“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a republic or a monarchy?” was the question posed to Benjamin Franklin by a woman outside the Constitutional Convention in 1787. “A republic, if you can keep it,” he replied.
The New Year observance is a moment not only to look forward to the promise of a new stanza in our lives, personal and collective, but to reflect upon the past year, and those prior to it, to understand how we got to where we are and what we must do to ensure that we no longer repeat the errors of the past. That’s why we resolve to change the things about ourselves we don’t like and that make our lives less than what they could and should be. In this essay, the last of 2024, I want to be frank in accessing the present situation with respect to immigration so that we can wake up tomorrow from tonight’s celebrations with a sober outlook going forward.
Mass immigration is class warfare, waged against low-skilled workers in labor-intensive industries, disproportionally black and brown, as we can see by the millions that have crossed—and are still crossing (with concierge service)—our southern US border, as well as the importation of tech workers in capital-intensive sectors, seen, for example, in the H-1B visa and related program. The purpose of these policies is to drive down wages and undermine class solidarity by replacing native-born and naturalized citizens with low-wage foreign labor seeking to live off of the riches generations of American citizens have built and sacrificed for. (There’s more to it, as I explain in my essay The H-1B visa Controversy: The Tech Bros Make Their Move, but undermining the American worker is the bottom line.)
The rationalization of the globalism dynamic by the credentialed class testifies to the role that strata performs in legitimizing the corporate state system; for if the bureaucrats, managers, and professionals who pull the levers of the administrative apparatus—those who devise the ridiculous rules wielded to tell the citizen what to do all day long, how he’s supposed to talk about his situation, what his life and his family’s lives are worth, and that at the same promote a select few into affluence and positions of command—represented the citizens of this nation and not corporate power, then they would have been in rebellion over immigration policy over the last four years. Be not like kings and prophets. See what you see. Hear what you hear.
Sure, some of the subaltern are scared to speak up, and I appreciate that they reach out to me privately to tell me that (while apologizing for their timidity), but most of the apparent equanimity is only superficially passive; the subaltern confess their sympathies by voting for the party that has organized the devastation of the proletariat, namely the Democratic Party and its fellow neoliberals and neoconservatives in the managed opposition, i.e., the establishment Republicans (even if they don’t vote for the latter, they rehabilitate their legacies and welcome them to the club—just ask Dick and Liz Cheney).
We can know the people who sell out the American citizen by the way they defend Biden, Mayorkas, and the rest of the traitors who betray the American Republic. We can see it in their silence about the mass media coverups and the brazen trashing of the deplorables. We know who they are by the way they tell the working people that they’re racist for voting for the nationalist and the patriot while pushing solidarity-destroying programs like affirmative action and DEI. Feeling safe and secure in their power, ensconced in offices of the technocratic behemoth, they openly smear those who defend the cultural and national integrity of the United States as “nativists.”
But what is the nativist, really? It’s the man who defends the cultural and national integrity of the country to which he has sworn his allegiance. This is his home. What is citizenship for, after all, if not to benefit the native in a republican situation—a situation the US Constitution requires of every state? The purpose of the rule of law in a free society is to advance the interests of the citizen, not to be used against them for the sole benefit of the aristocracy and their sycophants. That’s why it’s called a republic, if it genuinely is one. Yes, some of us mean to keep it, Doctor Franklin.
Support for open borders and mass immigration testifies to something else, as well. It testifies to the role of public employee unions in the academy and government in rationalizing the corporate state system—the same system that devastated private sector unions. I wrote about this in October of this year in my essay Co-optation and Negation: Understanding Corporate Hegemonic Strategy. You will find there a revealing chart concerning the shift in union participation from private to public sectors. See also Progressivism Hasn’t Been Betrayed—It’s Been Installed, an essay I penned in April 2022, lost in the stack of drafts, recently found and published a few weeks ago. That essay is the basis for many essays I have written since (and even before) concerning the role progressives play in weakening the democratic-republican foundation of our nation.
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Update! Debrina Kawam is the name of the woman Sebastian Zapeta, a 33-year-old Guatemalan citizen who entered the US illegally, set on fire F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn on the morning of December 22. She was 57-years-old.
Zapeta was removed from the US back to Guatemala in June 2018—during Trump’s first term—after US Border Patrol encountered him in Arizona. We are uncertain of when he reentered. If it was under Biden, then we know how easy it must have been for this monster to reenter the country. If he returned under Trump, remember how the Democrats fought Trump every step of the way in his efforts to secure the Southern border. In the end, Kawam’s demise is on the open borders crowd.
People like to tell us that legal residents in the United States have a higher aggregate crime rate than immigrants. Illegal or legal immigrant? How would they know this? Supposing it’s true, consider the staggering levels of crime in America’s Blue Cities perpetrated by citizens; there is no Western country with comparable rates of crime. But the comparison is irrelevant, since if Zapeta were not here, Kawam would still be alive and living out her golden years.
It’s hard to exaggerate the depth of evil exuded by Biden and Mayorkas (see Trump is Right: Biden-Harris are Allowing in Serious and Violent Offenders). But there are other evil actors to be identified in this event. I watched the uncensored video of the burning woman. She stood and walked to the open train door, fat dripping from her body engulfed in flames. She lived for what must have seemed an eternity to her, while Zapeta fanned the flames with his jacket. Others were there. Nobody did anything.
The Daniel Penny prosecution made the responsibility diffusion problem worse. There was a cop there. He told Zapeta to clear out of the area. New York is fucked. If Democrats had their way, we’d all live in the fucked version of that once great city. They’ve had their way for far too long. Remember that two years from now when congressional elections come back around.
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