I first noticed this after the killings by Cho Seung-Hui, who was described as a “native of” rather than an “immigrant from” Korea. If he’d been a valedictorian, you can be sure he’d be described as an “immigrant.”

Here are some recent examples. This is an immigrant from Jordan, boarding a plane with an illegal gun in checked luggage.

Gun in luggage brings arrest

Jordan native was arrested at JIA before flight to Chicago.

By TIMOTHY J. GIBBONS, The Times-Union

A native of Jordan was arrested Monday at Jacksonville International Airport after federal screeners found a semi-automatic handgun with the serial number scratched off stashed in his checked luggage.

This is an official news release describing the arrest of an immigrant from, no, I’m wrong, it says here a “native of” El Salvador.

Suspect Identified, Charged in 2006 Murder Case

July 3, 2007 - Houston police homicide investigators have identified a suspect in the fatal stabbing of a woman at 4306 Canal #3 on December 24, 2006.

The suspect, Mario Luis Conrado (H/m, DOB: 01-25-65), a native of El Salvador, is charged with murder in the 338th State District Court.

The victim, Martha Vega Penaloza, 32, of 4306 Canal #3, suffered multiple stab wounds and died at the scene.

Here’s a really fascinating international story, about a man named Rakesh Saxena, who’s an immigrant from India. He emigrated first to Thailand, where he is accused of stealing $88 Million dollars, then to Vancouver, Canada, where he’s under house arrest, but apparently that hasn’t slowed him down much.

With all its international implications, this story doesn’t contain the word immigrant.

Saxena, 55, is a native of India. In the early 1990s, he worked as treasury adviser to the Bangkok Bank of Commerce where he allegedly embezzled $88 million, then moved to British Columbia.

In 1996, he was arrested by the RCMP at the Chateau Whistler while lunching with Thai police officers. He was carrying a briefcase stuffed with $100,000 cash, which, he readily admitted, he intended to use to bribe the officers.

He was initially released on bail, but in January 1998, the RCMP re-arrested him after he allegedly obtained a phony passport and threatened a witness.

In June 1998, his lawyer persuaded then-judge Wally Oppal (now B.C.’s attorney general) to approve a novel form of house arrest: Saxena would stay at his luxury condo and pay for his own 24-hour security to ensure he didn’t leave.

This left Saxena free to pursue his business dealings. In one instance, he began negotiating with a South African-based mercenary force to stage a counter-coup in Sierra Leone when a rebellion interfered with business ventures there. The plans were put on hold when word leaked out[ Bank robbery suspect turns to stock scam? By David Baines The Vancouver Sun, July 9, 2007

Here’s a real winner:

Man faces a mental evaluation
By Sara Israelsen
Deseret Morning News
PROVO — The mental health of a man who bought high-powered guns illegally and told his roommates he wanted to kill police officers and U.S. soldiers will be reviewed against his wishes.

During an appearance Thursday in 4th District Court, prosecutor Donna Kelly asked Judge Gary Stott to order a mental-competency review for Kiddus Chane Yohannes, 20, who was arrested June 8 after police learned he had purchased guns illegally and was threatening violent attacks if given a chance.

“We have some concerns that he has mental-health issues, which raise questions as to his competency,” Kelly said.

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Yohannes, a native of Ethiopia, is accused of purchasing several guns in October, including AK-47s, at pawn shops in both Orem and Provo, using false alien registration numbers.

Sounds like “Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome” waiting to happen, doesn’t it? And note how they describe him simply as “Man”–that tells us a lot. Not about the suspect, but about the editor.

The eastern half of the San Fernando Valley has had a big influx in just the last few years of people from a big swath of the planet running from, roughly Moscow to Yemen. Lots of them are good eggs, but a few have definitely made the place more, uh, colorful. For example, there was this gang who kidnapped and murdered five fellow ex-Soviet immigrants from a luxurious house in the hills of Encino.

And now, from the LA Times:

Yana Kovalevsky made a colorful entrance. Not long out of the hospital, she hobbled into her neighborhood Starbucks for an interview on a purple-and-pink-striped cane. A blond-and-brown-streaked wig roosted on her head.

Under the wig, her scalp was a patchy landscape. A traumatic shedding had left the locks that once cascaded to her elbows struggling to regrow.

She needed the cane because a nerve-pinging disorder that somehow combined pain and numbness had turned her legs to rubber.

Last February, during a visit to their native Russia, Kovalevsky, a 27-year-old North Hollywood social worker, and her physician mother became critically ill from the effects of thallium. Their ordeal made worldwide headlines because thallium is a rare poison usually associated with political assassins and murderous inheritance seekers, not with the likes of Yana and Dr. Marina Kovalevsky.

It remains unknown how they came to ingest the tiny but potentially lethal amounts of the heavy metal. Among the other unanswered questions is who targeted them and why — if the poisoning was intentional, as mother, daughter and their doctors now believe. …

A decade and a half before they were poisoned, the Kovalevskys had been an unheralded part of another international story — the emigration of Soviet Jews. They had followed Marina’s brother Dr. Leon Peck, a fellow physician, to the United States. Peck had been a refusenik for 10 years before he received a visa to leave Russia in 1988. The Kovalevskys got out in 1991, settling in Los Angeles and then moving to Louisiana, where Marina, 50, completed a medical residency. They returned to California, where Marina established a family practice out of a West Hollywood storefront.

She is now back at work and has declined to be interviewed, pleading for privacy. Yana said her mother’s reticence hardened after FBI agents investigating the poisoning queried her about the Russian American medical community, which has been a focus of insurance fraud inquiries.

Brenda Walker did an article fairly recently called Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome. She also wrote about the effects of alienation in the Kurdish gangs of Nashville.

Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome is what we seem to be looking at in the Abdulaziz Ibrahim case below.

Armed with a handgun, Ibrahim allegedly also shot three other relatives there, including his son who later died at a hospital and the 3-year-old grandson who was hospitalized Monday.

“They were a loving family,” Weiters said. “This is unbelievable. We think he was sick. He must have been.”

Police said Ibrahim, 52, shot three people to death: his son, Mohammad Ibrahim, 28; the younger Ibrahim’s wife, Luna Tesfaye, 24; and another daughter-in-law, Hana Yusuf, 26. Police said he also wounded two others before killing himself.

Three-year-old Amir Abdulhakim was in stable condition at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston. He is the son of Yusuf and Yusef Ibrahim, 27, another son of the alleged shooter, who was in stable condition at Grady, Atlanta police spokesman Eric Schwartz said.

Neighbors and friends said the victims belonged to an extended family that had immigrated more than 10 years ago from the Oromo region of Ethiopia, a predominantly Muslim center of dissent against that country’s rulers. [MyFox Atlanta | 4 dead, 2 Wounded in Shootings at Southwest Atlanta Home]

One thing that’s overlooked is how bad things are in the countries refugees come from, and how insane they may have been driven by their experiences.

When a reader wrote about Somali refugees possibly coming to her home town, we noted that Somalia has , according to a Somalian who lives there, a great many mentally disturbed people walking the streets of all their towns.

We have as yet no statistics on the extent of the problem, but it is undeniably prevalent. Whether you live in Berbera, Hargeisa, Burao or Borama, you come across them every day. In fact you live in fear of them. They are mainly men, many of them in the prime of life, and often armed with knives, swords or heavy rocks.

Then there was Abu Kassim Jeilani, who was killed accidentally when

“Police confronted him after he was seen walking on Franklin carrying a machete and a crowbar. He had been hospitalized recently for mental illness.”

He was in the same state as the men in Berbera and Hargeisa,with their knives, swords and heavy rocks, but he died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the authorities can’t be expected to let madmen wander around with machetes and crowbars.[Minneapolis police, Somalis seek truce, Terry Collins, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Mar 21, 2002]

Perhaps he’d still be alive if he’d been able to stay home, and perhaps Abdulaziz Ibrahim wouldn’t have snapped and killed himself and three members of his family if he’d been at home in Ethiopia. Who knows?What we do know is a lot of Americans would be a lot safer if mass Third Word immigration was halted.

Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome? Abdulaziz Ibrahim was an Ethiopian immigrant, age 52, described as “retired,” who for reasons best known to himself killed three people in Atlanta, wounded two others, and then killed himself. A Google News search for “Abdulaziz Ibrahim” brings up a 129 results, because this is news. The same search for “Abdulaziz Ibrahim” and immigrant brings up approximately 8 results, so that some stories, like this one:MyFox Atlanta | 6 People Shot, 4 People Dead in Murder-Suicide on Mount Zion Rd., use neither the word Ethiopian or the word immigrant.

It may be possible for the leopard to change its spots, but not for the MSM to change its habit of suppressing the truth.

This AP story, ABC News: Foster Program for Immigrants Criticized[By LYNN BREZOSKY, July 21, 2007] is about a program that prevents so-called “unaccompanied children” from being deported. The program is fraud-prone, and there are a number of things wrong with it. (The author quotes a CIS spokesman explaining a couple of them.) But you probably read about it in much more detail here, a little over two years ago:

Remember how the U.S. responded to 911 by setting up the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)? DHS was supposed to defend the homeland and do a better job at securing its borders than the old INS.

But the Homeland Security Act expressly barred the DHS from enforcing immigration law in some cases.

Certain “Unaccompanied Alien Children” (UACs) apprehended trying to enter the country illegally are now the sole responsibility of a federal social services agency, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). ORR, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has launched its own new agency to deal with UACs, the Division of Unaccompanied Children.

The new bureaucracy has explicitly stated it has no interest in enforcing immigration law and does not even cooperate with the department pledged to perform that function.

Media accounts of “unaccompanied children” caught at the border typically feature doe-eyed 12 year olds crossing the border to flee persecution at home, join up with charmingly delighted parents in the U.S. But, for ORR’s purposes a UAC is any individual who claims to be non-Mexican and claims to be under the age of 18. The agency has stopped using forensic techniques formerly employed to verify claims of an individual’s age and is pushing for a law which gives ORR the exclusive right to verify age for any individual, using as evidence the claimant’s own statements about his age. [The Gangs of ORR, By Thomas Allen, VDARE.COM, June 01, 2005]

Why isn’t the MSM using us as a reference? Probably because they’re clueless about the internet in general, and of course especially clueless about immigration. See for example, the NYT’s recent story on Roy Beck, Little-Known Group Claims a Win on Immigration, [By Robert Pear, July 15, 2007] When I saw that, I thought “Little known to whom?” Only to the New York Times, and as a result, its readers.