Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Immigration

  • Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution

    The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion . . . . (emphasis added) Whence it follows that Joseph L. Biden is in dereliction of duty, an impeachable offence.  Furthermore, “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress ……

  • Where to Send Illegal Immigrants

    Send them to 'sanctuary' jurisdictions. Eric Adams, mayor of NYC, would be happy to show his hospitality and humanity. I am using 'jurisdiction' to cover cities, counties, and states.  Here is a nifty map and a list brought to you from the fine folks over at the Center for Immigration Studies. I am proud to…

  • Just Like a Libertarian!

    A member of the Cato Institute argues that the solution to the immigration crisis is to legalize immigration. Too stupid for words. Or maybe you disagree?

  • Thomas Aquinas Against Open Borders

    Substack leader.  With linkage to a passage (pun intended) from the doctor angelicus.

  • Another Day, Another Outrage

    Biden DOJ sues SpaceX for following the law. Another example of 'lawfare,' the use of the law to undermine the rule of law.  Should 'asylum seekers' and 'refugees' be given the rights of citizens when they are neither, but are economic migrants who have entered the country illegally? Obviously not, unless you are a hate-America…

  • France’s Agony

    Rod Dreher reports on the ravages of the allowance of the mass immigration of unassimilable elements. Will we learn? Little chance of that. Dreher concludes: I feel strongly that one reason so many of us in the West — including many conservatives — cannot bring ourselves to deal with realities like those posed by mass…

  • Why Secure the Border?

    For many good reasons, none of them 'xenophobic' or 'racist.' Here is one that will certainly be ignored by the Sino-compromised Biden administration. Gordon G. Chang reports. I'm no socialist, but here I present — wait for it — a socialist argument for border control. 

  • Extremism and Leftist Projection: The Border

    Mainstream leftists promote extreme ideas and policies; mainstream conservatives do not. But this fact does not stop leftists from projecting their extremism into us. They call us extremists! Uncomfortable with their extremism, and not wanting to admit it, they suppress their awareness of  their extremism by projecting it into us. There are numerous examples of…

  • ‘Asylum Seekers’

    Is a home invader an asylum seeker? Only in very rare cases.  So why are people who immigrate illegally called asylum seekers? A few are but most are not. What we have here, once again, is the characteristic 'progressive' abuse of language.  At the same time that so-called progressives abuse 'asylum,' they also abuse 'xenophobic'…

  • Rockland County to NYC

    A massive middle-fingered 'salute.' Quite rightly. ('Quite rightly' is in my head because I heard Donovan's Mellow Yellow on the way to the range Friday morning. Donovan uses 'quite' to mean entirely, but in American English at least it also can mean somewhat.  Does it have both senses in British English?) The article mentions 'migrants.' …

  • To Those Fleeing California

    DO NOT come to Arizona! It's just too damned hot here for you snowflakes. And on top of that everybody is packing heat. That's why you don't hear any honking on the highways and byways. "An armed society is a polite society." We are racist to the core in this rattlesnake-infested inferno which is also…

  • Polity and Comity

    Substack latest

  • On ‘Illegal Alien’ and ‘Illegal Immigrant’

    Substack latest. The Republic is probably beyond saving at this late date. So why do I bother to write pieces that underscore what really ought to be obvious? One reason is selfish: I like to write and then re-read what I have written. But having taken the time to write something clean, coherent, and sensible,…

  • Another Good Dementocratic Reason to Keep the Southern Border Wide Open

    Here: Between 2018 and 2022, seven Catholic priests were murdered in Mexico. There has been an increase in the kidnapping of religious, as well as 800 reports of “collection” of derecho de piso by organized crime: an extortion “fee” demanded to keep Catholic churches open.  

  • Immigration and Social Order

    I linked to this outstanding essay about seven years ago. It is jam-packed with insights. See if you agree. The graphic below is from the essay mentioned: Schemata such as this are useful up to a point.