Buchanan: The barbarians are at the gates!


The uber-Nativist, Pat Buchanan, has a new book out.

Buchanan claims that the West is going the way of the Roman Empire- because of illegal immigration.

He advises the suspension of legal immigration for ten years, as well as a program of deportations and a double wall along the whole length of the U.S.- Mexican border, as our "last chance" to frustrate La Reconquista.

That I think Buchanan is- shall we say- a bit marginal doesn't stop me from agreeing that we have a serious problem here (one in twelve illegal immigrants have criminal records). Nor to I disagree that we need to get control of our borders.

But Buchanan himself frightens me almost as much.

HT: Drudge
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Anonymous said…
The problem isn't that he thinks that we should get really, really serious on illegal immigration. The problem is why he thinks so. Though not being an outright racist (at least not publicly), Buchanan thinks that somehow third world people can't share democratic values and hale from inferior cultures. One could easily make the same argument against my ancestors who were German colonists in Russia.
8/20/2006 08:38:00 PM
Robert Elart Waters said…
And as a result, there is no give with him. Third-world immigration to Pat is an unmitigated evil. He's not the successor, as he claims, of the traditional American conservative movement, but of the Know-Nothings and other nativists who were excluding immigrants long before either of our ancestors set foot on our shores- and Buchanan's ancestors, too!
8/21/2006 07:55:00 PM
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