Peter Brimelow writes:

Dear Readers,

I’d like to begin by thanking our much-loved VDARE.com readers for helping us meet the $5,000 matching grant that Lydia announced on Friday.

VDARE.com’s matching grants are real. Lydia asks a major donor for a major donation—with the proviso that our smaller donors must match it. This definitely incentivizes major donors. And up until now, our smaller donors have always rallied around. But I must admit we were worried this year, which because of the economy is generally agreed to be bad for fund-raising across the spectrum.

Meanwhile, the 117th Congress is concluding its postelection Lame Duck session. Notoriously, this is the time when our elected officials, freed from reelection worries or alternatively aiming for post-Congress lobbying careers, sneak through unpopular legislation.

But I’m delighted to report that the three separate Lame Duck Amnesty initiatives that our reporter Washington Watcher has been warning about—the so-called DREAMER Amnesty, targeted at children allegedly brought in by their illegal alien parents; the “Farm Workforce Modernization Act,” which would have amnestied illegals allegedly working in agriculture; and the “Veteran Service Recognition Act,” which would have amnestied illegals, and legal immigrants who have committed deportable offenses, if they have served in the U.S. military—all appear to be dead.

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(Of course, you never know. Theoretically, the 117th Congress could climb out of its coffin as late as January 2. But our sources cautiously think not).

The fundamental reason these Treason Lobby/ Donor–driven Amnesty initiatives are failing was pinpointed by Washington Post immigration enthusiast Greg Sargent on December 15:

“Republican opposition.”

Sargent complained petulantly:

For some Republicans, particularly in the Donald Trump era, the only real “solution” to these problems is to reduce the number of immigrants accepted to as low a number as possible, regardless of the human rights consequences. So they won’t support such a compromise by definition.

Others probably see little political incentive in doing so.

Emphasis added. (Of course, “human rights consequences” = impact on the future Democrat bloc vote.)

This is great news if you’ve been in the Immigration Wars as long as I have. Finally, the immigration issue is precipitating out along partisan lines. That’s how you get change in a two-party system.

And it’s a huge change from the dark Bush-blight years, when arrogant immigration-enthusiast GOP leadership repeatedly tried to override its base.

VDARE.com is steadily helping shape this profound change in what grass roots Republicans think about immigration—and in what they are prepared to put up with from their leadership.

But of course defensive victories are not enough. Immigration patriots must go over onto the offensive.

VDARE.com’s role here is to THINK BIG—to get decisive ideas into public discourse, beginning with the grass roots.

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