As VDARE.com has pointed out already, it’s a great summer for immigration books, with several new titles appearing (see Exhibit A , Exhibit B).

Another book is the updated edition of Fighting Immigration Anarchy, recently republished by a new house, Rooftop Publishing.

I reviewed the original last year in The View from the Activist Front Lines, in which I marveled at the book’s balance of expressing both danger and hope, as it seamlessly interwove need-to-know immigration facts within engaging stories of patriotic Americans. (One of the subjects is VDARE’s own Renaissance man, Joe Guzzardi: one-time California gubernatorial candidate, patient English teacher to immigrants and champion competitive baker.)

The new edition has 40 added pages, with more information about the Minutemen and a whole chapter on the North American Union scam.

The backbone, however, remains the unique focus on individual citizen-activists who have successfully pushed this issue to the political front burner after years of denial by those who profit from open borders.

Show your support for immigration literature by purchasing as many of these fine titles as possible. Strong sales figures for the subject will be another indication to the elites that this issue is not going away. Plus, books make wonderful presents for friends and relatives who need guidance. And curling up with a good book remains one of life’s great pleasures.

I got an email about Pat Buchanan’s new book, which you can buy from Amazon.com now, and it came with the list of bullet points below.

I’ve added links, so that you can see that a lot of the points PJB makes in the book are the same themes we’ve been writing and reporting on since 1999.

State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America

How illegal immigration threatens every American:

• Fact: our illegal population today is greater than the total number of Irish, Jewish, and British immigrants who ever came to the U.S.
• Why the reigning Republicans ignore the law and do little or nothing to stop illegal immigration
• How mass immigration inevitably tilts the center of gravity of American politics to the Left
• How the numbers of Americans of European descent are rapidly decreasing — and the political and social implications
• Eurabia on the rise: the devastating consequences of unrestricted immigration in Europe
• How Los Angeles today provides a glimpse of what all of America will be like in 2050
• An “American creed”? Why those who believe that the ideas of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address hold us together as a nation are distorting or reinventing history
• Why Mexico’s President Fox has done nothing to help secure the U.S.-Mexican border — and has actually abetted the invasion of the U.S. by millions of illegal aliens
• The decisive step that the Mexican government took in 1998 toward building a potent political machine within the United States
• Fact: not only are arguments about the economic benefits provided by illegal aliens false, but illegal immigration also constitutes a massive drain on our economy
• The Mexican War is not over: its deep impact on contemporary immigration politics
• Why importing a vast diaspora from a neighboring nation so different from our own is such a hellish risk
• How the United States Government threw up its hands and abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion by illegal aliens over four decades ago
• Why it is difficult, if not impossible, for cities to get control of the growing crime menace of immigrants and illegal aliens
• Latin elites that are doing everything they can to prevent the assimilation of Mexican immigrants into American culture
• John F. Kennedy and immigration: how, in 1991, the U.S. took in twelve times more immigrants than what JFK stated in the early 1960s as an acceptable annual limit
• Bush’s guest worker plan: how it provoked a surge to the border
• How, as Republicans dither, some Democrats are beginning to see the potency among voters of the illegal immigration issue
• How, rather than fading away, issues of nationality long considered dead are resurfacing today
• Why so many children of Asian-American and Hispanic immigrants are assimilating into a deadly subculture of gangs and crime
• How even conservatives now routinely denounce as “racist,” “nativist“ and “xenophobic” anyone who argues that mass migration from the Third World risks disuniting and even destroying America
• How we must recapture control of immigration policy from politicians paralyzed by fear of ethnic lobbies and cultural contributors, or immobilized by ideology
• Why ideology and democracy are not enough to save America — and what we need most now to trump the call of ethnicity
• Six critical steps that must be taken now to secure America’s borders and preserve the republic

Jeff Sessions, my sweetie-pie Senator from Alabama, says the new Pence-Hutchison plan is garbage and must not pass.

Here is an excerpt from his latest opinion editorial in the Washington Times:

“This plan swallows hook, line and sinker the idea that as long as there is a foreign worker wanting to come to America, and an American company that wants to hire the individual, the foreign worker should be admitted, allowed to work and put on a path to citizenship. This concept violates the principle followed by every other nation in the world, that immigration policy should be based on the needs of the nation, not the desires of those that want low-cost labor.”

[Reform the immigration debate by Jeff Sessions, Washington Times August 2, 2006]

Yes indeed, my favorite Southern man (well, my husband is my favorite Southern man but Sessions holds a close second place) is sticking to his guns and keeping everybody focused on what’s really happening here: Greedy business importing cheap labor, displacing American workers and sending the bill to the taxpayer.

For more info on the Pence-Hutchison Plan see my recent column.

Maybe the forthcoming election will bring in some new blood–politicians from the Sessions school of thought as opposed to….well, the yellow-belly, wishy-washy, political whores who seem to dominate the scene today.

My fingers are crossed…

Wayne O’Leary writes in The Progressive Populist :

Large-scale immigration allows corporations to enforce their economic will, keeping populations on the move, wages low, and profits high; if Americans, for example, won’t do the work at the right price, there are always others who will.

So, a new immigration policy that controls US borders and slows both the legal and illegal influx from abroad is essential for, among other things, the long-range well-being of American workers. A bogus reform that merely confers a blanket amnesty on the undocumented population won’t be sufficient. We tried that in 1986, when three million resident illegal aliens were absorbed in a “onetime” amnesty supposed to be followed by firmly enforced rules and regulations for future legal entry. Twenty years later, it’s déjà vu all over again, this time with an estimated 12 million resident illegals instead of 3 million.

We are starting to see a division among Progressives and leftists on immigration, it isn’t as heated or sharp as the division within the Republican party-but it is very real. I don’t think this issue will go away. I can easily imagine the GOP loosing control of congress and presidency in 2006 and 2008 largely because of the insanity of the McCain/Kennedy/Bush immigration proposals. If the Democrats regain some political authority the faith of many Americans in the entire political process could be seriously shaken. Perhaps it should be. If we had proportional representation in the US, we’d hear a lot more from the kinds of folks that write for the Progressive Populist–and places like VDARE.COM–and a lot less from fools like McCain, Kennedy and Bush.

The Progressive Populist writes:

DEMS: TIE REP PAY TO MINIMUM WAGE: More Democrats are joining Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.)’s fight to make members of Congress more accountable for their pay raises. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said (6/27) he’ll use parliamentary rules to block a $3,300 annual pay hike, to $168,500, approved by the House (6/13) if it’s not accompanied by a minimum-wage increase from the $5.15 that has remained unchanged since 1997, while Congressional pay has increased $31,700. Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) have introduced a bill linking pay raises to the minimum wage. A Senate Republican aide told Newsday the Clinton-Kennedy bill is “dead,” but the majority would likely kill any congressional raise this year to protect vulnerable incumbents. Dems in both houses want the federal minimum wage to rise in 70-cent increments to $7.25 by January 2009. In July, 52 senators approved a similar raise in a test vote, but fell short of the 60 votes needed to avert a GOP filibuster.

This is a real interesting idea with one fatal flaw:It would be much more interesting if the pay of representatives–and possibly stuff like estate taxes and taxes on the top 1% of most wealthy Americans were tied to the income of the income and/or wealth holdings of the bottom 10% in American society.

The actual income of the folks at the bottom of the economic heap is related to a lot more things than then minimum wage–the size of the EITC, overall economic climate and immigration policy are all major contributing factors. I’d also index congressional pensions this way and limit how congressman can cash in indirectly from their congressional experience–even if we needed to raise congressional pay to the level of Ministers in Singapore to get these guys really focused on the public business. Maybe we should throw in a pay boost–and similar linkage for the Congressional aides.

I think if we did so, we’d get a government that thought longer term–and stuff like immigration policy would take on a whole different perspective for our congressional representatives.

Somehow, I expect stuff like McCain/Kennedy/Bush would lose a lot of the appeal it now has if representatives knew that lowering the income of poor Americans would also lower their own pensions, they had limited ways to get money other ways–and that they were affecting the long term economic health on the people around them likely to know about their dirty little secrets.