6 thoughts on “Immigration: Consider this”

  1. I guess the part where he finishes with a “Wake up, white people!” got left on the cutting room floor?

    That analysis was worth about one of those stupid gumballs he used. I loved his separation of not only actual immigrants, but all of their “progeny” into a permanent class of immigrants. I had no idea I was part of the scary red post-1970 trend of people overrunning this country! Of course, using his brilliant logic, we could just knock the start line back from 1970 to 1960 (or 30, or 10 . . . ) and make an even scarier big red line!

    He does get one thing right – a completely open American border is not going to improve things in the developing world. I’d point out, of course, that no one is advocating that. And I’d also venture to guess that this guys actual concern for the developing world is nil.

  2. Why is it whenever someone speaks against the illegal immigration, he is branded a racist?

    Then you go on to say he doesn’t care about the Third World. How do you know that? What difference does it make to the immigration debate what his underlying motives might be?

    Move away from the ad hominem attacks, and deal with facts.

  3. Facts? What facts? That the man knows how to present a line on a graph without context? That his loony tunes Malthusian scenario relies on some pretty big assumptions?

    There are plenty of people who can speak against illegal immigration without being called a racist. Roy Beck is not one of them. But hey, if you want to defend him, have at it. Might want to learn a little more before you take on that cross, though.

    What difference do underlying motives make? Sorry, I gave up teaching critical thinking online.

  5. It is interesting to see that his chart with red and green combined says that the U.S. population will reach 300 million in 2010 if the immigration trend continued.

    Well, it’s 2007 and our population is estimated by the census bureau to be 302 million.

    If anything, it looks like the red section on the graph should accelerate even more dramatically than it does.

  6. Illegal immigration has accelerated more rapidly than predicted. The booming economy in the (capitalist) U.S., and the horrible economies of (socialist) Latin America have indeed created the “great sucking sound” Perot warned us about, just in the opposite direction. As far as jobs go, the Latin American economies don’t suck, they blow.

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