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Heard About the European “Far Right”? How About Unicorns?

By Selwyn Duke

The side that defines the vocabulary of a debate, wins the debate. So goes the theme of an old book I’ve often cited, The Tyranny of Words. Examples would be if the media routinely called pro-gun-control people “anti-freedom” or pro-abortion individuals “pro-death.”

Mainstream journalists don’t do that, of course — but they do use corresponding language to describe conservatives. Just consider headlines about the recent European parliamentary elections:

The West Is Slowly Being Islamized. Does This Matter?

By Selwyn Duke

Paterson, New Jersey, has quite a history. Founded as a planned industrial city in 1792, it was named after William Paterson, a signatory to the Constitution and a Garden State governor. Like so many American municipalities, it had a Main Street, too.

Had, that is, because it’s now “Palestine Way” — thus officially renamed in 2022.

If it seems odd that the street is officially named after a place that doesn’t officially exist, perhaps Mayor Andre Sayegh can explain. After all, Sayegh, Paterson’s first Arab head, declared the city the “capital of Palestine” earlier this month.

But is this surprising? Paterson reportedly has one of the highest per capita Muslim populations among American cities, and politicians play to their audience.

And does any of this matter?

Tucker Carlson: “Shut Down All Immigration” for 30 Years – Till Unity Is Restored

By Selwyn Duke

While touting the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 on the Senate floor, the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) pushed a number of selling points. Among other things, he said that

• our cities would “not be flooded with a million immigrants annually”;
• “the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset”; and
• the bill would “not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area.”

Interestingly, it’s not just that these predictions were wrong.

It’s that they turned out to be the precise opposite of the truth.

What’s more, foreign-born people in the United States now number 53.3 million and are 15.8 percent of our population. Both figures are new record highs.

And, of course, there’s a reason automated telephone services now render the message, “Press 1 for English.” It’s called balkanization.

Yet while we do hear much talk about ending illegal migration, there’s almost none about ending the main cause of the balkanization: legal immigration.

Hanson: Germany, Poster Boy for the West’s Decline, Is Committing “Slow-motion Suicide”

By Selwyn Duke

While summering in Germany at the age of 12, a person I was visiting mentioned something about his countrymen. “Germans are always 100 percent,” he said. He was referencing how, by his lights, they were a monolithic lot. This isn’t literally true. But what is surely correct is that Germans can be “100 percent” in applying themselves to endeavors — and to beliefs. Thus did they pioneer modern educational developments. Thus were they ground breakers in optics, brewing, and industrial engineering. Thus do the Germanic Amish likely lead the world in pacifism, with their 100-percent devotion to it.

And thus are the Germans perhaps now also at the forefront of a darker development: the decline of the West.

Universities Get Rich Off Illegal Migrants; 408,000 Currently Enrolled

By Selwyn Duke

If you want to know why academia is foursquare behind illegal migration, yes, follow the ideology.

But you can also, perhaps, even more easily follow the money.

In fact, there are currently a staggering 408,000 illegal aliens enrolled in American higher-ed institutions, according to The College Fix. And lest you think academia is doing this out of the goodness of its woke little heart, think again. Colleges and universities cash in, collecting taxpayer money for enrolling the foreigners.

Just as outrageously, 25 states offer these aliens in-state tuition benefits while denying them to out-of-state citizens. This practice is illegal, too, based on a 1996 law signed by then-president Bill Clinton. But that law has never been enforced. (This is something else the Trump administration can get busy on.)

Worse still, 20 of those states offer illegals government financial aid. Meanwhile, American students — whose parents have funded the system for years with their tax dollars — often must pay full freight.

One BILLION Americans? When Do We End Immigration?

By Selwyn Duke

It’s funny, the discussions we never have, even when they involve that proverbial elephant in the room. Here’s one:

Since the U.S.’s population is only increasing because of immigration, when do we decide we have enough people and end it?

Theater That Promoted “Tolerance for Migrants” Faces Bankruptcy — After Occupation by Migrants

By Selwyn Duke

It was Benjamin Franklin, it is said, who noted that “[g]uests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” If this is true, what would the stench be like after more than a month? Well, the left-wing Gaîté Lyrique theater in Paris, France, ought to be able to tell you. After all, it has been occupied by African migrants for five weeks now. The kicker:

The takeover began after the theater hosted a free-of-charge conference promoting tolerance for migrants — which the migrants attended.

NYC Spent Millions on Deportation Defense for Migrants — Who Were Crippling the City

By Selwyn Duke

 

Is “Put America Last” the immigrationists’ slogan? It’s not enough that Joe Biden said in 2020 that many illegal aliens are “more American than most Americans are.” It’s not enough that New York City has spent literally billions of dollars on hotel rooms for illegals. It’s not enough that the Big Apple shelled out more than $50 million on prepaid credit cards for migrants. It’s not enough that NY has offered illegals driver’s licenses. Because there’s a kicker, too.

All the while the city was also spending millions on a program providing lawyers who defend the interlopers against deportation.

What’s more, a New York jurisdiction that dared cooperate with federal authorities’ deportation efforts has been fined $60 million.

It’s the immigrationist conception of virtue: Open the borders and invite illegals in — then treat them better than citizens.

Starmer: Rape-gang-inquiry Goal “Far Right” Concern. Is Child Sex Abuse a Leftist “Lifestyle Choice” Now?

By Selwyn Duke

Philosopher C.S. Lewis once noted that it’s what slips from our mouths when we’re not thinking that reveals our hearts. This could come to mind with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s claim that those demanding an inquiry into child-abusing rape gangs are jumping “on a bandwagon of the far Right.”

Delivered at a Monday press conference, Starmer’s comments were in response to a firestorm of criticism ignited by entrepreneur Elon Musk. Musk had resurrected the rape-gang story via his X social-media platform mere days ago, as I reported this weekend.

The prime minister’s efforts at flipping the script appear to have backfired, however. That is, many critics say that implicit in his remarks is that child sex abuse is just a right-wing concern. History may inform that he’s not all wrong about that, either (more on this later). Also notable here is that this controversy is shaping up to be a classic Establishment/anti-Establishment conflict.

H-1B Blues: Dividing MAGA, Americans From Their Jobs — and America From Americanism

By Selwyn Duke

To H-1B or not to H-1B, that is the question. As is well known, and as is well loved by Democrats, there currently is an immigration battle among Republicans. Pitting the forces of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy against those of anti-immigrationist Laura Loomer and political strategist Steve Bannon, the dispute concerns H-1B visas, which are used to bring foreign high-tech workers into the U.S. The issue evokes deep passion, too, and for good reason. Musk himself came to America via an H-1B and declares that bringing new talent into the U.S. is necessary for our continued preeminence. His opponents counter that the program is actually used to replace American-born employees with foreigners who’ll work more cheaply. This is often true, too.

Also true, but rarely discussed despite being the most important issue, is that H-1B doesn’t just separate Americans from jobs. It also separates America from Americanism. That is, there’s a point that Musk, Ramaswamy, and most conservatives miss. (More on this later.)

Gov. Abbott Erects Signs in Mexico: “How Much Did You Pay to Have Your Daughter Raped?”

By Selwyn Duke

In 2005, the Mexican government distributed comic-book-style manuals instructing migrants on how to enter and remain in the U.S. illegally. Now, a generation later, new messages are being sent to would-be illegal aliens.

“How much did you pay to have your daughter raped? Many girls are raped by the coyotes you hire,” is one.

“Your wife and daughter will pay for their trip with their bodies,” reads another. “Coyotes lie. “Don’t put your family at risk.”

“Many girls who try to migrate to Texas are kidnapped,” yet another message warns. “For the sake of your family, stop.”

And, no, the above don’t come with trigger warnings.