Last Saturday, we blogged about the outrageous call by Mexico’s Foreign Secretary for the prosecution of the Minuteman group. The interview was first spotted by the new blog He!D! says, which is run by a rambunctious young Texan woman. She is apparently a newcomer to the immigration controversy.

This week, He!D! found Free Republic. On Tuesday she happily reported she would not be posting, being busy in controversy there.

On Wednesday, she was blocked from the site. As she reports on the ALIPAC thread The Battle of Free Republic Echo!

“Well, y’all… it took less than 24 hours and I’ve been banned from FR, from a thread that was discussing FR’s supposed bias, ironically enough. You all warned me beforehand, and so I was expecting it, but it still kinda surprised me that it was SO PREDICTABLE! I mean, it’s a sorry state of affairs if your own scandal becomes cliché…Jim just summarily yanked every single one of my posts (about a dozen) a 1/2 day after they had been posted.”

To which a veteran ALIPAC hand replied:

“William” of course William Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration, who outed Free Republic in February. His site has a library of FR atrocities.

My suspicion about Free Republic’s Jim Robinson remains unchanged.

And now HE!D! says knows what is always the first argument favored by the Treason Lobby—repression

Prime Minister Tony Blair has just been forced to give a full-dress policy speech in the middle of the current U.K. election campaign, trying to masquerade as a restrictionist on immigration. This despite the huge surge of immigration – some of it through the asylum or refugee loopholes – over which he happily presided in his first two terms.

There could be no clearer proof that the Conservative opposition’s strategy of emphasizing the immigration issue has frightened Blair’s Labour Party. As the London Times’ Matthew Parris very reasonably says,

“[Conservative leader] MICHAEL HOWARD has won a considerable victory. He has forced Tony Blair to take the issue of immigration square-on. Mr Blair made a useful speech yesterday, conceding some points of great substance to the Conservative position… Immigration matters to people… politicians and journalists who respond to public anxiety by changing the subject are the very opposite of responsible. They risk losing their audience and their authority to less scrupulous individuals….”

“For three decades the airwaves have been as packed as the newspaper opinion columns with reassuring news and commentary about the enrichment which immigration can bring…. We must acknowledge and explain the stubborn and aggrieved persistence of a popular consensus that Britain is overcrowded, and that the sudden expansion of cultures that are strange to us is bad for a nation…”

“The only possible answer is Mr Howard’s: to set a limit…Mr Blair half-concedes the logic…The Conservative Party may not win this election, but it is winning the argument. Whoever forms the next Government, immigration limits will be on the agenda.” [“Mr Blair decided to play the race card – but finds he’s been trumped,” April 23 2005]

Imagine—in 2008, we might see GOP Presidential nominee Jeb Bush rushing to establish immigration reform credentials, under attack from Hilary Clinton!

On April 25th, immigration reform activists who live in the greater metropolitan Washington, D.C. area will have a chance to express their anger about President George W. Bush’s willful encouragement of open borders.

They—and anyone else who wants to join the party—can meet VDARE editor and grassroots activist D.A. King who, in conjunction with FAIR and former San Diego mayor and talk show host Roger Hedgecock, will stage a rally near Lafayette Park [details] near the White House from 9:30 AM to 12 Noon.

King’s rally, which will include many nationally known immigration reform activists like Bay Buchanan, Peter Gadiel and Terry Anderson, is part of a four day “Hold Their Feet to the Fire” effort by Americans who will be descending on Washington from all over the nation to show President Bush and the U.S. Congress that lawful citizens have had enough.

Please attend. Remember: there’s strength in numbers.

More details here and here. Contact D.A. King if you have any questions.

The big immigration story in Chicago these days is the “plight” of poor Teresa Figueroa, an illegal alien who faces imminent deportation because she was caught using somebody else’s Social Security number while holding down a job at Micron Industries in Elmhurst, IL, where, according to Figueroa, many of her coworkers also are illegal.

During an April 20 WGN Radio newscast, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR), whose stated goal is to undermine the rule of law in this country, said:

“Teresa Figueroa is another example of a good person being punished by bad (immigration) laws.”

This anarchist obviously doesn’t understand that you don’t have to be an immigrant—legal or illegal—to get nailed for taking part in this country’s fastest growing crime—identity theft.

Naturally, a prayer vigil was called, and Ms. Figueroa’s supporters planned to ask Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) to introduce special legislation that would allow this criminal, who has broken not one but two of our laws, to remain in the United States.

Because WGN Radio, whose bias is a bad as its corporate parent’s, the Chicago Tribune, saw fit to present only one side of this story by painting Figueroa’s as a “victim,” I called the station’s newsroom and spoke with the reporter responsible for the piece.

“What about the fact that Figueroa is seen as a pillar of her community?” asked the reporter.

“How can she be a ‘pillar’ in her community at the same time she’s breaking the law?” I responded, and then had to take the reporter by the hand and explain that many white-collar workers who are “upstanding” members of their communities, churches, etc., are routinely sent to prison for embezzlement or worse.

The reporter acknowledged that I had a point and put my statement on tape to be used, presumably, when the story would be aired again later in the evening. She asked for my name and the name of our organization and said she’d put in it her Rolodex. But I’m not going to hold my breath because WGN Radio is, well, you know…

I wanted two things from the College of Cardinals but got only one.

The Cardinals selected Joseph Ratzinger, a German, and not one of the Italians I was hoping for like Angelo, Cardinal Scola, or Tarsicio, Cardinal Bertone. I’ll never understand why the Italians let go of the papacy. What else do they have?

But I am delighted that the Pope Benedict XVI is considerably more than a decade older than me.

I am not ready to be older than the Pope.

Congratulations to William Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration, who appears to have been instrumental in disrupting an effort to subsidize college tuition for illegals in North Carolina.

The publicity has triggered as fine a rats-leaving-sinking-ship scramble among state politicians as it has been my pleasure to see in many years [More State Lawmakers Withdrawing Their Name From Controversial Tuition Bill – WRAL.com April 19 2005]. (The poll embedded in this story is running 92% against as I write!)

And Gheen’s ALI-PAC appears to have won high praise from Raleigh NC neighbor El Pueblo:

“…the Hispanic advocacy group in Raleigh…director Andrea Bazan-Manson… thinks the backlash against illegal immigrants is still primarily among fringe groups, albeit vocal ones. ‘In the 12 years I’ve been doing this, I’ve seen anti-immigrant groups become more active, but I believe it’s a small group of folks,’ Bazan-Manson said.” – [nbc17.com April 18 2005]

Hat tip American Renaissance

Today is the tenth anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing, and thus the 12th anniversary of the Waco killings. As a conservative, I’d like to remind people that terrorism against Americans is mostly the province, not of right-wingers, but of the following three groups:

• Foreign terrorists, mostly Arab
• Left-wing nuts
• Immigrant gangs

But it’s also Patriot’s Day, the anniversary of the “Shot Heard Round the World“, in Concord, Massachusetts. This shot was fired by… Minutemen.

The fight for freedom has moved a little further south. But the spirit of the Minutemen lives on.

Something that just occurred to me: If Bush and Cheney were impeached, you’d have an immigration reformer in the White House: Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House and next in succession.

I think 80 percent of the Dems would go along just to get Bush/Cheney out. Could 30 percent of the GOP be grabbed just on the basis of immigration?

The election of the great Bavarian intellectual Josef Ratzinger, picked as a dark horse by Roger McCaffrey in an earlier VDARE.COM blog item, is very good news indeed for those who treasure the heritage of the West. As a good American Europhile, I celebrated the news by belting out an old patriotic German Catholic song. Some conservative Catholics—okay, me—had hoped for the election of the Nigerian Cardinal Arinze, who is equally orthodox. I thought the fact that he is black and from the developing world would have flummoxed and silenced liberal critics for at least five years, giving him time to enact needed reforms in the Church.

Ratzinger has been treated as a virtual piñata for decades by the secular and liberal Catholic press, pictured as the evil genius responsible for the “conservatism” of Pope John Paul II on moral and theological issues. Journalists just couldn’t shoehorn into their minds the fact that the grinning Polish pope of whom everyone is so fond REALLY believed all the hoary doctrines they deplored.

But most importantly for readers of VDARE.COM, Ratzinger was the loudest voice at the Vatican saying “non possumus” to the entry of Turkey into the European Union—an act which, as I’ve written here before, would throw open the gates of Christendom’s cradle to massive Islamic immigration, extending the already porous border of Europe to the frontiers of Iraq and Iran.

By permitting such a man to become pope, rather than a Third World cardinal, however holy, I feel that God is offering Europe and the West one more chance to wake up and repent. The saints who died to evangelize Europe are still interceding for our old mother continent—as well as for Mother Church.

As someone who is active in trying to focus attention on the illegal immigration crisis in our nation, I am happy to see that Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial page editor Cynthia Tucker has the issue on her mind.

She has written another column (OUR OPINION: Have Bush toil for immigrants, April 17, 2005) on the topic. She feels Bush should “put aside his Social Security roadshow (which isn’t gaining any support, anyway) so he can expend some political capital on immigration reform.”

That’s two in two months in the AJC here. (To see her last attempt, click here, to see my thoughts on it, click here.)

Tucker has gone from referring to anyone who demands that our border be secured and our laws enforced as “xenophobes” and “anti-immigration zealots” in February, to labeling us “nativists” in April.

While I cannot be sure, this may represent a softening of her position.

Maybe by June, anyone with the temerity to demand that our borders be secured against fanatical Muslims and Latino illegal entries and that American law be equally applied to everyone in America will be called simply…aware citizens who are in the majority?

Between now and then, it may help Tucker if we remind her that we tried an amnesty in 1986, then for 3 million illegals.

Now we have 20 million with about 10,000 coming in each day.

Maybe if we ask Tucker, she will educate us on how legalizing this colonizing mob and granting them driver’s licenses will work to secure American borders.

Here in Marietta, we think the fact that the president of the United States refuses to honor his oath of office is confusing Ms. Tucker. [Email her]

It sure confuses me.