Brace yourself, this news item has me pretty irritated…

Access to higher ed improves even as immigration reform stalls by Juliana Barbassa Associated Press

Here’s the intro:

“When he started high school, Matias Bernal’s English was so limited he stumbled over the words for numbers and colors. Four years later, he was on the wait list at Princeton.”

Of course he was…

“But Bernal is an illegal immigrant from Mexico City. Without access to financial aid, grants and most scholarships, he had to push aside the Ivy League brochures and prepare to attend California State University in Fresno, where he can live with family and pay tuition with money from jobs he’s not supposed to have.”

Hold on, I have to wipe my eyes before I continue…poor Bernal the Illegal Immigrant doesn’t get to attend one of the best universities in America at a reduced rate because we’re stingy, horrible people…right? (Literally the best university according to U.S. News)

Oh wait a minute…Princeton University has about a 13% acceptance rate and runs about $40,000 per year!!

All things being equal…I have a comment for the sappy AP reporter who wrote this bilge:

A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T GET TO GO TO PRINCETON!! REGULAR, EVERYDAY, MIDDLE-CLASS, AMERICAN PEOPLE!! IF HE CAN’T AFFORD PRINCETON, THAT’S HIS PROBLEM!! WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD, SISTER!! THIS ISN’T THE JUSTICE LEAGUE, IT’S THE IVY LEAGUE!!

Good grief, there is no way I could have covered the tuition at Princeton but the AP isn’t writing stories about people like me! One of my best friends got accepted at Dartmouth but did not qualify for financial aid–she had to “settle” for a humdrum public university.

Why is Bernal’s story so special? Because he broke a zillion laws on his path to a higher education and the rest of us didn’t? How does this make him more qualified when it should in fact, disqualify him altogether?

This anecdotal MSM garbage has to stop–the real “illegal immigration” story here is the 19,999,999 illegal aliens who do not get wait listed at Princeton…or even know what it is.

This guy doesn’t deserve Princeton, he doesn’t deserve Fresno State–he deserves to be deported.

Ugh… illegal immigrant sense of entitlement run amok…that’s all this is.

Washington Post columnist David Broder has a reputation as a political sage, but nowadays he seems to be in his dotage. Witness his credulous broadcast of electoral advice (”The GOP Lag Among Latinos,” 7/23/06) for fellow Republicans from Florida’s race-hustling Senator Mel Martinez.

Martinez, via Broder, goes through the usual song & dance about how the Republicans, over the long haul, will destroy their support among Hispanics if they act mean and enforce our immigration laws. Thus I remind readers of the point made so often at VDARE by Steve Sailer (in my words):

Republicans now garner about 35% of the Hispanic vote, so for every 100 new Hispanic voters, the Republicans lose a net 30 votes. If Republicans cave on border enforcement, their share might “surge” to 40%. (It’s hard to out-pander the Democrats among the poverty-class entrants that constitute much of the illegal-alien flow.) Then, over the long term, Republicans would lose “only” 20 net votes for every 100 people in the resulting immigration tsunami from the south. And Martinez asserts that immigration capitulation is a shrewd long-term strategy for Republicans? That’s like the old joke about the merchant who loses a little on each item he sells but makes up for it by selling in volume.

An obvious implication of Martinez’s advice to the GOP is that Hispanics are incompatible with the rule of law, which is the basis for our polity. In which case, why would we permit any Hispanic immigration? Evidently we need to put Martinez in touch with our Rob Sanchez, sisters Lupe Moreno and Angie Morfin and the American patriots of the newly-formed organization You Don’t Speak for Me.

Martinez-via-Broder also complained about the recent unsuccessful attempt by most of the House Republicans to end the “voting rights” requirement that ballots be provided in foreign languages. So I guess we need to keep pounding away on the obvious point here: If immigrants are voters, they must be citizens. And to become citizens, they’re supposed to demonstrate English competence. So why should they need ballots in, say, Spanish? I certainly don’t want people voting in our elections if they can’t even follow the public debate on the issues. Who does? (Another possibility: The debate is entirely different in English and in, say, Spanish.)

Maybe Broder (email him) should be encouraged to resume thinking for himself–or retire.

The Rocky Mountain News has very sportingly published my reply to its recent smear on immigration reformers in general and VDARE.COM in particular. (VDARE.COM is no “white nationalist Web site”, July 23 2006). It’s been cut for space and leaves out my felicitous characterization of the Southern Poverty Law Center as “a left-wing shakedown scam preying on the elderly, Holocaust-haunted rich.” Eventually, we’ll post the whole thing as part of an archive on this WN/ Hate Group canard, which we have reason to believe is indeed hurting us in the MSM.