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By Peter Brimelow
Nyah, nyah, Wall Street Journal Editorial Page! Despite its claim that
support for Proposition 200 was "plummeting," Arizonans have voted heavily
for the ballot initiative that aims to stop illegal aliens from receiving
involuntary taxpayer subsidies, voting in elections etc.
Proposition 200's grassroots triumph in the teeth of the united opposition
of the entire political establishment and its media mouthpieces is, as with
California's similar Proposition 187 ten years ago, a further illustration
of the extraordinary power of the immigration issue.
That the political establishment's opposition remains absolute-typically, on
election night, CBS News' Dan Rather never even mentioned Proposition 200 in
his interview with Arizona's Senator John McCain-is further evidence of the
irrepressible seismic conflict that mass immigration is causing to build up
under the surface of American political life.
President Bush is to be congratulated on his re-election. But his effort
appears to have been markedly less impressive that the re-election victories
of Presidents Clinton, Reagan, and Nixon. Of course, this will not prevent
White House triumphalism. At VDARE.COM, we fully expect that President Bush
will now renew his nation-liquidating illegal alien amnesty and temporary
worker scheme. We will be waiting for him.
We will be reviewing Congressional races in more detail, but it's worth
noting that, in one closely-watched contest, a strong immigration reformer,
Pete Sessions, defeated an immigration enthusiast, Martin Frost, in Texas.
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