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<\/a>“Give me your tired, your poor,\nYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
\nThe wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
\nSend these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
\nI lift my lamp beside the golden door!”<\/p>\n
\u2014Emma Lazarus, \u201cThe New Colossus<\/em>,\u201d 1883<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Budapest, 1940<\/strong><\/p>\n Andras Grof was tired and ill when he was four. Very ill. Andras had scarlet fever. It almost killed him. He survived, barely, but it affected his hearing. Permanently.<\/p>\n Another four years on, Andras was tempest-tossed. The Germans invaded Hungary, sending his father and another half a million Jews to concentration camps around the country. While his father did forced labor, Andras and his Jewish mother were sheltered by friends, in hiding throughout the war. His father survived, however, and was reunited with his family.<\/p>\n Andras was young when he became homeless as he had to flee again, this time by crossing the border to Austria. He says this of his first twenty years<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cBy the time I was twenty, I had lived through a\u00a0Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis’ \u2018Final Solution,\u2019 the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety of repressive Communist regimes, and a\u00a0popular uprising\u00a0that was put down at gunpoint \u2026 many young people were killed; countless others were interned. Some two hundred thousand Hungarians escaped to the West. I was one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n New York, 1957<\/strong><\/p>\n Now Andras Grof was part of \u201cthe wretched refuse\u201d of the teeming shores of Hungary, and yearning to breathe free. He entered the U.S. as a refugee at the age of twenty-one. He became a busboy. He met Eva Kastan, a waitress, also a refugee. A year later, they married.<\/p>\n As of March 2016, after 58 years, Andras and Eva were still married, with two daughters.<\/p>\n Lovely story, and not that unusual an immigrant story. Sadly, Andras Grof passed away on March 21, 2016.<\/p>\n Perhaps you know him as Andy Grove.<\/p>\n Intel: The Andy Grove Years<\/strong><\/p>\n Andy got a PhD from UC Berkeley in 1963. By 1967 he was Assistant Director of Development at Fairchild Semiconductor. Then that<\/em> job offer came.<\/p>\n “When I came to Intel, I was scared to death. I left a very secure job where I knew what I was doing and started running R&D for a brand new venture in untried territory. It was terrifying.”<\/p>\n He was Intel\u2019s employee on day one in 1968, when there were only three of them. Andy Grove took over as CEO of Intel in 1987. During Grove\u2019s 11-year tenure as CEO, Intel\u00a0grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 30%<\/a>. A CAGR of 30% for 11 years makes something 18-fold bigger.<\/p>\n According to a VP at Intel, \u201cWhen he [Andy] came to this country from Hungary in 1956, he didn’t speak English. Yet I learned spelling from him.\u201d<\/p>\n In his fifties, Andy beat prostate cancer by tailoring his own treatment<\/em> after copious research, a method most offensive to the FDA. Then he did the same to Parkinson\u2019s disease, which afflicted him much later in life and forced him to retire as Chairman and CEO of Intel. This battle he was to lose, but he went down fighting.<\/p>\n RIP Andras Grof, the refugee who speak no English at all, who, as Andy Grove, would one day profoundly affect the way we all communicate.<\/p>\n The \u201cMother of Exiles\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Americans love to believe that this \u201c\u2026 mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning and her name, Mother of Exiles,\u201d lives up to her name. Or that she did.<\/p>\n Since 1903, the lines of Lazarus\u2019 sonnet have lain inscribed on a bronze plaque on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, a symbolic beacon of the issue of immigration.<\/p>\n And yet the words have never been true. We will never know how many Andras Grofs were lost to the West because, for foreign nationals, the right to earn a living and stay indefinitely, let alone vote and hold public office, has always been tightly controlled by the State. Such policies have been justified on the basis that the glue that holds a nation-state together is the commonality of history, language, tradition, culture, and religion.<\/p>\n Nation-States<\/strong><\/p>\n The question before us is whether a nation-state that secures individual rights for its citizens can disregard the unity offered by cultural traditions, language, race, and religion.<\/p>\n A nation-state is the product of the last two hundred years, a progressive evolution in human history\u2014from tribes, city-states, and colonial and territorial empires<\/a> to nation-states. Gone is the brutal dictator or the monarch who defines the national boundary\u2014people come together, draw the lines, and form a sovereign. It is laudable.<\/p>\n Several modern economies are nation-states. The United States, too, is a nation-state.<\/p>\n The question before us is whether a nation-state that secures individual rights for its citizens can disregard the unity offered by cultural traditions, language, race, and religion.<\/p>\n Conservative camps, such as White Identity<\/em> author Jared Taylor, say no, and go much further\u2014see \u201cWhite Survival: Beyond Left and Right<\/a>\u201d and Clement Astor\u2019s \u201cThe Cult of White Extinction, and How to Reverse It<\/a>.\u201d They lament that declining birth rates skew the demographic \u201cpyramid\u201d into a square where too many old must be looked after by too few young, and raise an outcry for race preservation. Says Astor, \u201cIt is almost exclusively whites who have the bizarre desire to adopt children of other races.\u201d Adds Taylor, \u201cWhites know in their bones that a non-white America is not the country they want for themselves or for their children. That is why, when the part of America in which they live becomes an outpost of Africa or Mexico, they move away\u2014to some place where whites are still the majority. And most white people still want their children to marry other whites.\u201d<\/p>\n Says Astor, \u201cIt is almost exclusively whites who have the bizarre desire to adopt children of other races.\u201d Adds Taylor, \u201cWhites know in their bones that a non-white America is not the country they want for themselves or for their children.”<\/p>\n Now, before you dismiss Taylor and Astor as \u201cright-wing extremists,\u201d have a look at the burgeoning popularity of Donald Trump, and, as reported in the New York Times, of Norbert Hofer in Austria, of Marine Le Pen in France, of Frauke Petry in Germany, and many others in Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n Taylor makes one vital point: \u201cThe very people\u2014white and Hispanic\u2014who encourage the change in America\u2019s population would rail against this [if the immigration shoe was on the other foot] as neo-colonialism and cultural imperialism. And yet when Hispanics come here with that intent and that effect [demanding language accommodation and linguistic privileges]\u2014and when Muslims show up in Europe with the same intent and effect\u2014any resistance is denounced as bigotry. Why? This question deserves an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n It does, indeed. This is my answer, Jared Taylor, to you and to all those whom you represent.<\/p>\n For I conceive of a world where work contracts are negotiated solely between employers and prospective employees, no matter their current nationality, where one and all have the right to offer products, to own or rent property, to love and be loved \u2026 race be damned<\/em>.<\/p>\n Chosen Values<\/strong><\/p>\n Can we all dare foresee a nation-state united by chosen values<\/em>, not by race, religion, or ethnicity?<\/p>\n Should such a nation-state<\/em> have no limits on immigration?<\/p>\n Is the fight for such a nation-state unhampered by immigration per se?<\/p>\n Yes, yes, and yes.<\/p>\n The Culture of Government Diktat<\/strong><\/p>\n But, first, was any country on earth ever this welcoming of the tired, the poor, the wretched refuse, the homeless, and the tempest-tossed?<\/p>\n Not in the least. Not even the United States, which, incidentally, has one of the finest records.<\/p>\n The U.S. has come a long way since doctors examined the eyes of immigrant women at Ellis Island to exclude the Asians, and mobs lynched the Chinese<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, is it still, as the Colorlines magazine puts it, \u201c\u2026 an uncomfortable truth: the policy discussion surrounding who deserves to be let through the border is endemically exclusive<\/a>. As long as national boundaries align with divisions of race, culture and class, policies on border control, visa lotteries, green cards and work permits are all bound up in an inherently racialized project of social engineering\u201d?<\/p>\n The social engineering is the perceived demand of the populace, always has been, and any political party in the West that ignored it quickly perished in the next election. No nation-state has ever been readied <\/em>for a redefined commonality\u2014a shared value system.<\/p>\n Can we all dare foresee a nation-state united by chosen values<\/em>, not by race, religion, or ethnicity?<\/p>\n Prior to 1965, the U.S. had a national-origin based quota system.<\/p>\n History dot com says, \u201cThough it abolished quotas per se, the system [the 1965 Act] did place caps on per-country and total immigration, as well as caps on each category<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The country caps effectively eliminate what may well be billions<\/em> of people, willing to work and trade in a free enterprise system. Any restriction on such an individual, who seeks to escape life in a communist, Islamist, or backward nation, is inherently aristocratic (linking rights to birth). Migration Policy Institute<\/a> says, \u201cIt established an annual cap of 170,000 visas for immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere, with no country in the hemisphere allowed more than 20,000 visas.\u201d In Asia alone, there live 4.5 billion people, so less than 0.000004% of those can be granted a visa annually. It\u2019s tokenism, even when a cry rings out for a higher cap, unless we get into the hundreds of millions.<\/p>\n The real reason behind Government determination of \u201cwho shall, and who shall not, enter\u201d is linguistic, cultural, and racial balancing. Such covert tactics are by no means limited to Republicans. In fact, the Republicans are open about it. Whereas, as he gets people to buy the rhetoric of \u201cUs, the multicultural collective,\u201d President Obama, covertly acting for his constituency of labor class protectionism, has deported more foreign nationals than any of the previous presidents.<\/em> He is now on pace to deport more people than the sum of all 19 presidents who governed the United States from 1892-2000<\/a>.<\/p>\n To the Jared Taylors\u2014Assert the Values!<\/strong><\/p>\n The United States no longer holds sacred free markets, freedom of speech, enterprise, heroism in life or literature, the separation of religion and state, or even the language or religion that originally united its peoples. It holds sacred \u2026 Nothing. Except one pseudo-value: Democracy. A democracy unconstrained by a Constitution\u2014the mob rule of an elite, unnoticed by a people hollowed out intellectually.<\/p>\n It scarcely matters whether we provide another hundred million, or six hundred million for that matter\u2014Mexicans, Indians, Chinese, Arabs, and Eastern Europeans\u2014to the same elites, who, grinning from ear to ear, mouthing ever more platitudes of \u201cUs, the multicultural collective,\u201d demand apologies from citizens for crimes never committed even by their forefathers.<\/p>\n But what if a nation-state did assert its true values? Then the fears could be addressed.<\/p>\n The Valid Fears of Open Borders<\/strong><\/p>\n With the values so inscribed, people may still fear:<\/p>\n The United States no longer holds sacred free markets, freedom of speech, enterprise, heroism in life or literature, the separation of religion and state, or even the language or religion that originally united its peoples. It holds sacred \u2026 Nothing.<\/p>\n \t(1) Loss of jobs None of these fears are unfounded. But an ethical nation must choose right over wrong.<\/p>\n People Create Jobs<\/strong><\/p>\n If population increases reduced jobs, then why aren\u2019t the highest unemployment rates in countries with the largest populations? In a free economy, the job market is dynamic; the number of available jobs is not a fixed number.<\/p>\n More people means more demand for food, clothing, real estate, and services. Actual demand, not the Keynesian-spurred false kind. More people also equals more labor. To produce. Higher populations facilitate higher specialization, which leads to a higher productivity of labor. In a free society, a bigger population leads to a higher standard of living. Anyone who doubts this should look at small, isolated island populations that do not trade freely.<\/p>\n But when the society is not free, immigrants tend to be brought in only for low-skilled and manufacturing jobs. The natives do lose their jobs<\/em>. They don\u2019t walk into higher paying supervisory jobs because there aren\u2019t any in an economy decaying with a wanton reduction in interest rates and environmentalism fraud. The Atlantic says they end up on disability benefits<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ted Cruz put the issue across well\u2014\u201cI will say, the politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were crossing the Rio Grande. Or if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press, then we would see stories about the economic calamity that is befalling our nation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Cruz is only partially right. Lawyers, doctors, psychologists, and accountants have a protectionist \u201clocal\u201d qualification regime, blessed by regulators and governments. And the media does not award jobs to those with journalism degrees and experience from the non-Anglophone world, even if their English-writing skills are excellent. Investment bankers do likewise.<\/p>\n But, perversely, this situation can only be redeemed with a large influx that disrupts the old-boy-network hegemony. In the IT sector and in certain faculties of academe, there is no dominant majority by race, color, ethnicity, or national origin, and everyone\u2019s pay scales and job security are held honest by immigration. Meritocracy wins. That needs to happen across every sector and every layer of job.<\/p>\n Welfare Dependency and Crime<\/strong><\/p>\n Recently, libertarian John Stossel took on arch-conservative Ann Coulter on whether immigrants are more likely to go on welfare and commit crime (not so, says Stossel<\/a>). Note how Coulter, termed by The Daily Beast<\/em> as the \u201cconservative blond avenger,\u201d carries on about \u201cEuropean descent\u201d versus \u201cbrown people.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n Both Stossel, and Dalmia here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, quote the Cato Institute study: \u201c\u2026 the economic contributions of these immigrants dwarf their fiscal costs.\u201d<\/p>\n To even become eligible for welfare, there is a waiting period of five years. This is<\/em> worth stating\u2014surely, they<\/em> can\u2019t simultaneously go on welfare, while also \u201ctaking our<\/em> jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n Discomfort with Race<\/strong><\/p>\n Suspicion of foreigners<\/em><\/strong> is a survival trait with origins in human history. It should not be scoffed at, if it helped our ancestors survive violent aggression from other tribes.<\/p>\n The journal Frontiers in Psychology<\/em> reported that \u201cBoth monolingual and bilingual preschoolers<\/em><\/strong> preferred to be friends with native-accented speakers over speakers who spoke their dominant language with an unfamiliar foreign accent.<\/a>\u201d It\u2019s disturbing that preschoolers can have such a bias, but the silver lining is that in-group racial differences matter little. Seen this video of Donald Trump hugging an African-American woman he hires on the spot<\/a>? Yes, he is probably genuine here.<\/p>\n When they\u2019re in, they are in, and they become just like us and part of our \u201cgang.\u201d You don\u2019t buy it? Put a high-performing dark-skinned Cuban on \u201cour\u201d baseball team and watch \u201cus\u201d applaud as he whacks the white pitcher\u2019s ball out of sight. The \u201cyour tribe, my tribe\u201d instincts overwhelm race; those instincts are what sports entertainment is all about.<\/p>\n But a sound ethics demands we conquer our impulses with deliberative thinking, not give in to impulses, like a toddler. Preschoolers will eat cookies all day. You know you shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n ISIS Dirty Nukes and Islamist Trojan Horses<\/strong><\/p>\n Says Raymond Ibrahim of The Gatestone Institute:<\/em> \u201cThree facts are undisputed: 1) ISIS and other terrorist groups see Mexico as a launching pad for terrorist acts in the U.S.; 2) ISIS and other terrorist groups have bases of operations in Mexico; 3) Members of ISIS and other terrorist groups have been caught trying to enter through the border.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n One can have an electrified high wall across the entire Mexican border and still have open borders<\/em>.<\/p>\n But one can have an electrified high wall across the entire Mexican border and still have open borders<\/em>. Airlines do it all the time. They don\u2019t prohibit passengers on the basis of race, gender, age, or national origin, but they require you to leave your weapons behind if you wish to board their aircraft. International flights require a visa for the destination, but that\u2019s imposed by governments. The point is, one can let people in via a gate in the wall with a security check that would surely prevent nukes, dirty or otherwise, if airlines can even prevent pencil sharpeners from boarding with you.<\/p>\n The rise of Islamism is a different beast. This is the outcome of the Marxist-Existentialist and Postmodernist collectivists taking over the media, the Democrats, academe, the arts, the liberal arts, and denying the truths of the foundations of Western civilization.<\/p>\n Islamism cannot be defeated by denying refugee status to a handful of non-Christian Syrians.<\/p>\n Islamism must be identified as anti-civilization and brazenly attacked at a conceptual level. ISIS must be attacked with annihilating force and destroyed. Islamism cannot be defeated by denying refugee status to a handful of non-Christian Syrians.<\/p>\n Thankfully, Islam is the fastest dying religion in the world<\/a>. The West must accelerate this process: by denying the Islam-apologists a haven in the fractured sun of the manufactured Islamophobia farce, by creating centers that counsel and protect Islam apostates, and by encouraging mass apostasy from a religion that requires<\/em><\/strong> intolerance and violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n A United States with a Population of Three Billion<\/strong><\/p>\n China (1.37 billion) and India (1.3 billion) make up more than 60% of Asia\u2019s 4.5 billion<\/a>; non-Muslim majority countries such as Russia (144 million, who are counted in the 4.5 billion). Japan (127 million), Philippines (103 million) and Vietnam (93 million) comprise another 10%.<\/p>\n Brazil (205 million), Colombia (49 million) and Argentina (43 million)<\/a> comprise over 70% of South America\u2019s 415 million; Mexico\u2019s 121 million share the contiguous border with Texas, California, and Arizona.<\/p>\n In contrast, a few million Syrian refugees is not really a big issue by way of a feared cultural displacement. That said, if European heads of state and the U.S. president had a spine, they would force Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States to the negotiating table, at the very least to create an Islamic home solution for those who want it.<\/p>\n Says Daniel Pipes in Middle East Forum<\/em>, \u201cTo where, then, are they to go? One nearby, desirable alternative to Europe exists; indeed, it’s a destination so attractive that foreigners<\/a> already\u00a0constitute half<\/a>\u00a0the population: that would be the six Gulf Cooperation Council states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n Let’s focus on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the largest of them in land size, population and economy. The KSA has many unique attractions for Sunni Muslims. To begin with, it has 100,000 high-quality, empty fiberglass tents that can house about 3 million people in\u00a0Mina<\/a>, just east of Mecca. Fireproof and air-conditioned, complete with toilets and kitchens, this unique resource is occupied a mere five days a year by pilgrims on the hajj.\u201d<\/a>The West lies in a state of disrepair, confused about what it stands for, not because of Mexicans or Chinese, but because the West let Existentialists, Marxists, Postmodernists, and other pseudo-intellectuals run amok, and overtake its academe, media, arts, and politics.<\/p>\n
\n\t(2) Welfare dependency and crime
\n\t(3) Discomfort with race
\n\t(4) ISIS dirty nukes and Islamist Trojan horses
\n\t(5) Half the world will come!<\/p>\n
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