Peter Brimelow will be on the Terry Anderson Show, on Sunday, April 16, Bryanna Bevens will be on April 23.

Now more than ever, “If You Ain’t Mad, You Ain’t Payin’ Attention!”

Terry Anderson’s website is promoting a protest on May 6 that’s supposed to take place in Crawford, TX.

This protest is expected to feature

• American flags
• America citizens

Eugene Volokh writes:

I rarely blog about immigration-related matters, because I have no expertise on the subject, and because I think this is the sort of subject that it’s hard to make bottom-line conclusions about without real expertise There are lots of considerations cutting in various directions, and I have no real sense of how to estimate the magnitude of each, much less compare them.[The Volokh Conspiracy - Jobs Americans Won't Do:]

My first reaction is of course to say “Thank you,” on behalf of our group of immigration experts at VDare.com. (I don’t count myself as an expert, here.)There are thousands of pundits out there who don’t know what they don’t know, but are willing to go on record as saying thing like “Our economy depends on immigrant labor.”

Of course, if we all started refusing to talk about what we don’t know about, it might bring an end, not only to blogging, but to journalism as we know it.

In any case, what he has to say is quite sensible; a point that we’ve made here, that people who argue that immigrants do the jobs Americans “won’t do,” are really arguing that

Illegal immigrants just do the jobs Americans won’t do for the same low wages that illegal immigrants will take, and it helps our economy to have the jobs done at those low wages.

Which doesn’t, as he says, “have the same ring” as ” jobs Americans won’t do.”

One of the strangest bits of conventional wisdom in the media is that no fence along the Mexican border could possibly work. These pronouncements are often made by people who have paid a lot of extra money to live in gated communities. Within America, there are countless miles of high-security fences and walls around prisons, nuclear power plants, armories, warehouses, factories, target ranges, airports and the like. All in all, it works quite well. This isn’t nanotechnology. It’s something we know how to do.

Similarly, the Israelis have found their fences around the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to be quite effective at keeping out suicide bombers, who are, by definition, highly motivated. Here’s a diagram of the Israeli fence. The Israeli economy is about 1/200th of ours, but they’ve succeeded in effectively fencing off a border about 1/10th as long as ours with Mexico.

Massive marches demanding the rights of illegal aliens continue throughout the U.S.A., and to much acclaim here in Mexico.

President Vicente Fox called the marches “a democratic expression”.

In contrast, the Mexican government is not pleased with the “democratic expression” of some American citizens who burned the Mexican flag on U.S. soil.

What got their attention was an incident in Tucson, on April 9th, when protesters burned a Mexican flag in front of the Mexican consulate.

The very next day, SRE (Mexican Foreign Ministry) subsecretary Lourdes Aranda, during a press conference with a visiting Russian official, condemned the flag burning:
“We consider unacceptable any act of provocation or vandalism of national symbols.”

I personally do not support the burning of the Mexican flag. I oppose it because I respect Mexico and I don’t believe that burning the Mexican flag helps our cause. In fact, it is counter-productive.

Nor do I support protesting in front of Mexican consulates.

We should be concentrating our energy on the U.S. government. It is our own leaders, both Republican and Democrat, who have gotten us into this predicament.

Nevertheless, an American citizen has the right to burn a flag . After all, if it’s legal to burn an American flag, why not any other flag?

As an American citizen living in Mexico, I have to have a permit to live here legally.

What do you suppose would befall me if I marched in the streets demanding that Mexico change its laws to accommodate me?

They wouldn’t call it “democratic expression”. They would call it “meddling” and I’d be summarily deported.

It’s happened before, as I have reported in previous articles here and here.

Mexicans are zealous in protecting their nation’s sovereignty. Shouldn’t we be also?

The Mexican flags and the strident assertions of a right to violate American laws are a danger signal to this society, as they would be to any society.

The releasing of children from schools to take part in these marches and the support of the marchers’ goals by some religious leaders demonstrate that this contempt for the laws of the land has spread well beyond immigrant communities.[ Immigration "solutions" by Thomas Sowell - Apr 11, 2006]

Yes, the “contempt for the laws of the land” is fairly prevalent. See here and here for a couple of egregious examples.

Having on Sunday commended the moderators of Senator Frist’s Volpac blog for allowing postings bitterly critical of their boss and the Senate’s Amnesty legislation, on Monday I began to worry. Almost the entire day went by with any new postings. When a batch finally went up, there were appreciably more Frist sycophants and immigration friendly entries.

Looks like the Inside-the-Beltway hacks came back from the weekend and intervened.

But there still are some fine statements:

I was a stalwart supporter of the GOP until G.W. Bush committed to an amnesty for illegal aliens after 9-11-01. I will vote against this party every chance I get until the leadership comes to its senses and realizes that raising the population of uneducated third world immigrants not only makes the poor already here worse off, it threatens the GOP with permanent minority party status and increases the number of voters who benefit from taxes and the welfare state.
Written by : Pederson, Pete

Also, the enterprising Volpac webmasters have put up an Opinion Poll on their main page. Currently (Noon EST) it has 1298 voters and is only 88% against amnesty. Looks like something VDARE readers should stop by on their way to posting a comment on the blog.

Any mention of annexing Mexico, such as James Fulford noted last night, brings to mind the luminous analysis of the country by the Mark in Mexico blog last summer. The conclusion can be disputed - but not the authoritative exposition.