As I moused around the internet today, looking for a local appearance of Vicente Fox to harass as he travels America to [1] flack his book, I noticed the San Francisco Commonwealth Club has a four-person forum on immigration tomorrow, with not a single friend of sovereignty invited to speak.

The title gives a hint of the agenda: [2] Immigrants and What They Bring with Them.

With record numbers of legal and illegal immigrants crossing U.S. borders every day, immigration is an increasingly hot-button issue. Though the current debate often centers on what immigrants take from the United States, many immigrants bring with them skills, talents, a unique story and the potential for a significant contribution. Panelists will highlight benefits of empowering immigrants to become economically self-sufficient and integrated members of society.

Balanced immigration debates are becoming as rare as a mile of border fence these days.

A common match-up now is three open-borders cheerleaders vs. one sovereigntist, such as at the recent [3] Notre Dame forum (watch it). [4] Lou Barletta defended our national honor against [5] Archbishop
(and [6] pedophile protector) Roger [7] Mahony, amnesty honcho [8] Sen Mel Martinez and reluctant border state governor Janet Napolitano.

Another uneven debate was common-sensical [9] Tucker Carlson on the Bill Maher show, where the assisting moonbats were trash-talking Joy Behar and New York Times economist Paul Krugman. (You can [10] watch here to see general shrieking against reasonable arguments, but there is no immigration content.)

Yet another one-sided event was the elite-centered technology discussion recently held in Berkeley to be shown on PBS’ Charlie Rose Show, [11] One-Worlder Economy Celebrated.

The point is that the leftist anti-nation-state crowd knows they cannot win in a fair fight, so they rig the debate whenever they can.

Back to the Commonwealth Club, you can listen to the merciless thrashing of fact-challenged Mexophiles in 2005 by Peter Brimelow and Ira Mehlman: [12] Audio here.

You may politely castigate the Commonwealth Club for their fear of robust debate at [13] club@commonwealthclub.org, and even suggest they fly in Peter Brimelow for a livelier forum than tomorrow’s diversity-fest will surely be.