Re: The Company You Keep

Symposium - June 12th, 2007 - National Review Online

After two shorter syndicated columns [here and here], Linda Chavez wrote a lengthy piece on conservatives, Hispanics, and immigration for National Review Online, published Monday. Today those named in Chavez’s “The Company You Keep” and other immigration-policy experts respond to Chavez.

The symposium linked here is a long read, mostly because it is several articles by noted writers such as Ward Connerly, John Derbyshire, Mark Krikorian, Stanley Kurtz, Heather Mac Donald, Ramesh Ponnuru and Michael Radu. It includes an absolutely vast number of links to other articles, all of which add to the intelligence of this debate.

The most important aspect of this debate is that once again it is Amercans who are opposed to changing America who are being reviled by those who defend the right of other cultures to come here, leaving their culture, and make us accept them and their culture. It is not Americans who are going to another culture. We seem to stay home. Expatriot Americans have always been rare.

Linda Chavez got angry when the debate changed from how to welcome those from another country . . . . to a debate about how to stop their invasion of our nation. At that point she called those who disagreed with her racists.

Immigration is not a problem when it is a matter of assimilation of small numbers. Immigration is a problem when it displaces a great number of Americans and changes the dialog abolut how much privilege do we give to the new arrivals as opposed to those already in our society who need help. It is a problem when illegal arrivals demand special privileges. It is a problem when illegal arrivals demand we change our culture to accept their culture. Especially when immigration advocates feel they are losing the discussion and resort to the blackmail process of calling those of us who were here first . . . . RACIST for simply disagreeing with THEM.

As Dr. Ada Fisher noted in her article below, we are actually considering giving illegal aliens FREE tuition while charging black (and white) American citizens for the same education. At what point does this special treatment of illegal aliens get recognized as insane? At what point is it acknowleged that defending our own culture is reasonable and fair? At what point do we tell anyone who uses the insult racist against us, "just shut up"? Disagreeing with you is not racist and I will no longer tolerate your cheap insults.