Thread: Buchanan Immigration Lecture Incites Protest, Support

From "Inside Vandy" (Vanderbilt University), March 23, 2009
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Buchanan immigration lecture incites protest, support

Submitted by Eve Attermann on 03-22-09, 11:07 pm | Updated on 03-23-09, 12:39 am |

Former United States Treasurer Angela "Bay" Buchanan will be speaking today on the topic of "Illegal Immigration and Patriotic Assimilation" in an event sponsored by Vanderbilt's chapter of Youth for Western Civilization. Several student groups plan to protest the event.

Sophomores Trevor Williams and Devin Saucier founded the chapter of Youth for Western Civilization at the beginning of this school year. According to Saucier, who is the group's vice president, Buchanan will specifically be addressing the drug violence at the Mexican-American border, as well as her proposed solution of upholding rule of law in the area. She will also be discussing the "phenomenon of non-assimilation" among immigrants to the U.S. and Europe.

Members of the Multicultural Leadership Council, Lambda and Students of Nonviolence plan to protest as well as attend Buchanan's lecture. The "Pro-Immigrant Rally" is being described on Facebook as an attempt to show "significant student opposition" to Buchanan's views on illegal immigration.

Williams and Saucier, who have recruited 10 members to their chapter since its beginning, said they are concerned with non-assimilation in recent immigrant populations.

"With the advent of the idea of multiculturalism, there's now an idea that people can move to America and also retain all their old ways of life," Williams said. "Issues especially like language, like not learning the English language, is a major breaking point and that's a problem our group seeks to address."

"The initial immigrants concerned themselves with things like American history, American culture, and they actively assimilated," Saucier said. "Whereas now, there are those that say you don't even have to assimilate, you can move to a Mexican ghetto or something like that and retain your same language, retain your same culture, root against the U.S. in sporting events, hang a Puerto Rican flag from your visor, whatever the case may be, and its not the same dedication to America that there used to be."

The Youth for Western Civilization's national Web site describes the organization as "America's Right Wing Youth Movement" and its mission statement says it is focused on "the support of Western history, identity, high culture, and pride and opposition to radical multiculturalism, political correctness, racial preferences, mass immigration and socialism."

Junior Erica Santiago, who is the president of Vanderbilt Feminists as well as a member of Students of Nonviolence, decided to organize the protest after she saw posters around campus that outlined the Youth for Western Civilization's views on immigration.

"I kept seeing anti-immigration posters around campus and I didn't hear anything counter-acting it, so I sent out some Facebook messages," Santiago said. "My inbox was flooded, so then Elias Feghali (president of Students of Nonviolence) started the Facebook event (for the protest)."

Santiago, who is involved with immigrant rights issues while at home in Staten Island, N.Y., said while she supports the Youth for Western Civilization's right to exist and to organize events, she is surprised by what she sees as its non-inclusive stance.

"What worries me is that every other student group on campus is here to bridge gaps on campus," Santiago said. "This group is going against all of that. I respect it all and I understand it all, but there is a much better way to do this, to sit down with other groups on campus and not be afraid to show your faces."

Buchanan will be participating in a debate on "Immigration Reform in the United States" earlier in the day with Director of the Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian. The Center for Immigration Studies promotes itself as having a "pro-immigrant, low immigration vision that seeks fewer immigrants but a warmer welcome for those admitted." Vanderbilt University Law School's Federalist Society is sponsoring the lecture, which will take place at noon in the Hyatt room at the Law School.

According to the group's Web site, the Federalist Society hopes to "promote the intellectual exchange of views concerning legal and public policy interests." The society coordinated with the Youth for Western Civilization to get Buchanan to visit campus after both expressed a desire to see her speak.

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"I kept seeing anti-immigration posters around campus and I didn't hear anything counter-acting it, so I sent out some Facebook messages," Santiago said. "My inbox was flooded, so then Elias Feghali (president of Students of Nonviolence) started the Facebook event (for the protest)."

I don't think there are any "anti-immigrant" posters anywhere on that campus. I'd like to see her produce some. Illegal immigration is an enforcement issue, not an immigration issue. Legal immigrants are welcomed, lawbreakers are not. Get with the program girlfriend and stop lying to suit your agenda.

DEPORT illegal aliens.

"I kept seeing anti-immigration posters around campus and I didn't hear anything counter-acting it, so I sent out some Facebook messages,"

Here we go again. anti-immigration???

NO!

It's anti-illegal-immigration!

Illegal lovers seem to not comprehend the difference.

Just like it's an illegal immigrant NOT an immigrant, in most stories put out by The MSM!

The majority of American people want the illegals to get out, and stay out of our country. We want our Gov't to protect us and stop giving away our country to people that have not earned the right to even be on our soil.

About the College students.........first let them pay for all the taxes that it cost to feed, clothe, give medical care, educate, incarcerate when necessary, provide social services, and pay for the continual destruction of our infrastructure to accommodate illegals. And too, perhaps the college students need to see what it is like to have their jobs go to illegals. While the students get further and further into debt because they can’t get a job.

And the college students also need to realize that their Social Security is being gobbled up by illegals in our country and in Mexico. The college students don't have a clue that they are being duped. Most actually think Socialism is cool, yet they have never even visited a Socialist country.

The same groups of protestors are the same group of people that Obama is going to solicit into servitude and they will be under his direct control; they will be given three month training (Sounds like basic training, huh?) and then will be forced into the Civilian forces.

These forces are going to be used to control any American that says anything or does anything that is not mandated by the Obama regime. As is exampled by the arrests being made currently in Missouri of anyone that has a bumper sticker that says anything against Obama and/or the Federal Reserve (the grand puppet masters of Obama).

I just wonder how these stupid college students are going to feel, when they are arrested and thrown in detention centers for saying and/or doing something not mandated by the Communist elites in Washington. It is inevitable that they too, will one day be victims under this regime, if they don't wise up and stop being manipulated by the media as well as the puppet President Obama.

"What worries me is that every other student group on campus is here to bridge gaps on campus," Santiago said. "This group is going against all of that. I respect it all and I understand it all, but there is a much better way to do this, to sit down with other groups on campus and not be afraid to show your faces."

I want to know how you can bridge gaps when apparently the goal is be different and not assimilate. Don't know about you, but I atleast have to speak the same language in order to understand and be able to discuss other issues. That's why it's so useless to me with immigrant rights rallys, when they have their signs in Spanish and just Spanish speakers......Spanish sure isn't the common language of where the rest of immigrants are from. They're talking to themselves and not a very effective way to influence people.

I think Bay can handle a bunch of dim witted anchor babies and Jr. Socialsit Democrats.

Dixie