For the first time in the American mainstream, immigration is being connected with culture

Maureen C. writes:

Your unflagging clear statements describing the immigration problem and its solution have contributed to an emerging national turnaround in attitude:

For the first time last night I heard Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly criticize the Kennedy immigration bill—with its legalization of millions of Hispanics and then more millions as their families join them—in YOUR words. He said that this kind of wholesale Hispanic immigration is destroying the culture of America.

This is the first time that I have heard a national tv newscaster (well, perhaps Lou Dobbs has already made this point)—with the large audience commanded by Bill O’Reilly—has linked restraining immigration with national survival.

Paul Henri writes:

You won’t believe it, but last night O’Reilly said the motivation for the immigration bill is the defeat of the white, Christian, male power structure. Your views are finally catching on. I will send O’Reilly an e-mail congratulating him.
I agree with you that as the mortal danger becomes more apparent, more people will begin standing up for their own race. Also, the racist label will fall by the wayside and will be replaced by a neutral word. We are winning!

LA replies:

I doubt very much that Bill O’Reilly has ever read me. But a very surprising thing has happened in this debate. From the start of my concern about immigration in the early 1980s, my main focus was on the cultural/ethnic/racial dimension of it. And of course the connection between immigration and culture/race has been a completely forbidden area in American mainstream conservatism for all these years. But in this current fight over the Bush-Kennedy bill, I personally have not been generally thinking about the cultural side of the problem (except when talking about the ultimate anti-white motivations of the supporters of the bill as the explanation for their amazing, wall-to-wall use of the racism card). Rather, I’ve been focused on the sheer horror of the bill itself, its lies, its lawlessness, its irresponsibility. I thought last year’s S.2611 was the worst law proposed in U.S. history, but this years S.1348 is far worse.
Yet at the same time, even as I have barely been thinking about the cultural side of the issue, other people, who have never talked about the cultural aspect of immigration in their lives, are suddenly talking about it in relation to this bill. After the bills’s opponents were attacked by one of the bill’s supporters for “secretly” being concerned about culture, people at National Review Online shot back that, yes indeed they ARE concerned about culture, and there’s nothing secret about it!

So something is happening. Something is breaking open that has never been open before. To paraphrase Churchill: This is not the end. And it is not the beginning of the end. And it is not even the end of the beginning. But it is, perhaps, the beginning.

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