Immigration: Facts vs. Ideology

Ron Unz, the neoliberal publisher of The American Conservative, fires back at Matthew Roberts and Steve Burton in this new article.

For my money, Mr. Unz fails to convince. His main point is that Roberts and Burton were wrong to exclude Federal inmates in estimating Hispanic incarceration rates because that would include Mexicans, not Americans. Hmmm ....

Problem is, illegal aliens, by definition, are not Americans. Therefore, we're supposed to ignore the very root of the problem, which is the Federal government's de facto open borders policy. And thus Mr. Unz has eliminated the problem of crimes committed by illegal immigrants -- which even he acknowledges are predominantly Hispanic -- by defining it away.

This goes beyond anything medieval scholastics conjured up. It's closer to the kind of tricks performed on New York sidewalks with three cards.

On a more serious note, Third-World immigration will only increase once the 20 million illegals already here are granted amnesty -- and there are no reasons for conservatives to support demographic revolution, which will radically alter our cultural and political traditions.

It would appear Mr. Unz is the one pushing ideology and avoiding inconvenient facts.