Immigration

Ilana Mercer, October 24, 2014

  • “Here in America, death waylays us daily, due to treacherous state forces such as were seen in Israel on October 7. Except that the carnage stateside is a daily drip-drip of racially driven murders and maimings. These deaths Americans have been habituated to accept—for everywhere and always, institutionalized treason is aided by an Orwellian Ministry of Truth.”—ILANA Mercer, “Hamas, Israel And The Anatomy Of State Treason,” October 12, 2023
  • “The carnage in our country results from the prying open of the borders and the jails; from a promiscuous legal immigration system that privileges the undeveloped underclasses, and from the inversion and nullification of the country’s laws, so that ordered liberty cannot be sustained.”—ILANA Mercer, “Hamas, Israel And The Anatomy Of State Treason,” October 12, 2023
  • “Millions of invaders are invited in annually, to take up residence in a country in which they will be inculcated into a militant anti-white culture; taught to hate their hosts in the purplest of ways. The statist scandal has been underway for decades now.”—ILANA MERCER, “The D-Bomb, Realpolitik, Zelensky’s Self-Serving ‘Heroics’ & What ‘Mixed-Race’ Really Means,” December 22, 2022.
  • “Broadly speaking, anyone (other than white South Africans) can claim ‘credible fear’ at the US south-western border, and must, by law, be given safe passage. That, combined with family unification policies—one legal, third-world immigrant brings in a tribe—and birthright citizenship, a legal aberration not practiced by any serious country in the world, have made population replacement in the United States a fait accompli, a done deal.”—ILANA MERCER, “The D-Bomb, Realpolitik, Zelensky’s Self-Serving ‘Heroics’ & What ‘Mixed-Race’ Really Means,” December 22, 2022.
  • Indisposed to idle optimism, I refuse to dish anything but reality about the future of the United States from the vantage point of immigration. The demographic tipping point has arrived, by which I mean that America’s annual intake of legal and illegal immigrants, coupled with immigration law, for which the Uniparty is responsible, account for the exponential nature of this top-down scheme to swamp America.”—ILANA MERCER, “The D-Bomb, Realpolitik, Zelensky’s Self-Serving ‘Heroics’ & What ‘Mixed-Race’ Really Means,” December 22, 2022.
  • “If you are among the millions crossing the Rio Grande illegally into the US, are of a swarthy complexion and can produce a current, up-to-date criminal record—low scores on IQ and literacy tests help, too—you may enter America no questions asked, all expenses covered.”—ILANA MERCER, “Ron DeSantis Delivers First Principles In Action,” November 10, 2022
  • “Once illegals present at the border—they are never turned back, but are processed and released, a reality that is the legal creation of the UniParty. Accordingly, any claimant other than a white South African can arrive at that border, do his Les Misérables act, claim to face a ‘credible fear’ back home, get a court date, and then bolt like so many rabbits, to be seen again only at the voting booth, the welfare office, the DMV and at DACA demonstrations. These ‘credible fear’ incomers are also the malcontents holding up signs that read ‘America is racist.’” ~ilana mercer, “Republican Strategy for Winning: Defend the Enemy’s Embryos,”
    September 1, 2022.
  • “All this misplaced compassion over the ‘crisis at the border’—day in and day out, on Fox News, too—is nauseating. The job of American policy makers and the auxiliary punditry is not to flaunt their virtue to The World currently on its way to America, but to stick strictly to their mandate—and send them the hell home.”—ILANA Mercer, “On The Backs Of Poor Whites? How J.D. Vance Elites Become Elites,” April 20, 2021.
  • “What is the “Open Sesame” magical phrase that gets one into polite company, conservative and progressive? You oppose illegal immigration alone, even though its effects on the country are as pernicious as the legal and annual importation of over 1 million immigrants from India, China and other parts of the Third World.”—ILANA Mercer, “On The Backs Of Poor Whites? How J.D. Vance Elites Become Elites,” April 20, 2021.
  • “It is American leaders, left and right, who’ve convinced their population that Americans are nothing unless strangers are streaming into their country at a rate of 2 million a year, speaking in tongues and inaugurating wet-markets in New York City. This is who we are, they tell us.”—ILANA Mercer, “Who Invited The World To Infect America?”, April 30, 2020.
  • “The West’s political and corporate leaders, not China’s, had opened their borders to the world’s flotsam and jetsam. Agreements to exchange goods and people reflected the choices of these gilded global elites, not those of their people.”—ILANA Mercer, ‘Who Invited The World To Infect America?” April 30, 2020.
  • “Free trade in goods is great. But trade goods, not places.”—ILANA Mercer, ‘Who Invited The World To Infect America?” April 30, 2020.
  • “The open-border fetish is turning into a symbol of death, not freedom. For the correlation between borderless countries and coronavirus infection rates seems unmistakable.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Open-Border Fetish Is Turning Into A Symbol Of Death,” March 14, 2020
  • “By using their police powers to swamp their already fractious populations with alien nations—where are the referenda on mass immigration?—governments have undermined exiting ethnic balance in western democracies, and, with it, the fellow feeling so essential to democracy’s endurance.”—ILANA Mercer, “D’oh! Looks Like Democracy Dies In Diversity,” American Greatness, January 30, 2020.
  • “Big Tech is exacerbating homelessness in Seattle and the surrounds. While correlation is not causation, the ongoing and never-ending, annual importation of a sizable feudal elite from China and India must be factored into the homelessness equation.”—ILANA Mercer, “Homeless In Seattle, Part 2: Tech Sucks The Soul Out Of The City,” WND.COM, October 10, 2019.
  • “Our country is consigning its economically weakest members to the homeless encampment, through the never-ending importation of a high-rolling, high-tech elite, which, in turn, artificially inflates the price of housing. In perpetuity.—ILANA Mercer, “Homeless In Seattle, Part 1: High-Tech Harm The Homeless,” The Unz Review, October 1, 2019.
  • “Even if drug addiction and mental illness are seen as necessary in causing homelessness, they are seldom sufficient. Substance abuse and mental anguish can, in themselves, be the consequence of other exogenous, existential and intractable circumstances. Like being priced out of your homeland’s housing market. For good.”—ILANA Mercer, “Homeless In Seattle, Part 1: High-Tech Harm The Homeless,” WND.COM, October 3, 2019.
  • “In the context of the American and European immigration S.O.S., the ‘demographic decline’ argument, wielded by Christian leaders (and many a misguided ‘conservative’ pundit), has been used as an excuse to swamp—and weaken—native European populations.”—ILANA Mercer, “White Guilt And Christianity,” September 11, 2019, The Quarterly Review.
  • “From the fact that Western nations aren’t breeding to some state-set, church-approved, desired level—it doesn’t follow that these nations ‘deserve’ to be demographically drowned by better breeders.”—ILANA Mercer, “White Guilt: Where Does It Originate And How To Fight It,” September 11, 2019, The Unz Review.
  • “Why don’t Christian religious leaders stand-up for the right of Western people to retain their countries, despite their procreational foibles and frailties?”—ILANA Mercer, “Is White Guilt A Product of Christianity?” WND.COM, September 12, 2019.
  • “The State has orchestrated the mass migration invasion. Pressured by The Church, the State can stop it.”—ILANA Mercer, “Is White Guilt A Product of Christianity?” WND.COM, September 12, 2019.
  • “You and the flaccid, neutered state agents you pay to protect you are prohibited from telling trespassers, ‘You can’t come into my home.’ Why? Because America, plainly put, is not your home. By their definition, America belongs to The World; it’s everybody’s home and therefore nobody’s home.”—ILANA Mercer, “We Aren’t Americans; We ARE The World (Part II),” Townhall.com, July 25, 2019.
  • “The country is no longer, because, for one, there is nothing to separate citizens from The World. For another, the country’s representatives are representing The World, not their constituents.“—ILANA Mercer, “We Aren’t Americans; We ARE The World (Part II),” Townhall.com, July 25, 2019.
  • “As the myth-history presented to us day-in and day-out goes, for America to be America, The World must be able to arrive on her shores and be kept in style.“—ILANA Mercer, “We Aren’t Americans; We ARE The World (Part II),” Townhall.com, July 25, 2019.
  • “The right of a nation to stop The World from flooding its communities amounts to upholding a negative right. In other words, by stopping trespassers at their borders, Americans are not robbing invaders of the trinity of life, liberty and property. All Americans are asserting is their right to be left alone. What we are saying to The World is what we tell our disobedient toddlers every day, ‘No. You can’t go there.’”—ILANA Mercer, “Why The Mighty USA Must Beg Mexico To Police Its Border,” Townhall.com, June 21, 2019.
  • “What President Trump has had to do is convince the Mexican president to deploy his national guards to do the work American immigration police is not allowed to do. The U.S. must turn to Mexico to police its border.”—ILANA Mercer, “Why The Mighty USA Must Beg Mexico To Police Its Border,” Townhall.com, June 21, 2019.
  • “For politicians, ‘protecting’ the abstraction that is ‘our way of life’ trumps the protection of real individual lives.”—ILANA Mercer, “Kamala’s Collectivist Values Village,“ WND, March 14, 2019.
  • “Caravans of human cargo are filing into the United States because … they can. U.S. law allows it, even invites it. Provided you’re not a white, South African farmer—in other words, a real refugee—you may plonk yourself at an American ‘port of entry,’ and simply assert your right to petition the U.S. for asylum.”—ILANA Mercer, “Asylum Laws: Do They Constitute Treason Against Americans?” Townhall.com, February 8, 2019.
  • “Here’s the magic maxim our immigration scofflaw should follow: Just do it. Cross illegally. All roads lead to Rome—to the creation of an immutable reality on the ground: By and large, illegal migrants get to stay in the U.S., even though fewer than 10 percent of asylum applications are officially approved.”—ILANA Mercer, “Asylum Laws: Do They Constitute Treason Against Americans?” WorldNetDaily.com, February 7, 2019.
  • “Let us not confuse the metastatic multinational, motivated by mammon alone, with a business whose growth is sustained by communities, as opposed to colonies of imported labor.”—ILANA Mercer, “U.S. Business Itching to Import Cheap Labor,” Townhall.com., September 20, 2018
  • “Death by illegal alien is not about group crime aggregates. (In particular, the contention that illegal aliens commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, therefore, let them come.) Wrong. Death by illegal alien is about this life-cherishing, immutable logic: If alien X HAD BEEN REMOVED from the U.S., as the law dictates, innocent American Y WOULD BE ALIVE TODAY.”—ILANA Mercer, “Dead by Illegal Alien? You’re Just An Anecdote,” WND, January 10, 2019.
  • “Wage walls, not wars.“—ILANA Mercer, The Unz Review, December 27, 2018.
  • “Ruffians are breaching the U.S. border near Tijuana, demanding access to the American Welfare State. That’s the reality!”—ILANA Mercer, “Liberals Want America To Go Borderless,” Townhall.com, November 30, 2018.
    • “What those liberals colonizing our heads are attempting to convey is that a good America, a just America, a moral America is de facto and de jure a borderless America”—ILANA Mercer, “Liberal Propaganda: A Good America Is A Borderless America,” WND.COM, November 29, 2018.
    • “Posse Comitatus means that ‘the U.S. military is not to be used to control or defeat American citizens on U.S. soil.’ The hordes amassed on the border with Mexico, and rushing the port of entry in San Ysidro, California, are not American citizens. They are not even very nice.”—ILANA Mercer, “Liberal Propaganda: A Good America Is A Borderless America.” WND.COM, November 29, 2018.
    • “Democrats, who control the intellectual means of production—schools, social media, TV, the print press, the publishing houses, think tanks, the Permanent Bureaucracy—they insist mass immigration comports with ‘who we are as a people.'”—ILANA Mercer, “How The Disunited States Can Survive,” American Greatness, November 3, 2018.
    • “It is the individual who creates the collective, not the other way around. The Man makes the country what it is. South Africa ceased being great once enough good people were expunged from state and civil society. The tipping point is coming. A sufficient number of bad people admitted into the Unites States of America will make America great no more.”—ILANA Mercer,  “The Caravan Cometh, Making America Great No More,” Townhall.com, October 26, 2018.
    • “Once illiberal, unassimilable people gain ‘numeric superiority,’ they will turn their population advantage into political advantage, using the host population’s liberalism against it.”—ILANA Mercer, “How The Left Stole Liberalism & Sold Out The West,” Quarterly Review, August 19, 2018.
    • “Kids detained at the border, in accordance with US law, is the fault of bad parents who deploy children as human shields to gain entry into the US. It’s unfortunate that children are born into disorganized, chaotic families. But a child is either the responsibility of his parents or of the state. Parents who put kids is such precarious a predicament are unfit. Why, then, are unfit parents fit to become Americans?”—ILANA Mercer, “Why are Unfit parents Fit To Become Americans?” Townhall.com, June 23, 2018.
    • “The profits from the immigration industry, material and political, are privatized; the costs are socialized”—ILANA Mercer, “Why are Unfit parents Fit To Become Americans?” Townhall.com, June 23, 2018.
    • “The squeaky wheels squatting on the US southern border, funneled daily into the interior to create facts on the ground, are not refugees or legitimate asylum seekers. Rather, they are merely from what President Trump has termed ‘shit-hole countries.'”—ILANA Mercer, “Separated From My Child—And Nobody Cares,” Townhall.com, July 5, 2018
    • “As the left sees it, if America isn’t going to police the world; it must at least provide shelter to all people from unpoliced parts of the world.”—ILANA Mercer, “A Global ‘Right of Return’ To The US? Who Knew?” Townhall.com, June 15, 2018.
    • On “shithole countries”: “What makes a country, the place or the people? Does the country create the man or does the man make the country? The answer is no chicken-or-egg quandary. Human action is the ultimate adjudicator of a human being’s worth. The aggregate action of many human beings acting in concert is what makes or breaks a society. In other words, it is the individual who creates the collective, not the other way around. The Man makes the country what it is.”—ILANA Mercer, “Why Trump Pooh-Poohed ‘Shithole Countries,’” Townhall.com, February 1, 2018.
    • “Billionaire tech execs derive greater pleasure from signaling their virtue (via immigration) than from turning a profit. They aim for stardom in Davos, Switzerland, not Des Moines, Iowa.”—ILANA Mercer, “Why Tax Breaks Won’t Stop High-Tech, H-1B Human Trafficking,” Constitution.com, November 17, 2017.
    • America’s tech superstars are true believers in the borderless multicultural state. These arrogant CEOs and their minions are social-justice warriors, first; giants of industry, second.”—ILANA Mercer, “Why Tax Breaks Won’t Stop High-Tech, H-1B Human Trafficking,” Unz Review, November 16, 2017.
    • “Nations whose institutions promote cultural relativism and hate of the dominant culture have no business importing the sort of immigrant who’ll be quick to act on an ideology of hate—be it the self-hate of the host, or the hate in Jihad.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Manchester Massacre was Murder By Muslim Immigrant,” The Unz Review, May 25, 2017.
    • “ISIS and an abstract ideology called ‘radical Islamic terrorism’—a redundancy, if ever there was one, since Islam unreformed is radical—are not attacking us. Men and women upon whom we’ve conferred the right to live among us are.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Manchester Massacre And The Immigration Vexation,” American Thinker, May 25, 2017
    • “The more abstract the expert Idiocracy gets in defining what is murder-by-Muslim immigrant, the more removed will be their solutions—removed from solutions that are at once achievable and the legitimate purview of limited government.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Manchester Massacre And The Immigration Vexation,” American Thinker, May 25, 2017
    • “Yes, Bill O’Reilly, President Trump was correct when he asserted that, ‘We have a lot of killers.’ Our country’s politicians have left lands not theirs slick with blood. But this doesn’t mean the American people deserve to be killed stateside, which is what the president’s  Executive Order was meant to prevent.”—ILANA, “Coequal in Tyranny: The Ninth Circuit’s Rules for Radicals,”  Townhall.com, February 13, 2017
    • “Liberals have developed a utopian vision of how nature should behave. It must remain in perfect balance. To that end, they’ll exterminate harmless critters that violate the liberal idea of Order; of species correctness. While animals may not migrate illegally, or disrupt the preordained ‘natural’ order—liberal social engineers encourage non-indigenous peoples to mess with the social habitat of historic, host populations. Provided they’re white.”—ILANA (The Daily Caller, December 8, 2016)
    • “Despite The West’s generosity to The Rest, its people is the only people to be shamed, ostracized, threatened and maligned when talking about the lands of their forefathers, the beliefs of forebears; the faith and folklore of Founding Fathers. (Discussing quilting is OK, I suppose.)”—ILANA (November 27, 2015)
    • “Every other people aside whites is allowed to claim and keep its corner under the sun.”—ILANA (November 27, 2015)
    • “German Chancellor Angela Merkel is not unimpeachably moral, as Der Spiegel has claimed; she is plain impeachable. Germans must dethrone Angela Merkel before this dictator re-elects another people in their place and renders them aliens in their homelands.”—ILANA (November 13, 2015)
    • “If Chancellor Merkel were using her privately owned land on which to accommodate these refugees, and her own funds to transport and sustain them; and provided she prevented her charges from venturing onto public property or accessing taxpayer-funded resources—Merkel’s plot to swamp Germany with indigent, largely Muslim aliens would indeed be moral. But this is not the case. Moreover, when a government orchestrates the unfettered movement of people into a state in which the native population’s rights to property, free association and self-defense are already heavily circumscribed by the same authority—that government is guilty of unadulterated social engineering, and worse.”—ILANA (November 13, 2015)
    • “Does the U.S. have a problem with a deluge of illegal immigrants pouring over the Canadian border? No. Canada is a high-wage area. The U.S. is a high-wage area. Latin America is a low-wage area. Migratory pressure flows from low-wage to high-wage regions; from the Third World to the First World (until migratory equilibrium is reached when First World becomes Third World).”—ILANA (September 18, 2015)
    • “From the safety and comfort of rarefied zip codes, open-border theorists tutor the little people in the positive economic effects of, say, high population density on productivity and economic growth. But regular folks don’t have to travel to Cairo or Karachi to discover that this urban theory is an urban myth.”—ILANA (August 7, 2015)
    • “Propensities for crime are irrelevant in a discussion about the murder of an individual—Ms. Kathryn Steinle and all other victims of criminals who should not be in the U.S. For these deaths have nothing to do with aggregate crime rates; they’re about individuals who should be alive: a baby that should have been born, a girl who should be among the living, young men and women who should not be dead. To justify the crime-probabilities line-of-inquiry in the context of killer Francisco Sanchez’ presence that day on the San Franscico pier, you would need to show that had Sanchez been deported or jailed or turned back at the border—his victim, Ms. Steinle, would nevertheless have suffered the same fate at the hands of a native murderer. The same eventuality would need to be demonstrated with respect to each individual victim of a criminal alien. The implication is crushingly stupid.”—ILANA (July 10, 2015)
    • “Programmed from on high, Europeans, like Americans, are bound by the suicide pact of political correctness to open their borders to the huddled mass of Third World people, no matter the consequences to their societies.”—ILANA (April 24, 2015)
    • “Demographics need not be destiny. The West became the best not by out-breeding the undeveloped world—not due to huge numbers—but because of human capital; people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.”—ILANA (March 27, 2015)
    • “Good immigrants come to America to be part of the ‘little platoons’ that make up its glorious private economy: the people of Nike, Apple, Microsoft, Starbucks, McDonald’s, Amazon, Google, Marriot, Mattel, FedEx, Costco, Coca-Cola, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Fred Meyer, Overstock.com, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and millions of local franchises run by innovative, everyday Americans. Bad immigrants come to America to partake of the state.”—ILANA (September 19, 2014)
    • “From the fact that 23 percent of native-born Americans also use means-tested benefit programs, less-enlightened, open-border libertarians have concluded that it is economically and morally inconsequential to extend taxpayer-funded welfare to millions of unviable non-nationals. How is this asinine argument different from positing that because a bank has been robbed by one set of bandits (welfare-dependent nationals), repelling or arresting the next gang (welfare-dependent non-nationals) is unnecessary, as the damage has already been done? It isn’t.”—ILANA (April 5, 2013)
    • “Have you ever heard a member of America’s low-brow glitterati and literati advocate for immigrants who are not poor, not brown, and not uneducated? I have not—with the exception of Tucker Carlson, a libertarian-leaning rightist.”—ILANA (April 5, 2013)
    • “In pluralistic, multicultural America, the historic American nation — its culture and Christian faith — will, eventually, be confined to an ethnic enclave among many. This is the ‘End of Days’ scenario that immigration patriots must contemplate, once they’ve exited the hypobaric chamber that is the current ‘conversation’ about immigration.”—ILANA (October 1, 2010)
    • “Friends of Israel in America are unequivocal in standing up for that country’s right to retain its Jewish identity. What would become of that identity if all self-styled Arab refugees were to be granted the so-called right of return? Hatched by Israel’s enemies, this scheme will see millions of such refugees granted the right to immigrate to Israel proper, where they will overwhelm the Jewish majority. Friends of Israel know that Jews must remain numerically preponderant in the Jewish state if the prosperous, progressive nature of the country and its liberal institutions is to endure.”—ILANA (October 1, 2010)
    • “Think of mass immigration into America as a global ‘right of return.'”—ILANA (October 1, 2010)
    • “Fifty five delegates convened in 1787 at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, to carve out the contours of this Constitution. Imagine those magnificent men making the case that the people of the colonies they represented ought to sit idle should their homesteads be overrun by trespassers and their families and friends imperiled. Imagine those very men arguing for a future central authority that acted as the sole arbiter in deciding who would breach the perimeters of their respective home patches. Inconceivable.”—ILANA (September 3, 2010)
    • “Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great not because of huge numbers, but due to human capital — people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.”—ILANA (March 12, 2010)
    • “Declining birth rates—and their antidote; the mass immigration imperative—are the excuses statists make for persevering with immigration policies that are guaranteed to destroy western civil society and shore up the State.”—ILANA (March 12, 2010)
    • “Libertarian and leftist protest over any impediment to the free flow of people across borders is predicated not on the negative, leave-me-alone rights of the individual, but on the positive, manufactured right of human kind to venture wherever, whenever.”─ILANA (May 1, 2009)
    • “A well-policed barrier on the border is the definitive, non-aggressive method of defense against ailments and afflictions. You don’t attack, arrest or otherwise molest undesirables; you keep them at bay, away.”─ILANA (May 1, 2009)
    • “Whether they are armed with bombs or bacteria, stopping weaponized individuals from harming others ─ intentionally or unintentionally ─ falls perfectly within the purview of the ‘night-watchman state of classical-liberal theory.'”─ILANA (May 1, 2009)
    • “What kind of a nation neglects its own borders while defending to the death borders not its own?”—ILANA (March 6, 2009)
    • “John McCain thinks you commune with God by amnestying illegal aliens.”—ILANA (July 25, 2008)
    • “Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.”—ILANA (July 4, 2008)
    • “Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country’s laws.”—ILANA (July 4, 2008)
    • “McCain might consider modifying his mantra about illegal aliens being God’s children to whom he owes a path to citizenship. This is not about the Arizonan’s relationship with God and His creatures; it’s about McCain’s relationship with the Constitution. The Constitution binds a president to uphold the law; it doesn’t authorize him to legislate compassion.”—ILANA (April 4, 2008)
    • “From their vantage point, cultivated usually from the serenity of their stately homes, open-border utilitarians often tout the advantages of high population density. Apparently, Cairo and Calcutta are models for the specialization that comes with an increased division of labor.”—ILANA (November 2, 2007)
    • “While open-border libertines love Bastiat’s elegant argument about ‘What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen,’ they seldom apply it to mass immigration, where these implacable enemies of America choose to see only benefits. Thus, for every mound of cheap strawberries, there are crops of criminals, failing schools, and folding hospitals.”—ILANA (August 3, 2007)
    • “The future leader of a superpower should be emphasizing innovation-oriented, not labor-intense, forms of production. More mechanization and less Mexicanization.”—ILANA (October 12, 2007)
    • “The free flow of people across borders is not to be confused with the free flow of goods across borders. Free trade is a positive-sum game. Contrary to illegal immigration, it is always invited, consensual and hence mutually beneficial to the parties involved.”—ILANA (March 31, 2006)
    • “When government orchestrates an unfettered movement of people into an interventionist state, in which the rights to property, free association, and self defense are already heavily circumscribed by the state—it is guilty of unadulterated social engineering, central planning, and worse.”—ILANA (August 21, 2007)
    • On amnesty: “How better to diminish property rights and accelerate wealth distribution and, with it, the death of the republic, than to add to the ‘union’ each year the equivalent of a New Jersey, powered by identity-politics, and peopled predominantly by tax consumers seeking to indenture taxpayers?”—ILANA (June 15, 2007)
    • “The notion of dissolving the people and electing another, to paraphrase Bertold Brecht—that’s very much alive in the minds of the political caste.”—ILANA (May 22, 2007)
    • The Republican presidential candidates “insist the American military’s obligation is to patrol the borders of Kosovo, Korea and Kurdistan, while our own borders remain perilously porous; Americans living alongside them forsaken.”—ILANA (May 18, 2007)
    • “Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state’s laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.”—ILANA (May 3, 2007)
    • “Want to see an immigration liberationist rise on his hind legs, mention a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Hysterical yelps of ‘tear down this wall’ will ensue. Irrational minds have transformed a defensive wall à la the Emperor Hadrian’s, intended to keep the ‘barbarians’ out, into the Iron Curtain or the Berlin Wall, constructed to keep people in.”—ILANA (October 20, 2006)
    • “It’s now mandatory to pair an objection to the invasion of the American Southwest with an embrace of all forms of legal immigration. The sole emphasis on border security has, in all likelihood, entrenched the status quo—Americans will never assert their right to determine the nature of the country they live in and, by extension, the kind of immigrants they welcome.”—ILANA (April 28, 2006)
    • “America’s immigration policies select for low moral character by rewarding unacceptable risk-taking and law-breaking—an undesirable feature that’ll be further refined by the imminent passing of the amnesty bill.”—ILANA (April 6, 2006)
    • “The purely economic argument about the price at which American workers will perform menial work is meaningless without a reference to borders and to the thing they bound—a nation. Render asunder the idea of a nation, make borders obsolete—and the world is your labor market.”—ILANA (March 31, 2006)
    • “Most illegal aliens do not come to the U.S. to wage war, but the reality is that, once in the country, almost all wage welfare.”—ILANA (March 27, 2006)
    • American immigration policy: “a statist revolution directed from above by a treacherous political class that has shared the ideological cockpit with ‘intellectuals,’ who hate their country’s history and inhabitants (aboriginals excluded).”—ILANA (December 16, 2005)
    • “Would that the American Welfare State did not exist. But since it does and is, unfortunately, likely to persist for some time to come, it must stop at the Rio Grande.”—ILANA (October 31, 2003)
    • “Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.”—ILANA (January 16, 2004. Also mentioned here by Larry Auster)
    • “Why immigration ought to be the central issue in the 2008 elections: “The neoconservative ‘idea’ of preemptive wars or wars for democracy is as dead as a doornail. However, the notion of dissolving the people and electing another, to paraphrase Bertold Brecht, that’s very much alive in the minds of the political caste.”—ILANA (May 22, 2007)

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