When Peter Brimelow asked me to write about the Politically Correct drive to drop the term “illegal alien” in favor “undocumented immigrant” (increasingly, “migrant”) to describe someone who enters the country illegally, I hesitated. I wondered whether anyone doesn’t know that the Treason Lobby has changed the term to sell Amnesty to the American public. But then, there are still some people who don’t realize the Great Replacement is real.

When I began my career with the Border Patrol, I was a somewhat naïve college-educated recruit. The agency was overwhelmingly Mexican-American. Officially, the Border Patrol is 50 percent Hispanic, a self-reported number. My guess: It’s between 70 percent to 80 percent Hispanic. So, when my Mexican-American law instructor at the Border Patrol Academy repeatedly referred to illegal aliens as “wets,” I was surprised. Isn’t that “racist?” Apparently not, virtually everyone who worked the border called them wets, including the wets! “Soy un mojado” (Spanish for “wet”), illegals would say when I caught them.

Another term heard inside the Border Patrol, but never outside it: “Tonk.” That’s the sound a black Maglite makes, I learned, when smashed on an illegal’s head in the quiet, still night. An older agent told me to say it’s an old acronym for “Temporarily Out of Native Kountry” if an outsider overheard the term.

(Personally, I think its roots may be from something else. The Texas Rangers used the Amerindian tribe known as the Tonkawa as scouts. Reportedly, the Rangers didn’t think much of them as fighters and were fairly disparaging towards them. At one time, if you believe the book Texas Ranger: The Epic Story Of Frank Hamer. The Man Who Killed Bonnie And Clyde , the Texas Rangers patrolled the border with the United States Border Patrol and the Rangers were not shy about shooting first and asking questions later.  I have a feeling the Border Patrol may have picked up the term from the Rangers and made it their own)

Sometime after I landed in the field, higher-ups ordered agents in California and Arizona to stop using “illegal alien” and instead use “undocumented alien,” or UDAs on federal immigration forms. Texas still called them illegal aliens.

Of course, the shift in terminology is a Treason Lobby tactic to humanize illegals, just as dehumanizing our wartime enemies is a frequent tactic of government propagandists.

When I was a kid, my brother had a book on

[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]

The big talking point of the week was the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, with a couple of hundred billion in assets evaporating overnight and blowing away on the morning wind.

I ought really to be more interested in this than I actually am. I only became a rootless bohemian 22 years ago. Prior to that I was a middle-class shlub, with a salaried job at a respectable firm—an investment bank, in fact.

I wasn’t a hot-shot trader, more’s the pity. I was a back-office worker bee, a cube jockey designing and writing software for the bank’s Credit and Risk Management Department.

To this elderly Credit and Risk Management geek, the SVB collapse looks like a serious failure of Risk Management. It wouldn’t have happened if I’d been cutting their code.

There’s some knotty stuff in Risk Management computing—check out the Black-Scholes model for option pricing, if you’re confident with your calculus.

That doesn’t seem to have been in play with SVB, though. What happened here was just basic banking.

Basic banking: A bank is a safe place to stash your money; but a bank doesn’t just take your money in tens and twenties and lock it up in a vault, it uses your money. It spends your money to buy stuff.

One variety of stuff banks particularly like to buy is bonds. The First Law of bond trading:

Earlier (2022): Happy St. Patrick’s Day From VDARE.com—Irish-Americans Are Part Of America’s White Majority

It’s St. Patrick’s Day and in the Washington Post, an immigrant enthusiast woman named Carly Goodman [Tweet her], author of Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restrictionv has an op-ed called St Patrick’s Day reminds us of the importance of welcoming immigrants | The Irish have been among the most powerful advocates for immigration [March 17, 2023].

This is full of standard stuff: claiming the 1924 restriction was racist, although advantaging the Irish because they could “they could lay a claim to ‘whiteness.’” The 1965 Immigration Act was supposedly anti-racist, although in 1968, the Irish-American Ancient Order of Hibernians was complaining that it disadvantaged them, by ending the quota system and privileging immigrants with an American family member—which is what we now know as “chain migration.”

Various Irish-American pols, some but not all named Kennedy, tried to game the immigration system in a pro-Irish way. That’s how we got Ted Kennedy’s infamous “Diversity Lottery.”

But the Irish are white—and that’s “unsavory.”

The argument that “issuing more visas to the Irish would help create immigrant ‘diversity’” according to Goodman ”contained an unspoken, unsavory element—it resonated in part because Irish immigrants were White, and many criticized the episode as being a “veiled’ move away from ’current immigration source regions,’ meaning Asia and Latin America, as future INS commissioner Doris Meissner would write in an op-ed at the end of 1990.”

Goodman’s cheerful message: Irish-American political logrolling in favor of visas for Irish immigrants has in the past (John F. and Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 Immigration Act and Teddy’s “Diversity Lottery”) and will continue in the present to result in lots more non-white immigration.

My kid learned to set a leprechaun trap(?) at school. St Patrick’s Day! Here I look back at how Irish immigrants & Irish Americans used past parades to argue against immigration restrictions. The focus was on the Irish — but the outcomes more expansive. https://t.co/3rdPQzGu0R

— Carly Goodman, Ph.D., emerita (@car1ygoodman) March 17, 2023

She ends her article by saying “Sympathy for the Irish once opened up meaningful access to others around the world to come to the United States. Perhaps it can again.”

The problem for Irish-Americans is that they are white—really white, not just laying a claim to whiteness—and mass non-white immigration is displacing them.

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, for example, took the Congressional seat of nine-term Irish-American Congressman Joe Crowley, whose mother came from County Armagh, whose father was an NYPD detective, and whose uncle Walter was a New York City councilman.

Quote from Crowley after losing to AOC: "I can’t help that I was born white."

The Irish are a success story in America, and while not, historically, an unmixed good, they are, as I said last year, now part of America’s white majority, and would be foolish to support their own displacement.

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See also: VDARE.com Book Club Presents: CHARLOTTESVILLE UNTOLD: Inside Unite The Right

With the release via Fox’s Tucker Carlson Tonight of scandalously-suppressed security camera footage of the January 6,  2021 Capitol incursion, it has become undeniable that VDARE.com was completely correct immediately to label the Ruling Class Narrative the “Capitol Insurrection Hoax.” Thus Third-Wave Feminist and Clinton-Gore adviser Naomi Wolf [Tweet her]has written Dear Conservatives, I Apologize: My "Team" was Taken in By Full-Spectrum Propaganda [Dailyclout.io, March 14, 2023] But this is no less true of the remarkably parallel 2017 Charlottesville Unite The Right rally, which VDARE.com (although not involved—neither was I) immediately began tracking under the label “Charlottesville Narrative Collapse.” Slowly, in a less glamorous way, through guerilla publishers and websites, the real story of Charlottesville is becoming clear.

Padraig Martin of Identity Dixie (follow him on Gab here) has written the best first-hand account of the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally that I personally have yet had the pleasure to read. Its title, A Walk in the Park, serves as a grim reference to the expectations that most of the attendees had for the event. The demonstrators, a remarkable mixture of people including not just a constellation of nationalist groups, but also elderly couples, women, and history buffs(“very fine people” as President Trump put it), expected their legally permitted rally to be a walk in the park. They expected, as every American had for centuries, that they would be able to peacefully walk to a public park to protest the destruction and erasure of their historical monuments. They never expected the City of Charlottesville, and its cowardly at best and malicious at worst police department, to intentionally corral them as lambs to the slaughter.

While many, indeed most, Dissident Right commentators are today quick to smugly condemn Unite the Right as misguided, I believe these keyboard commandos are operating with the benefit of hindsight. Nobody could have anticipated what happened at Charlottesville. Nobody could have predicted that the City of Charlottesville would allow violent communists to attack peaceful protesters at a legally permitted rally. Mr. Martin’s intense, first-person account of just how brutal the onslaught was is a first-rate historical document that should be required reading for any American of good conscience. This was a remarkable escalation of Leftist political violence, and directly presaged the Antifa/BLM riots of 2020.

Mr. Martin wisely restricts his narrative to that which he personally experienced,

Earlier: Did Slaughterhouse Sanitation Company Employ Illegal-Alien Minors?

Treason Lobby Republicans do nothing about the illegal-alien invasion (which, except for Mitch McConnell’s betrayal, could have been halted through the budget process). The invasion serves the Slave Power, whom the typical GOP legislators supports because they’re beholden to the Donor Class. Treason Lobby Democrats support the invasion because it will exterminate the Historic American Nation. These different interests meet at a consensus: Open Borders. Part of that deal: winking at illegal-alien child labor.

The latest manifestation of the Uniparty’s cheap-labor nation-wrecking program began with the Obama Children’s Jihad that broke the border. Of course, the Obama Regime’s embrace of the fraud of “unaccompanied children” was always really aimed at replacing white Americans. If those children worked illegally, the Regime did not care. And the meat packers and other child slavers are big donors. The Slave Power is nothing if not bipartisan.

Illegal-alien kids are now being pushed en masse into the workforce for three reasons:

• Propaganda about “human trafficking,” which is nothing more than alien smuggling;
• Legislation that rewarded the alleged victims of “human trafficking” and their families with green cards;
• Anti-trafficking legislation designed to solve the non-existent problem of “unaccompanied children,” which intensified the zerg rush at the border.

Now, here’s where Biden’s border policies come in. Traitor Joe and his Homeland Security Chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, the unindicted green-card fixer, invited the invasion the minute