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The Doom of the White Race
In the preface, written a decade after the book, he states that one morning
in 1972, at home by the shore of the Mediterranean, he had this vision:
"A million poor wretches, armed only with their weakness and their numbers,
overwhelmed by misery, encumbered with starving brown and black children,
ready to disembark on our soil, the vanguard of the multitudes pressing hard
against every part of the tired and overfed West. I literally saw them, saw
the major problem they presented, a problem absolutely insoluble by our
present moral standards. To let them in would destroy us. To reject them
would destroy them."
"All the kinky-haired, swarthy-skinned, long-despised phantoms; all the
teeming ants toiling for the white man's comfort; all the swill men and
sweepers, the troglodytes, the stinking drudges, the swivel-hipped menials,
the womanless wretches, the lung-spewing hackers; all the numberless,
nameless, tortured, tormented, indispensable mass. . . . They don't say
much. But they know their strength, and they'll never forget it. If they
have an objection, they simply growl, and it soon becomes clear that their
growls run the show. After all, five billion growling human beings, rising
over the length and breadth of the earth, can make a lot of noise!"
--- The Camp of the Saints by Jean
Raspail
http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/unbound/flashbks/immigr/immigint.htm
Immigration:
The Perpetual Controversy
April 1996
THE inscription on New York's Statue of Liberty (written by Emma Lazarus in
1883) invites the rest of the world to "give us your tired, your poor...the
wretched refuse of your teeming shore." Europe, the invitation implied, was
old, tired, and crowded. By contrast, America was youthful, energetic, and
expansive. Whereas a European in Europe might amount to little more than a
surplus body, a European in America would find room and opportunity in which
to make something more of himself. For immigrants, the statue's offer meant
a chance for a better life; for the United States, it meant a fresh influx
of participants in the work of building and developing the nation.
Theoretically, at least, immigration was a beneficial arrangement all
around.
America has outgrown its youthful days of seemingly infinite spaces and
opportunities. Today, people are more preoccupied with such problems as job
insecurity, diminishing resources, and mounting social tensions--concerns
that suggest a growing sensitivity to limits and to the idea that there may
now be simply too many people vying for too little.
While this shift to a less hopeful national mood may account in part for
recent high levels of contentiousness surrounding the immigration issue,
articles on immigration appearing in The Atlantic over the course of this
century demonstrate that immigration has always been an incendiary issue,
even during bygone eras of expansion and optimism.
In "Restriction of Immigration" (June, 1896) Francis A. Walker warned that
vast inpourings of southern European immigrants threatened to overwhelm and
thereby degrade American culture and institutions: "the question to-day
is...of protecting the American rate of wages, the American standard of
living, and the quality of American citizenship from degradation through the
tumultuous access of vast throngs of ignorant and brutalized peasantry." For
this reason he asserted that, "For one, I believe it is time that we should
take a rest, and give our social, political, and industrial system some
chance to recuperate."
In "Immigration and the South" (November, 1905) Robert DeCourcey Ward spoke
out as a southerner against what he viewed as the North's "unloading" of
second-rate immigrants by sending them South. "The South," he asserted,
"does not want the 'derelicts' and the 'chronic discontents' of Europe. It
does not wish to burden itself with vast expenditures for the support of
pauper, criminal, diseased, insane, and physically defective aliens."
In "Races in the United States" (December, 1908) William Z. Ripley
considered what impact a recent shift in composition of the immigration flow
(from primarily Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic to primarily Mediterranean, Slavic,
and Oriental) would have upon the character of the nation: "the fundamental
physical question is, whether these racial groups are to coalesce to form
ultimately a more or less uniform American type; or whether they are
to....remain separate, distinct, and perhaps discordant."
In "The Chinese Boycott" (January, 1906), John W. Foster critized America's
discrimination against Chinese immigrants in America as racist, and
described several particularly egregious examples of mistreatment.
In "Immigration and the Labor Supply," (November, 1905) Don D. Lescohier
argued against a relaxation of immigration restrictions then in effect on
the grounds that an increased flow of immigrants into the labor pool would
undermine the improved labor standards that American workers were struggling
to establish. He argued that Americans should take advantage of an abatement
in the supply of available workers to "devote ourselves to constructive
labor policies which will...maintain the laborers' health, character, and
intelligence."
Over the years, critics of America's liberal immigration policy have argued
that it ensures a continual influx of impoverished and unassimilable people
who profit from federal support programs like welfare while contributing
little in return. Extensive investigative reporting led James Fallows, in
"Immigration: How It's Affecting Us" (November, 1983), to suggest that the
reality is in fact the opposite: because immigration tends to select for
those who are especially resilient, adaptable, and hardworking, immigrants
are probably more of a boon to this country than a burden.
In "Timing is Everything" (January, 1994) Lowell Weiss compared the
drastically disparate fate of two groups of Vietnamese immigrants in
America--those who immigrated at the time of the 1975 Saigon evacuation and
those who stayed behind in Vietnam and suffered at the hands of the Hanoi
government before finally making their way to the United States.
In "The Ordeal of Immigration in Wausau" (April, 1994) Roy Beck
http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/election/connection/immigrat/beckf.htm
described what happened when residents of a small midwestern city gamely
agreed to welcome a few Southeast Asian refugees as part of a
church-sponsored resettlement program: it was not long before Wausau found
itself inundated with Laotian immigrants and plagued by such problems as
gangs, racial tension, a preponderance of people on welfare, and schools
deluged by non-English-speaking students with high teen-pregnancy rates.
In "A Bold Proposal on Immigration" (June, 1994) Jack Miles
http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/election/connection/immigrat/miles1f.htm
argued that rather than yielding to a sense of helplessness about the
permeability of the Mexican-American border and giving in to demands for
concessions to illegal immigrants in California, the United States can and
should clamp down on points of illegal entry into this country. "Backlash,"
he explained, "is ultimately against a perceived and frightening loss of
control, rather than against Mexicans as a racial or ethnic group."
In "Must It Be the Rest Against the West?" (December, 1994) Matthew Connelly
and Paul Kennedy
http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/election/connection/immigrat/kennf.htm
characterized the immigration issue as a problem of global inequalities
which--in order to forestall destructive mass migrations from impoverished
to wealthy regions--must be addressed through development and
family-planning aid to the Third World. Virginia Abernethy, in "Optimism and
Overpopulation", takes issue with Connelly's and Kennedy's assertations and
questions the conventional wisdom which holds that economic aid from the
West is the key to curbing population growth in poor nations.
http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/unbound/flashbks/immigr/immigint.htm
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