Sniff: Weekly Standard Editor Picks On Arizonans

Weekend Libertarian ^ | June 12, 2011 | B.P. Terpstra

[AustralianConservative]

I thought open-borders libertarians and socialists opposed stereotypes. Just kidding. Under the inflammatory headline, “Europe’s Arizona Problem” by Christopher Caldwell in The New York Times, we read:

Any time Europe’s external borders look porous, individual countries get nervous. Denmark’s prime minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, has called for refortifying the country’s borders with Germany and Sweden, prompting accusations that he means to undo Schengen. It’s not all that surprising; Denmark is the Arizona of Europe — the European country most hostile to mass immigration — and Mr. Rasmussen is behaving as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer did last spring, taking federal enforcement responsibilities into local hands.

I’m confused though. Are the Danes and Arizonans simply “hostile to mass immigration” (not that there’s anything wrong with that) or are they hostile to mass illegal immigration?

Funnily enough, writer Christopher Caldwell is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a conservative publication. But at least he knows his audience: The New York Times.

Caldwell continues:

Such steps are signs of an even broader movement. Populist parties, anti-immigrant and anti-elite, are rising in many European countries. The National Front in France, the Freedom Party in the Netherlands and the True Finns have all polled at 20 percent or more in recent elections. After years on the fringe, they have become mass parties, putting the heat on center-right governments like those of Mr. Berlusconi and Mr. Sarkozy.

Again, are voters who oppose illegal immigration, anti-immigrant? I personally believe in a big Australia, where I live. I welcome legal job-creating immigrants, but oppose immigration-to-welfare “refugees” without paperwork.

My position was once associated with the following words: accountability, practicality, security, and even responsibility. My immigrant descendants understood this. Today, one is “racist” and/or “anti-immigrant” if he opposes queue jumping. Perhaps I’m a Danish-Arizonan.

[AustralianConservative]

http://weekendlibertarian.blogspot.com/2011/06/sniff-weekly-standard-editor-picks-on.html

[tumblindice]

“The Weekly Standard, a conservative publication”
That’s as far as I got.

[Amberdawn]

We’re ALL Danish-Arizonans now.

[AustralianConservative]

Now there’s a future slogan.