Posted on 03/21/2024 7:24:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the last four years, the Biden administration has violated every historical canon critical to ensuring legal immigration enriches the United States.
Some 8 to 10 million illegal aliens from all over the world, as expected, have flooded across the border since Joe Biden took office.
A demagogic candidate Biden, remember, in 2019 invited those massing at the southern border to “surge” into the United States without specifying they first needed legal sanction: “We immediately surge to the border all those seeking asylum.”
In contrast, we know legal immigration is America’s great strength, but it has always depended on a few key prerequisites.
Immigration must be legal and measured.
Why? Because only the host nation can adjudicate how many immigrants it can successfully accept and assimilate. It has no desire to encourage Balkanized tribalism so common in nations abroad torn apart by ethnic conflict.
America must have some knowledge of the background of immigrants, especially whether they have criminal records, belong to gangs, are importing drugs, carry infectious diseases, or can be self-supporting.
By contrast, if the first thing immigrants do is illegally cross the American border, and the second is to reside illegally in America, and the third is to obtain fraudulent identification to mask that illegality, then they will establish long patterns of illegal behavior and disrespect for their hosts.
In addition, immigration should be diverse so that large ethnic groups do not form permanent tribal sects in the fashion of the Balkans, the Middle East, or Latin America.
Ideally, the host should prefer immigrants who have some knowledge of the language and customs of the United States. And they should have some ability to be self-supporting so as not to burden American taxpayers or overtax and deprive social services from poorer U.S. citizens.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
The purpose of opening the border was always to destroy the country.
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Yes, but the first purpose is to ensure Democratic power. Destroying the country is a secondary purpose.
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“In contrast, we know legal immigration is America’s great strength, “
Kinda, kinda not. The masses from the middle east, nothing but trouble and a liability and Un-American and Un-Christian.
The Eastern Euro and Russian Jewish immigrants of the 1920s30s fill the ranks of the Neocons, State Department and academia that only likes America when they can use it to settle old world scores. Anti-Christian.
Paperclip Nazis brought in after WWII were seeded throughout the CIA and brought their sicko human experiments.
I have nothing but respect for Chinese in the old west mining and railroad era. The mass of modern Chinese immigration is utterly filled with treason and the importation of Chinese totalitarian ideas and they are worming their way into all levels of government, industry and academia for purposes of sedition.
So no, immigration is not our great strength. It is an exceedingly dangerous thing in normal times and we should be very suspicious of it always. Today it is straight out lethal.
With his extensive knowledge of the history of Rome and other classical histories, VDH knows better.
But even he must genuflect before the orthodoxy of political correctness by saying the sacred words.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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Fixed. Never use their adjectives.
And I almost forgot. 9/11 was committed by men with legal immigrant visas. We invited the murderers in.
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No, legal migration is not our greatest strength. We have all the people that we need right here is we force the feral government out of our lives and build ourselves up without tormentors.
“[The host nation (us)] has no desire to encourage Balkanized tribalism so common in nations abroad torn apart by ethnic conflict.”
But our current government is doing the opposite.
Great column by Hanson, but unfortunately societies are molded more by force than reason.
Think of Nuland, the Vindman twins, Blinken, Albright, Bill Kristol, Kissinger, Schiff, Michelle Wu of Boston, half of the government of California is Chinese. Think odf Nicki Haley. Ilhan Omar and the entire squad, 3 of the 4 judges in Trump cases are immigrants from Columbia, Pakistan and Jamaica. The President’s press secretary is a Haitian pervert. Indian (dot) immigrants are legendary for their racism against Americans.
Immigration sucks. The flood of the third world coming in today will be seating people in every office imaginable. They will rule our grandchildren. Think hard before you let anyone in. Too bad we don’t get an opinion.
The leaders of Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland are all Indian or Pakistani.
The immigration road leads here.
Because most of them are coming here for the "free" stuff, and/or to destroy the United States and its culture.
If you have a glass of clear, pristine water and you pour sewage into it you wind up with a mouthful of sh!t.
Libtards purposely break immigration laws and flood anyone from anywhere with any criminal record and the fake media helps them do it
“we know legal immigration is America’s great strength,”
BULLCRAP!!!
The wrong president /and Kennedy were shot two years too early. Between that year's Great Society and Immigration Reform Acts "Lynd and Ted's Great Misadventure" paved the ruination of our nation.
Weren’t most expired?
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