That's Our Derb!

Fresh from the NRO “Corner”:

Whose Country? [John Derbyshire]
This news item concerns Leftist legal-action groups suing a Pennsylvania town over ordinances the town has passed to discourage illegal immigrants from settling there.  Near the end comes this sentence:
“About a third of the [sic] Hazelton’s residents are Hispanic, up from around 5 percent in 2000, officials say.”
[Derb]  From 5 percent to 33 percent in just six years?  And the President wonders why opposition to his open-borders-and-amnesty plan is so fierce?
Posted at 2:37 PM

[s.z.] Nowhere in the article is there anything to indicate that 33% of the town now consists of illegal aliens.  (FYI: my town has gained a large proportion of Hispanic residents in the past few years, but the vast majority of them are either U.S. citizens or legal residents.)  So, I guess Derb’s point is that any real American would naturally object to living in a town that’s a third Hispanic – and unless President Bush realizes this and appoints Michelle Malkin as the new head of the INS, the “base” is never going to support Bush’s immigration plan.

Posted by s.z. on Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 at 7:17 pm.

The number is UP 5%, not FROM 5% to 33%. What an idiot!

There are a lot of Hispanics in my town these days, too. They are working hard building lots and lots and lots of houses, “McMansions” if you will. They also work on the infrastructure for these houses, and contribute in a large way to our booming economy.

Left by Kathy on August 16th, 2006

Does Derb not know he’s a racist? Maybe an intervention is called for.

Left by D. Sidhe on August 16th, 2006

The article says: “About a third of the Hazelton’s residents are Hispanic, up from around 5 percent in 2000, officials say.”

So, if they’re to be believed, in 2000 it was 5 percent.

Today, (if they’re to be believed) it’s 33 percent.

And, your “booming economy” is based on illegal activity and political corruption. I guess undermining our entire political system is OK, just as long as there are profits to be had.

I don’t know what percent of the gain is illegal aliens, but one can imagine how, for instance, cities in Mexico would feel if the percentage of “Anglos” rose from 5% to 33% in such a short period of time.
Or, one can do the same with a rise of the population of Mexican Indians in a Mexican city. If you don’t want to bother imagining, you can just read about it:

csmonitor.com/2004/1008/p07s01-woam.html
Or this:

www2.eluniversal.com.mx/pls/impreso/noticia.html?id_nota=9322&tabla=miami

Left by IllegalImmigrationIntroduction on August 17th, 2006

If only there were some efficient, cheap way to bleach all these Mexlumofascists like they did with Michael Jackson, then they could all be Real White Peoples™, too!
[/typical Cornerite racist]

Left by Marq on August 17th, 2006

I think his point is that, like the Japanese in WWII, all hispanics are inherently sympathetic to illegal immigrants, and want to destroy our country.
Really, it could be any number of stupid racist myths.

Left by Christopher on August 17th, 2006

I don’t know what percent of the gain is illegal aliens, but one can imagine how, for instance, cities in Mexico would feel if the percentage of “Anglos” rose from 5% to 33% in such a short period of time.
And one can imagine how members of a “Southern Heritage” group would feel if a large number of black people moved into their community. They would claim that their cherished traditions, their sense of community, their very way of life was threatened!

And we would consider these people to be racists.

Left by s.z. on August 17th, 2006