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"Come on in. No questions asked!"—neo-liberal immigration ideology
left-wing/democrat immigration ideology promises an interlocking series of guarantees and policy changes that would not merely reduce but as a practical matter end any restrictions against immigration, legal or otherwise. They have vowed that if it ran the federal government, it would open American borders to anyone and everyone in the world who could reach them. As the so-called american immigration council, a left-wing NGO funded by immigration lawyers and relentlessly pushes open borders, has admitted: "...many more people than ever before started coming to the US...those people came from places beyond Mexico and had more complex needs than the working-age adults who had made up most migration in the past." “More complex needs” is a polite way to say “people uninterested in working.” The left-wing/democratic Party platform explicitly encouraged those arrivals. All they had to do was make an asylum claim, most without credible evidence. How could border officials possibly check their stories? At that point they would be allowed in — and would not face any meaningful enforcement, ever.
Given these incentives, it is no surprise immigrant caravans started moving north only weeks after Election Day in 2020 — even before corrupt biden was officially sworn in. And the flood continued, as migrants very quickly realized the libs/dems had meant every word. They understood they would be greeted with open arms — and taxpayers' money. An increasingly professionalized industry of smugglers emerged to organize and transport them. Economists know that supply creates its own demand, whatever the product.
In 2023, the biden regime took the inevitable final step, a creating what it deceptively called a “humanitarian parole program.” The plan allowed in another 360,000 migrants a year from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela without even requiring them to reach the southern border or have any legal basis for admission. If they could afford a plane ticket and find someone — anyone — in the US to sponsor them, they could fly in. The goal of the bidenistas was nakedly political--the program eliminated the last barrier to entry would-be migrants experienced at the border. Even the 2020 left-wing/democratic platform hadn’t explicitly gone that
The collapse of any sensible immigration procedures/rules was a feature, not a bug. Over 10 million people came in under the biden regime — the largest surge either in raw numbers or as a percentage of the population at least since the Civil War. The only surprise is that the total wasn’t even higher.
As the examples of Western European nations have made clear, the consequences of the mass migration of culturally antagonistic peoples include increased public disorder and anti-social behavior, the collapse of social trust, and the creation, as Reihan Salam describes it, of a “permanent underclass” of low-wage, low-skilled, foreign-born populations (if you doubt Salam’s assessment, pay a visit to British cities such as Birmingham, Luton, and Bradford, let alone other European or American cities). Large-scale migration of unassimilable masses also results in the gradual fraying of the shared cultural fabric that, at the community level, ultimately binds and unites us, at least as much as any proposition or document — important and rightly cherished as those propositions and documents are.
A Pew survey found that high numbers of muslims in many muslim-majority countries supported executing persons who apostatize from Islam. 99% of Afghan Muslims supported making sharia the law of the land, and of that group, 79% backed the death penalty for apostasy; 84% of Pakistani muslims similarly sought a sharia state, with 76% of that group in favor of killing those who leave islam. "Can such people ever truly become “American”?
We cannot ignore the facts of the 40 years of a near-total moratorium that followed the overwhelming immigration waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries(1). The data show the decisive impact that 20th century immigration limits had, and what the lack of sufficient controls has done to the country today. In 1890, the foreign-born share of America’s population stood at 14.8%. In 1970, after more than 40yrs of restrictions, the foreign-born proportion had settled to 4.7%. By January 2025, following 60 years of liberal immigration policy, that figure stood at a record 15.8%. Large waves of immigration are part of American history, but so too are extended periods of little-to-no immigration, giving American society the breathing room necessary to properly integrate and assimilate those we have taken in.
Do not be deceived into believing that being an American requires little more than outward assent to a list of ideals or propositions, or that we cannot have principled objections to high levels of immigration rooted in our concern for culture, the economy, our history, and social stability. There are easily identifiable traits and habits from which the Americanization and Americanness of a person who lives in the US can be assessed, simplified here for expediency:
-Speaks primarily English in his daily life
-Lives and socializes among mostly native-born Americans, not in a self-segregated parallel community
-Does not display overtly in-group preferences toward his ethno-immigrant group
-Does not maintain overt interest or involvement in his homeland’s ethnic, religious, or political conflicts?
-Has recognizably American in his lifestyle and habits?
-Has reverence for American traditions, history, and culture, doesn’t reject, mock, and attack our heritage?
American identity does have cultural preconditions that are more than simply creedal. And the heritage debate itself, what it means to be an American, must ultimately be resolved within the context of American immigration policy.
“To become Americanized, the change wrought must be fundamental. However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment. Only when this has been done, will he possess the national consciousness of an American."-- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, neo-liberal son of immigrants himself.
1. After decades of record immigration levels (since superseded in scope by the bidenwave), Congress passed, near-unanimously and under intense public pressure, the Emergency Quota Act in 1921, dramatically curtailing immigration by enacting a temporary national origin–based quota system until a longer-term solution could be devised. 3 yrs later the Immigration Act of 1924, made the Emergency Quota Act’s reforms permanent — largely banning immigration into the US from non-European countries and severely restricting European immigration. The system set in place in 1924 remained mostly intact until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which, together with the Immigration Act of 1990, inaugurated our modern immigration regime.
Supplemental Info:
left-wing/democrat immigration ideology promises an interlocking series of guarantees and policy changes that would not merely reduce but as a practical matter end any restrictions against immigration, legal or otherwise. They have vowed that if it ran the federal government, it would open American borders to anyone and everyone in the world who could reach them. As the so-called american immigration council, a left-wing NGO funded by immigration lawyers and relentlessly pushes open borders, has admitted: "...many more people than ever before started coming to the US...those people came from places beyond Mexico and had more complex needs than the working-age adults who had made up most migration in the past." “More complex needs” is a polite way to say “people uninterested in working.” The left-wing/democratic Party platform explicitly encouraged those arrivals. All they had to do was make an asylum claim, most without credible evidence. How could border officials possibly check their stories? At that point they would be allowed in — and would not face any meaningful enforcement, ever.
Given these incentives, it is no surprise immigrant caravans started moving north only weeks after Election Day in 2020 — even before corrupt biden was officially sworn in. And the flood continued, as migrants very quickly realized the libs/dems had meant every word. They understood they would be greeted with open arms — and taxpayers' money. An increasingly professionalized industry of smugglers emerged to organize and transport them. Economists know that supply creates its own demand, whatever the product.
In 2023, the biden regime took the inevitable final step, a creating what it deceptively called a “humanitarian parole program.” The plan allowed in another 360,000 migrants a year from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela without even requiring them to reach the southern border or have any legal basis for admission. If they could afford a plane ticket and find someone — anyone — in the US to sponsor them, they could fly in. The goal of the bidenistas was nakedly political--the program eliminated the last barrier to entry would-be migrants experienced at the border. Even the 2020 left-wing/democratic platform hadn’t explicitly gone that
The collapse of any sensible immigration procedures/rules was a feature, not a bug. Over 10 million people came in under the biden regime — the largest surge either in raw numbers or as a percentage of the population at least since the Civil War. The only surprise is that the total wasn’t even higher.
As the examples of Western European nations have made clear, the consequences of the mass migration of culturally antagonistic peoples include increased public disorder and anti-social behavior, the collapse of social trust, and the creation, as Reihan Salam describes it, of a “permanent underclass” of low-wage, low-skilled, foreign-born populations (if you doubt Salam’s assessment, pay a visit to British cities such as Birmingham, Luton, and Bradford, let alone other European or American cities). Large-scale migration of unassimilable masses also results in the gradual fraying of the shared cultural fabric that, at the community level, ultimately binds and unites us, at least as much as any proposition or document — important and rightly cherished as those propositions and documents are.
A Pew survey found that high numbers of muslims in many muslim-majority countries supported executing persons who apostatize from Islam. 99% of Afghan Muslims supported making sharia the law of the land, and of that group, 79% backed the death penalty for apostasy; 84% of Pakistani muslims similarly sought a sharia state, with 76% of that group in favor of killing those who leave islam. "Can such people ever truly become “American”?
We cannot ignore the facts of the 40 years of a near-total moratorium that followed the overwhelming immigration waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries(1). The data show the decisive impact that 20th century immigration limits had, and what the lack of sufficient controls has done to the country today. In 1890, the foreign-born share of America’s population stood at 14.8%. In 1970, after more than 40yrs of restrictions, the foreign-born proportion had settled to 4.7%. By January 2025, following 60 years of liberal immigration policy, that figure stood at a record 15.8%. Large waves of immigration are part of American history, but so too are extended periods of little-to-no immigration, giving American society the breathing room necessary to properly integrate and assimilate those we have taken in.
Do not be deceived into believing that being an American requires little more than outward assent to a list of ideals or propositions, or that we cannot have principled objections to high levels of immigration rooted in our concern for culture, the economy, our history, and social stability. There are easily identifiable traits and habits from which the Americanization and Americanness of a person who lives in the US can be assessed, simplified here for expediency:
-Speaks primarily English in his daily life
-Lives and socializes among mostly native-born Americans, not in a self-segregated parallel community
-Does not display overtly in-group preferences toward his ethno-immigrant group
-Does not maintain overt interest or involvement in his homeland’s ethnic, religious, or political conflicts?
-Has recognizably American in his lifestyle and habits?
-Has reverence for American traditions, history, and culture, doesn’t reject, mock, and attack our heritage?
American identity does have cultural preconditions that are more than simply creedal. And the heritage debate itself, what it means to be an American, must ultimately be resolved within the context of American immigration policy.
“To become Americanized, the change wrought must be fundamental. However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment. Only when this has been done, will he possess the national consciousness of an American."-- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, neo-liberal son of immigrants himself.
1. After decades of record immigration levels (since superseded in scope by the bidenwave), Congress passed, near-unanimously and under intense public pressure, the Emergency Quota Act in 1921, dramatically curtailing immigration by enacting a temporary national origin–based quota system until a longer-term solution could be devised. 3 yrs later the Immigration Act of 1924, made the Emergency Quota Act’s reforms permanent — largely banning immigration into the US from non-European countries and severely restricting European immigration. The system set in place in 1924 remained mostly intact until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which, together with the Immigration Act of 1990, inaugurated our modern immigration regime.
Supplemental Info:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-danish-immigration-lesson/
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/29/minneapolis-daycare-scandal-reveals-the-trajectory-of-blue-zone-fraud-culture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=minneapolis-daycare-scandal-reveals-the-trajectory-of-blue-zone-fraud-culture&utm_term=2025-12-30
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/29/minneapolis-daycare-scandal-reveals-the-trajectory-of-blue-zone-fraud-culture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=minneapolis-daycare-scandal-reveals-the-trajectory-of-blue-zone-fraud-culture&utm_term=2025-12-30
https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/07/heres-why-democrats-are-subjugating-themselves-to-somalis-in-humiliation-rituals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=heres-why-democrats-are-subjugating-themselves-to-somalis-in-humiliation-rituals&utm_term=2026-01-07
https://lists.theepochtimes.com/archive/SLZseccwWt/RontmvJPy/EULhnv8FzH
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/05/nearly-one-quarter-of-u-s-public-school-enrollment-could-be-anchor-babies/
https://lists.theepochtimes.com/archive/SLZseccwWt/RontmvJPy/EULhnv8FzH
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/05/nearly-one-quarter-of-u-s-public-school-enrollment-could-be-anchor-babies/
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