vdare--2020-01-12--Eugenic Or Dysgenic: Would World War III Raise Or Lower IQs?

See , earlier , by Steve Sailer : Why Pacifist Eugenicist David Starr Jordan May Someday be Seen as More Literally Hitler Than Hitler I have reported before on the growing body of evidence that IQs in developed countries appear to be in decline , at least partly for genetic reasons .
Intelligence is about 0.8 heritable and it is weakly negatively associated with fertility , partly because less intelligent people are less efficient users of contraception .
As the U.S. teeters on the brink of World War III against Iran , let ’ s consider a related question : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ IQ ?
Does war make us more intelligent—or does it speed up the decline of average IQ in developed countries ?
Fortuitously , in a recent edition of the academic journal The Mankind Quarterly , British psychologist —who is still regularly published at 89 and is best known for his research on national IQs , most recently in his book with David Becker The Intelligence of Nations [ 2019 ] —has addressed this very topic .
His literature review [ The Eugenic and Dysgenic Effects of War , , Mankind Quarterly Vol 6 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thought-provoking reading .
Lynn concludes that war was “ eugenic ” in primitive societies .
It killed off the least intelligent and actively promoted the evolutionary fitness of the most intelligent .
But in modern warfare , this relationship may be startlingly reversed .
Modern warfare is more likely to kill “ the best of the breed ” and kill them at a relatively young age , so their genes are lost to history .
However , the actual statistical evidence for this , Lynn finds , is inconclusive .
In primitive societies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fittest ” also appears to mean “ survival of the smartest.
” A number of early social scientists E.g .
Jakov Novikow ( 1849-1912 ) of the University of Odessa writing in 1910 , Franz-Carl Muller-Lyer ( 1857-1916 ) , and Charles Darwin himself , concurred that tribes engage in warfare to secure better territory and resources .
The tribe that is more internally cooperative—a trait that it correlated with intelligence—and that is superior at planning , producing effective weapons and that is more militarily adroit , is likely to triumph in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overall , in the more intelligent groups killing the males in the less intelligent groups and taking their womenfolk as the spoils of war .
Consistent with this , notes Lynn , about 15 % of males in the kind of hunter-gather societies from which we descend die in battle and 90 % of these societies engage in frequent and bloody warfare .
Beyond these battles between groups , Lynn presents evidence that females sexually select for males who display evidence of success in warfare , meaning that the hunter-gatherer equivalent of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have more children .
Lynn reports that , among the Yanomamö of the Amazon Basin , 44 % of males had killed other males in conflicts and that these males had more wives and offspring than those who had not done so .
However , observes Lynn , the best evidence of the “ eugenics of war ” can be seen in whom the Europeans , with their average IQ of 100 , have decimated in recent centuries : Native Americans ( 86 ) , Australian Aboriginals ( 62 ) and New Zealand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tend to triumph under Darwinian conditions .
Moving on to more advanced societies , Lynn observes that more intelligent people will be better able to protect themselves from the ravages of war due to the relationship between intelligence and wealth .
Intelligent people also have longer time horizons , meaning that they are more likely to plan for future negative eventualities , including the possible impact of war .
Accordingly , argues Lynn , part of the reason why the Renaissance and the Enlightenment occurred when they did may be due to intense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Renaissance probably occurred in northern , rather than southern Italy , partly because northern Italy had been a battle ground to a much greater extent in the preceding centuries , which had the effect of weeding out the less intelligent .
However , very modern warfare , in particular World War I , argues Lynn , appears to be dysgenic .
Concerns were raised about this even during the Great War , in such works as War and the Breed : The Relation of War to the Downfall of Nations by David @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , there is no longer a battle between most of the males of the two groups or even between a representative body of males from each group .
Instead , there is battle between professional armies .
The military will attract males who are high in such traits as bravery , valor , self-sacrifice and other characteristics which ensure in-group cooperation and thus the success of the group .
They will be killed , leaving behind—to put it bluntly—people who are cowardly and selfish .
Lynn quotes Anglo-Syrian physician Caleb Saleeby ( 1878-1940 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ involves “ what students of this subject call ‘ reversed selection ’ —in which the best are chosen to be killed , and the worst are preserved to become the fathers of the future.
” To make matters worse , in earlier wars in Europe , battles tended to be fought according to the rules of chivalry .
In World War I , by contrast , there was trench warfare in which officers—who tended to be from high status backgrounds , and thus more intelligent , or who had risen through the ranks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ braver—led their men from the front .
The result of this , observes Lynn , is that officers were much more likely to be killed .
Some 13 % of British conscripts in the Great War lost their lives , compared to 20 % of junior officers .
A UK study , observes Lynn , found that the IQ of ordinary soldiers from Scotland in World War II was 97 , compared to 122 for officers [ Childhood IQ and in-service mortality in Scottish Army personnel during World War II , By J.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] .
Lynn then cites a number of different studies all showing the same thing : in World War II , smarter soldiers were more likely to be killed than dumber soldiers .
This was because more intelligent soldiers tended to be officers , leading the troops into risky situations such as sniper-filled abandoned towns ; and also because intelligence is associated with being pro-social , including with bravery and self-sacrificial behavior , Nevertheless , observes Lynn , the numbers killed in World War II do not appear to have been sufficient to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Perhaps this striking result is because extremely bright males were used as intelligence operatives and also because a tragic 28 % of males killed in the British army in World War II already had children .
( IQ tests were not widespread in 1914 , so we can only speculate on the effect of that war . )
So , overall , Lynn remains neutral on the impact of modern warfare on IQ .
We would expect it to reduce IQ .
However , we only have quantitative evidence from World War @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have done so .
So , the worst that can be said of the Third World War is that it may be dysgenic .

See, earlier, by Steve Sailer: Why Pacifist Eugenicist David Starr Jordan May Someday be Seen as More Literally Hitler Than Hitler
I have reported before on the growing body of evidence that IQs in developed countries appear to be in decline, at least partly for genetic reasons. Intelligence is about 0.8 heritable and it is weakly negatively associated with fertility, partly because less intelligent people are less efficient users of contraception. As the U.S. teeters on the brink of World War III against Iran, let’s consider a related question: Is war good or bad for national IQ? Does war make us more intelligent—or does it speed up the decline of average IQ in developed countries?
Fortuitously, in a recent edition of the academic journal, Mankind Quarterly, British psychologist Richard Lynn —who is still regularly published at 89 and is best known for his research on national IQs, most recently in his book with David Becker The Intelligence of Nations [2019]—has addressed this very topic. His literature review [The Eugenic and Dysgenic Effects of War, Mankind Quarterly Vol 6, No. 1.2019] makes for thought-provoking reading.
Lynn concludes that war was “eugenic” in primitive societies. It killed off the least intelligent and actively promoted the evolutionary fitness of the most intelligent. But in modern warfare, this relationship may be startlingly reversed. Modern warfare is more likely to kill “the best of the breed” and kill them at a relatively young age, so their genes are lost to history.
However, the actual statistical evidence for this, Lynn finds, is inconclusive.
In primitive societies, explains Lynn, “survival of the fittest” also appears to mean “survival of the smartest.” A number of early social scientists e.g., Jakov Novikow (1849-1912) of the University of Odessa writing in 1910, Franz-Carl Muller-Lyer (1857-1916), and Charles Darwin himself, concurred that tribes engage in warfare to secure better territory and resources. The tribe that is more internally cooperative—a trait that it correlated with intelligence—and that is superior at planning, producing effective weapons and that is more militarily adroit, is likely to triumph in such battles.
This will result, overall, in the more intelligent groups killing the males in the less intelligent groups and taking their womenfolk as the spoils of war. Consistent with this, notes Lynn, about 15% of males in the kind of hunter-gather societies from which we descend die in battle and 90% of these societies engage in frequent and bloody warfare.
Beyond these battles between groups, Lynn presents evidence that females sexually select for males who display evidence of success in warfare, meaning that the hunter-gatherer equivalent of the “man in uniform” tends to have more children.
Lynn reports that, among the Yanomamö of the Amazon Basin, 44% of males had killed other males in conflicts and that these males had more wives and offspring than those who had not done so.
However, observes Lynn, the best evidence of the “eugenics of war” can be seen in whom the Europeans, with their average IQ of 100, have decimated in recent centuries: Native Americans (86), Australian Aboriginals (62) and New Zealand Maori (90). Intelligent tribes tend to triumph under Darwinian conditions.
Moving on to more advanced societies, Lynn observes that more intelligent people will be better able to protect themselves from the ravages of war due to the relationship between intelligence and wealth. Intelligent people also have longer time horizons, meaning that they are more likely to plan for future negative eventualities, including the possible impact of war.
Accordingly, argues Lynn, part of the reason why the Renaissance and the Enlightenment occurred when they did may be due to intense warfare a few generations earlier. And the Renaissance probably occurred in northern, rather than southern Italy, partly because northern Italy had been a battle ground to a much greater extent in the preceding centuries, which had the effect of weeding out the less intelligent.
However, very modern warfare, in particular World War I, argues Lynn, appears to be dysgenic. Concerns were raised about this even during the Great War, in such works as War and the Breed: The Relation of War to the Downfall of Nations by David Starr Jordan, in 1915 .
Suddenly, there is no longer a battle between most of the males of the two groups or even between a representative body of males from each group. Instead, there is battle between professional armies.
The military will attract males who are high in such traits as bravery, valor, self-sacrifice and other characteristics which ensure in-group cooperation and thus the success of the group. They will be killed, leaving behind—to put it bluntly—people who are cowardly and selfish.
Lynn quotes Anglo-Syrian physician Caleb Saleeby (1878-1940), writing in 1915: War involves “what students of this subject call ‘reversed selection’—in which the best are chosen to be killed, and the worst are preserved to become the fathers of the future.”
To make matters worse, in earlier wars in Europe, battles tended to be fought according to the rules of chivalry. In World War I, by contrast, there was trench warfare in which officers—who tended to be from high status backgrounds, and thus more intelligent, or who had risen through the ranks by virtue of being more intelligent and braver—led their men from the front. The result of this, observes Lynn, is that officers were much more likely to be killed. Some 13% of British conscripts in the Great War lost their lives, compared to 20% of junior officers. A UK study, observes Lynn, found that the IQ of ordinary soldiers from Scotland in World War II was 97, compared to 122 for officers [Childhood IQ and in-service mortality in Scottish Army personnel during World War II, by J. Corley et al., Intelligence, 2009].
(Lynn has spoken of his post-war attempts, as National Service 2nd Lieutenant, to train lower-ranking, less intelligent conscripts in marksmanship. Marksmanship, he concluded, was a g-loaded task.)
Lynn then cites a number of different studies all showing the same thing: In World War II, smarter soldiers were more likely to be killed than dumber soldiers. This was because more intelligent soldiers tended to be officers, leading the troops into risky situations such as sniper-filled abandoned towns; and also because intelligence is associated with being pro-social, including with bravery and self-sacrificial behavior,
Nevertheless, observes Lynn, the numbers killed in World War II do not appear to have been sufficient to have adversely impacted the British gene pool. Perhaps this striking result is because extremely bright males were used as intelligence operatives and also because a tragic 28% of males killed in the British army in World War II already had children. (IQ tests were not widespread in 1914, so we can only speculate on the effect of that war.)
So, overall, Lynn remains neutral on the impact of modern warfare on IQ. We would expect it to reduce IQ. However, we only have quantitative evidence from World War II and it does not appear to have done so.
So, the worst that can be said of the Third World War is that it may be dysgenic.
What a comforting thought!


vdare--2020-01-12--Sir Roger Scruton, RIP

Sir Roger Scruton, RIP

Earlier by John Derbyshire : Roger Scruton On The Rotherham Rapes Very sorry to hear about the death of British @ @ @ @ @ .
I ca n't claim to have had much personal acquaintance with Sir Roger .
@ @ @ @ @ him a few times , always with many others present , and was pricked by @ @ @ @ @ at least once .
I 've read several of his books and reviewed two of @ @ @ @ @ ) .
Much of what Sir Roger wrote—especially on philosophy and aesthetics—was over my head @ @ @ @ @ real heavyweight intellectual .
When I could understand what he was saying , I generally @ @ @ @ @ even when I disagreed , I admired his style .
As a fellow scribbler I @ @ @ @ @ of—his energy : fifty-plus nonfiction books , eight of fiction , and two operas , @ @ @ @ @ of fugitive journalism .
How on earth did he find the time ?

Earlier by John Derbyshire: Roger Scruton On The Rotherham Rapes
Very sorry to hear about the death of British conservative writer Sir Roger Scruton.
I can't claim to have had much personal acquaintance with Sir Roger. I sat at dinner with him a few times, always with many others present, and was pricked by the point of his rapier at least once. I've read several of his books and reviewed two of them (here and here).
Much of what Sir Roger wrote—especially on philosophy and aesthetics—was over my head: The guy was a real heavyweight intellectual. When I could understand what he was saying, I generally agreed with him; and even when I disagreed, I admired his style.
As a fellow scribbler I even more admired—was in awe of—his energy: fifty-plus nonfiction books, eight of fiction, and two operas, as well as a mass of fugitive journalism. How on earth did he find the time?
Rest in peace, Sir Roger.


Redlining History

Earlier : That Texas Schoolbook Massacre : Have Critics Actually Looked At Current High School History Texts ?
From the @ @ @ @ @ school history textbooks in California are basically Hurray for the Goodies , Boo for the @ @ @ @ @ not so much .
… White resistance to black progress is covered differently in the @ @ @ @ @ paragraphs on redlining and restrictive deeds appear only in the California editions of textbooks , @ @ @ @ @ different state standards .
Texas ’ social studies guidelines do not mention housing discrimination at @ @ @ @ @ Kerry Green , a high school social studies teacher in Sunnyvale , Tex.
, a @ @ @ @ @ , said she discussed redlining with her 11th graders , adding it as a counterpoint @ @ @ @ @ — the optimistic story of consumerism , television and the Baby Boom that is emphasized @ @ @ @ @ standards .

Earlier: That Texas Schoolbook Massacre: Have Critics Actually Looked At Current High School History Texts?
From the New York Times:
Public school history textbooks in California are basically Hurray for the Goodies, Boo for the Baddies, while in Texas not so much.
… White resistance to black progress is covered differently in the two states. …
Whole paragraphs on redlining and restrictive deeds appear only in the California editions of textbooks, partly as a result of different state standards. Texas’ social studies guidelines do not mention housing discrimination at all.
… Nevertheless, Kerry Green, a high school social studies teacher in Sunnyvale, Tex., a small town east of Dallas, said she discussed redlining with her 11th graders, adding it as a counterpoint to lessons about postwar prosperity — the optimistic story of consumerism, television and the Baby Boom that is emphasized by her state’s standards.


vdare--2020-01-12--Scruton And The Witch-Hunters—Like Steve King, He Trusted The MSM

Roger Scruton did n't expect to live much longer when he wrote `` My 2019 '' for the Christmas issue of the UK Spectator .
It 's been republished as his obituary .
The hate storm was noted by John Derbyshire under the heading Badthinker gets government job on Radio Derb .
Well , the British government seeks to beautify their country , which is very commendable of them .
They 've set up a commission to advise them on how to improve the nation 's architecture .
Since Sir Roger 's written two books on the subject , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and he agreed .
It 's an unpaid post , so he 's doing it from motives of duty and patriotism .
He may not be doing it for long .
The CultMarx mob is mighty over there , and they 've been trawling through Sir Roger 's vast output of books , articles , and speeches looking for badthink .
It turns out that this brilliant and distinguished person is a homophobe , an Islamophobe , a misogynist , and an antisemite … according to them .
Squealed one of these nitwits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Scruton 's ] views has a place in modern democracy . ''
Swooned another , quote : `` It beggars belief that [ Scruton ] passed a vetting process . ''
Both of those nitwits are Members of Parliament , with all the associated privileges and emoluments .
In April 2019 , before he 'd been diagnosed with the cancer that was to kill him , Scruton was the subject of a hit job by a young New Statesman writer named George Eaton : My publisher , Bloomsbury , has agreed to an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ magazine for which I retain a certain fondness , having served as its wine critic for several years .
Unfortunately Bloomsbury ’ s publicity officer can not make it to the interview , and I am alone with an eager young man who has come not to learn about my views but to reinforce his own .
I think nothing of it , since the presence of a young and enquiring mind switches me to teacher mode , assuming knowledge in order to induce it .
The fact that this person may be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crop up but interested only in the ways they can be used to damage me does not cross my mind .
Readers of The Spectator do not need reminding of the sequel .
The interview is duly published — a mendacious concoction of out-of-context remarks and downright fabrications .
We are able to obtain the tapes of the interview , [ The Roger Scruton interview : the full transcript , New Statesman , April 26 , 2019 ] and on the strength of this , and thanks to all the support that is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this magazine and its brave associate editor Douglas Murray , I obtain an apology from the New Statesman .
By that time the damage has been done .
I have been dismissed from the Commission , by a party [ Theresa May ’ s Conservative Party ] which seems entirely unacquainted with the many thousands of quite well-argued words that I have offered in support of it , and the architects queue up to pour their ritual denunciations on my head .
[ Links added . ]
There were also a headline in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adviser sacked over “ white supremacist ” views and a demand that Scruton be stripped of his knighthood for Wrongthink .
For the full story , see The Scruton tapes : an anatomy of a modern hit job | How a character assassination unfolded on Twitter , by Douglas Murray , April 27 , 2019 .
Obviously , what Scruton did was trust a member of the Mainstream Media , in this case George Eaton , who applied the `` Ransom Note Racism '' technique to the interview , taking things out of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This is what happened to Steve King , when he was interviewed by the New York Times .
As John Derbyshire described it at the time of a huge kerfuffle—with King losing committee seats and being `` censured '' —about something King allegedly said , it happened like this : This all followed a single remark Steve King allegedly made in a January 10th interview with the New York Times : White nationalist , white supremacist , Western civilization—how did that language become offensive ?
[ Before Trump , Steve King Set @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Politics , By Trip Gabriel , NYT , January 10 , 2019 ] Steve King insists that the last six words ( `` how did that language become offensive ? ''
) applied only to the previous two , `` Western civilization . ''
The way the New York Times punctuated it , though , it looked as if they covered `` white nationalist '' and `` white supremacist '' as well .
In Scruton 's case , he was able to find a tape , and get an apology .
King , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ n't .
This is why VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow will only do interviews with the MSM by email , which means he has a record of both sides of the interview .
Here are some of the articles we 've written about that : • WaPo 's Andrew Lawler , Virginia Dare And The `` Myth Of Whiteness '' • VDARE.com Is The Story , But Not One MSM Call To Check During Stephen Miller Email Witch Hunt—A Thread • Why Wouldn ’ t ANTISOCIAL ’ s Andrew Marantz And Viking Books Factcheck @ @ @ @ @ @ @ LIE !
• “ Not Journalism , Googlism ” —Kritarchy , The Lying Press , And Why Patriots Need Their Own Media • INSIDER ’ S Nicole Einbinder interviews VDARE.com ’ s Peter Brimelow : “ ’ White Supremacist ’ Is The Equivalent Of Me Calling You A Communist.
” • Fake News : How Many Historic Quotes Attributed To MSM Targets Were Just Made Up ?
• NY TIMES Vs. Sullivan And The Law Of Libel : Press Clings To Its Right To Lie • WaPo : `` Steve King Says He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That ’ s Racist , Too . ''

Roger Scruton didn't expect to live much longer when he wrote "My 2019" for the Christmas issue of the UK Spectator. It's been republished as his obituary.
January My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government’s Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission. But the new year brings a lull, and I hope and pray that the Grand Inquisitor enthroned by social media will find another target.
The hate storm was noted by John Derbyshire under the heading Badthinker gets government job on Radio Derb.
Well, the British government seeks to beautify their country, which is very commendable of them. They've set up a commission to advise them on how to improve the nation's architecture. Since Sir Roger's written two books on the subject, they asked him to chair this commission, and he agreed. It's an unpaid post, so he's doing it from motives of duty and patriotism. He may not be doing it for long. The CultMarx mob is mighty over there, and they've been trawling through Sir Roger's vast output of books, articles, and speeches looking for badthink. It turns out that this brilliant and distinguished person is a homophobe, an Islamophobe, a misogynist, and an antisemite … according to them. Squealed one of these nitwits, quote: "Nobody holding [Scruton's] views has a place in modern democracy." Swooned another, quote: "It beggars belief that [Scruton] passed a vetting process." Both of those nitwits are Members of Parliament, with all the associated privileges and emoluments.
In April 2019, before he'd been diagnosed with the cancer that was to kill him, Scruton was the subject of a hit job by a young New Statesman writer named George Eaton:
My publisher, Bloomsbury, has agreed to an interview in the New Statesman, a magazine for which I retain a certain fondness, having served as its wine critic for several years. Unfortunately Bloomsbury’s publicity officer cannot make it to the interview, and I am alone with an eager young man who has come not to learn about my views but to reinforce his own. I think nothing of it, since the presence of a young and enquiring mind switches me to teacher mode, assuming knowledge in order to induce it. The fact that this person may be not just ignorant of the issues that crop up but interested only in the ways they can be used to damage me does not cross my mind. Readers of The Spectator do not need reminding of the sequel. The interview is duly published — a mendacious concoction of out-of-context remarks and downright fabrications. We are able to obtain the tapes of the interview, [The Roger Scruton interview: the full transcript, New Statesman, April 26, 2019] and on the strength of this, and thanks to all the support that is offered to me, not least by this magazine and its brave associate editor Douglas Murray, I obtain an apology from the New Statesman. By that time the damage has been done. I have been dismissed from the Commission, by a party [Theresa May’s Conservative Party] which seems entirely unacquainted with the many thousands of quite well-argued words that I have offered in support of it, and the architects queue up to pour their ritual denunciations on my head.[Links added.]
There were also a headline in the London Times saying No. 10 adviser sacked over “white supremacist” views and a demand that Scruton be stripped of his knighthood for Wrongthink. For the full story, see The Scruton tapes: an anatomy of a modern hit job | How a character assassination unfolded on Twitter, by Douglas Murray, April 27, 2019.
Obviously, what Scruton did was trust a member of the Mainstream Media, in this case George Eaton, who applied the "Ransom Note Racism" technique to the interview, taking things out of context, and posting them on Twitter.
This is what happened to Steve King, when he was interviewed by the New York Times.
As John Derbyshire described it at the time was a huge kerfuffle—with King losing committee seats and being "censured"—about something King allegedly said, it happened like this:
This all followed a single remark Steve King allegedly made in a January 10th interview with the New York Times: White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive?[Before Trump, Steve King Set the Agenda for the Wall and Anti-Immigrant Politics, By Trip Gabriel, NYT, January 10, 2019] Steve King insists that the last six words ("how did that language become offensive?") applied only to the previous two, "Western civilization." The way the New York Times punctuated it, though, it looked as if they covered "white nationalist" and "white supremacist" as well.
In Scruton's case, he was able to find a tape, and get an apology. King, having failed to record it, couldn't.
This is why VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow will only do interviews with the MSM by email, which means he has a record of both sides of the interview.
Here are some of the articles we've written about that:


vdare--2020-01-12--National Data: December Data Shows Trump Triumph On Immigrant Population, Worker Displacement—But Wi

National Data: December Data Shows Trump Triumph On Immigrant Population, Worker Displacement—But Will He Throw It Away?

It ’ s real : the December job report , released Friday January 12 [ PDF ] , shows once again that the immigrant workforce population is falling .
And immigrant displacement of American workers declined .
Wage growth was still relatively weak , but overall this a Trump triumph—which , typically , he seems inclined to undermine , given his recent silly noises about increasing skilled immigration .
December the fourth straight month of absolute decline in the foreign-born working-age population ( 16 years+ ) .
It dropped by 547,000 , or 1.27 % , compared the same month @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this exceeds year-over-year drops for November and October , which saw declines of 1.00 % and 0.99 % , respectively , although it lags October ’ s 1.68 % shrinkage .
The decline follows a protracted slowing in the immigrant workforce growth rate that can be traced back to early 2018 .
This current year-over-year immigrant workforce decline actually exceeds that seen in the 2008 Great Recession .
The immigrant workforce population last shrank for successive months in last half of 2017 , when the late lamented “ Trump Effect ” was literally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2008-9 , the outflux was driven by economic malaise .
But now the economy is strong .
Remarkably , this reduction seems to have been administrative measures : Trump ’ s Muslim ban , ( upheld by the Supreme Court ) his revised public charge rules , even more thorough adjudication by USCIS .
Note also that Trump has sharply reduced the “ refugee ” intake , from Obama ’ s peak of 85,000 to a proposed 18,000 for fiscal 2020 .
“ Among immigration lawyers , the cumulative effect of these procedural @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” Rachel Morris lamented in the Huffington Post [ Trump Got His Wall , After All , November 24 , 2019 ] .
Meanwhile , the BLS reported 160,000 new payroll jobs were created in December—slightly below the Wall Street consensus ( 165,000 ) .
But the Household Survey of Employment , on which our monthly displacement analysis rests , shows a strong 210,000 employment gain for the month , with native-born Americans gaining positions while immigrants were losing them .
• VDARE.com ’ s immigrant employment index , set at 100.0 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from 127.6 in November , a 1.3 % loss .
• The Native-born American employment index rose to 109.1 from November ’ s 108.6 , 0.4 % gain .
• The New VDARE American Worker Displacement Index ( NVDAWDI ) , our name for the ratio of immigrant to native-born employment growth indexes since Jan. 2009 , fell to 115.5 from 117.5 , a decline of 1.7 % .
Thus December was great month , and 2019 a good year , for native-born American workers .
In contrast , Native-born American workers lost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Obama years .
This accelerated significantly in the months leading up to the 2016 election .
Trump has not yet reversed the Obama damage , but he does seem to have gotten the displacement deterioration in his own first years under control .
From January 2017 through December 2019 , he has presided over a labor market in which immigrants gained 1.288 million jobs , a 4.96 % increase , while native-born Americans gained 5.434 million , a rise of 4.31 % .
In percentage terms , the immigrant/native-born gap in job creation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ points in favor of immigrants—is comparatively low .
As recently as April it was 7.1 percentage points , with immigrant employment rising 8.9 % from the start of his administration , while native-born American employment gained 1.8 % .
Another way of looking at American worker displacement : The immigrant share of total U.S. employment .
A smaller immigrant share denotes less displacement of native-born American workers : After peaking at 17.8 % in February , the immigrant share of total employment drifted downward .
May through July were particularly good – native-born @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immigrants lost them .
But the long-term Obama-era trend is still unbroken .
More good ( and possibly related ) news : Border Patrol apprehensions fell to 40,620 in December , down 4.8 % from November ’ s 42,651 , and fully 33 % below apprehensions in December 2018 .
Since peaking in May ( when more than 144,200 migrants were apprehended , the highest monthly total in more than 13 years ) apprehensions have declined by 72 % .
Most of the decline occurred at legal border crossings where , at one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ passed ” their initial screening interviews , were given a court date , and waived in .
Most melted into the interior without appearing in court , creating an immigration court backlog of almost one million cases .
Today the pass rate is less than 50 % , as Border Patrol officers are now conducting interviews once done by human rights lawyers and refugee workers .
According to the Huffington Post ’ s Morris , above , the U.S .
Citizenship and Immigration Service is “ …also hiring 500 new asylum officers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military backgrounds , who , according to USCIS spokesperson Matthew Bourke , are ‘ uniquely equipped to support the agency ’ s improved vetting procedures and fraud-detection efforts.
’ ” More good news : data in the December report shows that on three important metrics—working-age population , employment , and labor force participation rate—native-born American workers outpaced immigrants by comfortable margins over the past 12 months : • The native-born American working-age population grew by 1.840 million , a gain of 0.85 % ; the corresponding immigrant population fell by 547,000—a 1.3 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the number of working age immig rants declined , year-over-year .
Is this a new ( and improved ) “ Trump Effect ” ?
• American employment rose a whopping 2.193 million , up 1.7 % ; Foreign-born employment fell 170,000 , off by 0.62 % .
Another comeback month for native-born American workers ; as recently as last June immigrants gained jobs nearly three times as fast , year-over-year .
• The immigrant labor force ( working or looking for work ) fell by 273,000 , a 1.0 % decline ; the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a 1.32 % gain .
• The immigrant unemployment rate fell to 3.1 % , a decline of 0.3 % points , or 8.8 % ; native-born American unemployment rate fell to 3.4 % , a decline of only 2.9 % .
Advantage immigrants —though once again this “ positive ” was made possible by a decline in the immigrant labor force .
By contrast , the unemployment rate for native-born Americans fell despite another healthy rise in the native-born labor force .
• The labor-force participation rate for native-born Americans rose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 0.2 % point rise for immigrants .
Another month of increased confidence ( vis a vis the same month last year ) on the part of American workers now that Trump ’ s tariffs and crackdowns on unauthorized foreign workers may be increasing job opportunities .
The data also show that 4.64 million native-born and 863,000 immigrants were unemployed in December , but over the last year unemployment numbers have declined for both groups .
Immigrants actually enjoyed a slightly larger percentage decline ( 10.66 % ) , than native-born ( 8.37 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a formidably strong economy for both immigrants and native-born .
Because there are fewer of the former , and more of the latter , the aggregate numbers favor the native-born .
The past few months have particularly good for native-born Americans .
But more than three years after Trump ’ s great victory , GOP Senators are still on the donor-driven immigration bandwagon .
Continued immigration-driven demographic drift will be suicidal for the GOP .
Yet that exactly what Senators like Utah ’ s Mike Lee are fighting for as the New Year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the December report : the anemic wage growth , amounting to just 2.9 % over the past 12 months — far below the 3.4 % peak reached in February , and down from the 3.3 % year-over-year average in December 2018 .
“ It ’ s easier to get a job than a raise in this economy , ” Grant Thornton chief economist Diane Swonk told Patricia Cohen of the New York Times [ After a Decade of Hiring , Plenty of Jobs but Raises Are Tiny , January 10 , 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decades of relying on a steady stream of cheap immigrant labor , are reluctant to acknowledge that the good old days are over .
If they are .
In a disastrous January 10 interview with Laura Ingraham , President Trump seemed unfamiliar ( not for the first time ) with fact that skilled immigration will depress American graduates ’ incomes .
[ In Immigration Debate , Trump Says We Don ’ t Have Enough American Workers to Fill Skilled Labor Jobs , by Neil Munro , Breitbart , January 12 , 2020 ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants

edwin@esrresearch.com (Edwin S. Rubenstein)

It’s real: The December job report, released Friday January 12 [PDF], shows once again that the immigrant workforce population is falling. And immigrant displacement of American workers declined. Wage growth was still relatively weak, but overall this a Trump triumph—which, typically, he seems inclined to undermine, given his recent silly noises about increasing skilled immigration.
December the fourth straight month of absolute decline in the foreign-born working-age population (16 years+). It dropped by 547,000, or 1.27%, compared the same month last year. In percentage terms, this exceeds year-over-year drops for November and October, which saw declines of 1.00% and 0.99%, respectively, although it lags October’s 1.68% shrinkage. The decline follows a protracted slowing in the immigrant workforce growth rate that can be traced back to early 2018.
This current year-over-year immigrant workforce decline actually exceeds that seen in the 2008 Great Recession. The immigrant workforce population last shrank for successive months in last half of 2017, when the late lamented “Trump Effect” was literally scaring immigrants away. And back in 2008-9, the outflux was driven by economic malaise. But now the economy is strong.
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Remarkably, this reduction seems to have been administrative measures: Trump’s Muslim ban (upheld by the Supreme Court) his revised public charge rules, even more thorough adjudication by USCIS. Note also that Trump has sharply reduced the “refugee” intake, from Obama’s peak of 85,000 to a proposed 18,000 for fiscal 2020.
“Among immigration lawyers, the cumulative effect of these procedural changes is known as the invisible wall,” Rachel Morris lamented in the Huffington Post [Trump Got His Wall, After All, November 24, 2019].
Meanwhile, the BLS reported 160,000 new payroll jobs were created in December—slightly below the Wall Street consensus (165,000).
But the Household Survey of Employment, on which our monthly displacement analysis rests, shows a strong 210,000 employment gain for the month, with native-born Americans gaining positions while immigrants were losing them.
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In December 2019:
Immigrants lost 357,000 jobs, a decline of 1.3%.
Native-born Americans gained 567,000 jobs, a 0.4% rise.
VDARE.com’s immigrant employment index, set at 100.0 in January 2009, fell to 126.0 from 127.6 in November, a 1.3% loss.
The Native-born American employment index rose to 109.1 from November’s 108.6, 0.4% gain.
The New VDARE American Worker Displacement Index (NVDAWDI), our name for the ratio of immigrant to native-born employment growth indexes since Jan. 2009, fell to 115.5 from 117.5, a decline of 1.7%.
Thus December was great month, and 2019 a good year, for native-born American workers. In contrast, native-born American workers lost ground to their foreign-born competitors throughout the Obama years. This accelerated significantly in the months leading up to the 2016 election.
Trump has not yet reversed the Obama damage, but he does seem to have gotten the displacement deterioration in his own first years under control. From January 2017 through December 2019, he has presided over a labor market in which immigrants gained 1.288 million jobs, a 4.96% increase, while native-born Americans gained 5.434 million, a rise of 4.31%. In percentage terms, the immigrant/native-born gap in job creation under Trump—less than 1.0 percentage points in favor of immigrants—is comparatively low. As recently as April it was 7.1 percentage points, with immigrant employment rising 8.9% from the start of his administration, while native-born American employment gained 1.8%.
Another way of looking at American worker displacement: the immigrant share of total U.S. employment. A smaller immigrant share denotes less displacement of native-born American workers:
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After peaking at 17.8% in February, the immigrant share of total employment drifted downward. May through July were particularly good – native-born Americans gained jobs each month, while immigrants lost them.
But the long-term Obama-era trend is still unbroken.
More good (and possibly related) news: Border Patrol apprehensions fell to 40,620 in December, down 4.8% from November’s 42,651, and fully 33% below apprehensions in December 2018.
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Since peaking in May (when more than 144,200 migrants were apprehended ,the highest monthly total in more than 13 years) apprehensions have declined by 72%.
Most of the decline occurred at legal border crossings where, at one time, 90% of asylum seekers “passed” their initial screening interviews, were given a court date, and waived in. Most melted into the interior without appearing in court, creating an immigration court backlog of almost one million cases.
Today the pass rate is less than 50%, as Border Patrol officers are now conducting interviews once done by human rights lawyers and refugee workers. According to the Huffington Post’s Morris, above, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service is “…also hiring 500 new asylum officers, targeting people with law enforcement or military backgrounds, who, according to USCIS spokesperson Matthew Bourke, are ‘uniquely equipped to support the agency’s improved vetting procedures and fraud-detection efforts.’”
More good news: data in the December report shows that on three important metrics—working-age population, employment, and labor force participation rate—native-born American workers outpaced immigrants by comfortable margins over the past 12 months:
Employment Status by Nativity, Dec.2018-Dec.2019 (numbers in 1000s; not seasonally adjusted) Dec-18 Dec-19 Change % Change Foreign born, 16 years and older Civilian population 42,985 42,438 -547 -1.27% Civilian labor force 28,359 28,086 -273 -0.96% Participation rate (%) 66.0 66.2 0.2 pts. 0.30% Employed 27,393 27,223 -170 -0.62% Employment/population (%) 63.7 64.1 0.4pts. 0.63% Unemployed 966 863 -103 -10.66% Unemployment rate (%) 3.4 3.1 -0.3pts. -8.82% Not in labor force 14,626 14,352 -274 -1.87% Native born, 16 years and older Civilian population 215,903 217,743 1,840 0.85% Civilian labor force 134,151 135,921 1,770 1.32% Participation rate (%) 62.1 62.4 0.3pts. 0.48% Employed 129,088 131,281 2,193 1.70% Employment/population (%) 59.8 60.3 0.5pts. 0.84% Unemployed 5,064 4,640 -424 -8.37% Unemployment rate (%) 3.8 3.4 -0.4pts. -10.53% Not in labor force 81,752 81,822 70 0.09% Source: BLS, The Employment Situation December 2019, Table A-7, January 10, 2020. PDF
From December 2018 to December 2019:
The native-born American working-age population grew by 1.840 million, a gain of 0.85%; the corresponding immigrant population fell by 547,000—a 1.3% loss. For the fourth consecutive month the number of working age immig rants declined, year-over-year. Is this a new (and improved) “Trump Effect”?
American employment rose a whopping 2.193 million, up 1.7%; Foreign-born employment fell 170,000, off by 0.62%. Another comeback month for native-born American workers; as recently as last June immigrants gained jobs nearly three times as fast, year-over-year.
The immigrant labor force (working or looking for work) fell by 273,000, a 1.0% decline; the native-born labor force jumped by 1.77 million, a 1.32% gain. Advantage native-born Americans.
The immigrant unemployment rate fell to 3.1%, a decline of 0.3 % points, or 8.8% ; native-born American unemployment rate fell to 3.4%, a decline of only 2.9%. Advantage immigrants —though once again this “positive” was made possible by a decline in the immigrant labor force. By contrast, the unemployment rate for native-born Americans fell despite another healthy rise in the native-born labor force.
The labor-force participation rate for native-born Americans rose by 0.3 % points, versus a 0.2% point rise for immigrants. Another month of increased confidence (vis a vis the same month last year) on the part of American workers now that Trump’s tariffs and crackdowns on unauthorized foreign workers may be increasing job opportunities.
The data also show that 4.64 million native-born and 863,000 immigrants were unemployed in December, but over the last year unemployment numbers have declined for both groups. Immigrants actually enjoyed a slightly larger percentage decline (10.66%), than native-born (8.37%.)
Bottom line: This is a formidably strong economy for both immigrants and native-born. Because there are fewer of the former, and more of the latter, the aggregate numbers favor the native-born. The past few months have particularly good for native-born Americans.
But more than three years after Trump’s great victory, GOP Senators are still on the donor-driven immigration bandwagon. Continued immigration-driven demographic drift will be suicidal for the GOP. Yet that exactly what Senators like Utah’s Mike Lee are fighting for as the New Year begins.
Perhaps the most discouraging news in the December report: the anemic wage growth, amounting to just 2.9% over the past 12 months—far below the 3.4% peak reached in February, and down from the 3.3% year-over-year average in December 2018.
“It’s easier to get a job than a raise in this economy,” Grant Thornton chief economist Diane Swonk told Patricia Cohen of the New York Times [After a Decade of Hiring, Plenty of Jobs but Raises Are Tiny, January 10, 2020]
We say: Employers, after decades of relying on a steady stream of cheap immigrant labor, are reluctant to acknowledge that the good old days are over.
If they are. In a disastrous January 10 interview with Laura Ingraham, President Trump seemed unfamiliar (not for the first time) with the fact that skilled immigration will depress American graduates’ incomes [In Immigration Debate, Trump Says We Don’t Have Enough American Workers to Fill Skilled Labor Jobs, by Neil Munro, Breitbart, January 12, 2020].
As VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow put it:
Fine summary by @USTechWorkers of @realDonaldTrump repeating @WSJopinion lies about immigration. V. common among plutocrats, WSJ Edit Page does a lot of damage. Trump needs to get out to more rallies!https://t.co/ECpSn36MGx — Peter Brimelow (@peterbrimelow) January 11, 2020
Edwin S. Rubenstein (email him) is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants


vdare--2020-01-12--North Dakota Refugees Feel Unwelcomed by President Trump

Saturday ’ s Los Angeles Times had a major sob story claiming President Donald Trump has somehow made North Dakota unfriendly to the refugees already residing there .
In fact , the only thing that has changed is that Trump increased freedom for local communities to opt out of refugee resettlement if they wish .
The change shows the elite Rescue Project is no longer the sacred cow it once was .
Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently announced that his state will no longer accept refugees after taking in 10 percent of America ’ s total for the last decade @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Greg Abbott First in U.S. to Halt Refugee Flow into His State ) .
This declaration followed the odd news earlier in January that 18 Republican governors requested more refugees even though the foreigners cost taxpayers $ 1.8 billion annually .
Go figure .
Interestingly , the great majority of the asylum seekers have turned out to have fake claims : their acceptance rate has fallen to less than one percent .
So the already squishy category of Victim immigrants has shown itself to be worthy of suspicion among Americans who are paying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ approaching 8 billion residents , America can not be the welfare office for all the needy .
People need to stay home and work for reform , as once was the norm before cell-phones and easy transit .
The Times should be ashamed of an article where the city being discussed is misspelled once ( Bismark ! )
and it reports Trump said “ many refugees are criminals ” which is not accurate — though he may have said “ some ” which is certainly true .
North Dakota was an immigrant haven @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Angeles Times , January 9 , 2020 BISMARCK , N.D. — For decades , this conservative , predominantly white capital city has played host to refugees from around the world .
Immigrants greet shoppers at Walmart , process beef at the Cloverdale Foods plant , run the register at Arbys , clean the Holiday Inn and drive for Uber .
Nobody used to pay them much mind .
“ Life was getting better , ” said 20-year-old Tresor Mugwaneza , who settled here four years ago after fleeing war in the Democratic Republic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the University of Mary .
Things started to change with the 2016 election of President Trump , who has suggested that many refugees are criminals and has extolled his belief in putting “ America first ” by drastically reducing the number allowed to enter the United States .
The rhetoric has trickled down from Washington into smaller , quieter parts of the nation , as citizens and local politicians embrace it and places such as Bismark start to reassess their relationship with the newcomers .
Now , because of a federal policy announced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 600 counties that have welcomed refugees — only Wyoming has never taken part in federal resettlement efforts — each have the power to decide whether to continue doing so .
Just a year ago , the biggest controversy in Bismarck — home to most of the 95,000 people in Burleigh County — was whether to allow the construction of a wind farm .
That was nothing compared to the debate that erupted over immigrants .
Suddenly , on the cusp of winter , when life quiets down and temperatures may stay below zero @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seemed refugees were all that residents could talk about .
“ These people come and destroy everything they touch , ” said a post on a local Facebook group , Bismarck ’ s People Reporting News , which gained thousands of members and became an outlet for concern as well as fear and misinformation .
The mayor , Steve Bakken , became a leading proponent of closing the door on more refugees , arguing that homeless veterans need help more than those fleeing war on another continent .
“ If we can ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , why bring new ones in ?
” he said in an interview .
( Continues )

Saturday’s Los Angeles Times had a major sob story claiming President Donald Trump has somehow made North Dakota unfriendly to the refugees already residing there.
In fact, the only thing that has changed is that Trump increased freedom for local communities to opt out of refugee resettlement if they wish.
The change shows the elite Rescue Project is no longer the sacred cow it once was. Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently announced that his state will no longer accept refugees after taking in 10 percent of America’s total for the last decade. (Breitbart News: Texas Governor Greg Abbott First in U.S. to Halt Refugee Flow into His State.)
This declaration followed the odd news earlier in January that 18 Republican governors requested more refugees even though the foreigners cost taxpayers $1.8 billion annually. Go figure.
Interestingly, the great majority of the asylum seekers have turned out to have fake claims: Their acceptance rate has fallen to less than one percent. So the already squishy category of Victim immigrants has shown itself to be worthy of suspicion among Americans who are paying attention.
Plus, on a planet approaching 8 billion residents, America cannot be the welfare office for all the needy. People need to stay home and work for reform, as once was the norm before cell phones and easy transit.
The Times should be ashamed of an article where the city being discussed is misspelled once ("Bismark"!) and it reports Trump said “many refugees are criminals” which is not accurate — though he may have said “some” which is certainly true.


vdare--2020-01-12--Does The Neighborhood Make The Person ... Or Vice Versa?

In a recent VDARE.com blog post , Paul Kersey quoted from an article at the American Greatness website about an attempt in Maryland to channel new housing for low-income families into desirable suburban neighborhoods .
Kersey 's excerpt from the prior article includes this : Law professor Glenn ( `` Instapundit '' ) Reynolds had discussed precisely this dynamic in a 2010 post that merits regular repetition : And I previously dealt with the particular subject of importing users of subsidized housing into middle-class neighborhoods in a 2016 VDARE.com post , Affirmatively Destroying Respectable Neighborhoods .
My title there was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Housing and Urban Development 's 2015 administrative rule `` Affirmatively Further Fair Housing '' [ AFFH ] , and my key source was a 2008 article in The Atlantic about the horrifying experience with a proto-AFFH policy in Memphis .
( Trump 's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson suspended the AFFH rule in 2018 , and as reported in the Washington Post on January 7 , 2020 [ HUD releases proposal , further weakening enforcement of fair housing laws , by Tracy Jin ] , his department has proposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enforcement resumes , be less burdensome on affected communities . )

In a recent VDARE.com blog post, Paul Kersey quoted from an article at the American Greatness website about an attempt in Maryland to channel new housing for low-income families into desirable suburban neighborhoods. Kersey's excerpt from the prior article includes this:
This plan operates on the unconfirmed, and most likely false, premise that it is the neighborhood or location that leads to success, instead of other key factors such as family stability. CityLab staff writer Tanvi Misra further expanded on this, saying that the success of these neighborhoods is less about the location and more about the fact that “the kids who grow up there are very likely to have a father figure.”
Law professor Glenn ("Instapundit") Reynolds had discussed precisely this dynamic in a 2010 post that merits regular repetition:
The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.
And I previously dealt with the particular subject of importing users of subsidized housing into middle-class neighborhoods in a 2016 VDARE.com post, Affirmatively Destroying Respectable Neighborhoods. My title there was a nod to the Obama administration Department of Housing and Urban Development's 2015 administrative rule "Affirmatively Further Fair Housing" [AFFH], and my key source was a 2008 article in The Atlantic about the horrifying experience with a proto-AFFH policy in Memphis. (Trump's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson suspended the AFFH rule in 2018, and as reported in the Washington Post on January 7, 2020 [HUD releases proposal, further weakening enforcement of fair housing laws, by Tracy Jin], his department has proposed modifications to make the rule, when enforcement resumes, be less burdensome on affected communities.)


vdare--2020-01-12--NEW YORK TIMES’ Boylan Calls  “Robo-Call” Protesting Tessa Majors' Death "The Worst Thing I Ever Hea

NEW YORK TIMES’ Boylan Calls  “Robo-Call” Protesting Tessa Majors' Death "The Worst Thing I Ever Heard"

[ Previously : “ Not Looking Good : Main Stream Media , New York Authorities , Retconning Tessa Majors Murder Like They ’ ve Retconned Central Park Rapists , ” by Nicholas Stix , VDARE , December 19 , 2019 . ]
On Wednesday , my friend and partner-in-crime David in TN wrote , N.S .
: Note that National Review has enthusiastically supported the Trayvon Martin Hoax and the Charlottesville Hoax .
Its editrix , Rich Lowry , clearly makes editorial decisions based on what will keep those dinner party invitations coming from influential , rich communists like Pinch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Times published its version of a “ robo-call.
” A Barnard professor who is a contributor wrote a column that functioned to divert attention from the racist hate crime committed against Tessa Majors , to a supposedly “ white supremacist ” robo-call from Idaho to faculty members at Barnard , which she asserts was motivated by “ hate , ” as opposed to the former , which was a mere , racially-motivated murder .
When I got the racist robocall , I deleted it instantly .
My hope was to erase it from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the world I live in .
But I should have known it ’ s never that easy .
I can still hear that man ’ s voice .
The more I try to forget it , the more it haunts me .
Since then , I ’ ve been trying to understand , without much success , what the right response to hate should be .
It ’ s not the first time I ’ ve heard voices like this , or wrestled with this question .
When I was young , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ once for being queer .
As a public advocate for L.G.B.T.Q .
people , I ’ ve gotten used to threatening letters and being accosted in public .
Last year , in response to something I ’ d written in The Times , someone came up to me on the street in Midtown Manhattan and began to yell and swear .
[ “ Tessa Majors and the Worst Thing I Ever Heard , ” by Jennifer Finney Boylan , New York Times , January 7 , 2020 . ]
The author expects the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thing , ” but gives us no reason to .
If someone asserts that someone said or did something extremely offensive , he has to recount it , not demand that we take his word on faith .
Two “ reporters ” at Buzzfeed pulled the same stunt in their “ thing ” about the murder , in which they asserted that a statement on Facebook was “ racist , ” but refused to quote it .
We were simply supposed to take their word for it .
He depicts a nasty telephone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Strike One ; He teaches at a college that is run according to feminist ideology and practices , i.e.
, lies ( including intellectual fraud and rape hoaxes ) , sexual hatred , and totalitarianism : Strike Two ; and [ “ Kavanaugh Lynching : Campus Rape-Culture Hysteria Invades America , ” , by Nicholas Stix , VDARE , September 30 , 2018 . ]
He asserts that he is a she : Strike Three .
Jennifer Finney Boylan ’ s real name is James Boylan .
Several years ago , Boylan declared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ transgender.
” However , his wife and the mother of his children didn ’ t leave him .
I saw James Boylan and his wife interviewed by Willie Geist on The Today Show several years ago .
Geist is a normal man with a wife and kids , but I never saw him act as if a sexually normal life were normal .
He was always promoting the perversion of the week .
Boylan fits the stereotype of “ transgenders ” described by my VDARE colleague , Steve Sailer , to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There was no doubt as to who wore the pants in the Boylan household .
In addition to feminism ’ s lies , a school like Barnard promotes lies in league with its totalitarian allies , e.g.
, that innocent black males are constantly being arrested and railroaded or murdered by racist white policemen .
• There are no natural differences between men and women ; the differences are all due to patriarchal socialization ; • Women everywhere suffer pervasive sexual ( now they say “ gender ” ) discrimination in pay , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are as intelligent as men ; • Women can do every job as well , or better than men ; When last I checked , James Boylan ’ s New York Times thing had received 239 comments .
Most of them were supportive , as one would expect , but a number of honest comments were also permitted .
It disturbs me that so many of the comments about this essay totally miss the point of the author .
She is n't placing the actual crime in any particular racial context , nor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
She is writing about a specific reaction to it : a disheartening robo call on behalf of white supremacists that attempts to capitalize on a tragedy .
Many of the commentators here seem to have used this article to grind their own particular axes , while criticizing the author for something not contained in her piece .
@ andy b People are responding this way because the media 's focus has been on the phone calls rather than the murder itself .
The case is coming to embody in the minds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ applies to crimes that plausibly have a racial component .
When the perpetrator is white and the victim is black , the media 's presumption -- often asserted as fact -- is that the crime is racially motivated or reflects systemic racism but when the perpetrator is black and the victim is Jewish or white , the media avoids noting the race of the perpetrator -- or worse -- refuses to even entertain the possibility that the crimes are racially motivated -- or worse still , bends over backwards to excuse or mitigate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the overall context of the article , then these comments are mysterious .
If you look at the article impartially and in context , these comments are perfectly understandable .
@ Lifelong Reader It is not race that caused this woman 's death .
Poverty , a culture of gang banging , a sense of entitlement because of years of discrimination , and jealousy and anger at the privileged lives Barnard and Columbia students share are some more significant factors .
Since the police have little evidence what race the perpertrator or perpetrators @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t see how Tessa Major ’ s killing has anything to do with hate .
We still don ’ t know what happened , whether it was a robbery gone wrong , or a crime with additional motivations such as racial , gender , or class-generated hatred .
The young , alleged perpetrators are being sheltered by their families and are not cooperating with the investigators .
Whoever robbed and killed Ms. Major deserves swift and harsh justice .
I hope we can stop stepping gingerly around this crime like a bunch of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ color ; neither should justice .
@ SMcStormy Black males account for 13 % of the population but commit 49 % of violent crimes .
at the risk of being the skeleton at the feast , I wonder why it is never , ever mentioned that all of these anti semitic horrors , the beatings and the graffiti on synagogues , are always committed , at least in nyc , by African Americans ?
everyone , politicians and media , seem to turn away from this reality staring them in the face .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the vast majority of African Americans have nothing to do with these insidious attacks , but we will never achieve racial harmony unless we acknowledge the deep roots of anti semitism rampant in the black community .
too often , as well , the charlatans who parade as preachers are allowed to appear on stage with the legitimate people trying to bring about racial peace .
this city is , whether we like to admit it or not , as divided along racial lines as any city in the world and things @ @ @ @ @ @ @ truth and go about rectifying this ugly reality .

[Previously: “Not Looking Good: Main Stream Media, New York Authorities, Retconning Tessa Majors Murder Like They’ve Retconned Central Park Rapists,” by Nicholas Stix, VDARE, December 19, 2019.]
On Wednesday, my friend and partner-in-crime David in TN wrote,
I was in a public library today (Wednesday, January 8, 2020), and glanced at the current National Review. In the Periscope section, there was a paragraph on the Tessa Majors murder. Want to know what National Review calls it? According to the Great Magazine of Conservative Intellectualism it was: “A robbery gone bad.” The rest of the MSM is following a template used for the Knoxville Horror whenever they noticed it. Namely, that the “racist reaction” is worse than the murder itself. Today another New York Times essayist called a “racist” robo-call about the murder “the worst thing I ever heard.”
N.S.: Note that National Review has enthusiastically supported the Trayvon Martin Hoax and the Charlottesville Hoax. Its editrix, Rich Lowry, clearly makes editorial decisions based on what will keep those dinner party invitations coming from influential, rich communists like Pinch Sulzberger.
Meanwhile, the New York Times published its version of a “robo-call.” A Barnard professor who is a contributor wrote a column that functioned to divert attention from the racist hate crime committed against Tessa Majors, to a supposedly “white supremacist” robo-call from Idaho to faculty members at Barnard, which she asserts was motivated by “hate,” as opposed to the former, which was a mere, racially motivated murder.
When I got the racist robocall, I deleted it instantly. My hope was to erase it from my memory, from my life, from the world I live in. But I should have known it’s never that easy. I can still hear that man’s voice. The more I try to forget it, the more it haunts me. Since then, I’ve been trying to understand, without much success, what the right response to hate should be. It’s not the first time I’ve heard voices like this, or wrestled with this question. When I was young, I was ridiculed and beaten more than once for being queer. As a public advocate for L.G.B.T.Q. people, I’ve gotten used to threatening letters and being accosted in public. Last year, in response to something I’d written in The Times, someone came up to me on the street in Midtown Manhattan and began to yell and swear. [“Tessa Majors and the Worst Thing I Ever Heard,” by Jennifer Finney Boylan, New York Times, January 7, 2020]
The author expects the reader to believe everything in his “thing,” but gives us no reason to. If someone asserts that someone said or did something extremely offensive, he has to recount it, not demand that we take his word on faith.
Two “reporters” at Buzzfeed pulled the same stunt in their “thing” about the murder, in which they asserted that a statement on Facebook was “racist,” but refused to quote it. We were simply supposed to take their word for it.
Let’s scrutinize the author’s credibility.
He depicts a nasty telephone call as worse than a murder: Strike One;
He teaches at a college that is run according to feminist ideology and practices, i.e., lies (including intellectual fraud and rape hoaxes), sexual hatred, and totalitarianism: Strike Two; and [“Kavanaugh Lynching: Campus Rape-Culture Hysteria Invades America,” by Nicholas Stix, VDARE, September 30, 2018.]
He asserts that he is a she: Strike Three.
Jennifer Finney Boylan’s real name is James Boylan. Several years ago, Boylan declared that he was a woman, a “transgender.” However, his wife and the mother of his children didn’t leave him.
I saw James Boylan and his wife interviewed by Willie Geist on The Today Show several years ago. Geist is a normal man with a wife and kids, but I never saw him act as if a sexually normal life were normal. He was always promoting the perversion of the week.
Boylan fits the stereotype of “transgenders” described by my VDARE colleague, Steve Sailer, to a t: A very aggressive man. There was no doubt as to who wore the pants in the Boylan household.
In addition to feminism’s lies, a school like Barnard promotes lies in league with its totalitarian allies, e.g., that innocent black males are constantly being arrested and railroaded or murdered by racist white policemen.
Feminism’s own main lies include:
There are no natural differences between men and women; the differences are all due to patriarchal socialization;
Women everywhere suffer pervasive sexual (now they say “gender”) discrimination in pay, treatment, etc.;
Women are as intelligent as men;
Women can do every job as well, or better than men;
Privileged, white, heterosexual men maintain a “rape culture”; and
Women never lie about rape.
When last I checked, James Boylan’s New York Times thing had received 239 comments. Most of them were supportive, as one would expect, but a number of honest comments were also permitted.


vdare--2020-01-14--Trump Builds The Wall? President Makes Major Push For Wall Construction Ahead of 2020 Election

Earlier : Trump Has n't Abandoned The Wall , Using $ 7.2 Billion In Defense Funds To ACTUALLY DEFEND The US President Trump is set to make a strong move to deliver his core campaign promise .
He plans to divert $ 7.2 billion dollars from the Pentagon toward wall construction this year , according to The Washington Post .
[ Trump planning to divert additional $ 7.2 billion in Pentagon funds for border wall , by Nick Miroff , The Washington Post , January 13 , 2020 ] Last year , the president appropriated over $ 6 billion from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
According to the Post , Trump has allocated $ 18.4 billion total for the wall .
This isn ’ t far off from the full funding— $ 25 billion—he asked for in 2018 .
According to the plans , the funding would give the government enough money to complete about 885 miles of new fencing by spring 2022 , far more than the 509 miles the administration has slated for the U.S. border with Mexico .
Trump appears eager to fulfill his promise of completing 450 miles of wall construction by election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ promise may be held up in court .
In December , a federal court ruled that Trump could not divert funds for national defense to national defense on the southern border , holding up $ 3.6 billion of the wall funding already allocated to construction .
The administration claims it has constructed 101 miles of new border barriers since Trump took office .
However , at least 90 miles of the construction only replaced pre-existing barriers ; very little of it covers new ground .
[ Trump administration may not hit 2020 border @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ted Hesson , Reuters , December 17 , 2019 ] The new funding may dramatically change this situation .
Trump knows he can ’ t forget about the wall .
He can ’ t show up empty handed for re-election on his most famous campaign promise .
It ’ s reassuring the president is doing as much as he can to satisfy that pledge before November .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Earlier: Trump Hasn't Abandoned The Wall, Using $7.2 Billion In Defense Funds To ACTUALLY DEFEND The US
President Trump is set to make a strong move to deliver his core campaign promise.
He plans to divert 7.2 billion dollars from the Pentagon toward wall construction this year, according to Washington Post. [Trump planning to divert additional $7.2 billion in Pentagon funds for border wall, by Nick Miroff, The Washington Post, January 13, 2020]
Last year, the president appropriated over $6 billion from the Defense Department budget for the wall. According to the Post, Trump has allocated $18.4 billion total for the wall. This isn’t far off from the full funding—$25 billion—he asked for in 2018.
According to the plans, the funding would give the government enough money to complete about 885 miles of new fencing by spring 2022, far more than the 509 miles the administration has slated for the U.S. border with Mexico.
Trump appears eager to fulfill his promise of completing 450 miles of wall construction by election day. However, fulfillment of this promise may be held up in court. In December, a federal court ruled that Trump could not divert funds for national defense to national defense on the southern border, holding up $3.6 billion of the wall funding already allocated to construction.
The administration claims it has constructed 101 miles of new border barriers since Trump took office. However, at least 90 miles of the construction only replaced pre-existing barriers; very little of it covers new ground. [Trump administration may not hit 2020 border wall goal, official says, by Ted Hesson, Reuters, December 17, 2019] The new funding may dramatically change this situation.
Trump knows he can’t forget about the wall. He can’t show up empty-handed for re-election on his most famous campaign promise. It’s reassuring the president is doing as much as he can to satisfy that pledge before November.


vdare--2020-01-13--Trump Hasn't  Abandoned The Wall, Using $7.2 Billion In Defense Funds To ACTUALLY DEFEND The US

I heard someone saying on Facebook that Trump has given up on the wall , and is n't even talking about it anymore .
Wrong !
This is from a Trump Rally in Toledo , January 9 , four days ago : Here 's the big thing , ready ?
You read it today in the newspapers .
In the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals , we won the big , big , beautiful lawsuit , where they were all suing us .
The wall is being built .
We built , we built already a tremendous amount , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military construction funds to build the biggest section of the wall .
It 's literally being signed now .
It 'll be under construction very shortly , in a couple of weeks , and we 've already built over 100 miles of wall .
How about that hundred miles ?
And by the end of next year , we 're going to have a lot of the wall built , and it 's already having a big impact .
How about the Democrats ?
Walls do n't work , we want technology .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ do ?
They want drones .
Oh good , when people are rushing the caravans , when they 're rushing , having a drone flying around that 's not going to help you too much , OK ?
Let me explain about the `` drones '' thing—Trump is right that for years , people have been talking about various kinds of high-tech `` virtual wall '' ( including camera drones ) which will alert the authorities to crossers .
The concept is the same as a burglar alarm or closed circuit camera , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ useless unless it 's backed by police who will arrest the burglars .
In a post titled The Virtual Fence And The Air Assault , I said that this might work if it were backed up by US Army helicopter-borne troops , including a military police contingent with pistols , batons , and handcuffs ( rather than infantry ) to round the border crossers up .
That was ten years ago .
If that 's not going to happen , then build a real wall .
Trump agrees—see Trump plans to divert $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ construction : report , from the Hill , only three hours ago .

I heard someone saying on Facebook that Trump has given up on the wall, and isn't even talking about it anymore. Wrong!
This is from a Trump Rally in Toledo, January 9, four days ago:
Here's the big thing, ready? You read it today in the newspapers. In the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, we won the big, big, beautiful lawsuit, where they were all suing us. The wall is being built. We built, we built already a tremendous amount, but we're releasing $4 billion of military construction funds to build the biggest section of the wall. It's literally being signed now. It'll be under construction very shortly, in a couple of weeks, and we've already built over 100 miles of wall. How about that hundred miles? And by the end of next year, we're going to have a lot of the wall built, and it's already having a big impact. How about the Democrats? Walls don't work, we want technology. So, what are you going to do? They want drones. Oh good, when people are rushing the caravans, when they're rushing, having a drone flying around that's not going to help you too much, OK?
Let me explain about the "drones" thing—Trump is right that for years, people have been talking about various kinds of high-tech "virtual wall"(including camera drones) which will alert the authorities to crossers.
The concept is the same as a burglar alarm or closed circuit camera, but like those, it's absolutely useless unless it's backed by police who will arrest the burglars. In a post titled The Virtual Fence And The Air Assault, I said that this might work if it were backed up by US Army helicopter-borne troops, including a military police contingent with pistols, batons, and handcuffs (rather than infantry) to round the border crossers up. That was ten years ago.
If that's not going to happen, then build a real wall.
Trump agrees—see Trump plans to divert $7.2 billion from Pentagon for border wall construction: report, from the Hill, only three hours ago.
Watch the rally below:


vdare--2020-01-13--Refugees Or Replacement? Florida’s DeSantis, Georgia’s Kemp Face Decision That Will Shape Their Futu

Refugees Or Replacement? Florida’s DeSantis, Georgia’s Kemp Face Decision That Will Shape Their Future—And America’s

See also : Rep. Omar Inadvertently Proves The Case For Banning `` Refugees '' Texas ’ Greg Abbott just became the first GOP governor to take advantage of President Trump ’ s executive order that allows states to opt out of refugee resettlement .
Disgracefully , most have decided to keep accepting them [ Republican Governors who Consented to Accept Refugees in FY2020 Scrambling to Explain , by Ann Corcoran , Refugee Resettlement Watch , January 10 , 2020 ] .
A few , such as Georgia ’ s Brian Kemp and Florida ’ s Ron DeSantis , are hesitating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ test for the GOP : Do you stand up for the Historic American Nation or do you betray your core constituency and further enable the Great Replacement ?
Abbott ’ s refusing refugees was a brave move .
The Texan said his state shoulders too much of a burden from a broken immigration system to accept more free-loading foreigners .
Since fiscal 2010 , he explained , “ more refugees have been received in Texas than in any other state , ” with “ 10 % of all refugees resettled in the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He plans to direct his state ’ s refugee resources to the people already here [ Gov .
Greg Abbott Says New Refugees Wo n't Be Allowed To Settle In Texas , by Vanessa Romo , NPR , January 10 , 2020 ] .
Of course , Abbott drew the ire of the Main Stream Media and the Refugee Racket .
“ This is a shameful decision by Gov .
Abbott which is unworthy of the great state 's reputation for being big , bold and hospitable , ” said Mark Hetfield [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ HIAS , formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society .
Other refugee lobbyists asserted that migrants boost the economy : “ At a time of historically low state unemployment rates , why would Texas turn away refugees with an entrepreneurial spirit that contributes to local communities and economies ?
” said Ali Noorani [ email him ] , executive director of the National Immigration Forum and by an amazing coincidence is a Pakistani immigrant , “ Turning away those seeking safety and opportunity is n't just disheartening—for Texas , it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a crushing public burden .
Fifty-six percent of refugee households receive food stamps and 27 percent receive cash welfare .
Twenty-nine percent of refugees 25 years or older are unemployed .
On top of that , incredibly , most adult refugees who have lived in America for about five years are not fluent in English .
So they aren ’ t the all-star Americans the refugee lobby claims [ Refugee Resettlement Is Costly , by Jason Richwine , Center for Immigration Studies , August 10 , 2018 ] .
It costs $ 64,370—more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ salary—to settle one Middle Eastern refugee [ The High Cost of Resettling Middle Eastern Refugees , by Steven Camarota , Center for Immigration Studies , November 4 , 2015 ] .
Refugees have also debauched communities in Maine , Minnesota , and other states .
In just more than 20 years , Lewiston , Maine , went from a nice New England town to a Third World slum thanks to Somali refugees .
Portland , Maine is on the verge of financial collapse thanks to the large number of asylum seekers it has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jihadi capital of the U.S. , thanks to Somali refugees [ How Minneapolis ' Somali community became the terrorist recruitment capital of the US , by Hollie McKay , Fox News , February 19 , 2019 ] .
President Trump has taken a firm stance against refugees .
Resettlement is at record lows .
In fiscal 2020 , the United States will accept a maximum of 18,000 refugees , many fewer than Barack Obama ’ s planned 115,000 refugees for fiscal 2017 .
And in September , Trump signed an executive order that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other words , your state can say no to them .
Yet in response—perhaps Trump ’ s cut-back has left room for virtue-signaling—eighteen of 26 GOP chief executives have requested refugee resettlement , ignoring the will of Middle America .
Only two jurisdictions besides Texas—Beltrami County , Minnesota and Appomattox County , Virginia—have rejected the government-subsidized settlers from the Third World [ Second County to Vote NO for More Refugees is in Minnesota , by Ann Corcoran , Refugee Resettlement Watch , January 8 , 2020 ] .
This is a remarkable reversal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ governor demanded a halt to Syrian refugee resettlement and many of them vowed to not take a single migrant from the war-torn nation .
[ 30 Governors Call For Halt To U.S. Resettlement Of Syrian Refugees , by Arnie Seipel , NPR , November 17 , 2015 ] Additionally , nine Republican senators signed a pathetic letter to Trump in September pleading for more refugees .
The most curious example of this GOP betrayal : Tennessee Gov .
Bill Lee .
His state has sued the federal government over the costs refugees impose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lawsuit—yet wants to accept more refugees anyway .
Understandably , the majority of state Republican lawmakers are furious .
Lt. Gov .
Randy McNally and House Speaker Cameron Sexton issued a rare joint statement saying they opposed Lee ’ s decision [ Tennessee will continue accepting refugees , Gov .
Bill Lee says , as legislative leaders signal disapproval , by Natalie Alison and Joel Ebert , The Tennessean , December 18 , 2019 ] .
Several counties may rebuke Lee and refuse to accept any refugees [ Exclusive : 8 More Tennessee @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Refugee Inflow , by John Binder , Breitbart , January 12 , 2020 ] .
America must obey a “ biblical mandate ” to help the “ oppressed , ” Lee said in defending his decision , a justification that did not , strangely , provoke the usual howls of outrage from Leftists about “ injecting religion into politics.
” America “ has generations of a history of providing opportunity to those who are oppressed , ” Lee assured Tennesseans , adding that because refugees suffer persecution , they are “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lee does have a personal reason to support refugee resettlement : His wife works with Kurdish refugees in Nashville [ Impassioned Gov .
Lee defends refugee resettlement participation before GOP activist group , by Andy Sher , Chattanooga Times-Free Press , January 7 , 2020 ] .
Refugee Resettlement Watch ’ s Ann Corcoran doesn ’ t buy Lee ’ s and the other GOP governors ’ rationale for betraying their states .
“ I think it ’ s primarily because they are afraid of being called ‘ racists ’ ‘ nationalists , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ They are jellyfish.
” Somehow they [ GOP governors ] have been convinced by someone ( several choices ) that they will have more control over who comes if they consent , but they won ’ t .
The funding guidance specifically says they will not be able to choose .
Also , many are shilling for giant companies that need the cheap captive labor refugees represent .
For example Tyson Foods .
Additionally refugees are used as bargaining chips for other business of the State Department so the DOS does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And the VOLAGs [ volunteer agencies ] have a huge grassroots network developed over decades and they are pounding the govs with Christian guilt .
Top candidates for convincing GOP gubernatorial grug-brains : World Relief and Evangelical Immigration Table , both linked to Leftist subversive George Soros , have aggressively lobbied Republican governors to accept refugees [ Soros-Linked Group Gets Six GOP Governors to Resettle More Refugees , by John Binder , Breitbart , December 11 , 2019 ] .
And powerful Christian groups , such as the Southern Baptist Convention and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ support refugee resettlement .
In Texas , 340 evangelical ministers urged Gov .
Abbott to take in refugees [ Blindsiding Trump , most Republican governors have agreed to accept refugees , by Laura Strickler and Dan De Luce , NBC News , January 10 , 2020 ] .
Question is , will the handful of Republican fence sitters follow Texas governor Abbott ’ s lead ?
They have until January 21 , the deadline to request financial assistance from the State Department .
This is why Florida ’ s DeSantis and Georgia ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ won election in 2018 on immigration patriotism in states threatened by demographic transformation .
Both could be presidential contenders in 2024 .
The refugee issue is a test they can not afford to fail .
DeSantis is most likely to reject , especially with Abbott setting the precedent .
DeSantis has cracked down on sanctuary cities , gotten tougher on illegal immigration , and wants mandatory e-Verify .
He ’ s also a close Trump ally and wants to build credentials as the Trumpist candidate for 2024 .
DeSantis won a nailbiter election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A few more thousand immigrants moving to his state could doom the Florida GOP .
He made the right choice to make immigration one of his top election priorities .
It would be a major surprise if he bucked Trump and consented refugee resettlement .
Kemp is more of a mystery .
He campaigned in 2018 as an immigration hawk who ( according to his commercials ) would personally round up illegal immigrants in his pick-up truck .
Demographic change affects his re-election chances ; he barely won in 2018 despite receiving 74 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even though Kemp embraced Trump in 2018 , he has bucked the president while in office .
Last month , he angered Trump by refusing to appoint Rep. Doug Collins , a Trump ally with an A Numbers USA rating , to the U.S. Senate .
He instead chose Kelly Loeffler , a WNBA team owner with unknown policy views .
That decision casts doubt on whether he will follow the president ’ s wishes on refugees .
Kemp ’ s and DeSantis ’ rejecting refugees would be a huge win for two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would help the GOP win future elections by slowing The Great Replacement of white Americans .
• Second , it would be a symbolic victory for Trump ’ s agenda and further inspire the Historic American Nation to fight about who comes to its communities .
No longer will phony Christian charities and unelected bureaucrats decide .
State and local authorities , and , more importantly , citizens , would have a say .
Americans does not deserve the fate of Lewiston , Maine Washington Watcher II [ Email him ] is an @ @ @ @

See also: Rep. Omar Inadvertently Proves The Case For Banning "Refugees"
Texas’ Greg Abbott just became the first GOP governor to take advantage of President Trump’s executive order that allows states to opt out of refugee resettlement. Disgracefully, most have decided to keep accepting them [Republican Governors who Consented to Accept Refugees in FY2020 Scrambling to Explain, by Ann Corcoran, Refugee Resettlement Watch, January 10, 2020]. A few, such as Georgia’s Brian Kemp and Florida’s Ron DeSantis, are hesitating. But this issue is a litmus test for the GOP: Do you stand up for the Historic American Nation or do you betray your core constituency and further enable the Great Replacement?
Abbott’s refusing refugees was a brave move. The Texan said his state shoulders too much of a burden from a broken immigration system to accept more free-loading foreigners. Since fiscal 2010, he explained, “more refugees have been received in Texas than in any other state,” with “10% of all refugees resettled in the United States have been placed in Texas.” He plans to direct his state’s refugee resources to the people already here [Gov. Greg Abbott Says New Refugees Won't Be Allowed To Settle In Texas, by Vanessa Romo, NPR, January 10, 2020].
Of course, Abbott drew the ire of the Main Stream Media and the Refugee Racket. “This is a shameful decision by Gov. Abbott which is unworthy of the great state's reputation for being big, bold and hospitable,” said Mark Hetfield [email him], president of the HIAS, formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Other refugee lobbyists asserted that migrants boost the economy: “At a time of historically low state unemployment rates, why would Texas turn away refugees with an entrepreneurial spirit that contributes to local communities and economies?” said Ali Noorani [email him], executive director of the National Immigration Forum and by an amazing coincidence is a Pakistani immigrant, “Turning away those seeking safety and opportunity isn't just disheartening—for Texas, it’s bad business.”
Bunk. Refugees are a crushing public burden. Fifty-six percent of refugee households receive food stamps and 27 percent receive cash welfare. Twenty-nine percent of refugees 25 years or older are unemployed. On top of that, incredibly, most adult refugees who have lived in America for about five years are not fluent in English. So they aren’t the all-star Americans the refugee lobby claims [Refugee Resettlement Is Costly, by Jason Richwine, Center for Immigration Studies, August 10, 2018]. It costs $64,370—more than the average American’s yearly salary—to settle one Middle Eastern refugee [The High Cost of Resettling Middle Eastern Refugees, by Steven Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, November 4, 2015].
Refugees have also debauched communities in Maine, Minnesota, and other states. In just more than 20 years, Lewiston, Maine, went from a nice New England town to a Third World slum thanks to Somali refugees. Portland, Maine is on the verge of financial collapse thanks to the large number of asylum seekers it has welcomed. And Minneapolis is now the jihadi capital of the U.S., thanks to Somali refugees [How Minneapolis' Somali community became the terrorist recruitment capital of the US, by Hollie McKay, Fox News, February 19, 2019].
President Trump has taken a firm stance against refugees. Resettlement is at record lows. In fiscal 2020, the United States will accept a maximum of 18,000 refugees, many fewer than Barack Obama’s planned 115,000 refugees for fiscal 2017. And in September, Trump signed an executive order that requires jurisdictions to request refugees. In other words, your state can say no to them.
Yet in response—perhaps Trump’s cut-back has left room for virtue-signaling—eighteen of 26 GOP chief executives have requested refugee resettlement, ignoring the will of Middle America. Only two jurisdictions besides Texas—Beltrami County, Minnesota and Appomattox County, Virginia—have rejected the government-subsidized settlers from the Third World [Second County to Vote NO for More Refugees is in Minnesota, by Ann Corcoran, Refugee Resettlement Watch, January 8, 2020].
This is a remarkable reversal from 2015, when nearly every Republican governor demanded a halt to Syrian refugee resettlement and many of them vowed to not take a single migrant from the war-torn nation. [30 Governors Call For Halt To U.S. Resettlement Of Syrian Refugees, by Arnie Seipel, NPR, November 17, 2015]
Additionally, nine Republican senators signed a pathetic letter to Trump in September pleading for more refugees.
The most curious example of this GOP betrayal: Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee. His state has sued the federal government over the costs refugees impose on Tennessee taxpayers. Lee supports this lawsuit—yet wants to accept more refugees anyway.
Understandably, the majority of state Republican lawmakers are furious. Lt. Gov. Randy McNally and House Speaker Cameron Sexton issued a rare joint statement saying they opposed Lee’s decision [Tennessee will continue accepting refugees, Gov. Bill Lee says, as legislative leaders signal disapproval, by Natalie Alison and Joel Ebert, The Tennessean, December 18, 2019]. Several counties may rebuke Lee and refuse to accept any refugees [Exclusive: 8 More Tennessee Counties to Rebuke Gov. Bill Lee’s Refugee Inflow, by John Binder, Breitbart, January 12, 2020].
America must obey a “biblical mandate” to help the “oppressed,” Lee said in defending his decision, a justification that did not, strangely, provoke the usual howls of outrage from Leftists about “injecting religion into politics.” America “has generations of a history of providing opportunity to those who are oppressed,” Lee assured Tennesseans, adding that because refugees suffer persecution, they are “very different” from illegal aliens.
Lee does have a personal reason to support refugee resettlement: His wife works with Kurdish refugees in Nashville [Impassioned Gov. Lee defends refugee resettlement participation before GOP activist group, by Andy Sher, Chattanooga Times-Free Press, January 7, 2020].
Refugee Resettlement Watch’s Ann Corcoran doesn’t buy Lee’s and the other GOP governors’ rationale for betraying their states. “I think it’s primarily because they are afraid of being called ‘racists’ ‘nationalists,’ etc.,” she told VDARE. “They are jellyfish.”
Corcoran says:
Somehow they [GOP governors] have been convinced by someone (several choices) that they will have more control over who comes if they consent, but they won’t. The funding guidance specifically says they will not be able to choose. Also, many are shilling for giant companies that need the cheap captive labor refugees represent. For example Tyson Foods. Additionally refugees are used as bargaining chips for other business of the State Department so the DOS doesn't want the flow stopped completely. And the VOLAGs [volunteer agencies] have a huge grassroots network developed over decades and they are pounding the govs with Christian guilt.
Top candidates for convincing GOP gubernatorial grug-brains: World Relief and Evangelical Immigration Table, both linked to Leftist subversive George Soros, have aggressively lobbied Republican governors to accept refugees [Soros-Linked Group Gets Six GOP Governors to Resettle More Refugees, by John Binder, Breitbart, December 11, 2019]. And powerful Christian groups, such as the Southern Baptist Convention and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, reflexively support refugee resettlement. In Texas, 340 evangelical ministers urged Gov. Abbott to take in refugees [Blindsiding Trump, most Republican governors have agreed to accept refugees, by Laura Strickler and Dan De Luce, NBC News, January 10, 2020].
Question is, will the handful of Republican fence sitters follow Texas governor Abbott’s lead? They have until January 21, the deadline to request financial assistance from the State Department.
This is why Florida’s DeSantis and Georgia’s Kemp are so important. Both won election in 2018 on immigration patriotism in states threatened by demographic transformation. Both could be presidential contenders in 2024. The refugee issue is a test they cannot afford to fail.
DeSantis is most likely to reject, especially with Abbott setting the precedent. DeSantis has cracked down on sanctuary cities, gotten tougher on illegal immigration, and wants mandatory e-Verify. He’s also a close Trump ally and wants to build credentials as the Trumpist candidate for 2024.
DeSantis won a nailbiter election against a black socialist in 2018. A few more thousand immigrants moving to his state could doom the Florida GOP. He made the right choice to make immigration one of his top election priorities. It would be a major surprise if he bucked Trump and consented refugee resettlement.
Kemp is more of a mystery. He campaigned in 2018 as an immigration hawk who (according to his commercials) would personally round up illegal immigrants in his pick-up truck. Demographic change affects his re-election chances; he barely won in 2018 despite receiving 74 percent of the white vote.
But even though Kemp embraced Trump in 2018, he has bucked the president while in office. Last month, he angered Trump by refusing to appoint Rep. Doug Collins, a Trump ally with an A Numbers USA rating, to the U.S. Senate. He instead chose Kelly Loeffler, a WNBA team owner with unknown policy views. That decision casts doubt on whether he will follow the president’s wishes on refugees.
Kemp’s and DeSantis’ rejecting refugees would be a huge win for two reasons.
First, fewer refugees would help the GOP win future elections by slowing The Great Replacement of white Americans.
Second, it would be a symbolic victory for Trump’s agenda and further inspire the Historic American Nation to fight about who comes to its communities.
No longer will phony Christian charities and unelected bureaucrats decide. State and local authorities, and, more importantly, citizens, would have a say.
America does not deserve the fate of Lewiston, Maine
Washington Watcher II [Email him] is an anonymous DC insider.