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Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
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| Title | Mexifornia: A State of Becoming |
| ASIN | 1893554732 -
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| Category | Opinion |
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| Last Modified | Tony82 - September 08, 2003 03:52pm |
| Description | Victor Davis Hanson grew up in California. His hometown is now populated overwhelmingly by Mexican immigrants, many of whom are illegal and most of whom have never bothered to become American citizens. It's just a small part of what's happening all over the Golden State, which is on track to have a population of 50 or 60 million in the next twenty years. The increase will come from illegal immigrants and the large families of newcomers from Mexico.
"California," says Hanson in Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, "is now home to fully 40 percent of America's immigrants, legal and illegal." To objections that after all, we're a nation of immigrants, and so no one can legitimately oppose wholesale immigration from Mexico, Hanson explains why this wave of immigrants is different -- and why every American should be deeply concerned about the reckless immigration policies that have created this situation.
Insightfully drawing upon his personal experiences as a fifth-generation Californian and current resident of the state, he shows why it's vital to our national health that these policies must be changed, however reluctant politicians are to do so for fear of being tarred with the Left's ever-ready charge of racism. Hanson also details why it's not really "racist" or "nativist" to oppose these policies, which are ultimately harming not only our social fabric as a nation, but also the immigrants themselves.
These immigrants, Hanson points out, are coming in such numbers because "a tacit alliance of Right and Left has created an open-borders policy." What's in it for them? Businesses get cheap labor -- and race-baiting activist groups get a never-ending source of the social problems that constitute their bread and butter.
Hanson reports that hit-and-run accidents, auto theft, the manufacture and sale of drugs, murders, rapes, and armed robberies are now customary even in rural areas of California, while radical Hispanic and Chicano groups such as La Raza do nothing but herd illegal immigrants "into ethnic enclaves, where inexorably they congeal into an underclass." Multiculturalism, meanwhile, keeps these immigrants from understanding or accepting the American values that would transform them into productive and valuable members of our nation of immigrants.
A distinguished military historian and social commentator on post-9/11 American life, Hanson here traces what has changed in California over the last 25 years, and argues forcefully that only a return to our traditions of assimilation, integration, and intermarriage can remedy the fix that rapacious and cowardly politicians have gotten us into. This book is a much-needed indictment of immigration policies that overshadow the future not just of California, but of our nation as a whole. A few samples of the wisdom of Victor Davis Hanson:
Why illegal immigration from Mexico is a demographic time bomb that could destroy our society as a whole
How Leftist opponents of immigration reform resort to recriminations and intimidation in order to stifle our much-needed national debate on immigration
Why the term "person of color" so favored today by Hispanic victimhood advocates actually denotes little more than opposition to "white" culture
Multiculturalism: how it has turned a stubborn problem of assimilation in California into a national tragedy of breathtaking proportions
The Devil's bargain that California made a generation ago to unlock the floodgates of illegal immigration
Why professors in California schools and colleges bother to impart none of the useful cultural information desperately needed by aliens seeking to prosper in America
How the current wave of immigrants from Mexico differs from earlier waves of Poles, Germans, Chinese, Greeks, Italians, Jews, Japanese, and others
The government's official figures on the numbers of illegal aliens: double them, and you'll get more accurate numbers
Tough border controls: do they unfairly exclude Mexican nationals from the American dream, or assure Mexican-American citizens that their labor will be fairly rewarded?
Why illegal immigration presents the establishment liberals of northern California with a particularly prickly dilemma
How large-scale Mexican immigration to the United States helps prevent Mexico from ever instituting the reforms that would transform it into a more attractive, livable society
The new mythology of La Raza that teaches that California was and is a racist state -- taught in our colleges and universities today (in blithe disregard of the fact that if California were really as bad and Mexico as wonderful as they say, we'd be immigrating there)
The only tool we possess today to prevent racial separation and ethnic tribalism
The devastating consequences we face if we do nothing to stop the rapid and ongoing creation of Mexifornia
Why everyone who loves the American republic should insist on an immediate end to ethnic chauvinism, bilingualism and separatism |
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