Book Review: State of Emergency
Ah, Pat Buchanan. I just finished reading the excellent Death of the West, and went right into State of Emergency. This new book is an intellectual continuation of Death of the West, as it makes many similar arguments with augmented focus on immigration today as well as more recent examples.
In this book, Buchanan outlines first why illegal immigration is a problem today, and cites Presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy, among others. The reason those presidential quotes and ones by others looked upon as favorable by the general public and liberals alike (Booker T. Washington called for industrialists of his day to not ignore black labor in favor of cheaper foreign labor) stand out so much is because if any of those people said similar things today they would be tried and executed in the press as right-wing extremists.
Strongly favoring immigration control is a rational argument that has been tainted by the 'accept all but the whites' multiculturalist crowd. It is one that traces back to our very identification of who we are. Access rights should be fully in control of the state (and more specifically, in the hands of the people within a state), and the breakdown of national barriers by open migration is just irrational. Of course, Buchanan lays down chapters of statisitics to back up his claim, and paints a very imposing picture of a future America fractured by race. State of Emergency also talks about Eurabia, and how exaclty that has the potential to play out in the future.
Buchanan, in the final chapter, outlines a plan for dealing with the immigration problem here:
1. A "Time-Out" on all Immigration, for the purpose of assimilating those already here
2. No Amnesty for Illegals
3. The Border Fence
4. Outlawing "Anchor Babies"
5. Ending Chain Migration and Dual Citizenship
6. Ending the Welfare State "magnets"
7. Remigration - making it undesirable, through many factors, for immigrants to want to remain in the United States
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