them...our children and grandchildren may soon discover that Jean Raspail wrote not fiction, but fact .... One of the most chilling books of this generation ...” — James J. Kilpatrick, Columnist.
• “A brilliant landscape of apocalypse, without a doubt the strongest book of the season.” — Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal.
• “...[A] haunting book ...” — William F. Buckley, Jr.

Immigration and the End of Self-Government

• Immigration and the End of Self-Government is an excellent primer on how massive immigration and “diversity” are destroying, rather than enriching, our unique American heritage of freedom.
• A leading example, author Louis March maintains, is freedom of speech. Says March: “Free speech, once the most sacred right of Americans, comes second to “getting along” with peoples from all variety of national, racial, ethnic and religious groups. To ensure that no one is ever offended, speech police enforce politically correct censorship, now a widespread practice in American society.”
• In America today, March observes, “We may be free to speak, but not to speak freely.” If massive immigration and its attendant multiculturalism continue on their present path, he effectively argues, we may even lose the legal freedom to speak.
• At the final chapter, entitled “A solution for America,” March issues a stirring call to Americans to stand up for their right to determine their future. This chapter alone is worth the price of the book. He exposes the immigrationists’ standard charge of “racism” as a tactic of psychological warfare. This accusation, he affirms, should “either be ignored, ridiculed, or vigorously countered.” He further counsels determined political action: “Fight back — personal respect demands it. Fight back — remember, whatever you put up with, you get more of.”

Will America Drown? — Immigration and the Third World Population Explosion

• Will America Drown? is a collection of 16 forceful, no-holds-barred essays on massive immigration and where it is taking America. A central theme through all the essays is that America must either limit immigration—and do it soon—or otherwise become a backward, overpopulated likeness of the Third World.
• Most refreshing about the essays is that they dare speak arguments and points of view that “politically correct” censors effectively exclude from public debate. If genuine public debate on immigration is to occur—and the democratic system is to function—these ideas deserve a hearing before the court of public opinion. By defying the slings and arrows of “politically correct” name-calling (e.g., racist, xenophobe, etc.), these writers do their country a service.
• What are some of their views? Dwight Murphey suggests that all peoples are not the same and that all cultures are not equal. Large-scale immigration could, therefore, bring cultural impoverishment instead of cultural enrichment. Eric Jacobson observes that Americans of European background, the core population of the nation, have as much right as any other to guard their interests.
• While all the writers agree that the hour for genuine reform is late, most express hope that the Third Worldization of America is not inevitable. The essay by Robert N. Hopkins, for example, affirms that control of illegal immigration is possible and outlines steps to accomplish this objective.
• One need not agree with every viewpoint in Will America Drown? to profit from the questions this work raises.