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Summary: The ONLY Honest Book on the Immigration Issue
Review: Alien Nation is the only honest book I've read on the immigration question. Peter Brimlowe, who is himself a British immigrant to this country, has rightly noted that multicultural States are unviable and all ultimately come unglued in a sea of blood and civil war as competing cultures and ethnicities battle it out for power.The solution to this is to maintain a dominant cultural majority, (i.e. the true "nation") so that it can be the cultural glue that binds together the political entity known as the State. History shows us that all stable States are comprised of ethnically and culturally homogenous dominant majorities. In America, this has always meant that Americans of European descent and Western, Christian cultural heritage, have comprised the core nation. What is destabilising America today is the Immigration Act of 1965 that opened the floodgates to 3rd World immigration and which is rapidly allowing alien nations to establish cultural beach-heads and enclaves in America's urban areas. This in turn is causing an epidemic of white flight as European-Americans flee the crime, alien cultural mores, and hostile living environments they encounter in areas overrun by people from places like Pakistan, India, Latin America, Vietnam and dozens of other Third World lands that have virtually nothing in common with the descendants of the European peoples who established the United States and built it into a great country. Liberals, lacking the ability to refute the statistical sounndness of Mr Brimlowe's research and the logical clarity of his arguments are left to sputter "racism" and other demon-words intended to close the minds of the undecided to the contents of "Alien Nation" rather than risk the possibility that objective-thinking Americans will read this book and agree with it. If you believe that the Immigration problem is a ticking time-bomb that threatens our liberties and our cultural heritage, you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy of "Alien Nation." It's the only book you'll ever need to refute the lies of the multiculturalist, "let 'em all come here," crowd that hates America, her founding fathers, and the Christian European culture that made the old American Republic, (which is rapidly fading out of existance), possible.
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Summary: A compelling case to close the immigration floodgates
Review: America is besieged by an onslaught of Third World immigration - illegal and legal - which is now and will continue to radically transform the American demographic. Moreover, the culture, institutions, religion, character and ethnic core of America will change in the process. National Review journalist Peter Brimelow, an immigrant himself of British extraction, makes a compelling case against the unmitigated tide of immigration on economic, environmental and (gulp) cultural grounds. America embraces an immigration myth, which doesn't mesh with history: this myth posits America to be the first 'universal nation.' Founding Father and Federalist John Jay, characterized Americans as "one united people - a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs." Also, Brimelow points out some of the more absurd economic arguments by immigration enthusiasts and the hypocrisy of nations that send us droves of their emmigrants while restricting their own immigration. Why do they do that? Because they're too poor, too populated and do not have the economic strength to handle the influx. Yet we're told in the U.S. immigration doesn't displace workers, it complements them. Shouldn't it work both ways. Hmmm... The conventional immigration mystique holds the immigrant to be hard-working, productive and an asset to the economy. Nonetheless, the stark economic facts suggest this is quite to the contrary. A greater percentage of immigrants are on welfare than natives. Immigrants make up one-quarter of the federal penitentiary inmates. Immigrants are seldom productive as given credit for considering their huge consumption of resources: education, health care, welfare and other taxpayer subsidized services. Advocates of open borders immigration who are alarmed at the multicultural Balkan stratification that is common to the new influx of immigrants may be missing the point if they think assimilation or assent to an elusive "America creed" is even tenable. Given the motley crue of Aztalan enthusiasts that loathe Anglos and Jihad warriors swimming onto our shores, the idea of assimilation being remotely feasible must be swept to the wayside. The new wave of immigrants by and large have no intent of embracing the culture and ways of America. Not surprisingly, the future of America looks bleak with a stratified, hostile, multi-ethnic populace isolated in Balkanized enclaves. Middle America is alienated by the power elites who ignore their cries to shut off the immigration floodgates despite the unpopularity of immigration whether legal or illegal. If America doesn't address the issue soon, the traditional culture, institutions and faith, that America so cherishes will be drowned out. The 1965 Immigration Act with its open borders policy, its preference for Third World immigrants and lax enforcement of illegal entries needs to be scrapped. Somehow, I doubt the Brave New World taking shape will have any reverence for Christianity or the republican institutions of the Anglo-American founders in 2050. Perhaps, Pat Buchanan is right and a moratorium or freeze on immigration is in order. ...
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Summary: 'It was a brave man who first ate an oyster.' - Dr. Johnson
Review: Brimelow is a brave man wo dares to speak to one of our surmounting problems, when no one else will.
The only disappointment I had in this book was that it is not a 'best seller.' Brimelow examines the inherent threat and danger to our American society and culture brought about by our current governmental immigration policies. He points out that currently we have between four and five million illegal aliens in the United States, and another one-an-a-half million legal immigrants. Moreover, many of them find it painful to assimilate into our society, sometimes because of racial or religious antagonisms, i.e.: radical Muslims, or people of color like Colin Ferguson, who killed several people on a train in New York because he hated whites.
Brimelow also points out, accurately, that our origins (except for the native aborigines) were white Europeans, and most of them, like him, of British derivation and protestant Christian faith.
Further, Mr. Brimelow notes, that the vast majority of native-born Americans are not in favor of the great wave of immigrants that currently inundate us, and that are changing the entire face of our population. But, they have little voice in the matter: the decisions are being made at the political level, quietly. Illegals are being granted amnesty and granted citizenship without demonstrating fluency in English, and increasing numbers are 'language isolated,' with no one in the household speaking English, formerly a requirement for citizenship. Huge numbers of illegals near our southern border come her solely to give birth, so that their children will become citizens and eligible for welfare and free medical care.
Brimelow also assesses the cost to our school system, faced with millions of kids who are not sufficiently skilled in English, and so burden the system with extra cost, since they still must be educated--in their own language.
In short, our sieve-like borders and our political immigration policies--often liberalized solely to attract more voters of the political flavor sought by the politicians, are swamping us. Historically, for example, Hispanics can be counted on to vote Democrat, and so Democrat lawmakers smile at relaxed immigration.
How does it impact us, individually? I can recall, during the Second World War and the Korean 'Police Action,' when the people on the streets of this nation--no matter where you went--spoke, virtually exclusively, the English language, and looked and dressed similarly. We had a national identity. Now, we have a polyglot population. In stores we are assailed by a babble of Spanish, Vietnamese, and other languages too many to number.
Instead of a 'melting pot,' a unifying goal to establish a national identity, the unspoken but assumed goal of everyone was to assimilate into our national identity. Today we are being bombarded with the propaganda of 'multi-culturism,' as if that were a desirable thing, but rather than unifying, it is divisive. It breaks us into groups who are often at odds: blacks, Hispanics, Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Women, Catholics, protestants, etc. It is as if there was a conscious effort being made to divide us, so that we then could be more easily conquered, piecemeal.
And our population is growing by leaps and bounds, creating overcrowding in our cities, and contributing to crime and unrest; not as a result of natural factors like childbirth surpassing the death rate, but as a result of the influx of immigrants--both legal and illegal.
We are being swamped, and without the consent of the citizens and residents of this land of abundance, but rather by elected politicians and unelected bureaucrats who need to turn off the spigot, and stop the flood, instead od using it to further their own political agenda.
'Take back our country' has another meaning than the sophomoric chant of the political flacks in an election year. We need to stop the alien horde, and keep it from destroying our national character.
We can still take strangers into our borders, but selectively, judging whether they will be an asset to us, and can reasonably be expected to support themselves, and looking at their backgrounds, individually. Brimelow thinks we must. So do I.
Joseph (Joe) Pierre
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Summary: well researched but...
Review: But it sure is true. Leftists and bleeding-hearts will surely be offended by this in-your-face expose of the idiotic crusade for "multiculturalism" and "diversity" in America. It isn't surprising that the editorial reviews for this book are hostile; they are written by the very same elitist eggheads who are trying to force their "diversity is our strength" nonsense down the throats of the American people. Brimelow, himself an immigrant, skillfully explains how mass legal and illegal immigration are diluting America's cultural and social cohesion. We are allowing millions of Third World immigrants into this country every year; people who do not share our values or beliefs; people who, unlike the immigrants of yesterday, are here only to take from us, not to be Americans; people who don't even feel it necessary to learn to speak our language; people who apparently believe America owes them something; people whose love of America is questionable at best. If you love America and care about its future, do yourself a favor and read this book. The diversity shills and multiculturalists will call you a racist for reading it, but as Brimelow says, the definition of a racist is someone who's winning an argument with a liberal.
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Summary: Mind cancer
Review: I guess this book is intended to appeal to people broadcasting reruns of Hitler's speeches from bunkers in Idaho. I am always amused when those who disagree with racist claptrap are called "eggheads" or "bleeding hearts." As if having an education and compassion for other human beings is some kind of curse. Every group of immigrants had to wade through the same tide of vomit this book spews while they went about the business of building this country. Come on guys. The new neighbors might not attend your church, dress like you or even speak your language at the moment but please don't dump your paranoid baggage on their doorstep.
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Summary: Excellent book, very Understated--needs to go MUCH further
Review: if we want to talk about truth, this book is a great start. I had to give it 4 stars, however, because it does not go nearly far enough. According to the facts, there is no question whatsoever that the white race that built this country deserves to live. Everything from modern science and statistics to recent or ancient history shows us that there are vast differences between the races. This is fact as much as the fact that the sun is the center of our solar system or that the Earth is round. This book talks far far too little about this. The worst thing we could do in a democracy or in any organization is to persecute people for the truth. Good decisions cannot be made without considering truth. People need to know that this IS a racial issue. When whites become a minority, the character of this country will change forever. Race mixing will eventually destroy everything that made us great. I am a behavioral neuroscientist, and I have had years of training in brain science and behavior. I have intimate knowledge of brain science and the processes of gathering truth in science. There is no reason we should be ashamed of the truth--especially one as important as this. White people deserve to live. Somewhere along the way we lost sight of the fact that historically your nation was also your race. When we think of "nationality" we still tend to think of race but we no longer see nation as race. This is wrong. When we speak of "Alien Nation" we need to realize this. Race is unequivocally important--maybe the most important thing there is to consider. It is shameful that this book sneaks around this central issue so much. Our freedom, and our great white race, are evaporating under the dark weight of Political Correctness. We need to get away from the ridiculous notion that to talk of race is to "hate". We need to find who started this rumour--there we will find an enemy of truth and also of our future. In any courtroom, we must consider all evidence carefully in an unprejudiced manner. No more unbalanced books, please. Let's be honest and just say that the white race is superior in many important things. That is simply a fact. Otherwise it is an excellent book as far as it goes--just introject RACE everywhere where it is obviously left out, and the fact that the white race is unique and amazing and beautiful and deserves to be preserved over any endangered whale or owl. We have real problems here in this country, and also around the world--race is the biggest problem our country is currently facing. It is a life or death situation. Without all the information, we cannot even begin to make a plan for dealing with these realities. This is a half-written book.
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Summary: Borjas Does a Better Job
Review: If you want to read an exhaustive analysis of immigration take a look at Borjas's recent book. Brimelow is an extremist from the conspiracy theorist camp. His use of statistics is unsophisticated and awkward.
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Summary: Demolishes the Multicultural Fantasy
Review: It is sad that there are so many who despise works that dare to criticize America's ludicrous immigration policies. Sad, and a little bit funny. Every empire that's ever fallen has done so through overextension and through the failure to assimilate their subjugated peoples. You'd think that most people would have figured this out by now, and would have seen that America is blindly stumbling into these same problems. But as George Bernard Shaw stated: "We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
I find it even sadder (or funnier) that so many here apply the 'racist' label upon Mr. Brimelow's work. Bow down to the Altar of Diversity, or be forsaken, it seems. Those so obsessed with preaching `tolerance' are woefully adverse to any dissenting opinion on the subject of race. "The races are exactly the same," you know. Race is just a "social construct." Of course, the dramatic differences between the races have been carefully catalogued--they differ startlingly, from varying brain sizes to incompatible bone marrow--but don't expect a racial nihilist to point this out to you, and don't expect to read it in the Sunday paper, either. That would be `racist.' God forbid.
Indeed, multiculturalism is a horribly illogical train of thought, regardless of whether or not the races are identical. It operates on the oh-so-brilliant assumption that all cultures are equally desirable. Of course, ask a multiculturalist whether he'd prefer immigrants that were culturally Nazi, or culturally democratic, and he'll tell you democratic, nine times out of ten. So much for the `all cultures are equal' tripe. There are those like myself, who contend that certain cultures--oh say, the culture of Mexicans--are less desirable than others, judging from valuable little trinkets like crime statistics. Of course, I, and those like me, are irredeemably Evil. I guess we're `culturists'--a term I fully expect to be used one day. Hey, we've already got `racism' and `sexism' and `homophobism'--why not add another member to the Hall of the Horrible Isms?
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Summary: Thought-provoking - made me question some long-held views
Review: Peter Brimelow has written a thought-provoking work that exposes the quirks and idiosyncracies of America's immigration policies by providing lots and lots of details, facts and charts while, for the most part, keeping the text lively and interesting. Not a mean feat. Brimelow is a writer for Forbes Magazine and, apparently, he enjoys digging into controversial topics. I've also reviewed another of his books concerning Teacher's Unions. He goes after the potentially explosive topic of immigration in two ways. First, he looks at the ways the current laws were supposed to have worked by delving in to the original debates of 1965. Secondly, he goes after America's cherished beliefs about immigration and asks rather simple questions that usually dismantle those beliefs as easily as a breeze destroys a house of cards. He tiptoes on the edge of sounding racist (he often questions whether it is in the best interest of the USA to dramatically alter its ethnic and cultural base without so much as having had one serious debate on the matter in the Congress). He begins with looking at the promises of Ted Kennedy in speeches made in Senate Committee in 1965 concerning the then-proposed (now current system). Kennedy promised that immigration would not increase if his proposed changes were enacted (it has quadrupled) and that the ethnic mix of the country would not change (it has - hispanics up from 3% to 13%. Asians up from 1% to 3%. Whites as a percentage of population have dropped from 85% to 70%.) Brimelow's most compelling argument, in my mind, is that, at the very least, the USA needs to have an open, frank discussion concerning immigration and at decide if the system we have accidentally created is the one we really want. The big problem with the current system, according to Brimelow, is that it focuses on family re-unification rather than filling needs that our country has. Rather than going through long details about the system, I'd rather just recommend the book.
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Summary: Doesn't cover enough, the elephant in the room......
Review: that nobody will mention. That being the role of organized American Jewry in spending enormous amounts of time, organization, and effort to overturn the 1924, 1952 laws and the national origins system. There should have been a better treatment of this issue in the book. Although it is argued that many groups wanted to disregard the status quo ideals in place since 1924, it was Jewry that provided the bulk of the effort, culminating in their "victory" in 1965 over White European Americans and the opening of the floodgates. How is this not emphasized more clearly? And why not? Jewry's goal was to make the USA multi-cultural, and diminish the percentages of White America, the rationale being that Jewry would be safer in a country where they were not an easily recognizable and identifiable minority. Some say that Jewry's enemy is the White (European) descended-man, and their effort to affect immigration laws to weaken the whiteness of America was no accident, and the result of much organized lobbying and sustained effort. This is critical to understanding why we are a melting pot today, and who wanted this nation to become diverse, for divide and conquer purposes. But this should have been better discussed. For this reason, I cannot give it 5 stars.
Jewry thought in 1952 that the McCarran-Walter law was only a temporary setback and they was right. Thirty years after the triumph of restrictionism, only Jewish groups remained as persistent and tenacious advocates of a multicultural America. Forty-one years after the 1924 triumph of restrictionism and the national origins provision and only 13 years after its reaffirmation with the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, Jewish organizations successfully supported ending the geographically based national origins basis of immigration.
The rest they say is history.
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