Ross Douthat writes:

And you don’t have to be going out to drinks with the VDare crowd to wonder whether it will be great news for the U.S. when we need to admit millions and millions more immigrants, all of them low-skilled and low-paid and poorly-educated…The American Scene

Hey! What’s wrong with having drinks with the Vdare.com crowd? Some of us like adult beverages, some of us prefer Starbucks, but we are all incredibly convivial and charming, I promise.

Allan Wall was interviewed by Pastor Ralph Ovadal on SermonAudio.com,talking about the Mexican elections.

Only the first 18 minutes are with Allan Wall. Atheists should take note that this is church related interview. Catholics should take note that it’s Protestant church related interview. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Via MiltsFile, which called it “Some hard realities concerning the “undocumented” and “illegals”…”I found a link to Illegal Aliens Academically by Malcolm A. Kline, June 28, 2006.

Here’s an interesting take from the Ivory Tower on the current controversy over illegal immigration: “Undocumented may be the most decent word that’s available to us, but something was lost in that translation too,” Stanford professor Geoffrey Nunberg [send him mail] lwrites in the summer 2006 edition of the magazine Rethinking Schools. “It isn’t that undocumented adds a bureaucratic note, but that it focuses on the government’s records rather than the immigrants themselves.”

“Visitors who overstay their visas may not be undocumented in the strict sense of the term, which is why the INS [Immigration and Naturalization Service] ultimately decided to stay with ‘illegal.’”

Dr. Nunberg is a senior researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford and is also a full professor of Linguistics at that university. He originally delivered these observations on National Public Radio.

“But these people are still without papers in the more suggestive European sense, people who have to live without any official status in the shadow of a modern state,” Dr. Nunberg observes. “Aliens, illegals, even undocumented—over the past hundred years, it has been in the nature of the language of immigration to suppress the human side of the story.”

Yet language can’t wholly obscure those realities.”

Kline goes on to list some of the other realities, familiar to readers of Vdare.com. (He includes a link to the Townhall.com version of Michelle Malkin’s April 26 column, The Victims Of Illegal Immigration. Unfortunately, the link is broken, because with the Townhall redesign, all of their old links are broken. Aargh.

There are couple of things wrong with this article, aside from the bad link, which is not Kline’s fault.

• He’s got Nunberg’s name spelled wrong. (I’ve corrected it in the quote above, but he spells it Nurnberg)
• He doesn’t have links to the original of Nunberg’s article, or links to his home page, (where there’s more sucking up to immigrants, over the anti-National Anthem, Nuestro Himno.)and he doesn’t have Vdare.com’s famous [send him mail] links.

Why am I mentioning these things? Because if you donated, that’s what you’re paying me, (and everyone else here) for. Fact-checking, linking, interactivity, and all that good stuff. In fact, since many of you have donated, I’ll even provide some multimedia: Nunberg’s appearance reading this piece on Fresh Air.

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Heather Mac Donald has piece in the the latest City Journal in which she highlights a few underreported facts about modern immigration.[Seeing Today’s Immigrants Straight] Here’s one:

Open-borders conservatives point to the relatively low crime rate among immigrants to deny any connection between high immigration and crime. But unless we can prevent immigrants from having children, a high level of immigration translates to increased levels of crime. Between the foreign-born generation and their American children, the incarceration rate of Mexican-Americans jumps more than eightfold, resulting in an incarceration rate that is 3.45 times higher than that of whites, according to an analysis of 2000 census data by the pro-immigrant Migration Policy Institute.