Monday, March 28, 2005

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Oh, goody

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.
Wow. My workload just doubled in size.

From the announcement post:
Readers ask me "What can I do?" and express frustration with their inability to make a difference in the immigration debate. Quit complaining. Support one of these citizen efforts. Or start your own. Read up on what made the Prop. 200 campaign in Arizona a winner. Then start your own. Read our blog. Or start your own.

Your country's sovereignty and security are in your hands.
Ah, fantastic.

Immigration is not my specialty nor the particular reason I started this blog. But I will endeavor to fisk the immigration blog at least on occasion because I love you all that much.

To start off with, here's a post on the immigration blog that has nothing whatsoever to do with immigration. It's titled "OUR FRIENDS IN MEXICO", and it's about the behavior of Mexican soccer fans.

Does the inclusion of a post which exists only to complain about Mexicans - not immigration - in a blog called the "Immigration Blog" tell us something about the motives of she who started the blog?

I report. You decide.

Update: LA notes another fun one. In case you still need convincing as to the motives of the fine folks at the immigration blog, how about the first ever post?
When left-wing high school students turned out in Paris on March 8th to protest the latest education reform bill (the "loi Fillon"), they had a surprise waiting for them. All along the demonstration's route were small packs of black and Arab teenagers – and they hadn’t come to join the protest...

Meet the "casseurs" – literally, "breakers" or "smashers" – the violent children of the run-down suburbs, or "banlieus", that house much of the region’s immigrant and immigrant-descended population.
David Orland's opening salvo from the immigration blog, which purports to be about illegal immigration in the United States: Not about the US, and not about illegal immigration. It is about swarthy people, though...