Just exactly how many murders will it take to convince the Open Borders lobby, whose leader now seems to be President Bush, that mass Third World immigration is not such a good idea?

Up in Wisconsin, a gentleman named Chai Soua Vang, a 36-year-old Hmong immigrant, just blew away six people, apparently because they threw him out of their privately-owned deer stand he had decided to take over for his own use.

Ten years ago immigration expert Roy Beck wrote a path-breaking article in the Atlantic Monthly about the Hmong immigrants in Wausau, Wisconsin, a discussion he repeated in his later book, The Case against Immigration.

“The number of Southeast Asians burgeoned, and the city's ability to welcome, nurture, accommodate, and assimilate the larger numbers shrank. Most immigrants were unable to enter the mainstream of the economy. Residents resented the social costs of caring for many more newcomers than anybody had been led to believe would arrive. Inter-ethnic violence and other tensions proliferated in the schools and in the parks and streets of a town that formerly had been virtually free of social tensions and violence.”

That's only a selection, but what Mr. Beck described is the predictable result of the mass immigration of a radically different people into a homogeneous community.

Obviously, not all or even most immigrants turn out to be spree killers, and obviously there are plenty of home-grown ones—Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, et al.

But in recent years immigrants, and especially those from non-Western and non-white parts of the world, have contributed more than their fair share to the annals of atrocity crimes.

The most obvious is the World Trade Center in 2001, but well before that Jamaican immigrant Colin Ferguson murdered six passengers on a commuter train on Long Island in 1993.

Pakistani immigrant Mir Aimal Kansi murdered two people outside CIA headquarters in the same year, which was the year after aliens first tried to blow up the World Trade Center.

In 1997 immigrant Ali Abu Kamal shot up the tourists at the Empire State Building, and later two more immigrants were arrested for trying to blow up the New York subway system.

There are a number of other cases that made national news at the time.

Are they all just coincidences? Not exactly.

The link between immigration and violence is that the aliens lack roots in the society and civilization into which they import themselves. The people they see aren't their people, and their moral and social norms aren't theirs either. Being strangers in a strange land, they feel little obligation to it or its members.

For immigrants on the fringe, the resulting tensions can overflow, and it's not easy even for those not so fringe.

Thus, the Washington Post, not exactly a hotbed of nativist bigotry, offers this editorializing in its news article about the Wisconsin killings.

“Rules and etiquette on American hunting passed from generation to generation have proved unfamiliar to many Hmong, who come from Laos, where hunting is a practiced skill. The Lao mountains are among the wildest and least populated areas of the world. There are no regulations about what, where or when to hunt. Conservation officers and property owners in several states have reported conflicts with the Hmong over their hunting practices, often because they did not understand American traditions. Four years ago, Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources hired a Hmong officer to teach the community about local hunting and fishing rules.” [In Deer Country, a Puzzling Shooting Spree, By Peter Slevin and Kari Lydersen, November 23, 2004]

Well, I guess maybe the Department of Natural Resources didn't do such a bang-up job, and who can blame it?

Why should we need government bureaucracies to explain our traditions and values to masses of aliens who have no business coming here at all?

The “conflicts with the Hmong” the Post mentions so demurely are not just about hunting, and the conflicts are not confined to the Hmong.

The exact same kinds of conflicts are obvious to anyone who deals with Third Worlders on any large scale.

Will the Wisconsin mass murders of which Mr. Vang is accused lead the dominant culture to start rethinking immigration and its social consequences?

Not a bit. Here's what ABC News found to worry about in the incident:

“Vang's arrest left some Hmong citizens in his hometown fearful of a backlash. About 24,000 Hmong live in St. Paul, the highest concentration of any U.S. city. And the shooting has already provoked racial tension in an area of Wisconsin where deer hunting is steeped in tradition.” [Hunting Death Suspect's Relatives Shocked, ABC News, (AP) November 24, 2004]

That's the real problem, you see, not immigration but the racial “backlash” that may or may not come about from the white people whose friends and neighbors Mr. Vang slaughtered.

Maybe the Department of Natural Resources can send in a team to teach them about racism.

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Sam Francis [email him] is a nationally syndicated columnist. A selection of his columns,

America Extinguished: Mass Immigration And The Disintegration Of American Culture, is now available from Americans For Immigration Control. Click here for Sam Francis' website. Click here to order his monograph, Ethnopolitics: Immigration, Race, and the American Political Future.