Peter Brimelow will be guest on the nationally syndicated Mancow Show on Monday morning at 9:35 a.m. He will discuss how whites are excluded from the Bill Gates Scholarship program. The show can be streamed here.

Writing in today’s Daily Telegraph, former Thatcher Cabinet Official Norman Tebbit declares that Britain needs a moratorium on legal immigration.

Tebbit explains,

“The projections from that inflow confirm that our population will rise by 10 million within 25 years, nearly 70 per cent by new immigration unless something is done. That is the population of another London, or seven Birminghams. At present the population of the UK is set to rise to 70 million.

“This would be bad enough if we could be confident that the newcomers and those born of earlier immigrants were all determined to integrate into our society. At present, despite the integration and assimilation of very many immigrants and their descendents, there is no evidence that the pace of integration is fast enough to avoid a state of voluntary apartheid. We are, as Trevor Phillips has said, ‘sleepwalking into segregation’ and the consequences of that can be seen in other parts of the world.”

Lord Tebbit seems to understand the urgency in halting immigration into his native homeland. America’s political elite remains clueless in grasping the magnitude of the problem of allowing current U.S. legal immigration levels to continue apace.

Tebbit however argues,

“It seems to me that we must assert that we need to aim for a zero net immigration policy. We cannot achieve that while our frontiers are open to EU citizens, and although that is not too threatening at present, some of the prospective new member states would act like wide open doors to Third World migration. We need a decent policy of giving sanctuary to true refugees … but we must close the door to others and start serious work on deporting those here illegally, as well as reinstating proper border controls. It would also require changing our law to prevent judges and others simply claiming that foreign law overrides the laws of this country.”

When will we ever learn this lesson on this side of the Atlantic?

There’s more bad news from the crackhouse country next door: Presidente Calderon’s military offensive against Mexico’s drug cartels is losing ground rather than gaining it. The possibility of a failed state is becoming more likely. (And American taxpayers’ $1.4 billion in military aid, aka the Merida Initiative, has been flushed down a rathole.)

What’s interesting in this thorough report is how it describes a real war scenario in which territory is surrendered by local officials to the gangsters, with the cartels taking over some of the functions of government as it suits them.

Drug cartels tighten grip; Mexico becoming ‘narco-state’, Arizona Republic, February 7, 2010

MEXICO CITY - For months, the leaders of Tancitaro had held firm against the drug lords battling for control of this central Mexican town.

Then one morning, after months of threats and violence from the traffickers, they finally surrendered.

Before dawn, gunmen kidnapped the elderly fathers of the town administrator and the secretary of the City Council. Within hours, both officials resigned along with the mayor, the entire seven-member City Council, two department heads, the police chief and all 60 police officers. Tancitaro had fallen to the enemy.

Across Mexico, the continuing ability of traffickers to topple governments like Tancitaro’s, intimidate police and keep drug shipments flowing is raising doubts about the Mexican government’s 3-year-old, U.S.-backed war on the drug cartels.

Far from eliminating the gangs, the battle has exposed criminal networks more ingrained than most Americans could imagine: Hidden economies that employ up to one-fifth of the people in some Mexican states. Business empires that include holdings as everyday as gyms and a day-care center. [...]

In many towns, smugglers pay for playgrounds and other things the government cannot afford. Bank loans are expensive and hard to get in Mexico, a lingering effect of the country’s bank crises during the 1990s, so traffickers have stepped in to provide small-business loans.

“What people did not recognize in Mexico was how deeply ingrained in both the economy and society the drug trade was,” [Milken Institute fellow Joel] Kurtzman said. “So it’s not as if the drug traders are unpopular - they’re looked at in many cities like Robin Hoods.” [...]

In March, the financial magazine Forbes included Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman in its list of the world’s billionaires for the first time. Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, was listed at No. 701 with a net worth of about $1 billion.

In fact, Guzman’s cartel and other gangs probably bring in $3.8 billion just to Sinaloa state alone, said Guillermo Ibarra, an economist who used bank and government statistics to compile an estimate this year.

That is 20 percent of the state’s economy, twice as much as all of its factories put together. The drug trade employs about a fifth of the state’s 2.6 million population, either directly or indirectly, he said.

Of course, Mexican organized crime is well implanted in this country due to decades of immigration anarchy. The criminals swim in a sea of Mexican nationals, immigrants and illegal aliens who reside here in the tens of millions.

As noted in the article, cartel gangsters have invaded America’s premier national parks and turned vast areas of protected lands into toxic marijuana plantations. But Washington has never seen the assault on the parks by Mexican organized crime as a priority for serious law enforcement.

Meanwhile, the Obama budget has taken money from border protection, reducing the number of agents by 180 and redirected the funds into the window dressing that masquerades as airport security.

So while the President is busy spending the country into oblivion and extending state power wherever possible, he is also actively weakening our southern border and enabling Mexicanization. Who says BHO can’t multitask?

But he does not appear interested in the sort of tough border enforcement that would upset his Mexican base.

Byron Harris, the Dallas reporter who did the exposé on the importation of Italian Welders below, is also the fellow who blew the whistle earlier on aircraft mechanics who couldn’t speak English, imported on NAFTA TN visas.

Harris wrote:

The problem with many Mexican mechanics is not necessarily their skill level, but that they don t speak or read English. They can t read the repair manuals that are in English, or communicate with the supervisors who have to sign off on their work.

“I would work with these guys sometimes and I was assigned a couple of mechanics,” said one certified American mechanic who used to work for SAA. “I would help them out. But, when it came to critical issues such as operation of flight control and systems and radio correspondence, I would refuse.”

See Harris’s story Loophole allows for easy immigration for aircraft mechanics, [WFAA.com, June 17, 2009]and my blog post TN visa used to import Mexican aircraft mechanics. Congratulate Harris.

Since my commentary (11/25/09) about the Italian welders who are working in the U.S. illegally on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Texas (“Italian Welders Work On Dallas Bridge — Texans Remain Jobless“) was published, there has been a miraculous turnaround.

According to a February 5th news story on WFAA-TV by Byron Harris: “Italian workers lose visas after WFAA investigation“. It might sound too good to be true, so be sure to go to the website to see the video report.

After the WFAA story broke in November, outraged unions and concerned Americans raised a big stink over the Italian welders. They let the Texas state government know that they weren’t happy to see Italian welders take away jobs that belonged to Americans.

After the News 8 story aired last November, the Texas Department of Transportation — the “customer” for the bridge — requested an investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Byron Harris and WFAA definitely deserve the lion’s share of the credit for the good news. Most of the national news media ignored this story even while it was going radioactive in Texas. Harris was the lone journalist that dug the story up, and WFAA had the courage to put it on TV. In this age of politically correct mainstream media, it’s very rare to see a story like this to make it to television.

Give a tip of the hat to Byron Harris and WFAA Channel 8!

So, here is the good news:

When seven of the eleven workers returned to Italy for Christmas, their visas were revoked by the U.S. Department of State. Four Italians remain in Dallas.

Not all of the workers are employed by Cimolai, which manufactures the unique steel. Some are simply employees of an Italian steel assembly firm. Additionally, not all the workers are from Italy, with special Italian skills; some are from Slovakia.

After the News 8 story aired last November, the Texas Department of Transportation — the “customer” for the bridge — requested an investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

When seven of the eleven workers returned to Italy for Christmas, their visas were revoked by the U.S. Department of State. Four Italians remain in Dallas.

Harris didn’t explain why the remaining Italians are still working in Dallas. It seems as though ICE is giving them a free ticket to remain in the U.S. as long as they don’t leave and try to come back. There is no question the Italians should be deported because they used the B-1 visa improperly, so why are they allowed to stay in the U.S.?

Oh, and Cimolai’s claim that they couldn’t find Americans that had the special welding skills needed to do the job were exposed as lies in a real real zinger — not all the workers were Italian. Slovakians were also used, which lends credibility to the claim that the company Cimolai was using foreigners to cut labor costs.

Not all of the workers are employed by Cimolai, which manufactures the unique steel. Some are simply employees of an Italian steel assembly firm. Additionally, not all the workers are from Italy, with special Italian skills; some are from Slovakia.

I was looking for a transcript of Sarah Palin’s speech last night, and didn’t find one, but I did find this, from New American Media, a multicultural news service serving every ethnicity but regular Americans, which notes that the tea party movement are patriots on the subjects of immigration:

Tea Party Dabbles in Immigration Politics

New America Media, News Report , Marcelo Ballvé, Posted: Feb 05, 2010 Review it on NewsTrust

The Tea Party movement has energized activism against President Obama’s vision for immigration reform.

The link between tea partiers and immigration politics developed last summer, when the impact of illegal immigration on the health care system became a prominent side issue in town hall debates.

Since then, illegal immigration has steadily gained ground on the Tea Party agenda.

Immigration “is one of our main issues in the state of North Carolina,” said David DeGerolamo, co-founder of Tea Party group NC Freedom, in a phone interview. “And what it comes down to is that the United States is a republic based on the rule of law. What part of illegal is right?”

Unfortunately, even New American Media notes that Governor Palin is not a firebrand on this issue, quoting Tamar Jacoby, of all people:

Tamar Jacoby, a conservative [VDARE.com note: Ha! ] who heads ImmigrationWorks USA, a pro-immigration business group, agrees that tea partiers may take up immigration in earnest in the future. But for the time being, she sees them still in an early stage of organizing and far more zeroed-in on limited government and fiscal issues.

And the Tea Party movement’s allies in the political establishment, Republicans like [Dick] Armey of FreedomWorks and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, still have a chance to influence the course Tea Party activism will take on issues such as immigration, Jacoby said. “Leadership will matter. What Palin and Armey say will be very important.”

Palin and Armey are hardly firebrands on the immigration issue.

Armey, as Jacoby pointed out, is an “old friend” of immigration reform. Armey has spoken out about making the system “more orderly” but “not more restrictive.”

Palin’s position on immigration is still hazy. In a recent interview on the Glenn Beck program she said, “I think Republicans, conservatives are at fault when we allow the other side to capture this immigration issue and try to turn this issue into something negative for Republicans,” she said, according to a Fox News transcript.

Palin stressed immigration laws should be followed, but added, “We need to continue to be so welcoming.”

It’s worrisome that Tamar Jacoby isn’t worried about Palin, while Paul Streitz is.

I wrote in Taki’s Magazine last November:

The things that we most like to argue about are those that are most inherently arguable …

As you may have noticed by now, I’m like that: clueless about most subjects that most people are most desperate to discuss. Who will win the Super Bowl? Will the stock market go up or down tomorrow? Will the health bill pass? Which party will win the next election?

Don’t ask me.

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Looks to me like the National Tea Party Convention currently under way in Nashville has got the Main Stream Media cowed. A surprisingly respectful report just appeared in the New York Times (Tea Party Looks to Move From Fringe to Force, by Kate Zernike, Feb 6 2010). I don’t see a lot of sign that immigration is being directly addressed, although Tom Tancredo got to attack voters who can’t speak English (required as a condition of citizenship, but of course ignored) and was accused of (gasp!) “racism” by Rachel Maddow.

But it’s still early days. Whiteopia author Rich Benjamin’s meme (White Racial Resentment Bubbles Under The Surface of the Tea Party Movement) may yet take hold.

Our postion: Benjamin is right, sort of. There is an unspoken race dimension to the Tea Party Movement, as there was to Scott Brown’s Senate victory and the Palin phenomenon. It’s what you get when you try to abolish an historic nation through immigration policy. Whites, formerly known as “Americans”, will band together, explicitly or implicitly, to defend their interests.

Get used to it, liberals.

Representative Steve King reaches across the aisle to help the President:

Speaking about America’s unemployment problem on November 2, 2009, President Obama expressed a desire for new ideas on how to create good-paying jobs. The President stated that “if somebody can show me a strategy that’s going to work, then we are happy to consider it.”

I have introduced legislation that the President should be “happy to consider,” right down to and including the bill’s title – New IDEA. On September 16, 2009, I introduced H.R. 3580, the Illegal Deduction Elimination Act (New IDEA), which will immediately reduce America’s unemployment and result in the hiring of millions of unemployed Americans. New IDEA will crack down on employers and illegal workers and level the playing field for law-abiding American employers and employees.

According to the Department of Labor, the December 2009 national unemployment rate in the United States was 10.0% and Iowa’s unemployment rate was 6.6%. There are 15.3 million unemployed American citizens while the Pew Hispanic Center reports that eight million illegal aliens hold American jobs. In Iowa alone, there are 112,700 unemployed workers while 35,000 illegal aliens hold jobs.

It is inexcusable for American citizens and law abiding immigrants to be jobless while law-breaking illegal aliens hold American jobs. New IDEA clarifies that wages and benefits paid to illegal aliens are not deductible for federal income tax purposes. So if employers hire illegal workers, the wages and benefits paid to illegal workers will be denied as a business expense, resulting in taxable income for employers. [King: American Jobs Should Go To American Workers, Iowa Republican, February 6, 2010]

From USAToday:

Fresno, Calif. tops Men’s Health magazine’s list of America’s “drunkest” cities while Boston, home to the “Cheers” bar where everyone knows your name, was deemed the “least drunk,” besting even Salt Lake City.

I’ve been lied to by my Dropkick Murphys albums.

The magazine, which will publish the list of 100 major cities in it’s March edition, drew upon such data as death rates from alcoholic liver disease, booze-fueled car crashes, frequency of binge-drinking in the past month, number of DUI arrests, and severity of DUI penalties.

“Drunkest” cities:

1. Fresno, Calif.
2. Reno, Nev.
3. Billings, Mont.
4. Riverside, Calif.
5. Austin
6. St. Louis
7. San Antonio
8. Lubbock, Texas
9. Tucson
10. Bakersfield, Calif.

“Least drunk” cities:

1. Boston
2. Yonkers, N.Y.
3. Rochester, N.Y.
4. Salt Lake City
5. Miami
6. Newark
7. Durham, N.C.
8. New York City
9. Fort Wayne, Ind.
10. Manchester, N.H.

See full list, including grades for each city from A to F.

Maybe somebody should pitch NBC on doing a new version of “Cheers” set in Fresno? With the track record of fine profit-making judgment that NBC’s current management has, they might go for it…