In what is shaping up as a scandal of enormous proportions, details revealed today by reporter Sara A. Carter (email her) in her Daily Inland Bulletin story ““Officials Disclaim Bulletin ‘Tipping’ Report“ indicate that the Mexican government had access to confidential information about the whereabout and activities of the Minutemen…even in inland states such as Illinois and Utah.

This statement from Minuteman leader Chris Simcox about Carter’s discovery:

The initial reports appear to be the tip of the iceberg. The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps has been warning people that our government has no intention of taking the necessary steps to secure our borders. It now appears that the U.S. government has proactively taken steps to ensure that the open border status quo is maintained. Even if we take the latest statement from the U.S. Border Patrol denying involvement as truth, at best the report on the Mexican consulate website exposes widespread espionage, and systematic spying against free and law-abiding American citizens, on the part of the Mexican government – with or without U.S. government assistance.

And also from Carter’s story is this equally alarming statement by retired Tucson Border Patrol agent Scott James:

U.S. Border Patrol officials provided office space inside their headquarters to Mexican consulate officials, allowed the consulate to dictate the agents’ activities, and gave the consulate information on ongoing investigations.

Such courtesies were not extended to consulate offices of other countries, James said.

Read the official Minuteman Civil Defense Corp press release here

As for the Mexican Government website information titled “Third Report About Vigilantism” , which I read in Spanish, it is clear that the Mexico has access to confidential information. (Third report! Dated 2005! Is there a fourth or fifth report?)

Mounting evidence indicates that the Bush Administration is a willing partner in subverting the efforts of American citizens to work peacefully and lawfully with the Border Patrol to defend their country from illegal immigration.

The independent film producer Ron Maxwell’s great Civil War movies Gettysburg and Gods and Generals have done more than anything else in recent years to keep alive the memory of an heroic era in American history. The latter was a favorite of our greatly missed Sam Francis and was warmly defended here by Paul Gottfried. Now Mr. Maxwell has followed the example of the men he portrayed and risen to the defense of his country:

An open letter to President George Bush - WorldNetDaily.com May 10, 2006

What is happening on the southern border is unprecedented. Not only in our own history, but in the history of the world… A wave of anti-American leftism is sweeping Latin America. A socialist radical may soon be elected as the president of Mexico, a country which officially encourages its emigrants to vote in Mexican elections, urging them to think of themselves as Mexican first and perhaps only.

The eventual outcome is plain for anyone with eyes to see. This is invasion masquerading as immigration…
Mr. President, this is a time for candor. Your immigration policy is viewed as captive to the cheap-labor, big-business lobby and inimical to the survival of our country… The failure to recognize this growing and deep disaffection among Republicans, conservatives, independents and indeed many Reagan Democrats, is, in the short run, going to lead to a monumental defeat for your party at the polls in November…

The moment has arrived. The Senate has already begun its bloviations and self-aggrandizing platitudes, its morality play of good and evil wherein they – the noble senators – are cast as the redeemers of the entire world population seeking only to “live the American dream.” …As a movie director, I can see bad acting a mile away.

Today, there are two Republican parties. One is now seen correctly by most Americans as responsive first and foremost to the demands of multinational corporations, the agro-business and the Chamber of Commerce. The other, best represented by the embattled members of the House, represents grass-roots America.

Dear Mr. President… I implore you to re-think this issue and to change course. Millions of Americans, a great majority of your fellow citizens will be with you. Start speaking and doing the sensible, courageous and right thing. You will see your poll numbers turn dramatically around. You will save your country

Well worth the admission price.

Mickey Kaus writes

John Podhoretz argues that the immigration and spending isssues can’t be causing the drop in Bush’s poll numbers among Republicans because

he had the same immigration plan in 2004 and spent like a sailor in his first term and still had over 90 percent support during that election year.

That might go for spending, but not immigration. Bush wasn’t actively pushing the immigration plan that year, was he? And it wasn’t moving through the Senate. And it wasn’t on the front page. And there weren’t giant media-hyped marches.[Bush's poll drop: The simplified model.| Immigration is killing his ratings. Duh!,By Mickey Kaus, Slate.com, May 10, 2006]

I suspect the “Duh!” is directed at John Podhoretz, who’s something of a fanatical immigration enthusiast, who simply refuses to see anything wrong with mass immigration.

This is “Ellis Island” nostalgia, forgetting that when his ancestors were coming to America to escape persecution, they were trying to escape the people who are coming to America now.

I wrote this for Tom Martino’s Troubleshooter website, to go with my appearance, by phone, on his KHOW-Denver radio show.

No doubt it will all be familiar to regular readers, but recent events mean that more and more people who have never learned the basic facts about immigration and the National Question are hearing them for the first time.

The Amazing Truth About Immigration’s Terrible Economics

It’s fun being on Tom Martino’s show because he asks you a combination of detailed questions about markets and megaquestions about (in my case) the economics of immigration.

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