VDARE.com’s readers are willing to go to lengths that the Main Stream Media’s writers can’t or won’t go: one has established that the “Mayberry” perp was indeed an immigrant, maybe illegal.

Reader John J. Pershing (e-mail him) writes

Note that the NC Dept. of Corrections mug sheet on Chavez Gonzales indicates: “Detainer:-Y” That means that there was an INS detainer placed on this guy at some point between his original arrest for kidnapping and his illegal release on probation (people on probation are supposed to obey federal and state laws, IA’s are ipso facto probation violators as soon as their probation intake interviews are conducted) as the second part of his “split sentence”. A “split sentence” in NC is a ruse that allows judges to dodge the abolition of parole in NC under the “Truth In Sentencing Act” and “Structured Sentence Act”.

and later writes:

Just got off the phone with Lt. Shelton regarding our boy’s lodging history in the Surry County lock up.

First stay (under the name of Marcos Gonzalez Chavez anyway) was in 2001 for his felony child kidnapping charge which got him into the NC prison system with an INS detainer as previously pointed out.

Next was in 2006 for a little less than 30 days and a guilty plea in court for no operator’s license arrest–released on time served as sentence.

Again on 6/06/06 for a parole violation. (from his child kidnapping conviction split sentence)

And now.

Gonzalez Chevez told Surry County detention intake officers that he was born in Mexico on this arrest. ICE has not issued a detainer yet. As of a few minutes ago Chavez Gonzalez has not received any visitors since his transfer from Virginia. I didn’t ask, but my guess is that his first appearance in Surry County Court will be today and he’ll get a court appointed defense attorney.

P.S.–Lt. Shelton is an affable fellow with a good sense of humor. It took him about 10 minutes to get to the phone because he was dealing with some sort of computer control problem on the sally port gates. I remarked that it sure was quite a leap from “one bullet” Barney getting locked in a cell by Otis the drunk to having computer problems with the sally port. He got a kick out of that.

Mount Airy, NC, is the site of what may be the latest Immigrant Mass Murder. It was the inspiration for the town of Mayberry on the Andy Griffith Show. You’ll note that my headline doesn’t say “Hispanic Gunman Kills Four”–all that is “alleged.” But he was convicted of some form of kidnapping, served two years, and was released. What I’d like to know is if he’s an immigrant, and if so, why he wasn’t deported.

Man charged with killing 4 in Mayberry model town

AP – An undated photo released Monday Nov. 2, 2009, by the Mount Airy, N.C., Police of Marcos Chavez Gonzalez. …

By ALYSIA PATTERSON, Associated Press Writer Alysia Patterson, Associated Press Writer – 8 mins ago

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. – Police arrested a convicted kidnapper early Monday in the fatal shooting of four men in the town that inspired the idyllic community of Mayberry on the 1960s TV series “The Andy Griffith Show.”

Marcos Chavez Gonzalez was charged with four counts of murder in the slayings late Sunday outside Woods TV in Mount Airy, about 100 miles north of Charlotte, police said.

The town, population 8,700, is the hometown of Andy Griffith and has built a tourist trade on nostalgia for the show that continues to thrive in syndication.

The four were shot in the shadow of a water tower that says “Welcome to Mount Airy” and has a picture of Griffith and Opie, his son on the show.

“This is Mayberry … Andy Griffith’s house is in spitting distance here,” said Michael Wood, one of the owners of Woods TV.[More]

A local is quoted as saying “My biggest question is why in this parking lot at all. Why Woods TV parking lot?” My biggest question is “Why in America?”

We’ve been worrying recently about the American Enterprise Institute’s Jason Richwine because he’s so effective. Recently, he even managed to get an attack on Linda Chavez’ Hispanic hype into the Dallas Morning News, of all places:

Though we want to believe Hispanics are on the old European path to economic assimilation, the evidence does not support our desires. This fact becomes more undeniable with each new data set collected and each new analysis performed, but prominent commentators are still seduced by wishful thinking.

Earlier this week, for example, columnist Linda Chavez, in a piece published in Viewpoints, reiterated her belief that Hispanics are just like other immigrant groups and that their economic progress leaves little to worry about. She is wrong…

The Hispanic first generation is quite poor, on average, with adult men earning little more than half the annual income earned by white natives. Though still relatively poor, second-generation men make considerable progress, increasing their average income to around 80 percent of the white average.

If we were to end the analysis here, we might conclude that Hispanics are right on track toward economic assimilation. The problem is that assimilation promptly stalls with the second generation. The Hispanic third generation makes no further progress and remains significantly poorer than white natives.

The same story is true for education. Though much better educated than their immigrant parents, the Hispanic second generation drops out of high school at more than twice the white rate and graduates from college at less than 60 percent of the white rate. The third generation does no better.

These facts are not in dispute. They can be confirmed by examining any major dataset that separates the second and third Hispanic generations. So how can some observers still be so optimistic?

Often they highlight the progress between the first and second generations without looking at the third. Other times they focus on side issues and factoids without considering the big picture.

Chavez falls into the latter category with her recent column.

(Jason Richwine: Latino immigrants are not on path to economic parity, Thursday, October 1, 2009. Links in original. Hispanic stall presaged by VDARE.COM here).

We (or at any rate I) worry about Linda Chavez too. Back in 2001, we were even sorry she was dropped by Dubya as Secretary of Labor because of a (guess what) illegal alien servant scandal. She’s so charming and reasonable in personal conversation and so useless in print. I presume her stuff is no longer ghosted by the appalling John J. Miller (whom we seem to have scared out of the immigration debate). But given Miller’s standard of veracity, you never know.

The news that President Obama circumvented Congress to appoint a “Diversity Czar” called Mark Lloyd at the Fedaral Communications Commission never really became news. But the information that he is a Hugo Chavez admirer and a determined quota enforcer did: ‘Diversity czar’ takes heat over remarks By Amanda Carpenter The Washington Times Wednesday, September 23, 2009

This man is a Cultural Marxist.

Three VDARE.com writers have considered this scandalous situation. Brenda Walker was annoyed at his assertion that Media management was too white. Steve Sailer was incredulous that anyone should think gays were underrepresented. And James Fulford had his pet peeve that the MSM are evasive about Race.

For myself, I think the news is wonderful. The senior management of the MSM - heavily Jewish and viciously and intolerantly liberal/leftist - has proven itself to be ground zero of Obamania.

So what kind of a moron would threaten them - and knowingly threaten them?

“There’s nothing more difficult than this because we have really truly, good, white people in important positions… unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions, we will not change the problem. But we’re in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power.”

This kind of Moron.

It is pure JP Rushton – complete with verbal fluency. Axelrod and Emanuel and the gang just will not be able to keep them quiet

I repeat what I said concerning President Obama’s stupid references to Illegals getting health coverage:

The Democrats will lose the House in 2010. The issue for patriots is ensuring the benefitting GOP Leadership is not a cloud of drones

American whites are realizing who Obama is – and this time they will vote.

Congrats to the folks at Oregonians for Immigration Reform for connecting the dots between a crime and the lack of workplace enforcement, particularly checking the status of workers.

MILWAUKIE, Ore. - Police are looking into a rape at a Milwaukie Wendy’s where the alleged attacker, a Wendy’s employee, is believed to be in the United States illegally.

The restaurant owner says he checked out the employee’s work documents when he was hired and they looked legitimate.

Now, some lawmakers and immigration reform supporters say want more than that level of effort from business owners as well as legal changes for immigration enforcement.

They not only want the laws changed, but they immediately want the owner of the Wendy’s to start using the electronic “e-verify” identification system to check the immigration status of employees.

Protesters outside the restaurant Friday are encouraging customers not to even enter the business until the owner agrees to screen his workers.

The group behind the protest is Oregonians for Immigration Reform.

Protesters were handing out fliers to customers telling them about the rape that reportedly happened in the Wendy’s bathroom.

Suspect Evanivaldo Alejo Sebastian is believed to be an illegal immigrant.
[Immigration reformers picket local Wendy's, KATU, Portland, Oregon, May 15 2009]

In addition, Accused Wendy’s Rapist Has Prior Arrests

Evanivaldo Alejo-Sebastian was arrested twice before — once in 2006 and once in 2007 – in the Kansas City area.

The protesters make a good point: E-verify not only thwarts illegal alien job thieves but its universal and mandatory use would make workplaces safer.

Offhand I can think of a couple of murders where an illegal alien became acquainted with his victim on the job. One terrible example was college freshman Jenny Garcia who was knifed to death in her own home by David Diaz Morales, a man arrested for child molestation who nevertheless worked at the same restaurant as Garcia in sanctuary city Austin.

Another was a young mother, Vinessa Hoera, who rejected the amorous workplace advances of Guatemalan alien Faustino Chavez who eventually raped her and slashed her throat numerous times in Suffolk County New York.

Portland, Oregon is, of course, near the top of any list of Stuff White People Like. It has it all: environmental restrictions on suburban development, trams, liberal social attitudes, bicycle trails, awareness, an upscale population, microbreweries, sterility, and so much more. Not surprisingly, white people like Portland. In fact, it was the only city in the country where reporter Jonathan Tilove found, while researching his book The View from Martin Luther King Drive, that white gentrifiers were driving blacks away from the local MLK Drive. Similarly, it’s one of the few cities in the country with a growing population of Reform/Conservative Jews.

Nonwhites, eh … not so much.

Of all the major urban area’s, Portland’s “core city” is the whitest.

For last week’s Obasm, the Portland Oregonian ran a lengthy article by Betsy Hammond lamenting, “In a Changing World, Portland Remains Overwhelmingly White.” On the printed version, the subheadline read, “The metro area is less diverse than most — even Salt Lake City.” As we all know these days, Mormons are the source of all evil.

(In reality, Mormons invite in to Utah Latin and Pacific Islander converts.)

As the nation’s first African American president prepares to take office this week, metro Portland — with its overwhelmingly white population and leadership — is demographically out of step with 2009 America.

Among the nation’s 40 largest metro areas, only four — none of them in the West — are whiter than Portland, new census figures show.

(more…)

VDARE likes to poke fun of Mark Krikorian and the Center for Immigration Studies for “triangulating” immigration policy somewhere between National Review Online and VDARE.

Their Eugene Katz Award For Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration have often been a bit heavy on the NRO side of the triangle and raised a few of our eyebrows. For example, In 2003 they gave the award to Joel Mowbray for his reporting in National Review on the Saudi visas. Mowbray was not there to accept the award, so National Review immigration John Miller accepted it with a note from Mowbray who indicated that he does “not agree on the key question of immigration levels.” Last year Ramesh Ponnuru gave a speech.

I’m happy to say that there is absolutely nothing to criticize about this year’s awards. Both the speaker and the award recipient—William McGowan and Heather Mac Donald respectively—were excellent choices.

MacDonald has done more than anyone to expose the pathologies of the Hispanic underclass with her pieces in City Journal that expose the depth of immigrant gangs, the lack of “Hispanic family values,” as well as issues like Mexico’s meddling in America’s immigration policy and other topics that few conservatives would tread. She spent the majority of his speech going after Open Borders conservatives like Jason Riley and Linda Chavez who believed in the “Myth of the Redemptive Hispanics” who would save America through their Catholic family values. She found it particularly odd that many conservatives are willing to talk about social pathologies among the African Americans, but not Hispanics—a point that I’d like to address at length in a future column.

The opening remarks were made by William McGowan, the author of the invaluable Coloring the News. McGowan has not written much about immigration and I was pleasantly surprised at how hard-hitting some of his speech was. For example, he said that there was a ethnic conflict of interest with the large number of Hispanic journalists. He also made the exact same observation I made at the VDARE blog about the NY Times’ failure to note that virtually all the corrupt border patrol agents were Hispanic.

Most likely unaware of Peter Brimelow’s criticism of CIS’s triangulation, McGowan praised the early anti-immigration progressives for “triangulating” (his word) between the open borders libertarians of the day and the Nativists.

CIS will post the transcript next week on their website. Let’s hope that they continue to lean more towards Heather Mac Donald and further away from Ramesh Ponnuru.

“Hit-and-run” just got a whole new meaning.

Newspaper readers see stories all the time of accidents caused by drunken, Mexican, illegal immigrants who ran away, after crashing their cars. Like many readers, I have often wondered:

1. How can someone who was driving so blind drunk that he just maimed and/or killed people and totaled his own car, be in any shape to run?; and

2. What’s the point? In the past, police would identify the vehicle’s owner, and the drunken killer would be rounded up in no time at all.

Apparently, such incidents also gave pause to some of the finest minds in state government in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia. And they came up with a solution: Those states no longer require applicants for car registration and title to furnish proof of identity, just proof of address.

Those government bureaucrats must have been upset by the stereotyping non-undocumented workers (i.e., the demographic group formerly known as “Americans”) would engage in, saying things like, “Look at that dumb undocumented worker, running from the scene of an accident. Law’s just gonna chase him down, anyway.” Now, they can say, “Look at that smart undocumented worker, running from the scene of an accident. He just might get away with murder.”

These reflections were prompted by the April 12 article, Police struggle to find drivers ‘that don’t exist,’ by reporter Carol Vaughn, in Virginia’s Dellmarva Daily Times, a Gannett paper.

Vaughn reports on an accident that demolished the front porch of Darryl Hopkins’ house on Fisher Road outside of Parksley, Virginia, and almost killed Hopkins. Hopkins was sleeping in a recliner in his living room, just a few feet from the front door, whose splintered glass landed in his lap. The car lay outside his door on its side, its lights on, but with no driver to be found. It was registered to a ghost named “Fidel Chavez Escalante,” according to the license left behind in Sr. Escalante’s wallet.

It was the second crash on Hopkins’ property by a ghost driver in the past year.

More progress: Not only did the non-existent driver escape, but the car had Mississippi plates front and back, unlike a previous crash Hopkins recounts that occurred across the road, in which a ghost driver’s car had Mississippi plates on one end, and Tennessee plates on the other.

Vaughn interviewed Virginia State Police First Sgt. J.P. Koushel, who is seeing more “hit-and-run cases involving falsified vehicle registrations.” Koushel said,

“We can’t solve these [cases] because in Mississippi, this car is registered to a person who doesn’t exist.”

“These cars are untraceable; they all come back to a fictitious person. If you don’t have to prove who you are, what’s the use of registering and titling a car? If migrant workers can do it, criminals can do it.”

Vaughn reports,

“A search of General District court records this week turned up three cases involving a person with the name on the license found in the car with a Parksley address — one for speeding, one for not having a Virginia driver’s license and one for no license. The man was found guilty in all three cases and paid fines ranging from $75 to $100.”

She quotes Hopkins as saying, “It’s a zoo back here. This is a major corridor for drugs, alcohol and illegal immigrants.”

This writer was surprised to see Gannett permitting one of its reporters to be so frank about illegal immigration.

(E-mail Carol Vaughn, to thank her for doing such a bang-up job. )

A tip ‘o the hat to faxdc.com’s Minuteman Steve, who sent me Carol Vaughn’s article.

Hugh Hewitt is a big Mark Steyn fan, and demonstrates it in this clip here, where Hewitt wants to give Steyn a Pulitzer, and Steyn has to remind Hewitt that he’s a Canadian:

HH: The Pulitzers came out this week, and they made a grievous error. They did not nominate Mark Steyn’s America Alone. I cannot believe it, but now Steyn’s America Alone is out in paperback. It is at number five on the Amazon.com list as we speak. We’re going to keep it into the top ten this hour, next, and in the third. Joining me from Washington, D.C. tonight, the author of said America Alone, Mark Steyn, Columnist to the World. Hello, Mark, how are you?

MS: Hey, good to be with you, Hugh. I’m not actually sure I’m technically eligible for the Pulitzers. I think it’s one of these, it’s more restricted than the U.S. presidency. I think you’ve got to be born in the United States, or whatever it says.

HH: Even if your book is published in the U.S? That’s too bad.

MS: Yeah, it’s very restrictive. I know, occasionally, people have talked about putting me in for a Pulitzer for this, that and the other, and it turns out an undocumented American can do almost anything in this country. He can get a fake driver’s license and all the rest of it. But apparently, the Pulitzers still maintain, it’s like an old-time country club. It’s very hard to get into.

HH: Well, that’s work that Americans will do, so they’re very pleased to get the Pulitzers.[Hugh Hewitt Show,April 10, 2008 Transcript | MP3 ]

I looked it up, and it turns out that the Pulitzers for books are very restricted:

• For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
• For a distinguished book upon the history of the United States.
• For a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.
• For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.
• For a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category.

Joseph Pulitzer set it up that, in spite of the fact that he was, like Peter Brimelow, an “immigrant himself.”

Just a reminder–what Mark Steyn said about demographics in America Alone, and elsewhere is roughly the same thing Dr. John Tanton said years ago, that Linda Chavez reacted hysterically to–that people who have more children will eventually outnumber those who have fewer, and it’s mistake to allow them to move in with you.

This from a humor site:

IMAO: Securing a Border
I like this idea: President Bush is going to fund a border fence for Mexico’s southern border. We should call this the “Keep American Illegals Mexican” bill. We only want hard-working, honest Mexican illegal immigrants, not any of those shifty, Hugo Chavez-voting Venezuelans.

But the fact is that the $1.4 Billion dollar Merida Initiative is going to send American tax dollars to Mexico to help defend what they call La Frontera Sur.

The Merida Initiative, a huge giveaway, provides, among other things

Helicopters and surveillance aircraft to support interdiction activities and rapid operational response of law enforcement agencies in Mexico.

They aren’t going to be interdicting American tourists, but all the people coming from the south. In 2001, in an Allan Wall column that mentioned President Fox’s Plan Frontera Sur, we included this note:

[VDARE.COM note: Click here for a Spanish language story on the Plan Frontera Sur, Mexico's Southern Border Plan. Perhaps President Fox would provide his friend Jorge Bush with a copy, since a Plan Frontera Sur is what our Presidente chiefly lacks]

So seven years later he finally has a plan–but we were hoping he’d guard American’s southern border.