Six Points to Remember about the 2013 “Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” a.k.a. Amnesty War

Posted by Nicholas Stix

Six Points to Remember about the 2013 “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” a.k.a. Amnesty War
By Peter Brimelow
February 19, 2013
VDARE

It seems to be generally agreed that if “Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” a.k.a. Amnesty, does not go through by the summer, it will not go through at all--itself evidence of how politically precarious the thing is. Until then, the pressure will be intense and immigration patriots will need coolness under fire. Six points to remember:

1] We’ve been here before—several times

And by “here” I mean not just the current offensive, but the Main Stream Media ululations, the blizzard of baloney about bipartisan breakthroughs and Things Being Different This Time, the authoritative assertions of inevitability etc., etc.
Thus, one of the very earliest articles VDARE.com carried (August 14, 2001!!!!) was No Surrender, No Compromise, Only Victory! by Steve Sailer about George W. Bush’s initial, long-forgotten amnesty drive. Contrary to the then-conventional wisdom (same as the now-conventional wisdom), Steve boldly predicted the drive would fail. And it did, being finally finished off by 9/11. He quoted blogger Mickey Kaus…

[Read the whole thing here.]