Issue 68: April 5, 2001
+== TIME OUT PROJECT ==+
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has asked ProjectUSA to publish its response to our last issue (http://projectusa.org/Ezine%20archives/us_immigration_ezine.html#033001), in which we criticized its March 23 editorial on mass immigration and its role in the rampant spread of tuberculosis (TB).
In its editorial, the Star Tribune noted that immigration is far and away the primary cause of the TB threat now facing American citizens and offered as a solution a U.S. funded global rescue program to cure the one out of three citizens of other countries who are now infected with new and increasingly drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis.
However, "cracking down on immigration," the paper editorialized, was not a solution because first of all we are a "land of immigrants" and, besides, the United States is "largely to blame" for the global TB epidemic since we haven’t given the world enough money.
We criticized this on the grounds that: 1) the idea of America as a "land of immigrants" is both meaningless and false since immigrants make up only 10% of our population, while if ancestry is included ALL nations are "lands of immigrants," and 2) by blaming the United States for a global TB epidemic, and suggesting that because of this we can’t "crack down on immigration" to protect U.S. citizens, the Star-Tribune is essentially saying Americans deserve a government policy that exposes us to a dangerous health risk.
One editor at the Star Tribune, Jim Boyd, accused us of "distortion," and "dared" us to publish the entire editorial. We have posted the editorial, with the objections we received from the editorial page editor, Susan Albright, and our comments, at:
http://projectusa.org/States/MN/immigration-star-tribune.html
More reading:
Cure (Immigration Reform) Worse Than Disease
http://www.vdare.com/misc/Monastyrskyj_cure_worse.htm
+== TAKE POSITIVE ACTION ==+
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has long been an active promoter of mass immigration and has even worked with the Ford Foundation to encourage the record-breaking wave of immigration that now has us growing at a faster rate than China. We believe that to continue current policy in a world that adds another United States in population every four years is dangerous, benighted and irresponsible. What do you think?
Lou Gelfand, Reader representative,
readerrep@gw.startribune.com
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
425 Portland Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55488
Ph: 612-673-4000
Fax: 612-673-4359
opinion@startribune.com
You can also contact your local paper and express your feeling that it is unfair to risk American lives simply for the cheap labor benefits of mass, uncontrolled immigration.
Go to http://www.newsdirectory.com/ to find your local paper and tell them we need a time out from mass immigration while we implement border-screening mechanisms that will give vulnerable Americans a break.
+== QUOTE OF THE WEEK ==+
"You deserve a break today."
McDonald’s
+== E-MAIL OF THE WEEK ==+
Here is an email sent to the Star Tribune about their irresponsible editorial, which was cc’d to us:
"You guys want mass immigration for your own purposes? You take the TB and the immigrants too. How cruel to impose all that on the rest of us."
Christopher Christie
Prairie City, OR