Krikorian: Hispanics Will Be Americans When They Vote Republican

In the wake of last month's earthquake in Haiti, Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies, observed that "Haiti's so screwed up because it wasn't colonized long enough."  To Krikorian, an advocate of so-called "Anglo-conformity," Haiti would not be in its present predicament if French colonialism and slavery had lasted.

The flame throwing Krikorian again took to National Review Online to criticize an initiative led by Robert George and anti-tax activist Grover Norquist to, in their words, "promote conservative values and ideals within the Latino community." One of the planks of that initiative is enacting comprehensive immigration reform.  For Krikorian, talk of immigration reform makes the whole initiative a non-starter because it is immigration itself that prevents the Hispanic community from Americanizing.  That is an issue, according to Krikorian, because being American means being a Republican.

"If the point is to increase the Republican share of the Hispanic vote, this sure isn't going to help; the only thing that will is closing down mass immigration so that - as we saw the last time we did it - immigrants and their children will Americanize over time and vote more like other Americans, i.e., more Republican."

Simple.  To be American requires voting Republican, which will be news to the clear majority of Americans who voted Democratic in the last two elections!