Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Immigration

  • For the Left, the Issue is Never the Issue

    David Horowitz (2013): Here is another statement from [Saul Alinsky's] Rules for Radicals: “We are always moral and our enemies always immoral.” The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the immorality of the opposition, of conservatives and Republicans. If they are perceived as immoral and indecent, their policies and arguments can be dismissed,…

  • Why Would Anyone Want to Come to the USA?

    Heather Mac is a national treasure. As long as we of the Coalition of the Sane have people like her to speak for us there is hope. A taste: But why should social-justice warriors want to subject these potential asylees to the horrors of America? In coming to the U.S., if you believe the dominant…

  • A ‘Fake News’ Smear

    Donald Trump baits the so-called journalists of the lamestream media with his largely, but not entirely, true accusations of 'fake news' and what do the 'journalists' do? They bite. They take the bait.  In their TDS-driven rage they verify the accusations by violating their own professional standards. Well, keep it up knuckleheads! You are destroying…

  • The Populist Surge in Italy and Elsewhere

    Immigration, both legal and illegal, is perhaps the central issue of our time. Robert W. Merry: And, of all the issues roiling Europe these days, none generates more political force and energy than the immigration crisis—representing a direct threat to the very definition of the West as well as its cultural coherence and health. The…

  • We Are all ‘White Supremacists’ Now

    Even the San Francisco lefty, Angela Alioto. She has been called the following names: white supremacist, Trumpian, fascist, Nazi, and racist.  For despite her leftist wobble, she retains some common sense: she proposes a reform of the S. F. sanctuary city law so that it no longer protects felons as she explains on the Tucker…

  • Tribalism and Diversity

    Tribalism is on the rise. Given this fact, does it make sense to admit into one's country ever more different tribes? A piety oft-intoned by leftists is that diversity is our strength. An Orwellianism, that, if tribal diversity is at issue.  For that would amount to the absurdity that the more domestic strife, the stronger…

  • Governor Moonbeam at the Golden Gate

  • The Ideology of Illegal Immigration

    An outstanding column by VDH. Excerpts: The entire vocabulary of illegal immigration has become Orwellian. Once descriptive nouns and adjectives such as “alien” and “illegal” have melted into “undocumented” and “immigrant” and then into just “migrant,” ostensibly to mask the reality of both legal status and the fact that migrants go in one direction —…

  • The Greatest Risk We are Taking

    Patrick J. Buchanan: But the greatest risk we are taking, based on utopianism, is the annual importation of well over a million legal and illegal immigrants, many from the failed states of the Third World, in the belief we can create a united, peaceful and harmonious land of 400 million, composed of every race, religion,…

  • What’s In It for Mexico?

    My man Hanson: Mexico keeps sending its impoverished citizens to the U.S., and they usually enter illegally. That way, Mexico relieves its own social tensions, develops a pro-Mexico expatriate community in the U.S. and gains an estimated $30 billion a year from remittances that undocumented immigrants send back home, often on the premise that American…

  • Three Reasons the Left Wants Ever More Immigration

    Here: The first and most obvious reason is political. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, chain migration, sanctuary cities and citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally will give the left political power. An estimated 70% to 80% of Latin American immigrants will vote Democrat. So, with enough new voters from Latin America alone, the…

  • California Schemin’: Why Democrats Protect Criminal Illegals

    Theme music: California Dreamin' Too bad the dream is dead, killed by destructive leftists. And you are still a Democrat? Why, because you think the rule of law does not matter? You don't value what you have, and you don't realize how easy it is to lose. You will suffer and you will deserve to…

  • Why Do Asian Americans Continue to Support Liberal Candidates and Policies?

    One might think that, given the superior intelligence of Jews and Asians as groups, members of these groups would not support destructive leftists when it is fairly obvious that doing so is not in their long-term best self-interest. We read below that a third of Asian Americans live in California. So they have first-hand experience…

  • Is the Rule of Law Geographically Variable?

    'Liberals' seem to think it is. The rule of law fades as one approaches the southern border, fading out entirely at the border. And then there are those pockets where it holds selectively. These are known as sanctuary jurisdictions. Some are as large as California. But to whom do they provide sanctuary?

  • An Unsound Argument Against National Borders

    The Dark Ostrich extracts the following argument from a TED video: (1) It is wrong that anyone subject to the force of the law should not be subject to its protection, but (2) those immediately outside the border and forcibly prevented from entering are subject to the force of the law but not its protection,…