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May 03, 2006
What's Up With Immigration Reality
I don't know much about Peter Brimelow or the VDare website, but he did speak at Vanderbilt recently and noted some very interesting immigration policies of other countries (hat tip to John Derbyshire at The Corner):
You often hear people say that we’re moving toward a "borderless world." But this is only true in the First World. When I wrote Alien Nation, I went to the trouble of calling up a lot of the countries that send immigrants to the U.S. I called the Japanese Consulate in New York and asked the official, how could I go about immigrating to Japan? And we have a quote, we taped him. He expressed complete surprise and astonishment. He said: "Why do you want to immigrate to Japan?" He said there might be three people a year who become Japanese, and even they don’t stay long, they try to immigrate somewhere else, like the U.S.Well, of course, the Japanese reluctance to accept immigrants is quite well known. And they’re not about to change it.
My favorite was India.. When we called them up, the first official we got said, "Are you of Indian origin?" When we said no, he said "Submit your question in writing to the Embassy" and then he hung up!
The second official said "Are you of Indian origin?" and when we asked if it was important, he said yes, and he transferred the call. We finally got to a third official who said "Since you are not of Indian origin"—now remember, he meant race here, we’d already specified we were American citizens—"since you’re not of Indian origin, it’s a very difficult and complex process to immigrate to India. Among other things, it will require obtaining clearances from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Home Affairs. This is a very long process."
In other words, India is running a Brown India program—sort of like the old White Australia policy. And they have probably very good reasons for that. There a quite enough communal problems right now in India, without introducing other divergent elements.
All of this is again meant to reinforce my previous point: that the US has the same absolute right as any other country to regulate immigration in any way it sees fit.
This appears so obvious to me that the continued assertions by the pro-illegal lobby of a God-given right to cross the border at their convenience seem to place them firmly on a path to utter defeat.
Along similar lines, an cycling acquaintance today wrote that he'd had several hispanic truck drivers call him "immigrant" today--as in, "Hey, immigrant, what's up?"
His attitude, and mine, is: keep up the good work and you'll find out exactly what's up.
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