Max Tower tells us that Fox News left Paul and Tancredo out of their post-Ames straw poll reporting. Fox Reported on Tommy Thompson even though he got fewer votes in the straw poll and according to the betting markets has less of a chance of getting the GOP nomination than either Paul or Tancredo.

This is a rather sad form of bias. Fox is basically saying to folks who care about the Constitution or immigration that they just don’t matter to Fox.

Center for Immigration Studies head Mark Krikorian writes at National Review Online:

After its relentless six-year campaign for amnesty crashed and burned in June at the hands of the common people, the White House has come up with a new plan: to start enforcing some of the laws they should have been enforcing all along, and so thoroughly scare the public with the consequences that there will be a popular groundswell for amnesty that will finally vindicate the administration position. You can almost hear the president thinking, “be careful what you wish for.”

Or as DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff put it, “There will be some unhappy consequences for the economy out of doing this.”

I tend to think these folks are deliberately implementing this strategy for political reasons. First off, with the 2008 election coming up, they are playing to an element of the GOP base that isn’t real happy with them. Secondly, they are pursuing these policies in ways such that they won’t be able to keep them up.

I used to do “one of those jobs American’s won’t do”–raising livestock. Part of the lectures we got from our veterinarian: you never use antibiotics unless you are going to follow through and eradicate the problem-otherwise you’ll just make it worse. I think the same logic applies with illegal immigration-and every enforcement policy we’ve seen to date.

I also have real concerns about having someone like Chertoff doing a job this important. His performance during Katrina wasn’t exactly inspiring. If he doesn’t think he can do the job, he should resign and let someone that really wants to make this process work do it.

Sure, there are all kinds of ways that a big change in law enforcement or migration can be accompanied by economic dislocation. What I want to see is some serious consideration given to how to do it differently.

Now, one interesting side effect here: one important constituency that will have immediate benefits from enforcement of immigration laws are unskilled blacks. Those folks have been hammered the last 40+ years by US immigration policy. I suspect a little relief will mean they’ll get a bit more militant-and active politically.

Allan Wall is scheduled to be interviewed on Barbara Jean Whitely’s show on August 14th. The interview is scheduled for 1:30-2:00 p.m., Mountain Daylight Time, on AM 630, KTKK (K-Talk) “The Voice of Utah”. It’s available on the Internet here.
Barbara Jean’s website is here.

Funny how it can take a shocking crime, like the recent shootings in a church filled with Micronesians in Missouri, to inform the country about the balkanized immigrant communities that have grown up in our midst.

You know, the kind Teddy Roosevelt warned against.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country.

It can be hard to keep up with America’s rapidly metastasizing diversity when the media are busy hiding it.

Anyway, here are few examples of diversity we have learned about via crime…

• In 2001, Nicolay Soltys murdered his wife, son, aunt, uncle and two cousins. The killings put Sacramento’s enormous Ukrainian and Russian population into public view like nothing before.

The news spread quickly Thursday morning among the 75,000 Russian and Ukrainian immigrants who call Sacramento home: A handcuffed Nikolay Soltys was sitting in the back of a police car. It was safe to come out again. [...]

“This is a very tight-knit community,” [domestic violence outreach worker Bella] Mouhasseb said. “They are suspicious of outsiders.”
[Tragedy may shine light on a culture, San Francisco Chronicle 9/02/01]

“Outsiders” — that would be American citizens like you and me.

• Violent gang activity in Nashville on the part of Kurdish immigrants brought the attention of the New York Times, and VDARE.com. It was another instance of “Who knew?!”

• Some in the San Francisco Bay Area were vaguely aware of the Little Kabul enclave of Afghans growing up in Fremont and Hayward. It was noticed by a few, pre-9/11, that friends of the Taliban resided there.

Afghans in the Bay Area were spotlighted last year when Omeed Aziz Popal killed one man and injured over a dozen other people in a 40-mile trail of carnage: SUV Jihad in San Francisco?

This is some of the diversity we are supposed to celebrate.

At least when the new Little Baghdads form up from the Iraqi refugees, we will know where to watch.

Most people have never heard of Micronesia, and don’t know if it’s quasi-colony, like American Samoa, or Northern Mariana Islands, so for the record, it’s independent, and according to the CIA World Factbook

In 1979 the Federated States of Micronesia, a UN Trust Territory under US administration, adopted a constitution. In 1986 independence was attained under a Compact of Free Association with the US, which was amended and renewed in 2004. Present concerns include large-scale unemployment, overfishing, and overdependence on US aid.

Here’s some more from that em>Micronesians Abroad article I mentioned below. It gives a couple of reasons why Micronesians might come to America, and why that can be a problem. One reason, here, is that a big mushroom farmer in Miami, Oklahoma, gavea Chuukese immigrant a free plane ticket home and asked her “to recruit a couple dozen more workers.”

Miami, Oklahoma, is not much more than an hour’s drive from Springdale. It has a Chuukese population of about a hundred, most of them from the island of Fefan. Wilson Namelo, who works as a stockman at a warehouse in town, serves as Protestant pastor to the Chuukese and is one of the senior members of their community. He admitted that he is also drawing welfare on behalf of the four of his children who were born in the US and thus are entitled to these benefits. Without welfare, he says, he can not hope to support his wife and eight children, for he is the only one in his family with wage employment. When we asked him why he doesn’t return to Chuuk, he explained that he wants a good education for his children, something that he doesn’t believe they can get back home.

We found more social tension in Miami than in any of the other places we visited. Four young Chuukese are in jail, serving sentences of between five and ten years for repeated DUI, assault, and statutory rape. We heard stories of young men, drunk on beer and angry at their families, tearing up their apartments, and reports of brawls on the neighborhood basketball court-the kinds of incidents that may be regular occurrences in the islands but which don’t help win the good will of folks in a small Oklahoma town. When we drove to the playground one evening, we found the hoops taken down from the backboards and a patrol car parked by the court to guard against trouble. Chuukese report that even at their funerals, when they are singing local hymns and sharing food, neighbors complain to the police about the noise and strange, voodoo-like goings on. Most of the people from Fefan, some twenty or thirty of them, work on a large mushroom plantation, one of several such plantations in the area. Julita Namelo, the sister-in-law of the pastor, is the supervisor of the field workers. Upon graduation from a local college, she applied for a job at the factory. When she was preparing to return to Chuuk for a funeral, she was presented with a free ticket by the company [!] and asked to recruit a couple dozen more workers. Now, for all practical purposes, Julita and her daughter run the place. Julita and her family are able to live in relative comfort from what they make. Julita’s younger sister and her husband, both of them college graduates, are doing even better; they own their own three-bedroom house and are putting their children through school. When asked if they intend to return to Chuuk, they answer vaguely that they would like to do so sometime in the future, but not anytime soon. Their children are more definitive about the matter: they have no intention of returning to the islands to live.Micronesians Abroad By Francis X. Hezel, SJ and Eugenia Samuel Micronesian Counselor #64 (December 2006)

This is from Micronesians Abroad By Francis X. Hezel, SJ and Eugenia Samuel Micronesian Counselor #64 (December 2006) It gives a couple of explanations for the Micronesian colony effect. One is that colonies tend to grow up around wherever groups of foreign students go to college, an extreme case of chain migration. Another is that the new immigrants seem to have low-level jobs in factories and meat-packing plants, the same kind that could be done by unemployed Americans.

Tri-State Border Area in the Southern Midwest

Our team intended to visit Kansas City, home of a growing Micronesian community, largely Pohnpeian, that sprang from students who attended Park College during the 1970s and 1980s. Small colleges, once well attended by Micronesian students, have frequently served as the seedbeds for migrant communities in the US, accounting in part for the seemingly odd locations of Micronesian strongholds. Kansas City is said to have been constituted a kousap by a Pohnpeian chief not long ago when he paid a visit to his compatriots who had settled in that city. [VDARE.COM note: Kousap seems to mean something like fiefdom--this is another example of symbolic reverse colonization. ] He was feted with sakau-the type made from powder rather than pounded-and left a week or two later with several thousand dollars, which had been collected as tribute from Pohnpeians who are now living 8,000 miles from their own island. Since we arrived the day before Pohnpeians were scheduled to celebrate the July Fourth holiday with baseball games in the southern part of Missouri, we drove off in the same direction everyone else was heading-to Neosho, Missouri, a town of about 10,000.

Neosho lies just a bit north of the Missouri-Arkansas border, no more than eighty miles from Springdale, Arkansas, the site of the large Tyson Chicken Factory and home to thousands of Marshallese immigrants. Another fifty miles west of Neosho, just across the state border, is Miami, Oklahoma, a town slightly larger than Neosho that has an island community of its own. We joined the 300 or so Micronesians to watch the baseball games and enjoy the mixed buffet, featuring island delicacies like banana pihlohlo along with such American standards as spareribs and chicken. Micronesians came from all over Missouri, some from northern Arkansas and Wichita, and even from as far away as Cincinnati and Corsicana, to attend. Most were Pohnpeians, but there were also a few Chuukese and Marshallese on hand. We were told that Cincinnati would, in turn, host the next Pohnpeian games, scheduled for September 11-a day celebrated on their home island as Liberation Day.

The person who organized the games-and who oversees most other activities that take place in Neosho-is a Pingelapese businessman by the name of Kernel Rehobson. [VDARE.COM note: The murder victim.]Kernel owns a retail store that is a gathering place for Micronesians from dozens of miles around since he stocks his store with the type of down-home items that are so difficult to find in the US: the large plastic combs that women wear in their hair, zoris, dawasi and brushes for showers, and island-style skirts with embroidered hems. Kernel says that he had his troubles when he first settled in Neosho; people mistook him for a Mexican and kept asking for his papers when he tried to enroll his kids in school or gain access to any social services.[VDARE.COM note: Good for them. And of course, he did have such papers, because he was a legal immigrant--you can't wade to the US from Micronesia.] He started out working for K-Mart as a warehouseman, worked his way up to manager, and later quit to begin his own business. Kernel also serves as pastor to the Pingelapese community in the church that they share with the Neosho Protestant congregation. Anyone from the islands who needs help of any sort-a social security number, a driver’s license, a job-always comes to Kernel first.

Micronesians from Neosho and its environs depend heavily on two large factories for employment-La-Z-Boy, which makes chairs, and Twin Rivers Chicken, a factory similar to the well-known Tyson’s plant in nearby Springdale-with an estimated 70 or 80 Pohnpeians working at each place. The rest of the Micronesian community in the area work in fast-food places, or as cashiers, drivers or stockboys at Wal-Mart

By the way, if you’re wondering what “Pingelapese” means, it means from the island of Pingelap.

While various imperial powers colonized Micronesia in the old days, Micronesia seems to have set up a small colony in Neosho, Missouri.

BULLETIN: Friend of victim says ‘Neosho lost a really great person’

By John Hacker
Neosho Daily News
August 12, 2007

One of the victims in Sunday’s shooting at a Neosho church was a friend to the hundreds of Micronesian immigrants who have come to Neosho over the years.

Larry Zuniga, 42, Neosho, said he had been friends with Kernal Rehobson, a leader of this group of worshippers, for about 15 years. Zuniga said he worked with Rehobson at Wal-Mart.

…

Zuniga said Rehobson ran a Micronesian store out of his house in Goodman, providing food for luaus held by the Island community in Neosho to celebrate events such as first birthdays, weddings and others.

Zuniga said the community used the First Congregational Church for worship services while it searched for a permanent home.

“Kernal was responsible for the Islanders,” Zuniga said. ” He was like a pastor for this church. Anything that happened with anyone in the community, he was the one they always called.”

So why are all these people in Missouri? I wouldn’t expect them to be refugees, I don’t think there’s anything in Micronesia to refugee from, except possibly domestic violence,which is supposedly a big problem in Micronesia, and maybe now in Neosho. Here’s a couple of points, –the chief of police said that suspect was of “Hispanic or islander” descent.

Apparently, if you refer in Neosho to a suspect of “Islander” appearance, the locals know you mean Micronesian Islander. Also, the church services were conducted in the Spanish language, presumably meaning that they’ve come to Missouri from some formerly Spanish part of the islands. Finally, the victim served as pastor for “the Pingelapese community.” The what? I’ll look it up and get back to you.

Yes, the killer of three people in that hostage-murder incident in a church in Neosha, MO on Sunday has now been revealed to be an immigrant - from Micronesia.

The suspect, a man in his 40s who was from the Pacific islands, was being held in the Newton County jail pending the filing of charges.

Gunman in Missouri church kills 3, by Marcus Kabel, AP, August 13 2007

Yet another example of what VDARE.COM has identified as “Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome“.

Note that as of 7:54 a.m. the Boston Globe and New York Times seem to have edited the suspect’s origin out of their version of AP’s story. No sightings of “Missouri Man” yet.

The worshippers were Micronesians, reportedly imported to work in a poultry plant.

[Police Chief Dave] McCracken said it had been at least 14 years since the last murder in the city limits of Neosho.

Neosho police chief provides more details, by Rick Rogers, Neosho Daily News, Aug 12, 2007