5 Truths About Immigration You’re Not Supposed to Say in America
In America, we spend a lot of time talking about illegal immigration, but many people refuse to acknowledge that LEGAL IMMIGRATION has also turned into a big problem:
The issue with both legal and illegal immigration in America is that everyone can see the problems with it, but we’re not supposed to talk about them. Why? Because we don’t want liberals to get mad. We don’t want immigrants to get mad. Because it’s hard to fix the system. Because, as we saw with COVID, many of America’s elite think the American people are too stupid to understand nuanced arguments that go beyond, “Immigration GOOD!”
Well, immigration is GOOD, but only if it’s done right. If it’s done wrong, it can destroy your entire society, and quite frankly, as you hear about riots in France, grooming gangs in Britain, and sexual assaults in Germany and Sweden, we have to consider that may be exactly the direction they’re going in. We need to go in a different direction, and that starts by getting back to reality. This is reality.
1) America has a fundamental right to decide what foreigners are and are not allowed to cross the border into our country: I’m a big fan of Joe Rogan, but he recently said something incredibly dumb:
What he’s in effect saying here is that the United States doesn’t have the right to decide who crosses our border and who doesn’t.
Imagine if someone tried that with Joe Rogan. Imagine if Joe Rogan called the police because some guy broke into his mansion, and the police said, “Sorry, but this guy cleaned your kitchen after he broke in, so we have no right to remove him.” We all know in that case, Joe Rogan would 100% believe he has a right to decide if that guy stays in his house or not, and guess what? The United States should have that same right.
We absolutely have the right to say, “Either you come into our country legally or you don’t come into it at all.” Today, Donald Trump is exercising that right on our behalf, and it’s long overdue.
2) If we try to parse who we deport and who we don’t based on a completely arbitrary set of standards that change from person to person, it will be impossible to deport a significant number of people: Every person you talk to who is soft on illegal immigration seems to have some ever-shifting definition of who SHOULDN’T BE deported. Some of them think no one should be deported. Others think only gang members or people convicted of “serious crimes” should have to go, although there is no agreement on what constitutes a “serious crime.” Drunk driving? Wife beating? Assault? There are plenty of people who don’t think that illegals who do those things should be deported.
Then we get people who think young illegals should get a pass for breaking the law, illegals that have jobs, illegals that have families, or illegals that have been here a “long time,” although that could be anything from a couple of years to a few decades.
Once we abandon the idea of just enforcing the law and judge every case based on the “feels” of the people involved, it becomes impossible to enforce the law or get rid of the millions of illegals that have flooded our country. That’s why if you’re here illegally, the details don’t matter at all; you just need to go.
3) No one should be allowed to enter America illegally and ask for “amnesty:” The whole idea that the United States should grant people “amnesty” that come to our country illegally and make all sorts of mostly unverifiable claims about their situation in their home country or just want to stay, is ludicrous. We don’t owe refugees ANYTHING. We owe people who sneak into our country even less.
Allowing any of them to stay in our country is a gift. It’s a privilege. It’s an honor. We’re doing them an enormous favor by saying, “Welcome, we’d love for you to be part of the greatest country on earth.” Therefore, if someone enters our country illegally and asks to stay, it should be denied by default.
If your first act on American soil is breaking our laws, you’ve been a bad guest, so we have no obligation to be a good host. After all, we’re not the beggars asking for sanctuary; they are, so they better be polite and ask from outside of our country, or else the answer should automatically be, “No.”
4) Immigrants shouldn’t ever be eligible for any sort of welfare program: The whole idea that we’d bring people into our country just so they can get on the dole is ludicrous. If refugees need aid to survive here, we shouldn’t take them. If immigrants who come here need welfare, they should give up their citizenship and go back to their home countries. This is just sanity 101.
We have enough poverty and lazy people in America already, so why would we want to import more of them? If an immigrant doesn’t add to America, then they’re useless to America. That doesn’t mean that they have to be Arnold Schwarzenegger or Albert Einstein, but if suggesting they pay their own way is too big of an ask for them, maybe they’re not the sort of people we should want here in the first place.
5) We should be ruthless about selecting immigrants for merit: Other than perhaps the odd billionaire or genius, why would we want immigrants from, say, Haiti, Yemen, or Somalia? How does bringing people from the most dysfunctional countries on earth to America make life better for the people that are already here?
Along similar lines, there are some really fantastic, impressive Muslims in the world, but violence, religious intolerance, rioting, terrorism, and sexual assault also follow Muslims into Western countries. In other words, if we can bring in some high-level Muslim scientist, world-class wrestler, or wealthy entrepreneur, cool, but why would we want large Muslim populations here given all the problems they’ve created in other places?
Instead, why wouldn’t we focus like a laser beam on taking the most impressive applicants from everywhere and fill out the rest with people from Western nations and/or from countries that statistically seem to produce the most people that add to the tax base, don’t take welfare, and don’t commit crimes?
As Naval Ravikant, a wildly wealthy, successful, and brilliant immigrant to America from India, has said:
I could not agree more. We need and should welcome talented, hard working people that want to excel at whatever they do, and contribute to and not live off of American’s wealth, and who want to be here because they love it. We don’t want and should not allow in people who want to live off the American taxpayer or who want to come here and destroy America (think, for example, Congressman Ilhan Omar, literally one of the worst immigrants ever, who lied to get here and now works tirelessly to destroy America from within).
The extremist left want illegals here. If they had their way, illegals of the worst type - ignorant, incapable, easily bought off for a pittance would replace every conservative citizen in the country. Why? Because for many on the left the only supremacy they can hope to attain is over the dreck of humanity. They want their rarified fiefdoms tended by the slaves under their rule.
Joke's on them and what will be their short-lived nirvana. Without the conservatives illegals have replaced, who have the intelligence, skills and work ethic to keep our country from being just like the countries from which their replacements left behind, this, too, will be come a failed country.