Tony Blair is talking about reducing immigration, which has been a huge problem in the UK for years, and years, and years. However, he has economic worries:

the Prime Minister said that it was the Bank of England’s view that inward migration had had a positive impact on the economy.

He added that new immigration controls announced yesterday by Home Secretary Charles Clarke had been designed to ensure that the prospects for economic growth would not be damaged.

The idea that immigration is necessary to economic growth is an often-refuted canard. And it’s a lame excuse for not doing something about mass immigration.

Blair is a Labour Prime Minister, and as such, should be willing to preside over the total destruction of the British economy, as his predecessors did.

Amitabh Pal, Managing Editor of The Progressive, has just explained to National Review’s Jay Nordlinger why Indian immigrants, despite repeated neocon predictions and regardless of their prosperity, won’t become Republicans: (1) they don’t like Bush’s foreign policy; (2) “the Republicans, in spite of protestations to the contrary, have been a party often representing white Christian interests…”

Of course, the GOP does represent white Christian interests because its base is white and Christian. (And so, as a matter of fact, is the historic American nation).

Immigrants from very different racial and cultural backgrounds naturally have more trouble assimilating to this base.

That is why encouraging such immigration is suicide for the GOP—and for the American nation.

Mexicans want to live in the United States. They want to work in America. And they want to bear children and educate their American citizen off spring right here in the USA.

But when they are dead, they want to be buried in Mexico.

According to a January 2, 2004 Sacramento Bee story titled, “At Life’s End Many Immigrants Make the Final Journey Home,” in 2004 more than 1,500 bodies were shipped from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento back to Mexico for interment. [VDARE.COM NOTE: See Sam Francis's comments on same phenomenon in New York.]

Mexican consulate offices provided financial assistance.

According to Sacramento Consul Luis Enrique Castresana, “For Mexicans, to go back to their country - alive or dead - is the most important thing.”

Well….maybe Mexicans prefer to be home when they’re dead. But judging by the looks of things here in Calfornia, when Mexicans are alive, they’d rather be in the United States.