National Review's John Derbyshire offers his immigration plan at The Corner. My favorite part?
(2d) Impose draconian penalties on visa overstayers, including lifetime exclusion from the U.S.
If Derbyshire gets his way, we'll have to deport the Englishman. Sad (sic), but true. You see, in the 1970s, Derbyshire overstayed his B-2 visa.
In 2003, Derbyshire wrote:
In spite of having committed gross and wilful violation of U.S. immigration laws, I had paid no penalty, done no time, suffered no inconvenience. None of the various Americans to whom I had confessed had conveyed the faintest disapproval, none had told me I ought to be ashamed of myself. In the 1970s, I can report, the normal reaction of an American on learning that the person sitting across from him was "undocumented," was puzzlement. They knew, of course, that there was such a thing as illegal immigration. The word "wetback" was then current. It was just that they didn’t associate the phenomenon with well-spoken middle-class types with office-worker skill sets.
I am bound to report that I see little difference in attitude between the native-born Americans of today and those of thirty years ago. Nations, like individuals, have their own ineradicable quirks of personality. It is a peculiarity of Americans that they cannot be brought to think seriously about immigration. The two best immigration-restrictionist books of recent years have been by Peter Brimelow, who is an immigrant from England, and Michelle Malkin, daughter of recent Filipino immigrants. If you have been through, or sufficiently close to, the immigration experience, you think about it a lot. Otherwise, you don’t think about it at all, and can’t be made to. Take it from me, a sometime illegal immigrant: getting this nation to concentrate on immigration reform is going to be hard work all the way.
So forty years ago, Derbyshire was an undocumented worker -- an "illegal alien" as he would say. Now he not only proposes a lifetime ban on travel to the U.S. by visa overstayers, but he also suggests hiring more cops to hunt down and deport people in this counary who are not here legally. Can you say pogrom?
Here's what I say to Mr. Derbyshire: you and your white nationalist buddy Peter Brimelow can take your British attitudes about immigration and shove 'em where the sun don't shine! This is America, damn it, and we don't roll like you do. If you don't like it, you and your boy can swim back to England for all I care. I hear the water's cold. Hypocrisy sucks, especially when it bites you in the ass.