It’s a good point about Obama’s looming executive amnesty, but we should be clear that current immigration policy is already changing the demographics of the nation in the Democrats favor. We admit over a million legal immigrants per year, which is way too many, and most of them are natural Democrats.
So stopping the executive amnesty is a must for the GOP Congress, but if they then turn around and pass legislation that does the same thing, then the demographic probelm is the same. If they accept current mass legal immigration, then the problem is the same.
The new GOP Congress should embrace conservative comprehensive immigration reform and pass legislation to end mass immigration. They should pass serious enforcement measures and greatly reduce legal immigration. Make Obama it, and then run on it in 2016.
They won’t do this of course, as there are too many Lindsey Grahams in the party. But anything less is just whistling past the demographic graveyard.
Excellent additional exposition. I will definitely embrace this viewpoint in subsequent articles. Thank you!
Freedom is a powerful idea, the most powerful idea in all the world.
We (conservatives, libertarians, classical liberals, whatever label one wishes to apply) must be living examples for those who arrive on our shores. We must show them that hard work and integrity is how you build a better life for yourself in this country.
I know a lot of immigrants bring their abominable Marxism with them, along with their poverty and a desire to indulge in the welfare/entitlement state, which is so enticing, and yet is ultimately a dead end for opportunity and happiness.
In the not-too-distant past, immigrants were strongly motivated to assimilate into the larger American culture. Leftist pandering and an easily exploitable welfare apparatus have effectively destroyed that impulse.
The people who form these demographics are not our enemies! They represent potential allies and converts. That is how we must see it, and we must work to include them in the American dream, and not push them into the arms of Democrats and their ilk, who offer a false vision of America, with dependence, malaise and minimal existence as their only reward.
I'm all for controlling immigration, whether legal or not. But, sooner or later, members of those demographics MUST join our ranks, or we are fighting a losing battle.
I believe that Liberty sells. It can prevail within the marketplace of ideas, when adroitly contrasted with its seductive yet illegitimate alternatives.
Mia Love, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz: The GOP needs more and more of such people, for they in turn will ultimately attract more and more of their ethnic brethren into similarly embracing Liberty. Once that happens, the collectivist authoritarians won't be able to populate their Tyrannical plantations so easily in the future.