Illegals — 700% increase.

Ho hum. A mere 700% in Georgia and North Carolina.

This is an update to my previous post on the black stake in immigration control and the rule of law:

What’s behind the anger [of black Americans over Hispanic immigration], as the Pew data hint, is the rapid change that legal and illegal Hispanic immigration is bringing to longtime black locales. Places like South Los Angeles and Compton, California, have transformed, virtually overnight, into majority-Latino communities. Huge numbers of new immigrants have also surged beyond newcomer magnets California and New York to reach fast-growing southern states like North Carolina and Georgia, bringing change to communities where blacks had gained economic and political power after years of struggle against Jim Crow laws. Since 1990, North Carolina’s Hispanic population has exploded from 76,726 people to nearly 600,000, the majority of them ethnically Mexican. In Georgia, the Hispanic population grew nearly sevenfold, to almost 700,000, from 1990 to 2006.

The irony never ceases to amaze me that we have tens of thousands of troops in Iraq and around the world but yet the homeland itself has been subjected to this vast foreign invasion. While the policy of keeping U.S. troops overseas is not without a rational basis, the policy of keeping absolute no troops on the U.S. border is, while rational to some, a betrayal of most.

From the above we see Hispanic inundation of black communities in California and Hispanic increases in these two states far from the border with Mexico that are simply huge:

• North Carolina — 682% increase to 600,000.
• Georgia — ~ 700% increase to 700,000.

This in the last 18 years. And all COMPLETELY as a result of deliberate federal policy encompassing the administrations of Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II. Three presidents — and St. Ronald was equally complicit — failed to understand that it was their duty to prevent people from migrating to the U.S. and availing themselves of employment and health and welfare benefits because they, in their sole discretion, felt like doing it, laws, boundaries, and American citizens be damned.

It's tempting to laugh up my sleeve at the black support for Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson and the Congressional Black Caucus on this issue. The end result of their pursuit of "civil rights," or their own political ambitions camouflaged as "civil rights," has been the importation of tidal waves of competition for the jobs of blacks — and white Americans let me add, though I have no doubt that that was the least of the concerns of Jackson or the CBC.

It's not clear what percentage of those dramatic increases in California, Georgia, and N. Carolina was caused by illegals, but I'd be willing to hazard a guess that it is upward of 95%. Heck, just call it an even 100%. In those two southern states, therefore, you have 1,136,000 uninvited foreigners, the working members of which group have now taken jobs from Americans. All Americans. And brought with them the burden on the welfare system, prison system, law enforcement system, and health system.

And springing from this community of unwelcome newcomers is an aggressive political and criminal targeting of blacks as well. Doubtless, it springs only from a portion of that community but that targeting has nonetheless been effective.

Black citizens themselves are responsible for this turn for the worse in their situation. As Mr. Malanga's article makes clear, blacks were less likely than whites to support immigration restrictions. And they supported their so-called leaders, like Jackson and the Congressional Black Caucus, who welcomed those uninvited foreigners with enthusiasm.

Here's a short statement that might be read to the black "community":

You cast your lot with the Democrat Party and thought that there was some kind of solidarity with other "people of color." Well, how's that working out for you?

It turns out that you have a lot more in common with other Americans because they are simply your people, your fellow citizens. Skin color and third world origin were a pipe dream and these concepts have Fed Exed your new problems to you with a vengeance.

Maybe now you can see the utility of thinking of yourselves as Americans not African-Americans. You are not the only people to come from somewhere else and, trust this, foreigners of any color don't care for you and your interests in the least. They care about themselves.

Color and third world status turned out to be no protection for you at all. Yet the law, had it been enforced, would have protected you. Perhaps you should consider that it is in your interest to join with all other Americans to ensure that the law is upheld.

"The Rainbow Coalition Evaporates." By Steven Malanga, City Journal, Winter 2008 (emphasis added).