Why the Reagan Democrats Departed

Taki's Magazine ^ | July 2, 2013 | Pat Buchanan

[ckilmer]

This is an excerpt from an article about Americas elected officials and immigration written by —Fredo Arias-King — an adviser to the President of Mexico Vincent Fox during the 1990’s. Its a real eye opener. The excerpt followed by a link to the whole article.

“When I aided the foreign relations of presidential candidate and president-elect Vicente Fox back in 1999 and 2000, I met with almost 80 U.S. congressmen and senators during numerous trips and at several events. With just over 50 of them, my colleagues and I spoke about immigration in some depth, as it is one of the important bilateral topics. My findings were reported in a Backgrounder published by the Center for Immigration Studies called “Politics by Other Means.”1 It is a dense and academic paper, but the basic finding was: Indeed, American politicians are overwhelmingly pro-immigration, for a variety of reasons, and they do not always admit this to their constituents. Of those 50 legislators, 45 were unambiguously pro-immigration, even asking us at times to “send more.” This was true of both Democrats and Republicans.

If mass immigration from Latin America has debatable benefits for the United States as a whole, if a majority of the American people is against it, and if immigrants cannot vote until they become naturalized (which can take years after their arrival), why would nine-tenths of the legislators we spoke with be so keen on increasing immigration?”

http://www.cis.org/articles/2006/back706.html

[SoConPubbie]

In the good old days,” writes Patterson, “Americans could at least count on business leaders being pro-American.

Now, apparently, judging by J.C. Penneys, General Mills, Sears, and others, we can count on them being Sodomites.

[Carry_Okie]

The Fed prints the money with which to invest abroad. Meanwhile, wage depression and cheap imports mask inflation.

What's not to like?

We should be denying military protection to investors abroad.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“... it causes (honest and/or intelligent) people to ask questions and consider other options.”

Since those categories have been supplanted by an expanding array of people who not only are neither, but are only interested in what benefits them in the form of their immediate gratification...an array that is certain to grow as the economy deteriorates or flattens...I suspect the phenom you’re hoping for is not going to happen. Whether out of ideaology or desperation; people are going to be backed into their own private corners where they will either gladly or reluctantly trade in their rights and their futures for the promise of government salvation...but surrender them, they will.

[freedomfiter2]

Yeah that too.

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

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