One of the most encouraging things about the 2006-7 Amnesty/Immigration Acceleration wars has been the way they seem to have stimulated new patriotic blogs. My view is that the threat of being displaced had a lot to do with some of the older “establishment’ sites shifting on the issue.

Exhaustion is widespread amongst those active in the recent battle, but the No Apology blog has summoned the energy to compile a valuable compendium of sources on Illegal Immigrant Criminals in America.

Of course, we appreciate the kind words about VDARE.com, and more particularly, the gesture of featuring on No Apology’s Home Page the download availability of Alien Nation.

A startling number of Alien Nations have been downloaded since Peter Brimelow made it available free. The Publisher’s dubiously-motivated decision to let the book go out of print has backfired and actually stimulated readership, thanks to the miracle of the internet - and generous patriots like No Apology.

Just One Minute notes a New York Times story about a “new populism” in the Democratic party that doesn’t mention immigration, the most populist issue of the last year, until the eighteenth paragraph. [A New Populism Spurs Democrats on the Economy, By Robin Toner, July 16, 2007]

Their comment:

Nobody covers the issues like the Times. Oh, well - in their world it was racists and xenophobes that opposed the immigration reform; the notions that populist Dems had trouble with the guest worker program, or that waving in unskilled workers might actually depress the wages of the native unskilled rattles their coffee cups on an otherwise pleasant Monday morning.

And the Pelosi position amounts to “Don’t send the unskilled jobs abroad; bring the unskilled voters workers here”. Great.
JustOneMinute: The Populism That Dare Not Speak Its Name

It’s another example of the disconnect between elites and normal people that Steve Sailer noted yesterday with John Edwards’ busing proposals.

One of the most reliable rewards for alleged “Conservatives” who betray their supporters is laudatory coverage in the MSM, as I have noted before. So the recent effusion of flattery about Senator Jon Kyl in The Arizona Republic is not a surprise (How migrant-reform effort changed Kyl’s image Dan Nowicki July 15 2007)

Essentially, this is the usual set of clichés about asserting leadership and placing principle above partisanship - although Nowicki does allow some voice to Kyl’s outraged former supporters.

“Unfortunately…” said Rob Haney, the Republican chairman in legislative District 11, where Kyl lives, “ I think his legacy is going to be that he is the one who pushed the ‘amnesty’ bill against 90 percent of the Republican base and 80 percent of the country.”

But there is something valuable in this piece: an insight into the attitude of some Hispanic (a.k.a. “Martinez” )Republicans:

To Elias Bermudez, founder and chief executive of the pro-immigration group Immigrants Without Borders, Kyl is “a true statesman…”

A registered Republican, Bermudez predicts that Arizona eventually will be a Hispanic majority state and says …strident anti-immigrant commentary from other Republican segments turns off many Hispanics…

That wasn’t always so. President Ronald Reagan signed the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli legislation that granted amnesty to more than 3 million illegal immigrants…”We consider him to be a hero, and he’s the reason why I became a Republican, for instance.” (VDARE.com emphasis)

So there it is: Reconquista. The country is going to be taken over by us. Our political support is conditional on our ethnic interests being served. You must obey!

This is the line taken by the Illinois Congressman debating Patrick Buchanan on the eve of the defeat of Amnesty. At least he didn’t pretend to be a Republican.