In March, we noted that the Christian Science Monitor appeared to have become the first establishment media outlet to take note of evidence visible in the payroll and household surveys that immigrants have been taking most of the recent job growth. Most of the work on this subject was originated on VDARE.com by Ed Rubenstein.

Apparently interest in the subject lurks on in the newspaper’s editorial corridors. [Teens may be the last to get summer jobs, By Sara B Miller June 2, 2005 ] vividly states the consequences but rather mumbles as to the cause:

“Last summer, the teen employment rate was the lowest since 1948, with only 36 percent of those ages 16 to 19 holding jobs, down from 45 percent in 2000. This year…the latest forecast by Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies in Boston shows no budge in the overall summer employment rate.”

Not so the story editor, who pulled it right up in the sub-head:

Economy improves, but employers are hiring immigrants or retirees

Encouragingly, however, the story does note:

There are some bright signs in the teen job market…Demand is particularly high in tourist-heavy areas, such as Cape Cod, where employers found themselves shut out of a seasonal worker visa program earlier this year

Congratulation, VDARE’s Joe Guzzardi, who made a personal crusade of precisely this issue.

Patterico at Oh, That Liberal Media has wrote recently The L.A. Times and the Golden Rule.

He’s talking about the consular notification death penalty cases I talked about the other day.

The LA Times has an editorial [The Law and the Golden Rule, June 6, 2005 ] where they suggest that if the states don’t roll over for the International Courts, over the consular notification question, then Americans overseas won’t be able to contact the US Consulate if they’re arrested, but of course that’s not the problem.

No one has suggested that the various criminal aliens weren’t allowed to contact their consulates, they are just saying the police didn’t suggest it.

But as Patterico points out, the police not only don’t know if a murder suspect is an alien or not, in large parts of the country, they aren’t allowed to ask. It’s the sanctuary policy, that local politicians use to protect illegal aliens from deportation, that causes them not to ask, that and the fact that America is now filling up with native-born communities of people who can’t speak English very well.

The consular notification question is an internationalization of the Miranda warnings, in which special aid is to be given to alien criminals.

Thomas Sowell wrote of the Miranda case in his book, The Vision of the Anointed,

Attorney General Ramsey Clark, for example, said that “elemental fairness” required that those arrested for crimes be advised of their right to remain silent because experienced criminals, gang members and Mafiosi already knew that.
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The Supreme Court in its landmark Miranda decision likewise argued that to fail to give everyone the same information already to possessed by the more sophisticated would be to “take advantage of the poor, the ignorant, and the distracted.” Note what this taking advantage consists of: a failure to provide a greater means of escaping punishment for crimes committed by criminals who fall below state of the art in criminal evasions of the law.

The idea that Mexican criminals are entitled to the aid of a network of Consuls, who are, in effect, engaged in a massive conspiracy to evade the immigration laws, probably goes beyond anything the Warren Court would have thought of.

Daniel Pipes has a roundup of questions about the Lodi, CA Pakistanis who’ve are suspected of terrorism. One of his questions:

Hamid Hayat, 22, arrested on his return from what he admits was a jihadist camp in Pakistan, is an American citizen born in Stockton, California who attended school (though only up to the sixth grade) in the United States. That being the case, why does the Los Angeles Times write that, “Apparently unable to follow the proceedings in English, Hayat listened with the help of an Urdu translator”? Does Lodi contain an Urdu-speaking ghetto? (In the absence of the two imams yesterday, the mosque service was held in Urdu.)

In fact there is an Urdu speaking ghetto in Lodi, (to go with the Spanish speaking one.) there are a lot of linguistic enclaves in modern day America, and the Lodi News-Sentinel reported in 2001 that around 80 percent of Pakistanis in Lodi were not fluent in English.

The charming Appalachian Blog The Epic of Gilgamesh as again diverted from considering the local wildlife, weather and firearms to discuss immigration, a subject he understands as well as anyone in the blogosphere.

Last night I went into town…There was a beat up old van pulled over by the Sheriff’s Department just as I got to town, and the city police showed up as well. There must have been thirty Mexicans crammed into that van, no exaggeration…They’re everywhere in the mountains now. I went out to the owners place to work on a computer in his home office, and there was a crew out there cutting beetle infested pine trees down. Six Mayans and one local guy. I asked the fellow in charge , flat out, why he was using Mexicans and not local men when we have such a bad unemployment program. The answer was simple, and one I’ve heard before. They work cheaper. They’ll do dangerous jobs it’s hard to get white or black locals to take on. He didn’t say so, but the rest of the story is that he is almost certainly paying them under the table, which saves him a huge amount on workers compensation and in his share of payroll taxes.

Gilgamesh correctly concludes:

In ten years the U.S. is going to have a lot in common with the third world, including even more rampant crime, crumbling infrastructure, vast unemployment, a huge welfare class, ethnic violence, and no vestige of a system that gives each citizen fair and equal justice…There are plenty of historical precedents for today’s developments in America, including the collapse of the Roman and Austro-Hungarian empires. They went the same way, for essentially the same reasons.”

[Getting the kids out of this. Thursday, June 9 2005]

Later in the day, Gilgamesh grimly notes the health insurance for his children has just gone up 22%. As my brother has noted before, his grasp of the link between this phenomenon and immigration is amongst the firmest in the blogging community.