The parody site Guns n’ Butter (Motto: Fake news. . . real funny) has this story about the Mexican response to the Fence bill, which Bush will probably sign, as Mickey Kaus says, “It would be crazy not to be paranoid.”

Check out the Bush quote at the end, and remember that the humorists who wrote it are Republicans:

Guns’n'butter: Mexico to build 700-mile-long ladder
Over the weekend, Mexico’s Congress approved the 700-mile-long ladder “to allow the struggling American worker easy access to the incalculable benefits of the Mexican economy.”

President Fox said the ladder would allow displaced U.S. workers trying to reach their American employers with the ability to “just glide right over the top” of the fence. “That fence’ll maybe slow us down 20, 30 seconds, tops,” he said. “I mean, them. Slow them down.”

President Bush responded by calling the ladder “unhelpful.”

“I mean, it is literally unhelpful,” Bush said. “The fence is only 700 miles long. The U.S./Mexican border is about 2,000 miles long. Why don’t they just walk around it like I told ‘em to?”

Front page of the Financial Times today features a story that the Cassandras at VDARE.com called a long time ago: diversity breeds isolation and mistrust. (Study paints bleak picture of ethnic diversity, by John Lloyd, Financial Times, October 8, 2006)

This is a contentious finding in the current climate of concern about the benefits of immigration. Professor Putnam told the Financial Times he had delayed publishing his research until he could develop proposals to compensate for the negative effects of diversity, saying it “would have been irresponsible to publish without that.”

The core message of the research was that, ‘in the presence of diversity, we hunker down’, he said. ‘We act like turtles. The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it’s not just that we don’t trust people who are not like us. In diverse communities, we don’t trust people who do look like us.’

Prof Putnam found trust was lowest in Los Angeles, ‘the most diverse human habitation in human history’, but his findings also held for rural South Dakota, where ‘diversity means inviting Swedes to a Norwegians’ picnic‘.

Professor Robert Putnam, well-known Harvard political scientist and known liberal (redundant, I know) released his study only after waiting to develop proposals for dealing with the distasteful negative effects of diversity. “It would be irresponsible to publish without that,” he claims. While the Financial Times doesn’t spell out what kinds of compensation Putnam came up with, it does quote him as saying, “What we shouldn’t do is to say that they [immigrants] should be more like us. We should construct a new us.”

In other words, he still doesn’t get it.

According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) which studies emigration , Mexico is the biggest exporter of human beings, i.e., the biggest source of immigrants in the world.

However, on remittances, Mexico is #3, after China and India.

Alfonso Sandoval, of the UNFPA, says that the agency is carrying out a special analysis of Mexican emigration.

According to the article which reports this information,

“(Sandoval) emphasized that the remittances (to Mexico) have not become a real incentive for productive development in the regions of Mexico in which they are received.”

Mexican central bank chief Guillermo Ortiz recently said something quite similar, that remittances provide a social safety net but are not a key lubricant of the Mexican economy.

Here’s what I wrote about remittance money sent to Mexico in a VDARE.COM article back in 2001:

“… it does serve as a source of income for many families, and probably keeps a number of grocery stores afloat. But as a source of long-term job-creating investment, the effectiveness of remittances is more dubious. About 95% of the remittance money is spent on food and day-to-day supplies, not in meaningful investment which increases long-term job creation. A small percentage of the remittance money has been donated to local communities for paving projects and refurbishing churches, and a smaller percentage specifically targeted to investment, but most of it is eaten up in groceries.”

And as Ed Rubenstein explained in one of his VDARE.COM articles:

“Remittance receivers in Mexico are more likely to express an interest in emigrating to the U.S. (26%) than the general population (19 percent).”

As usual , you read these things first here at VDARE.COM.

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