Washington politicians should take note of yesterday’s municipal election in Herndon, Virginia, where voters axed the supporters of a taxpayer-funded job center for illegal alien day laborers

Herndon voters yesterday unseated the mayor and two Town Council members who supported a bitterly debated day-labor center for immigrant workers in a contest that emerged as a mini-referendum on the turbulent national issue of illegal immigration. [...]

The council voted 5 to 2 last August to establish the center, but yesterday’s vote created an apparent 6 to 1 majority in opposition. [Labor Site Backlash Felt at Polls In Herndon |Three Who Supported Immigrant Center Ousted, By Bill Turque and Nikita Stewart, Washington Post,, May 3, 2006]

No surprise here. Citizens are sick to death of the treasonous politicians who daily violate their oaths of office by refusing to protect the nation from foreign invaders. Americans are particularly furious when the streets are filled with thousands of illegal aliens demanding everything we have.

(Check out the pictures I took on Monday in San Francisco at the May Day Mexo-Marxist festivities.)

VDARE.com observed the electoral justice last year when St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly was sent packing by the voters in an election that included a strong immigration component of a Hmong nature.

Indeed, on the rare occasions when citizens get to vote about immigration and related issues, they generally make the right choices, e.g. Props 187 and 209 in California and Prop 200 in Arizona.

Pro-English, anti-bilingual measures do similarly well. Prof. Huntington’s book Who Are We? contains a table (pg 167) showing Language Referenda 1980-2002, in which 11 out of 12 were decided in favor of English.

Washington politicians, you have been warned.

A reader writes:

I think I’ve figured out why the illegals thing isn’t a slam dunk, as first instincts would indicate it to be, amongst otherwise instinctually conservative whites.

Basically, they see Mexicans as much much better than blacks. They work the jobs blacks are most suited for but find beneath their ain’t-keeping-me-down-I-ain’t-your-slave dignity, they commit crime at lower rates, they are more hard working and less welfare dependant, they are not organized into racial political grievance groups (the demonstrations are a big OOPS for their side here) and don’t have an El Al Sharptono and Jesussie Jacksono, and they even score higher on average on standardized tests of all kinds. Heck, they even vote GOP more than blacks!

In short we don’t expect non-whites to act white, but those brown people really are so much better in every way, THEY are the kind of minority we’d really like to have.

The great mental block, the missing link, is that we don’t get to deport one welfare mother in the ghetto for every senorita who crosses the border, or send back to Africa one scary shiftless guy on the corner for every hard working quiet little gardener who arrives from Mexico. We don’t swap a good minority for a bad, we get MORE minorities. We may get more total GOP voters who are non-white, but we also get a total net increase in Democratic voters. The quality of the minority pool is improved, but the quality of the national pool is worsened.

I think for some reason, below conscious thought, everyone thinks of it as a swap, even guys good at math like Karl Rove. I think the block is that every one wants a swap, but because that involves wishing for the absence of troublesome blacks, nobody can let themselves SEE the desire in themselves, so that all that’s left is the pleasing feeling of getting more of the right sort of brown people. Its ok to think of improving the overall quality of the minority population, brown on black. That’s not quite thought crime, but thinking that more minorities overall might bring things down ventures too close to, or right into, THOUGHT CRIME.

It’s the sub-rosa swap syndrome.

There, call me Tom Wolfe, I have figured out the great psychological puzzle. Or not…

Indeed, as I wrote in “How to Help the Let Half of the Bell Curve” in 2000:

Many establishment conservatives see unskilled mestizo immigrants as our New, Improved Poor People. The Old, Unimproved Poor People: native-born blacks. But this only makes sense if we could somehow exchange blacks for Hispanic immigrants. Without deporting blacks, immigration will only create a second undercompetitive, and thus resentful, racial group.

Mestizo Hispanics tend to suffer (somewhat) less severe problems than African Americans - but their potential numbers are larger. For example, Fox Butterfield reported in The New York Times (August 10th, 2000) that Hispanics are 1/3rd as likely to go to jail as blacks (Whites? Merely 1/10th). But by the end of the century, Hispanics may be three times as numerous as blacks. We’ll enjoy equally large groups of black and Hispanic jailbirds. Quite a legacy to leave our great-grandchildren.

The essential fact about African Americans is that they are Americans. They did not ask to come here. At minimum, our nation’s obligation to them is to not worsen their plight by importing competitors who are slightly more competent.

Republicans point to newly-arrived immigrants outcompeting native blacks as proof that blacks shouldn’t blame us for their problems. Okay, fine. It’s not our fault. But, in what system of ethics is it the average black’s fault that his IQ, which is mostly determined genetically, is 85? Is he to blame for failing to choose his parents wisely?

On a subnational level, however, the affluent white residents of elite cities such as New York may, however, might rationally have a self-interest for America importing Mexican illegal immigrants because they tend to “economically cleanse” African-Americans out of a New York or a San Francisco. The black population of NYC, for instance, has fallen in recent years as the Hispanic illegal immigrant population has grown. This process lowers the crime rate in New York City, but not in the country as a whole. Of course, much of the media is based in NYC, so the rest of us get propagandized in favor of what’s good for New Yorkers. Of course, that wouldn’t be the first time New Yorkers talked the rest of us into doing something stupid.

Since the blatant Reconquista motivation of many of the Immigration “Reform” (e.g. Capitulation) demonstrations became apparent, the MSM has been busily averting its eyes (and selecting its photographs). So it is refreshing to find a forthright statement of the facts by a major newspaper columnist, Bridget Johnson of The Los Angeles Daily News. Writing in USA Today [Loaded rhetoric harms immigration movement May 2 2006] she reports:

Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the last 15 years, you should make a note of this: The southwest is already Chicana/o-Latina/o!” proclaims the website of the California State University, Sacramento, chapter of MEChA.

MEChA — an acronym for Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan in Spanish — has been one of myriad Latino-rights, pro-immigration or social justice groups that have plunged into the immigration debate…The MEChA logo boasts a bird with a lit stick of dynamite in one claw and maquahuitl— an Aztec weapon — in the other. “Through a philosophy of Chicana/o Nationalism, MEChA has not wavered from its original goal of Chicana/o control at the University,” states the University of California-Berkeley’s MEChA site

MEChA has been in the thick of the latest immigration protests, from San Diego State University members trying to avert arrests of marching high school students, to “mechistas” organizing a rally at an Albuquerque high school at which signs bore the now-familiar refrain: “We didn’t cross the border. The border crossed us.”

The group’s constitution requires that its chapters read “El Plan de Aztlan.” A line in its introduction translates into “for the race, everything; for those outside the race, nothing.” …Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans,” reads El Plan de Aztlan.

Jones adds

several groups have…taken to in-your-face activism against tighter immigration laws:

• The Mexican American Political Association, which mapped out its demands in a flier for Monday’s boycott: “Immediate legalization without conditions, no border walls, no criminalization.” MAPA President Nativo Lopez has stated his desire for Spanish to be California’s primary language…

• Carlos Montes, a co-founder of the original Brown Berets in 1960s Los Angeles, is helping put together an August demonstration — sponsored by MAPA and others — against a border fence, the Minutemen, and even the Iraq warHe lauds Venezuela and Cuba as “examples of the possibilities for humankind.”

[Indeed, there is a case to be made that the Reconquista demonstrations should be considered as much in the context of the current upswing of radicalism in Latin America generally, as in that of internal US politics.]

The lesson is that if you allow a huge influx of people whose hearts and minds remain in another culture, things change - badly, for the original inhabitants.

It is time for Americans to consider if the border is crossing them.

Congratulate Bridget Jones on some honest reporting