[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has been within the headlines this week.
Even earlier than these headlines, Abbott has grow to be one thing of a hero to many (not all) immigration patriots this previous three years. Beneath his Operation Lone Star, Texas state troopers have been arresting unlawful border crossers, Texas Nationwide Guard troops have been establishing razor wire alongside the banks of the Rio Grande, state recreation wardens are patrolling the river in motor-boats, and busloads of illegals have been shipped to the smug sanctuary cities of the north.
That in fact has all been vexing to the federal authorities in Washington, D.C., who need our southern border as open as doable however for the invaders to remain down South out of sight. (In a moderately creepy echo of these Northern abolitionists who, following Emancipation, needed the black slaves freed however … to remain down South out of sight.)
They significantly dislike the razor wire as a result of illegals may damage themselves getting over it.
Final yr the federal Border Patrol truly minimize by among the wire to make passage simpler for the invaders. In October Texas’ state Legal professional Common sued the feds for unlawfully destroying state property and interfering with the state’s efforts to dam unlawful border crossers.
The feds appealed; the appeals court docket prohibited the Regime from chopping the wire whereas the Supreme Court docket thought of the case; Monday this week the Supremes dominated 5-4 for the feds. The Regime can now resume chopping the wire, though nothing within the case prevents Texas from simply changing it.
The 4 dissenters there have been Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. Roberts and Coney Barrett joined the court docket’s three hefty girls for a majority—Wait, what did I simply say? “Hefty”? Sorry! Sorry! I meant in fact Lefty girls.
I confess I used to be trying ahead to studying what Justice Sotomayor needed to say. She will normally be relied on for one thing hilariously silly in her written opinions. I didn’t know that when the Supremes act on emergency purposes like this one, they don’t have to offer causes. Disillusioned!
Governor Greg Abbott, after listening to the Supremes’ Monday resolution, has adopted a combating stance. Wednesday he issued what he described as a “Assertion on Texas’ Constitutional Proper to Self-Protection,” asserting his state’s proper below the U.S. Structure to guard itself.
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At week’s finish he’s nonetheless defiant, whereas Homeland Safety is demanding entry to the wired areas.
A doable escalation being aired is that Washington may put the Texas Nationwide Guard below federal management, as Eisenhower did with Arkansas in 1957 over college desegregation.
On at the present time in 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower deploys troops from the U.S. Military’s a hundred and first Airborne Division to Arkansas to implement the desegregation of Little Rock Central Excessive Faculty. pic.twitter.com/Rj0FIM8z5M
— Army Historical past Now (@MilHistNow) September 24, 2020
This might go off in all types of fascinating instructions.
So Governor Greg Abbott of Texas is a hero to us immigration patriots this week, proper? Eh, not altogether.
The Governor hasn’t truly been in his state whereas these doubtlessly momentous developments had been below method. The place’s he been? In India.
Beginning final Friday, the nineteenth, returning this Sunday, the twenty eighth, Abbott has been on an Financial Growth Mission to that nation below the auspices of the Governor’s Financial Growth & Tourism Workplace and the Texas Financial Growth Company.
What’s unsuitable with that? Isn’t it a part of a state governor’s job to encourage financial improvement, together with joint ventures with international companies?
It actually is. When doing so, nevertheless, the pursuits of American employees must be on the entrance of his thoughts.
These pursuits had been not on the entrance of Governor Abbott’s thoughts on Wednesday when he had a jolly assembly with representatives of NASSCOM, an Indian information-technology foyer that has been energetic in pushing for extra American guest-worker visas for Indian tech employees.
From rising applied sciences to renewable vitality, Texas is the way forward for innovation.
I met with @nasscom members at present to debate methods to broaden India’s tech presence in Texas.
Texas’ unmatched enterprise local weather & proficient workforce make our state the BEST place to speculate. pic.twitter.com/zKiqjb3u99
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 24, 2024
With unlawful border-jumpers dominating the immigration information, we’re forgetting the intense points we’ve got with authorized immigration.
And India is outstanding in these points. Our tech business in fact prefers low cost international labor to pricier Individuals[Untold Stories: The American Workers Replaced by the H-1B Visa Program, CIS.org, May 4, 2019]. India is to the fore in supplying that labor with massive, wealthy, and relentless lobbies ever pushing for extra of these guest-worker visas.
A regular midwit line on immigration is: “I’ve nothing towards authorized immigration, in fact; however unlawful immigration? I’m towards that. In any case, it’s unlawful, isn’t it?”
There may be in fact a degree there: a degree which, as an individual who has been, at totally different instances, each a authorized and an unlawful immigrant, I actually applaud.
Nonetheless, whereas authorized immigration is certainly preferable to the unlawful selection, the wanton abuses of our authorized immigration system typified by these proliferating H-1B visas wants correcting.
Right here’s a random quote from a report by long-time VDARE.com columnist Joe Guzzardi posted June final yr on the Institute for Sound Public Coverage:
The H-1B and different employment visas have, for many years, destroyed U.S. tech employees’ careers and created turmoil of their private lives. Expert, skilled long-time workers have been dismissed from Disney, Southern California Edison and dozens of different firms. Main tech employers Google, Microsoft, Dell and myriad others have been particularly ruthless. After being fired, the displaced Individuals are pressured to endure the indignity of coaching their replacements. Jobless and with out their middle-class incomes, unemployed Individuals battle to make mortgage, automotive and tuition funds, and meet different obligations. The fortunate H-1B employees obtain lawful everlasting residency and eventual citizenship—a uncooked deal for the unlucky American job discrimination and bias victims.Activist Group Information Criticism with DOJ on Behalf of U.S. Tech Staff Displaced by H-1B Visa Holders, by Joe Guzzardi, June 8, 2023
India is by far the most important participant in these legal-immigration outrages. Governor Abbott ought to have stayed residence this week and minded his border.
John Derbyshire [email him] writes an unimaginable quantity on all kinds of topics for all types of retailers. (This now not contains Nationwide Overview, whose editors had some sort of tantrum and fired him.) He’s the creator of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other different books. He has had two books revealed by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (additionally out there in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
