Immigrants from India are supposed to be model minorities. They work hard and make money, true enough. But many aspects of Indian society rub American values the wrong way, e.g. Indians’ stay-in-your-place society of hard-edged castes, which is at odds with Americans’ ideas of egalitarianism. Indian immigrants bring a culture that is anti-social mobility, but they expect maximum opportunity for themselves.

Other off-putting Indian attitudes and practices include doggie marriage for children, an aversion to indoor plumbing, belief in witchcraft and an overdeveloped idea of their own importance regarding innovation.

One of India’s worst cultural attributes is a disturbing level of misogyny shown by dowry murders and the systematic use of gender selection during pregnancy to remove girls by the millions. Let their be no misunderstanding: Indian immigrants bring their preference for males to America: Clinics’ Pitch to Indian Émigrés: It’s a Boy.

But whole passel of Indians have come to this country in the last few decades due to Washington’s policy of extreme diversity immigration with no concern over what we citizens want: India-Born Population in U.S. Up 30-Fold Since 1970 (India-West, August 14, 2008).

The Washington, D.C.-based Migration Policy Institute has issued a report showing a 30-fold jump in India-born immigrants to the U.S. from 1970 to 2006 and steady numbers of Indians in the U.S. who are becoming legal permanent residents.

Immigrants born in India in the U.S. jumped from 51,000 in 1970 to 1,519,157 in 2006, making them the fourth largest immigrant group in the U.S. after the Mexican, Filipino, and Chinese foreign born.

(It should be noted, however, that the total number of Asian Indian foreign-born in the U.S. was estimated at 1,840,139 in the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2006 American Community Survey, which included those Indians here born outside the U.S. but not in India, and the total Asian Indian population was 2,482,141.)

For more details about India’s culture, check out my 2007 article, Dogs, Frogs and Dalits: The Indian Model Minority Has A Dark Side.

And for more proof that Indian high self-regard knows no bounds, see The Hindu’s opinion: “Two million Indians constitute the best immigrant community in U.S.”

Aren’t we lucky?

After learning of this exercise in undiluted amnesty and open borders propaganda, [Invasion of The Job Snatchers] I  read the underlying article, Immigrants make it all work, and wrote the following letter to the upstate New York Daily Gazette, only to conclude after ten unsuccessful attempts at registering, that the mechanism was either broken or had been shut down. I was however, able to send it to DG Managing Editor Judy Patrick, who ignored it.

To the Editor:

Daily Gazette Managing Editor Judy Patrick (contact) must have been off on vacation when “Immigrants make it all work” (August 3) was assigned and written. This piece is either a reportorial—an editorial disguised as news—or a paid advertisement, but it is certainly not a news story. Jill Bryce (contact) and Sara Foss (contact) spend almost 2,000 words shilling for crooked, lying employers and for foreign nationals, including illegal aliens, without feeling obliged to even feign objectivity. (And deceptions such as “undocumented workers,” or quoting apple grower flack Jim Allen (write him) saying, “they might not be 100 percent legal,” instead of explaining that these are “illegal immigrants” you’re talking about are unforgivable.)

Bryce and Foss quote medical center flack Greg McGarry’s (write him) cover story (that there is nursing shortage in America) for getting all his nurses from the Philippines, without explaining the source of the domestic shortage or seeking out a contrary view. American employers flood the market with foreign nurses, in order to artificially depress wages, and because foreign nurses that can be terrorized by veiled and open threats of deportation are more submissive. If employers were no longer permitted to flood the market, wages would rise, and Americans would fill the nursing schools.

Bryce and Foss attribute to university flack Lynn Videka (write her) the nonsensical claim that being a scientist “requires a global perspective.” Does the law of gravity function differently in India than in America? Do the same chemicals interact differently from one country to another? Of course, not. Videka says, “No longer is the science of the world being solely produced by the United States,” as if that were ever the case. The only reason for importing highly skilled foreign scientists, engineers, and tech workers is in order to engage in H-1B fraud. Employers lie and say that they can’t find any skilled American candidates, and then go to a “body shop” and hire an inferior foreign candidate (Indian universities are vastly inferior to ours) for half the wages of the American market, no benefits, and again treat the foreigner like an indentured servant. Meanwhile, as H-1B fraud flack Jonathan Grosso mail him must know, there are over 1,000,000 highly skilled American science and tech workers who have been dispossessed from their professions, and thus were defrauded out of over $20 billion for an economically worthless education. Such H-1B fraud is going to destroy American science and tech education, because word is getting around, though no thanks to your credulous “reporters.” And since the foreign H-1Bs refuse to return home after their contracts run out, H-1B fraud also adds to our illegal immigrant problem. Until recently, the work of picking apples and cleaning stables was also done by Americans, before felonious employers conspired to break federal laws, in order to suppress wages.

I must have missed the references to the fact that all of the employers Bryce and Foss applauded are committing felonies every day. My eight-year-old would have done more digging and shown more skepticism, in dealing with professional liars, er, spokesmen.

We’re in the middle of a crushing recession, with no end in sight, yet Bryce and Foss can only applaud massive business fraud, the theft of American jobs, and the sending of American wages to places like the Philippines and Mexico.

Apparently, for Bryce and Foss, “global perspective” is a code phrase for anti-Americanism. Why do they hate their fellow Americans? The only job that might require a truly global perspective is that of God, but unless globaloney is itself a religion, I’ve never heard of a faith concerned with “globalism.”

Nicholas Stix

P.S. I forgot to mention all the hospitals that have been put out of business by non-paying illegal aliens.

Since sending this letter, I’ve learned that it was but the opening salvo of a three-part series, along with “New faces in new places: Immigrant population is increasing,” and “Group helps people in U.S. illegally: New Sanctuary chapter formed,” for a total of 5,611 words of anti-American, pro-amnesty, open borders propaganda. I now see that ignorance had nothing to do with it.

The Gazette is surely gunning for a journalism prize. VDARE.com’s Joe Guzzardi judges the Annual VDARE.COM Worst Immigration Coverage Award, and I wager that this series will be thick in the hunt.

From Norm Matloff’s H-1B/L-1/offshoring e-newsletter.

Norm Matloff writes:

The enclosed article opens with “You would expect high tech giants such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and the U.S. division of India’s tech support powerhouse, Infosys, to be among the biggest users of H-1B skilled-labor visas.” [H-1B Education By RiShawn Biddle, August 12, 2008] Well, you would expect a right-wing magazine like the American Spectator to recognize the value of the market, which this article somehow glosses over.

The article’s theme is that the nation’s public school system is making use of a surprising number of H-1B teachers. It’s not surprising to people who follow the H-1B story–see for example my e-newsletter Posting “The Rest Of The Story” On H-1b Teachers In Las Vegas”–but the author here, RiShawn Biddle, is quite right that this seldom shows up in the popular press.

Biddle cites some interesting education research, and that reason alone would be enough for me to spend some critiquing his article. Unfortunately, though, he errs badly when he swallows the claim that these H-1Bs are “needed.” If he picks up a copy of the issue of the American Spectator in which his piece ran, the answer to that claim will be literally staring him in the face–the magazine, of course, is very much in favor of free markets, and if these school districts want American applicants, all they have to do is pay attractive salaries.

To be sure, Biddle does mention compensation, but apparently to him, it’s just a matter of giving bonuses to good teachers. But obviously that wouldn’t cut it. Even a 20% bonus would still result in woefully inadequate compensation compared to other professions. Moreover, even that bonus would be far from guaranteed, even for very good teachers, what with politics, bureaucracy and myriad random events not under the teacher’s control. You don’t solve a deeply-entrenched problem by minor adjustments, in this case with bonus pay. Overall teacher salaries need to be raised dramatically.

Concerning H-1B and the tech industry, Biddle simply hasn’t done his homework. He swallows the industry lobbyist propaganda that we have a tech labor shortage, that our universities aren’t graduating enough people in math and science fields, and so on. Yet the use of H-1Bs as cheap labor is well documented, including in two congressionally- commissioned reports and several university studies, and the recent Urban Institute study exposed the math/science education myths.

Though Biddle attempts to draw a contrast between the high-tech and educational employers of H-1Bs, the two groups have the same basic goal, to save on labor costs. This is detailed in my posting at the above URL, so I won’t go into any further here, but that is literally the bottom line.

I remember back in 1998, when the industry lobbyists were screaming that there was an acute tech labor shortage, I was interviewed by an editor at Computerworld. He told me he was skeptical of the shortage claims, for a very simple reason: He said that in Boston, where CW is headquartered, the school districts were claiming an urgent teacher shortage, yet his wife, an experienced teacher, couldn’t get a job there.

Again, Senator Grassley’s comment on the industry claims regarding H-1B is right on point: “Nobody should be fooled.”

Norm

[VDARE.com Note: See also Peter Brimelow on Rishawn Biddle , and Joe Guzzardi on H-1B teachers.]

A group of 30 racists beat three immigrants–to of whom had just proudly served their adopted country in Iraq– to near death, putting one in a coma, while yelling racial slurs at them.

Authorities are not labeling it a hate crime. The Southern Poverty Law Center, Barack Obama, and La Raza are not blaming the attack on Lou Dobbs. In fact, it hasn’t gotten any coverage outside a few local media outlets.

You see the attackers were black and the victims were white.

According to the New York Post, Russian immigrants Valentyn Olenyev and Boris Bukler were walking a female friend home to her car. When they heard a teenage girl (who’s race has not been mentioned) screaming for help as she was being held by two black men

Olenyev told the NY Post,

“She was screaming, and all we did was look to help her. I got a bottle smashed over my head, and after that, I started fighting. But I got beat down.

“I was getting my ass kicked by 50 people.”

Their friend called up Olynyev’s brother Ivan who showed up to help them, and was immediately
“pounded senseless by 240-pound Timothy Dixon, 23, who was swinging a metal baseball bat.” He was knocked unconscious and “suffered multiple facial fractures and will require plastic surgery.”

Authorities are not considering this a hate crime, even though mob were yelling “Hey, white boys, you’re in the ‘hood now!”

Other than the NY Post story, I have not been able to find a single media account of this incident outside besides a three sentence account in the Brooklyn Eagle that does not mention the race of the attackers or the racial slurs.