Muslims aren’t the only group elites are racializing (Muslims are Not a Race. So why are Academics and Journalists Treating Them as if They Were? and Race, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Problem of Conceptual Conflation and Inflation). They’re racializing immigrants, as well. They’re doing this to delegitimize and marginalize those who desire to protect and defend their standard of living and way of life—Western culture. Elites are redefining nationalism as racism because they want the denationalization project to have no challengers.
There’s nothing intrinsically racist about immigration law and enforcement or seeking limits on immigration. Nationalism is about people, not race. In the United States, the descendants of slaves are as much native Americans as the descendants of the white European colonial population (Exposing the Guilt Trip: A Nation of Immigrants? The American Creed and the True Aggressor). We need to be more strident in making these points. We need to make explicit the character of this propaganda campaign and the vital importance of national integrity. The globalists are working hard to denationalize the West. If they succeed, America is over. Without the nation-state, there is no common culture, rule of law, or self-government.
Racism—systems manifesting belief in racial hierarchy—is not intrinsic to national integrity. An immigrant is a person present in a country she wasn’t born in. She may be of any race, ethnicity, religion, etc. Immigrants in the US come from all over the world. And there are lots of them. More than a million come to the US legally every year. Before Trump, millions more were entering illegally.
We’re approaching the same proportion of foreign-born as existed in the early twentieth century, a situation that then compelled working people to demand a change in immigration law because the burden of mass immigration was acutely felt by citizens in fewer job opportunities and lower wages. Today, the problems of fewer jobs and lower wages remain, with housing shortages and the welfare burden adding to the pressures.
While people have a right under international law to leave their home country, they have no right to live in another country. They have only the right to seek asylum. They have no right to expect other countries to take them in. Asylum seekers are a small portion of the millions who seek to emigrate every year. Most migrants seek access to the educational institutions, jobs, and social welfare systems of developed economies. They have no inherent right to any of these. Native workers are being replaced by foreign workers entering the country on H-1B visas. This must stop.
The enlightened world established nation-states to represent and defend the freedoms and rights (immunities and privileges) of those who legally live in them. Globalization erodes the standard of living and compels citizens to sacrifice their way of life to foreigners. Those who live under conditions of oppression and poverty should remain in their countries and struggle to make them adequate to their needs. We understand that this is not always possible.
But many of those entering the West do not do so to make their lives better, but to make the host country like the place they left. These are not immigrants but colonizers. The American Indian did not have the capacity and organization to repel the European colonizers. But while Americans have that capacity today, they lack organization. It’s the movement to organize against immigration that elites seek to thwart by racializing the immigrant and promulgating the doctrine of multiculturalism.
It’s not that those of other races cannot be Americans. Millions of black Americans of African descent enjoy equal rights with white Americans of European descent. There are Arabs, Asians, and Hispanics who enjoy the immunities and privileges of United States citizenship. America counts among its citizens Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, and Muslims. Americans can be of any race, ethnicity, or religion (or no religion at all).
All that is required to be an American—to enjoy the freedoms of conscience and speech, protection from arbitrary detention and search and seizure, and a myriad of other liberties and rights enshrined in law—is to be welcomed and assimilate with its creed and swear an oath of loyalty to the nation. It’s not like this in many parts of the world, a world marked by authoritarian cultures and political and religious oppression. Americans rarely migrate to the Third World. But many migrants mean to bring the Third World to America.
Our representatives in government have a sacred obligation to the people they serve to scrutinize those who seek entry and residence in America, a discernment guided by what is best for the American people. Americans need jobs, decent wages, housing, lower taxes, and safe neighborhoods.
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