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Hold the presses! Charen says solution to mass Mexican immigration is … assimilation
Having just read a column by Mona Charen about Victor Hanson’s book Mexifornia, I would like to change the opening line of a recent post I wrote about her to: “The almost never foolish Mona Charen.” Regarding unassimilated Mexican immigration, she makes all the usual noises that the problem is, no, not the immigration itself (a thought she doesn’t even mention, let alone dismiss), but our failure to assimilate the immigrants. It evidently doesn’t occur to her that this size and type of immigration is inherently unassimilable. Oh, yes, she agrees with Hanson on the need for border controls—meaning she wants to keep illegal aliens out of this country. Gosh, what a groundbreaking thought.
These mainstream conservatives (Charen rejects the label neoconservative) are and probably will always remain hopeless on this issue— as hopeless as, say, liberals are on the question of race differences in intelligence. In fact, I’m more optimistic on America’s prospects for ultimate survival than I am on the prospect that establishment conservatives will ever see the simple truth about mass Third-world immigration. Comments
Mr. Auster, Your pamphlet “The Path to National Suicide” rocked my world in 1991. I remember David Brudnoy of WBZ AM 1030 calling it “devastating.” It’s one of those books which has helped generate my Weltanschauung. Imagine that. Penis growth pills were not even required. Posted by: Brent Anderson on June 27, 2003 11:54 AMThanks very much, Mr. Anderson. Maybe we should spam PNS the way the obscene personal enlargement industry does with with its message! Posted by: Lawrence Auster on June 27, 2003 12:28 PMI have not read Hanson’s book, and as a fifth-generation Californian - there aren’t all that many of those - his thoughts about California merit a hearing. Still… From excerpts I have read and comment on the book, Hanson seems to want something that is no longer possible without mass deportations of illegal aliens and strong incentives for many legally resident aliens to repatriate. In the California of Hanson’s youth there was a Mexican presence. It was only one element in the state and, despite all the Spanish place names, always thoroughly subordinate to California’s majority American culture. California’s Mexico problem can no longer be solved by assimilation, if it ever could. Even if entries from Mexico ended today, the sheer weight of the Mexican presence in California would seem to ensure that the state will be materially mexicanized. Since no end to massive arrivals of Mexicans, illegal aliens and otherwise, is in sight, California’s likely future is less as a “Mexifornia” than as a northerly Mexico with significant Asian minorities and vestiges of the older American population. Even under American management, California’s resources are insufficient for her population. What grossly overpopulated California will be like under Mexican management is a frightening thought. Imagine Los Angeles as today’s Mexico City with a (dirty) beach. As for Charen, Auster has her pegged, methinks. HRS Posted by: Howard Sutherland on June 27, 2003 12:48 PMSee Hanson’s column at NRO today, http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson/062703.asp After lengthy meandering on the “American Street,” he says, “If you want anti-Americanism you don’t have to go to Brussels or Damascus, go to the Mexico City newspapers.” He continues by calling for Immigration Reform. Hanson appears to think this is going to happen. Posted by: David on June 27, 2003 1:32 PM |