Immigrants’ Impact on the United States
Re “Ideologues Have Hijacked an Important Debate,” Opinion, Feb. 24: Jonah Goldberg “politely” savages Pat Buchanan, Samuel Francis and Peter Brimelow for their stands in opposition to immigration (particularly illegal) to the United States. He refers to these men as hysterical and paints them with the same brush as Afrocentrists, La Raza, et al. However, nowhere in the article does Goldberg address the facts. Nowhere does he discuss what rampant immigration is doing to our schools, our health care system and our criminal justice system.
Goldberg is apparently a conservative in name only, one who no longer believes in any principle other than winning elections. Goldberg’s ad hominem attacks on these three men are as unfortunate as they are condescending. He would be better served by caring less about offending potential voters and more about what is happening to his country.
Kieley D. Jackson
Studio City
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It is fascinating that political correctness has now infected even right-wing Republicans, as demonstrated in Goldberg’s denunciation of Americans (e.g., Brimelow’s VDARE.com) who prefer our culture to that of the Taliban, for example.
However, Goldberg is quite correct to note that it is not about race. There is a world of difference between an American black family and Somali immigrants whose women have been mutilated by barbarities now illegal in this country. (Among the many objectionable cultural practices accompanying Third World immigrants has been female genital mutilation.)
Seeing brutal cultural norms in Islamic countries has awakened many naive Americans to the fact that cultures are not all equal or worthy of respect. As a feminist, I have particular misgivings about the U.S. admitting millions of immigrants from cultures that regard women as subhuman property. I could do without such diversity.
Dana Garcia
Berkeley
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The real, unmentioned problem about current levels of immigration is overpopulation. According to the Census Bureau, the population of the U.S. will reach half a billion within 50 years at our present growth rate, virtually all of which is due to immigration, both legal and otherwise. It’s time for a moratorium on all immigration.
Randle C. Sink
Brea