Immigrants Out to Destroy the "European" U.S., Washington Times Columnist Warns

This past weekend, The Washington Times featured a column filled with apocalyptic visions of a white America overrun by a “massive invasion” of immigrants. This is certainly not the first racially insensitive column printed by The Times, but it is the first since the organization went through a thorough housecleaning in 2008 that involved the removal of high-level staffers who published white nationalists.

The column was penned by Jeffrey T. Kuhner, who heads the Edmund Burke Institute, which is described by the paper as a “Washington-based think tank.” Taking a page out of the white nationalist playbook, Kuhner frets that the Obama administration plans a massive amnesty that will allow the “army of illegal immigrants” to wipe out America’s European “roots.”

Kuhner sees an America suffering from an immigrant “invasion,” a “bleeding sore” of a Southern border, “overwhelmed” hospitals and Mexican cartels running amok. He sees America’s jails filling up with these foreigners — “one-third of the federal prison population is composed of illegal immigrants”— a falsehood common among anti-immigrant propagandists (for how wrong Kuhner is, read here). He worries that our “uncontrolled immigration” is causing the “bonds of national union” to be “torn apart.”

What brought all this end times worrying on? Kuhner’s attendance at a radio talk show event put on last week in Washington by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which was listed as an anti-immigrant hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2007. FAIR has long peddled anti-immigrant conspiracies, including the idea that Mexicans cross the border not to work but to reconquer the Southwest.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/09/24/immigrants-out-to-destroy-us-washington-times-columnist-warns/

And conservatives actually say that everyone but them plays the race card. Wow, just wow.

they may succeed where Europeans have failed.

Don't be loco, that's already happened.

Is Rev. Moon so delusional that he's forgotten that he's KOREAN?

Undoubtedly, they will be Left Behind in the scumheap of history.

the cr*ckers are sh*tting their pants. Maybe with a more diverse America, prestige will be based more on honesty and achievement, instead of privilege. They will have to work for a change.

Damned Potato eating Papists.......

by the ex-immigrants in North America? :)

For a long time immigrants welcomed the arrival of more immigrants to help make the colonies viable. At some point the colonies were well-established enough (and enough people had been born in the New World) that immigrants were no longer viewed as "just like me a few years ago" or "just like my parents or grandparents", but as competition with "real" Americans for jobs.

From my recollection of American history, the Irish were the first immigrant group to face widespread resistance. The same happened to Germans, Eastern Europeans and Southern Europeans, but that came later, AFAIK.

oh, wait....

I for one welcome our new Latino masters... ;)

At least that's what I keep reading everywhere.

They were "better" immigrants because they brought the culture that produced the Renaissance to the world, etc, etc.

This ain't new...

The author of this article should instead direct his scorn against the corporate interests that attracted these immigrants by hiring them at slave wages, and to the conservative administrations who enabled these folks to live here for so long, by refusing to consider a national ID card. How can we not welcome folks who have been among us, working hard for many years? That said, maybe it's time to issue national ID cards so that future immigration will be legitimate.

We've already had that. Things are in constant change and I don't think there's anything that can be done about it. If we could come back a thousand years from now, we may not recognize any languages, national borders, or races. Maybe at some not-too-distant point in the future, considering the way the Earth gets smaller and smaller with improved travel and communications, the people of the Earth might all be of one mixed race and speak one common language. Or maybe they won't even be people anymore, becoming human-machine hybrids. Conservatives hate change and think that the United States will go on and on. Not even the greatest of empires lasts forever.