Yesterday we did one column  about Dick Armey and another about the upcoming illegal alien march in Washington. In this item, Michelle Malkin combines both themes:

The open-borders lobby will march on Washington this Sunday. Perhaps Armey can serve as an honorary grand marshal, with his good friends John McCain and Lindsey Graham leading the feckless GOP contingent.[In response to amnesty stooge Dick Armey, By Michelle Malkin,March 17, 2010]

The New York Times is reporting that Suffolk County executive Steve Levy, who is from Long Island, and who we’ve been writing about for years, is thinking of switching to the Republican party, and running for governor–apparently the NYT considers the term “anchor babies” verboten:

There is no question that Mr. Levy will add unpredictability to the race. He is known not only for his Puritan work ethic and stubborn frugality but also for his occasionally incendiary comments, especially on immigration. His detractors say he has stoked the anger of the largely white middle-class residents of Suffolk County, which is grappling with an influx of immigrants who are straining the social service system.

In 2005, Mr. Levy helped orchestrate a highly publicized raid on a house in Brookhaven, where the authorities rounded up dozens of suspected illegal immigrants. He once described foreign women who give birth after moving to the United States as having “anchor babies,” a term often used derisively by anti-immigrant groups. Asked in a recent interview whether he might have chosen his words more carefully, he was unapologetic. “There’s no need to,” he said. “The public is in agreement with me.” [Planned Switch to G.O.P. Stirs New York Governor Race, By Jeremy W. Peters, March 17, 2010]

The Roman Catholic Bishop Of Londonderry, Séamus Hegarty, having failed to make peace in his own Northern Irish Diocese, wishes to export Ireland’s problems to America, legally or illegally:

Bishop of Derry hopes for US immigration reform

MICHAEL O’REGAN

UNDOCUMENTED IRISH: BISHOP OF Derry Dr Séamus Hegarty has called for support for the undocumented Irish in the United States.

In a St Patrick’s Day message, he said that he was particularly conscious of their circumstances. “While hopes may have dimmed that comprehensive immigration reform will occur this year, they have not been extinguished,” he said. “It is only by addressing this issue that people may be brought in from the margins of society, enabling them to integrate and contribute fully to their host community.”[More]

I would have thought that, as the Roman Catholic Bishop of a city like Londonderry, violently divided between Protestant and Catholic, would realize that some people don’t want illegal colonists to “contribute fully to their host community.”

This is what I said last year:

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all our Irish readers, our Irish-American readers, and to legal immigrants from Ireland. (As for illegal Irish immigrants, you can buy a one-way ticket from New York to Shannon fairly cheaply.)

In honor of St. Patricks’s Day, check out St. Patrick’s Day Explained To England, by Peter Brimelow, and The Camp Of St. Patrick and Ganging Up On America by me.

Peter Brimelow’s column was an attempt to explain the St. Patrick’s Day parade to the readers of the London Times in the ’80s, and mine attempt to explain that nineteenth century Irish immigration was not an unmixed blessing.

Steve Sailer’s post on disparate impact, in which the Department of Education is shocked, shocked, to find that African-American kids cause more discipline problems than whites and Asians, reminds me of this recent article by Abigail Thernstrom, [Are Some Races More Equal Than Others?]in which she details the horrors suffered by Asian kids at the hands of blacks in majority black schools. She mentions a specific case at South Philadelphia High School, which is now the subject of an Asian-American law suit, in which the Asian-Americans accuse Principal Lagreta Brown, who is African-American, of doing little to protect Asian victims of violence.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-Amnesty) is afraid that if Obama jams Obamacare through the Senate undemocratically, it will interfere with his plan to betray the Republican Party base (and the country).

“If they jam through health care,” said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, then Democrats will have “poisoned the well” on other issues. He was interviewed Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

An immigration proposal he has been working on with Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York, would likely fall victim to the worsened environment, he said. [As Health Vote Awaits, Future of a Presidency Waits, Too, By Peter Baker, New York Times, March 14, 2010]

If the Kennedy-McCain bill failed, I don’t see how the Schumer-Graham bill will do any better.

Here’s a story by Annie Jacobsen:

The terrorism case of Rajib Karim, a 30-year-old British Airways call center employee, took a radical turn last week when a British court learned Karim volunteered to work as a member of a British Airways crew during an upcoming crew strike. Karim’s ultimate goal, the court learned, was to become a suicide bomber. He sought out a job with the airline so that he could gather information useful to his terrorist handlers in Yemen.

Prosecutor Colin Gibbs provided more details. While working at the call center designing software for British Airways, Rajib Karim had also been working with foreign jihadists in Yemen, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, giving and receiving support and “advice.” As a British Airways employee, he had learned otherwise inaccessible cabin crew protocols after the airline made this sensitive information available to employees who’d volunteered to pick up extra jobs during the strike. “There is no way this individual would have been considered for cabin crew work because he did not meet the criteria,” a British Airways spokesman told the Times of London in response to explosive details in the British press. But the fact that Karim had access to information he was able to relay to his overseas handlers could not be denied by British Airways. This included how to beat airport security, how baggage and body scanners worked, and how British Airways crew conducted certain tasks.

Terror Suspects Had Jobs at British Airways and … U.S. Nuclear Facilities

What did Sharif Mobley tell his terrorist handlers about our security protocols?, by Annie Jacobsen, PajamasMedia, March 14, 2010

We’ve been doing stories about this danger for years–see Glory in the Name of Briton, about a “Briton” who worked in the duty-free shop at Heathrow, and Who’s Afraid Of 9/11? Illegal Aliens Still Get Sensitive U.S. Jobs, by Rob Sanchez.

Peter Brimelow will be on the “B.S. in the Morning” show at 11:35 a.m. ET to discuss the prospects for an amnesty in 2010. The program airs in Harvey, North Dakota and can be streamed here.

The LA Times story that Steve Sailer quoted recently had this in the first paragraph:

“The federal government has singled out the Los Angeles Unified School District for its first major investigation under a reinvigorated Office for Civil Rights, officials said Tuesday.”

Federal agency to investigate L.A. schools, By Howard Blume, March 10, 2010

Of course, a ” reinvigorated Office for Civil Rights” (pursuing spectacularly phony cases of “disparate impact“) is exactly what VDARE.com warned you about before Obama’s election, and also exactly what a “postracial healer” wouldn’t do.

Peter Brimelow was on RadioAmerica, you can listen below, if embedding works, or go here:

Amnesty Push Coming Next

Posted in March 11th, 2010

by GregC in Podcasts

Even as President Obama and Democratic leaders make a final push on health care legislation, plans are already underway to launch the next huge policy debate - immigration reform.  What does President Obama want in terms of reform?  Will this issue divide Republicans like it did a few years ago?  What policies would work?  And why is passage less likely than ever - even with huge Democratic majorities?  We ask Peter Brimelow, former senior editor with Forbes and National Review.  He is also the author of ‘Alien Nation’.

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A recent story says that Mexican drug cartels are infiltrating the Customs and Border Protection agency:

US Customs: Mexican cartels corrupt border agents

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN (AP) – 17 hours ago

McALLEN, Texas — Mexican drug cartels are infiltrating federal law enforcement agencies along the southwest border and those charged with weeding them out say they don’t have the money to catch all the corrupt agents, homeland security officials told a U.S. Senate panel Thursday.

James Tomsheck, assistant commissioner with U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Internal Affairs, told a Senate homeland security subcommittee in Washington that only about one in 10 of the new hires for agency jobs are given polygraph tests, and of those, 60 percent are deemed unsuitable for employment.

That means that many who joined the agency during the recent hiring boom and did not take polygraphs could have joined with corruption already in mind, Tomsheck said.

“That 60 percent number is alarming to me,” said U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., who chaired the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration.

The Associated Press reported last year that four applicants for border protection jobs were not hired when polygraph tests and background checks confirmed they were infiltrators from drug trafficking operations.

“Transnational criminal organizations are doing all they can to infiltrate CBP through our hiring initiatives,” Tomsheck told the subcommittee.

An AP investigation tallied corruption-related convictions against more than 80 enforcement officials at all levels — federal, state and local — along the southwest border since 2007.

Since 2003, 129 customs officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested on corruption charges, said Tom Frost, the Department of Homeland Security’s assistant inspector general for investigations. That figure included the northern border and other ports of entry.[More]

Unmentioned in this story is the underlying problem that many of the men hired to guard the southern border have relatives on the south side of that border, where corruption is a tradition–a reader came up with this short list:

1. Oscar Antonio Ortiz
2. Juan Alvarez
3. Ignacio Ramos
4. David Duque (pronounced “dook”)
5. Jose Alonso Compean
6. Luis Higareda
7. Two brothers named Villareal

It’s part of what City Journal recently called “The Mexicanization Of American Law Enforcement.”

Update: A reader pointed out that two of the names that appear on that list are Ramos and Compean. (The reader had Googled “border patrol” and “corruption” in 2006.)

However, Ramos and Compean were not actually examples of corruption, but of Bush Administration malfeasance.