Speculation on whether Nader will come out anti-mass/corporate immigration

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The anti-mass immigration coalition is beginning to wonder whether Ralph Nader will be the presidential candidate who will finally bring mass immigration (and corporate immigration (h1b, L1 visas) into the public debate. Nader has apparently made some comments that lead some careful listeners to speculate that he may be ready to do so. In fact, listening to him on Meet The Press, his statements put him much closer to the anti-mass immigration/corporate immigration "school of thought" than any other candidate.

Peter Brimelow, editor of the leading anti-mass immigration/corporate immigration website www.vdare.com has some thoughts on Nader (warning: many consider vdare a right wing site):

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Some VDARE.COM readers have been urging us to interview Ralph Nader, now that he has declared for President, because they think that his anti-corporate, labor-oriented populism might inspire him to raise the issue of mass immigration—and especially to oppose the wholesale importation of “temporary” technical workers through h-1b and L-1 visas.

Needless to say, given Nader’s stated priorities, opposing immigration would make perfect sense—but it would also make perfect sense for the environmentalist organizations to oppose immigration too, and they never do. Liberal coalition discipline is just too strong. (Witness the hysteria of the Sierra Club staff because their grass-roots membership might dare to interfere in their own organization’s policies by electing immigration reform board members. For today’s smear, courtesy of the Ithaca Journal’s Jennie Daley, click here).
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{{Nader:)) "We cannot have open borders. That’s a totally absurd proposition. It would depress wages here enormously, and tens of millions of people from all levels, including scientists and workers, would be pouring into this country."

Of course, reading the other quotes collected in 2000 by the non-partisan On The Issues site, you can also see some Nader nervousness on the issue. But our reader quite rightly comments: “Sure sounds better than anything from Bush or Kerry.” (Indeed, “tens of millions of people from all levels” is pretty much what Bush’s crazy temporary worker plan would do).

Our reader also notes that, in 2000, the loony Left was already worrying that Nader was showing interest in a tacit alliance with Pat Buchanan and his voters (“Both men have joined with the Teamsters union leadership in the latter's racist campaign against the entry of Mexican truck drivers into the US…”)
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more at www.vdare.com


Can you imagine if Nader chose Pat Buchanan as his VP? Holy MOLY! What an INTERESTING campaign that would make!

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