Issue 73: May 7, 2001

+== TIME OUT PROJECT ==+

In a new Gallup poll released Thursday (May 3, 2001), more Americans (43%) want to see immigration levels lowered from current levels, than to remain the same (41%). (http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010503.asp )

To those who object to current U.S. immigration policy — which will drive 90% of the country’s population growth in this century — this is very good news for two reasons:

1) Historically, Americans have shown more concern for the consequences of immigration during tough economic times, so it is significant that public sentiment is so strong against mass immigration coming as it is on the heels of a ten year cheap labor economic expansion.

2) Such strong opposition to mass immigration is remarkable when one considers that the immigration issue has been so successfully linked to the ethnicity of the individual immigrants themselves. (Remember the mass amnesty bill that was barely defeated in the last Congress? It was cynically named the "Latino and Immigrant Fairness Act.")

This marriage of "diversity" and immigration has been a serious problem for immigration realists, since the mere accusation of diversity heresy, like the mere accusation of witchcraft in the 17th Century, is often sufficient to condemn the accused.

One need not exhibit any evidence of racism to be harshly and publicly denounced as racist for criticizing mass immigration. Consider the following from an article written by a New York State assemblyman attacking ProjectUSA founder Craig Nelsen for erecting billboards in New York City — billboards that simply raised the issue of immigration and had nothing to do with race or ethnicity:

"Those who yearn to breathe free should be allowed to," the assemblyman wrote, "without the putrid stench of racism that Craig Nelson endorses." ( The Jewish Press, September, 1999 http://projectusa.org/press/sep99/jewishpress-9-24-99.html )

No doubt, in public conversation, as well as in private musings, the association of immigration with the sin of racism, and the threat of such severe public censure, prevents many Americans from taking a clear-eyed view of the subject.

However the political climate is changing quickly. It is becoming increasingly apparent to average Americans that "diversity" might not justify sticking their children with the environmental and political disaster to come if Congress does not implement an immigration time-out. Congress needs to reduce levels to the more traditional 100 - 200 thousand legal immigrants per year.

Diversity vs. Freedom: Jihad on the Campus
http://www.vdare.com/fulford/diversity_freedom_gihad.htm

Updated link: Issue 71 had a link to an April 18 editorial in the Providence Journal in which the quote appeared: "The Sierra Club’s Web site is an exercise in intellectual cowardice."
Unfortunately, the Journal removes web pages rather quickly, and many found the link dead. The same editorial, however, also appears in the Omaha World Herald at: http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_div=3&u_hdg=4&u_fuse=column&u_sid=91145

+== TAKE POSITIVE ACTION ==+

A full color picture of the ProjectUSA Truthmobile — a big red billboard on wheels — was featured on the front page, above the fold, of the May 3 issue of the Chicago Tribune. In the photo’s caption, the nation’s seventh largest paper referred to the Truthmobile as an "anti-immigration billboard."

We find it interesting that everyone — opponents, supporters and casual observers — refers to our mobile billboard as "anti-immigration."

The billboard isn’t actually "anti" anything. It displays nothing more than the Census Bureau statistic, "Immigration will double U.S. population in your child’s lifetime," and lists our web address. Those who describe this message as "anti-immigration" are demonstrating that they understand that unsustainable population growth is something worth opposing.

Let your representative and senators know that you object to an irresponsible U.S. immigration policy that now has our population growing — needlessly — at a faster rate than China’s. You may contact them through: http://capwiz.com/fair/home/

To see the Chicago Tribune photo: http://projectusa.org/press/may01/chicago-tribune-5-3-01.html

+== QUOTE OF THE WEEK ==+

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Will Durant
Time August 13, 1965

+==EMAIL OF THE WEEK==+

I think part of this fear of screening for disease thing is based on recent Hollywood depictions of the action in history, such as Ellis Island, as racist. We’re so brain washed in the name of political correctness that we can’t even use good sense.

Kathleene Parker
Los Alamos, NM

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