The RaceWire Beat – 10.09.06 Asylum Roulette Immigrants and immigration courts face harsher consequences under the stress of increased caseloads and changing legislation. New Orleans Population Is Reduced Nearly 60% New figures suggest a huge shift in New Orleans’ racial make-up. Racist Screed Is Flying Off The Shelves Pat Buchanan’s latest book is a white nationalist rant — but that hasn’t stopped it from climbing the best-seller charts. Video Game War Video-gamers go head to head on the “War on Terror.” The Grand Old Tradition of Disenfranchisement The most current Voter ID legislation is indicative of a larger historical process of disenfrancisment in the United States The RaceWire Beat is a digest of the day’s top news stories on race and politics collected by the staff at ColorLines magazine.