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A lot of livid libertarians have been e-mailing us lately. They didn't like my recent article /becker.htm highlighting Nobel Laureate economist Gary S. Becker's acknowledgement that the welfare state, which did not exist during the last Great Wave of immigration (1890-1920), has fatally altered immigrant
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Mass immigration is always justified to Americans in economic terms, but it is an open secret that the support for current policy in the technical literature is non-existent. Partly this is an empirical issue: lower-skilled immigrants just don't produce that much—a discovery associated with Harvard University economist
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(Peter Brimelow's 1986 book The Patriot Game: Canada and the Canadian Question Revisited is allegedly still available at Amazon.com) "He was the first person I invited to visit me when I was president of the United States,""He gave me a lot of very
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Letter from Brenda Walker After languishing all year, the H1B temporary worker/indentured servant bill will reportedly be voted on imminently - barely a month before the election. Almost as if Congress has been holding it hostage to extort as many campaign contributions out of Silicon Valley as possible. Funny
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Paved With Good Intentions The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America, by Jared Taylor First published in National Review, January 18, 1993 [Peter Brimelow writes: While I congratulated American Renaissance's Jared Taylor on his outing Bill Buckley for cowardice on immigration (August 23, 2000), I realized that
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Canada has notoriously invented many modern political diseases. But it may also be inventing the cures. A young Canadian neoconservative, Michael Taube, has just published an essay on North American conservative factions (Calgary Herald, August 26) that is notable both for its strengths and for its weakness. Taube has to
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"It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more." William F. Buckley Jr., letter to Jared Taylor August 8, 2000 Congratulations to American Renaissance editor Jared Taylor for getting Bill Buckley to admit, after
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Housewife jailed for advocating Official English Case tests city's speech ordinance By Michael G. Walsh, The Muskegon Chronicle, Saturday, August 12, 2000 MANISTEE... It was a little past 11 a.m. on an August day in 1998 when [Janice] Barton, 45, was leaving the Peppermill Restaurant in this
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As the Democrats convene for their coronation in Los Angeles, two powerful accounts have been published of the way in which Hispanic immigration into California is fuelling a new, class-conscious, race-based, militant labor union movement: Lloyd Billingsley's "Union Card for Green Card: The Radical Vanguard in the
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"This is a President who represents the diversity of our society, who we can count on to change the Republican Party to represent our views," said [George P. Bush] the 24-year old son of Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Mexican-born wife Columba. He told the rally his
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"No Americanized hyphenism." - George W. Bush, 2000. Immigration dimension of poverty, health insurance problems OK, it's a paraphrase. But the Gullible Old Pandaparty is making it very clear that it will accept anything—continued immigration, bilingual education, no assimilation (what does W. think it means
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Peter Brimelow writes: The Beltway Conservative Establishment is experimenting with two techniques to suppress FAIR [http://www.fairus.org/], the Federation for American Immigration Reform: (1) FAIR is an extreme left-wing, atheistic, population-control group, witness the presence on its board of Garrett Hardin, probably the most prominent U.S. humanist