State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America (Hardcover)

by Patrick J. Buchanan (Author)

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In his wide-ranging argument about immigration, perennial wake-up-caller Buchanan finally seems a little despondent. The West is nearing death by drowning under a torrent of non-Westerners, the preponderance of whom, he insists, are just trying to earn more and live better than they did in their countries of origin. Some few are bad actors, but they would be manageable if the total number of immigrants were much smaller. Crucially exacerbating the crisis are attitudes fostered by original homelands and others neglected by host nations. For example, Mexico, with its permanent, inalienable citizenship and historic grudge against the U.S. for the latter's Mexican War-facilitated purchase of half of Mexico's original territory, actively discourages Mexicans in the U.S. from becoming U.S.-identified. Simultaneously, U.S. elites downplay "Americanization" in favor of transforming most of the populace into a low-wage workforce fragmented by linguistic and cultural differences. Look to Europe, which from Britain to Russia, Buchanan argues, is much nearer cultural collapse, to see the U.S. in 2050--or sooner. Ray Olson
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Pat Buchanan is sounding the alarm. Since 9/11, more than four million illegal immigrants have crossed our borders, and there are more coming every day. Our leaders in Washington lack the political will to uphold the rule of law. The Melting Pot is broken beyond repair, and the future of our nation is at stake.
In this important book, Pat Buchanan reveals that, slowly but surely, the great American Southwest is being reconquered by Mexico. These lands---which many Mexicans believe are their birthright---are being detached ethnically, linguistically, and culturally from the United States by a deliberate policy of the Mexican regime. This is the “Aztlan Plot” for “La Reconquista,” the recapture of the lands lost by Mexico in the Texas War of Independence and Mexican-American War.
Comparing the immigrant invasion of America from across the Mexican border---and of Europe from across the Mediterranean---to the barbarian invasions that ended the Roman Empire, the author writes with passion and conviction that we have begun the final chapter of the Death of the West. Unless the invasion is halted now, Buchanan argues, by midcentury America will be a country unrecognizable to our parents, the Third World dystopia that Theodore Roosevelt warned against when he said we must never let America become a “polyglot boardinghouse” for the world. 
President Bush’s failure to halt the invasion and secure America’s border, Buchanan writes, is a dereliction of constitutional duty that, in other times, would have called forth articles of impeachment. In the final chapter, “Last Chance,” he lays out a sweeping immigration reform and border security plan, which, he contends, if not pursued, means George W. Bush’s legacy will be to have lost for America a Southwest that was the legacy of Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, and James K. Polk. With an estimated ten to fifteen million “illegals” already here and tens of millions more poised to pour across our borders, few books could be as timely---or important---as State of Emergency. It is essential reading for all Americans.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (August 22, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312360037
• ISBN-13: 978-0312360030
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (245 customer reviews)
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232 of 269 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bush and Rove need to read this now, August 24, 2006

By	M. Stewart "National Security wonk" (Annapolis, MD) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Awesome book. Exposes lots of myths: California used to be full of Mexicans. BS. Only about 3000 Mexicans / Spanairds in CA when US won it in war. Shows how Latin America is unloading its poor, unskilled and unwanted on the US - much like Castro did in the Mariel boatlift. Dispels the notion that every illegal alien is simply a simple honest campesino who wants a better life; a lot of illegals are criminals who are exporting their violent crime ridden culture to the US, e.g. MS-13, etc.

When you read this, you realize how utterly both Clinton but particularly Bush has failed the US people on this issue. Both have completely sold out to the latin and business vote. Ironically, most of the Legal latins I know are MORE concerned about this issue than ignorant Americans; they know what's coming over the border, and they don't like it.

Great book, easy read.

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars State of emergency, March 8, 2007

By	Christopher G. Kamine (Long Island, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I don't agree with 100% of what Pat Buchanon has to say in terms of his political agenda. I am not a conservative, not hell bent on traditional American religious values and his conservative agenda. However, the man is very intelligent and does share very good input in many issues that effect our country.

Mr. Buchanon uses one of the best tests of time - history - to prove the impact of the mass legal and mostly illegal immigration occurring in present day. He parallels the US's effect that immigration will have to the decline of the Roman Empire. He sparks the thought in the back of the reader's mind that great powers such as German, Spain, England, France... have all fallen. He explains how the USSR has fallen. And it become evident that America, at the top of its peak is quite capable of falling as other great powers have. And immigration and a mass change of culture and what constitute being an "American is jeopardized by the currently unopposed mass immigration to our society. Mexico is steadily reclaiming its territory taken by the US such as Texas, New Mexico and California. The silent unopposed mass immigration of these areas does change them culturally. I agree with him when he give numerous examples of how many illegals and legals are here simply at the exploitation of the US - they do not try to become Americans. They do not try to speak English, learn our culture and our history. They stay loyal to their countries of origin. He explains how the US should set out immigration policy on what suit our nation's interest not and open door policy to suit the rest of the world's needs. There is a chapter in this book, which I whole heatedly agree on. The white race in our country has been brought up to be ashamed of our past. We have no means to show our own pride. If I said I am white and proud of it - I'd be accused of being a Nazi or racist. But it has been facilitated that other minorities have this ability and at the expense of white guilt. Calling groups such as African American or Asian American has served to separate this country more by segregating the masses. It is no longer acceptable to be "American". To those who are not Caucasian will find his remarks biased. To those that are and have been raised to feel the guilty, they will call Mr. Buchanon a xenophobe. To those who have watched this go on, they may agree. He does go into length to support his view. The only major fall back of the book is he simply does not give a straight figure on immigration. One chapter says there are 12 millions illegal here. The next chapter will say 35 million and the next 20 million. I believe it's fair to say there are A LOT. He also does a lot more quoting and less of Mr. Buchanon's opinion and input. It's a decent book to get a grip on the current immigration problems facing our nation and the peril of it.

93 of 106 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Democrat who WOKE UP, August 27, 2006

By	EX Democrat in Boston - See all my reviews

I am a person who hass worked in national politics for 12 years and always on the Democratic side of the aisle. I have, however, woken up to the reality that BOTH parties are afraid to say what Pat Buchanan says so well in this book : we are being invaded by criminal illegals, and we have to act now to stop our country from being taken over by uneducated, poor criminals who have no desire to become part of America.

Pat Buchanan says what Bush and the rest of our national politicians - in both parties - are afraid to say. Facts are facts, and the truth is that this country is being turned into a Mexican barrio full of illegals with their hands out.

If you doubt Pat Buchanan or think he is a nut... take a drive through Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Antonio, Miami or NYC. We are importing over 5,000 illegal poverty-stricken people into this country every day and it will be our downfall. Buchanan is right and he simply states the TRUTH.