Women taking taxis alone frequently report the driver making inappropriate remarks or advances to them, which is bad, because you’re trapped in there, and the driver knows where you live.

In Australia, there are reports that of 24 cases of sexual asault by drivers, almost all the attackers are immigrants.

AdelaideNow… Taxi sex alert on migrants

January 25, 2007 01:15am
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IMMIGRANTS may have to wait a year to get a taxi licence after police revealed that almost all of the suspects in 24 reported driver sex assaults since June were newcomers to Australia.

The Taxi Council of SA also wants to educate immigrant applicants about “the Australian way of life” before they get behind the wheel, amid fears that cultural differences are linked to the problem.

While it does not say where the immigrants are from, but may I suggest they may might be various places in the Muslim world?

Muslims in Australia have a history of cultural differences, sexual assault and attempting to minimize sexual assault.

When I say “minimizing” the only comment in the comment box of that story is from a Muslim:

Taxi Drivers should be more educated in customer service sector. 24 reports of sexual assaults in the past 7 months. How many got caught and how many proven GULITY?. Most of these cases are just from the people seeking attention and media just like to make the issue out of it. I request the authorities to solve these cases and give justice to the people and also name the criminals. Public should know who the criminals are. Its not wise to say that majority of the people are immigrants or recent immigrant. Everyone in Australia is an immigrant except from the The Native Australian - Aborignals.
Posted by: Kashef Muner of Plympton

My column on the presidential contenders and immigration has been up about ten minutes and already the critical email is pouring in…

Several VDARE.com readers are very upset that I left out Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) as an example of a Republican for immigration reform. (Career B, Recent B+, overall 79% - not bad for a libertarian!)

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa…(I hope somebody gets that.)

I think Congressman Paul is AWESOME…especially when it comes to immigration reform.

Please forgive me beloved readers. BB

Consulates have their legitimate functions, but Mexican consulates in the United States are utilized to subvert American immigration law . Arturo Sarukhan, the Mexican official in charge of Mexican-U.S. relations has even called consulates “beachheads”.

The latest example was reported in the Associated Press article “Mexican Consulate Says Police Profiled Illegal Immigrants (sic)”(Associated Press January 30th, 2007 ).

Here’s what the article reported:

” The immigrants were picked up in Fort Worth, Weatherford, Marshall and Denton County…they were stopped for traffic violations, asked for immigration papers and handed over to federal officials for deportation.”

Sounds great to me. That’s the way things ought to work. But, surprise, surprise, Mexican diplomats were not pleased. According to Eduardo Rea, spokesman for the Dallas consulate, the detained Mexicans were – horrors – profiled !

And the meddling diplomat had the chutzpah to make a pronouncement on U.S. immigration law:

“Rea said it’s illegal for local law enforcement officials to ask for people’s immigration papers.”

Rea explained that

“The only ones who can determine immigration status are immigration officials.”

Nevertheless, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety defended the detention of 13 of the detainees :

“Jean Dark, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety in Tyler, said 13 immigrants (sic) were detained when state troopers pulled over two cars outside Marshall for minor traffic infractions. State troopers referred the group to immigration officials, she said. Dark said a state trooper can use information obtained during a traffic stop as probable cause to call immigration officials to the scene.”

Bravo for the Texas Department of Public Safety, you might express your appreciation at pio@txdps.state.tx.us or calling (512)424-2000.

And by the way, as I’ve reported before, here in Mexico, local police are not only allowed, but required to enforce Mexican immigration law. Read about it here.

Veteran VDARE readers are thoroughly familiar with the machinations of Sam Brownback (R-KS), the Senator representing the Refugee-Industrial Complex. He was recently tattled on here for injecting a “Widows and Orphans” clause into the late, unlamented S2611.

Audaciously mislabeled, like so much of what the Treason Lobby puts forth, Brownback’s contribution to S2611 would have changed asylum law so as to make a shouting match with one’s (presumably alive) husband a ticket for permanent U.S. residency. (Note that asylum used to, quaintly, be a rescue from political persecution in one’s home country.)

Well, Senator Sam is now running for president — but then, who isn’t? (Kansas readers will have to tell us if Tom Wicker’s great line — from his classic political novel Facing the Lions — about a presidential aspirant with delusions of grandeur applies to Brownback: ” … and him the kind that could f-ck up a two-car funeral.”)

Consequently, in just the last week, I’ve had two pieces of begging mail from Brownback’s campaign. I promptly used their postage-paid return envelopes to send the campaign some choice remarks about the senator’s epiphany that the clutch of Somali Bantu refugees he arranged for were a natural fit for Lewiston, Maine but somehow wouldn’t work so well in Wichita.

However, I just noticed that today’s solicitation has a listing of Brownback’s “Conservative Platform for America,” and “Immigration” makes his list! Admittedly, it’s fifth of five, behind “Life” (i.e. abortion), “Taxes”, “Spending”, and “Marriage” (i.e. the marriage amendment), but there it is.

He says “I support construction of a high-tech fence that secures our entire border. America must secure its borders and enforce the Rule of Law.”

Of course there’s plenty of room for weaseling in his words “high-tech fence.” Maybe he means a “virtual fence” consisting, say, of a fleet of UAVs that precisely tracks each illegal alien and builds up a data base on him against the unlikely eventuality the feds will ever try to arrest and deport him.

On the other hand “secure its borders” and “Rule of Law” both have nice rings to them.

So maybe the senator has had a brain transplant?

Washtech, the Seattle based technical union writes:

Last week President Bush called for an increase in the federal cap on H-1B visas, an issue he said he feels “strongly” about and wants to work with Congress to make happen. Read the story at ComputerWorld here: or see the offical text at (14th paragraph)

Last October, WashTech pointed out that since 1998, the law has required that an annual H1B visa report be issued to Congress. However, it has not been issued to Congress in more than three years. WashTech created a campaign to correct that, and after several elected officials contacted the Department of Homeland Security, they finally released two years of reports - but they are still over a year behind. This makes it even more ridiculous to suggest an increase in the number of H-1B visas to be issued, as President Bush is suggesting.

Looks like the GOP is working hard to once again lose the votes of college-educate white males–their traditional core constituency.

Jim Lindgren at the Volokh Conspiracy says that if

bloggers were eligible for Pulitzer Prizes for journalism (they aren’t unless their blogs are hosted on newspaper sites), I would nominate Brooklyn Professor KC Johnson, who blogs at Cliopatria and Durham-in-Wonderland, for his coverage of the Duke case. No self-respecting journalist would think of writing anything long and evaluative on the Duke case without first checking the “blog of record,” Durham-in-Wonderland
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But he notes that there an institution eligible for a Pulitzer, (Vdare.com isn’t eligible either, even when we do something absolutely definitive) and it’s not the New York Times. It’s the Duke University student paper, the Chronicle, run by and written by students who are carrying a full course load. KC Johnson says that

In fact, compare the Chronicle’s coverage to that of the New York Times on this case, but remove the mastheads from the two papers. I suspect that most people would guess that the Times, with its (until recently) simplistic, one-sided articles and commentary was the college newspaper, and the Chronicle’s work was that of the country’s paper of record.Durham-in-Wonderland: Power of the (College) Press

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Agenda: The Duke Lacrosse non-Rape and its Meaning

By now, almost everyone accepts that the Duke Lacrosse rape scandal was nothing more than a hoax. Looking at media reports, one would think that it was the sole fault of Durham DA Mike Nifong. As disgraceful as Mr. Nifong’s behavior has been, the media, many students and faculty at Duke, civil rights leaders, and politicians were just as hysterical in their rush to judgment.

As the accusations unfolded, the talking heads insisted that we must learn a greater lesson about what this really said about race, class, higher education, and justice in America. The Robert Taft Club and The American Cause will explore these issues, though not in the way that the the NY Times editorial page was thinking.

William Anderson is a professor of economics of at Frostburg State University and a columnist for Lewrockwell.com where he has written over 30 op-eds detailing the abuses by prosecutors and others in the Duke Lacrosse case. Prof. Anderson will discuss the abuses of the case in the larger issues of prosecutorial misconduct in America.

Prof Anderson’s Articles on the Duke Scandal

Richard Spencer is a PhD student in History at Duke where he is the graduate advisor to the Duke Conservative Union and editor of the New Right Review. He has a M.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from the University of Virginia. Mr. Spencer will discuss the campus reaction to the case and put it in the larger context of political correctness in higher education.
The New Right Review

Robert Stacy McCain: is assistant national editor to the Washington Times. He has also written for a variety of publications including the American Conservative, Chronicles, and The New York Press. He is the author of DONKEY CONS: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party. Mr. McCain will examine the media’s treatment of the Duke case in light of Thomas Sowell’s observation (from his book “The Vision Of The Anointed“) about how liberalism designates certain social groups as “targets” and “mascots.”

A Selection of Mr. McCain’s writing

Nicholas Stix lives in New York City, which he views from the perspective of its public transport system, experienced in his career as an educator. His weekly column appears at Men’s News Daily and many other Web sites. He has also written for Middle American News, the New York Daily News, New York Post, Newsday, Chronicles, Ideas on Liberty and the Weekly Standard. He maintains two blogs: A Different Drummer and Nicholas Stix, Uncensored. Mr. Stix has written probably the best account of the entire hoax at VDARE.com, which you can read here. He will be discussing the case in the context of Anarcho-Tyranny.

Thomas Sowell, who wrote Migrations And Cultures, has some generally positive things to say about the benefits of skills-based immigration in his book Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide.

For example, the everywhere in the world except England and Denmark, the local breweries were founded by immigrants from Germany, not only are there German breweries in Australia, Brazil, and Argentina, but the fellows who opened the Tsingtao Brewery in China in 1903 were Germans. The American Busch family who brew Budweiser came from a place called Budweis, in what is now the Czech Republic. (They call it ÄŒeské BudÄ›jovice now, but I say it’s Budweis, and I say the hell with it.) The point is that if you want breweries, it helps if you import good brewers. But as you might guess from reading his syndicated column, Dr. Sowell knows it’s not all good.

It would be misleading, however, to assess the economic impact of immigration solely in terms of its positive contributions. Immigrants have also brought diseases, crime, internal strife, and terrorism. Nor can all immigrants be lumped together. When only two percent of immigrants from Japan to the United States go on welfare, while 46 percent of the immigrants from Laos do, there is no single pattern that applies to all immigrants. There are similar disparities in crime rates and in other both negative and positive factors that immigrants from different countries bring to the United States and to other countries in other parts of the world. Everything depends on which emigrants you are talking about, which countries you are talking about and which periods of history.

Yesterday, I joined with 200 anti-war marchers in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho at a rally organized by George Soros’ moveon.org, local Democrats, and Peace & Justice groups, typically adversaries in the fight against open borders. My toes grew cold as I stood in snow at Independence Point, holding my homemade sign: “US Troops at US Borders.”

Unlike most rally participants, I am not a peacenik when it comes to the invasion of my country, and my sign quickly drew the attention of a grey-haired refugee from Santa Monica. (Most non-natives here fled Southern California.)

“That’s a sign I can get behind,” he said. In one minute, he shared of the destruction by massive Third World immigration of the once pristine, lush coastal city of Santa Monica, my favorite spot when I visited L.A. “It’s gone,” he lamented. He suggested napalming our southern border to stop the onslaught. “We’ve done it before.” My guess is he saw it in Vietnam. As one who supports militarizing our southern border, I agreed that “drastic” defensive measures are long overdue.

Well known conservative control of Northern Idaho had one marcher quoted in today’s newspaper coverage: “If you’ve got [anti-war] protesters in Idaho, you’ve got them everywhere.” Indeed. But many of us displaced Americans believe the real war is at home, at our borders, coastlines and the interior. With an estimated 700 foreign gang members — Mexican, Central American, and Russian — just 30 miles west in Spokane, most here seem blissfully unaware of the immediate threat they and their children face. “They won’t get it till it’s too late,” said my fellow ex-Californian. As strains of Peter, Paul, & Mary music floated across the crowd, he smiled and drifted away.

A very sincere hat tip to the blogger Unabashedly Unhyphenated for drawing attention to what he correctly evaluates as a jackhammer-impact of a post Comprehensive immigration reform must include Mexico at the blog My View by Sergio Canto.

Canto suggests, with documentation, that Congressional Democrats are not eager to support the Bush Amnesty/Immigration- Acceleration measure because it is too dangerous and because so many of them won their elections positioning against illegal immigration. He cites Democrats clash on Immigration policy By Nicole Gaouette Los Angeles Times November 24 2006:

Statements by incoming members such as Claire McCaskill, the Democratic senator-elect from Missouri, could provide an early warning of the difficulties ahead.
In a September television spot, McCaskill sat at a kitchen table and looked directly into the camera. “Let me tell you what I believe in,” she said. “No amnesty for illegal immigrants.”

Canto, who apparently does business in Mexico, goes on to add his own, rather special, contribution:

As we have said before, the answer lives in Mexico. The US can change its laws but it cannot fix Mexico.

At the end of the day, change will happen in Mexico when Pres. Calderon (and the Mexican Congress) can not count on $20 billion in “remesas”. (VDARE.com: Remittances – from Mexicans abroad.)

Change will come when thousands of young men march in Mexico City rather than work in the US.

My solution is harsh but it is the best medicine for Mexico.

Close the border and force Mexicans to solve their problems…

…Mexico needs radical change. It won’t happen overnight but it starts when Mexican politicians realize that their solution is job creation rather more “remesas”.

Strange, how the closer people’s exposure is to Mexico the less they like it.

Unabashedly Unhyphenated has equally forceful comments:

…Lastly, and this is where I differ from many who have a hard time with the (fallacious) idea that we would have to “deport them all,” I do blame every illegal alien for coming here, I blame them for staying here, I blame them for working here, and I blame them for sending money “home.” If they did not know what they were doing was wrong, I might (a big might) feel a bit differently. But the illegals know what they are doing is wrong or they would not fear being caught…

I have yet to hear any rational explanation why those whose first act, and continuous act, is the intentional disregard for our rule of law should be allowed any pathway to citizenship. In fact, the best way to teach their anchor babies about American ideals is to deport them along with their lawbreaking parents; the citizen anchors can come back if they choose after reaching adulthood. …If both American parents of an American child go to prison for breaking the law, the child surely suffers his parents’ consequences, and learns lessons in the process. Sending the anchor child back to the parents’ home countries is actually more compassionate than the consequences brought upon children whose American parents are lawbreakers…Having a couple hundred-thousand American citizens sent home with their illegal alien parents might just teach Mexico a thing or two

As VDARE.com has said many times before, this Birthright Citizenship absurdity has to be stopped if America is to remain American. In the meantime Unabashedly Unhyphenated has an idea worth thinking about.