Posted on 06/04/2021 7:42:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
To begin to fix immigration, we must agree the American identity is worth preserving and then work to build an immigration system that nourishes it.
Can Washington discuss immigration without devolving into a debate about racism? If we lay down our Twitter weapons, perhaps we could discuss what kind of immigration we need.
Should we allow anyone, from anywhere, to come here at any time? Amid the political establishment’s promotion of all immigration as virtuous and their relentless attacks on all things traditional or patriotic, we can demand something better: An immigration system that is good for America and requires that the immigrants we admit want to be Americans.
Immigration has long nourished our country. Our parents were immigrants, like those rooting nearly every American family tree, and we support legal immigration. Yet we also believe we ought to lock our national doors at night, not because we hate the people on the outside, but because we love the people on the inside.
We want to protect the nation we are blessed to share. Immigration is essential nourishment for our country but can be healthy or unhealthy, like nourishment for the body. We cannot consume all we want, whenever we want, without limit or discretion.
The most valuable resource on the planet is not mined underground, harvested from our oceans, or grown on the earth’s surface. It is the human resource, people, and America needs an immigration strategy that competes for those who make us stronger. Even as global population growth slows, and some advanced nations like Japan and Italy struggle to hold steady, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have tried to compete with America for scientists and technology workers.
Despite what conservatives hear on talk radio, our country may soon need to hang “help wanted” signs on our border, seeking a new generation of immigrants to refresh it. The trick is to make sure they contribute to, not erode, the America that attracts them. New American or old, we should all be required to support the freedoms and culture that light our gates.
In a speech before the Civil War, the radical preacher Theodore Parker popularized “The American Idea.” Parker’s recipe combined three ingredients: all people are created equal, all possess unalienable rights, and all Americans should have the opportunity to develop them. An abolitionist, Parker believed in one inspired American culture, supported by all Americans, open to all Americans.
We’re getting pretty good at the “open to all” component. Most would agree diversity, equality, and an open society are pretty darn “American.” However, we have nearly erased “one shared American culture” from our equation — and when there is nothing to which we all belong, diversity becomes division. Openness, without a uniting culture, becomes chaos.
Europe is learning this lesson the hard way. Europe’s countries are defined by geographic boundaries, but they risk losing their identity as nations united by an idea, culture, or language. They have erased borders to travel and the idea of national currencies and ceded control over immigration. European Union bureaucrats and elites seemingly do not even acknowledge the legitimacy of the debate societies need to have on whom to admit and what to require of immigrants, inviting the Brexit backlash.
In “The Triple Package,” Yale University professors Amy Chua and Ben Rubenfeld note the American Dream is not dead. Economic mobility lives; you just need to know where to look.
The authors argue that as Nigerians, Asians, Jews, Indians, and Cubans have immigrated, they have soared up the economic ladder because their cultures share three traits: Confidence in their abilities, fear they won’t reach their potential, and discipline to work hard and defer gratification for long-term success.
These are the qualities the American left disdains. They insist no one is better than anyone, that failure should be rewarded with self-esteem instead of shame, and there is no delight beyond the pleasures of the present. Our immigration policy should not be based on nationality. Rather, we should reward those individuals, whatever their ethnicity, that renew America’s “Triple Package.”
Liberals emphasize “Pluribus,” diversity, as our nation’s cardinal virtue, while conservatives remind us of the need for “Unum,” unity. Neither is right alone. Out of many, America must still make one. We need to be more the melting pot, and less the politically correct salad bowl.
Our immigration policy should not be based on religious creed, but we should insist immigrants commit to our civic religion. We must require newcomers to adopt English as our common language and embrace an ethos of self-sufficiency. We must require a commitment to the rule of law, protection of minority rights, equality in opportunity and before the law, not outcomes, and individual autonomy, not an unlimited government.
Immigration without assimilation is simply invasion. The road away from assimilation leads to cultural segregation and then, to the division and destruction of the society that attracts immigrants today.
Once we agree the American identity is worth preserving and build an immigration system that nourishes it, Americans will embrace opening our doors to more of those who can contribute to it. Until we do, Americans will see open borders, unlimited immigration, and diversity as corrosion, dissolution, and threats to our shared identity.
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Alex Castellanos is a Bush League Republican who has been supporting amnesty/open borders for decades.
We do not need ANY more immigration.
The leftist social-engineering of all kinds is going to move ahead faster, not slower.
Where do you think $30 trillion in debt and now $3 Trillion yearly budget deficits with fake, printed, manipulated fiat Federal Reserve money is going? Its going to support leftist control of government.
It all sounds good, but who will enforce it?
Even saying “assimilate” now will bring down the wrath of Chris Wray, the ultimate Leftist enforcer.
A sensible “nation” would limit immigration to people who are similar to them. You can’t MAKE people be like you, especially when they come in Division strength. So just don’t let them in.
Worked for hundreds of years before 1965.
“Immigration Without Assimilation Is Just Invasion...”
Aha, that explains all those Japanese “migrants” moving to the Phillippines on December 8, 1941!
Yep, the Chinese want balkanization here.
The stark reality is that America has 4% of the world’s land area, hosts 5% of the world’s population and roughly 70% of the rest of the world would like to come here if they could.
Why hasn’t Biden been arrested for human trafficking ?.
Good paper, but it could have had much more “authority” if it had been based on writings of Aquinas (Summa Theologica - I-II, Q. 105, Art. 3), who based his immigration theory on that of the “Philosopher” (Socrates).
And while you’re at it -
The Deplorables want a Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement bill, missing since 1986 ONE TIME amnesty. Since that amnesty was granted already, a second amnesty is off the table. What remains is the enforcement the Democrats have disallowed since then.
The List of Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement, missing since 1986 goes like this -
1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents);
5) end work visas;
6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population);
7) Set up an illegal aliens’ victim restitution fund.
Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to SELF-deport, and remove colonizadors from our welfare rolls.
agree
The problem is that the immigrants are being assimilated, but by the left.
The other side is very confident they can take an Ilhan Omar and convert her to their cause.
NO BORDER PROTECTION WALLS TORN DOWN
What are the effects? Conservative news sources better be reporting Criminal activity and costs to the locality caused by those who should be referenced as the INVADERS because the term “illegals” has been banned.THEN RAISE THE ISSUE IF AMERICANS WERE DOING THIS TO MEXICO WHAT WOULD HAPPEN ?? ALSO POINT OUT THE 2ND CLASS TREATMENT AMERICANS GET IN MEXICO
It is time we reassert our; pardon my using what that one worlder’s call a cussword, SOVEREIGNTY, and consider applying RECIPROCITY. Give the the same treatment an American gets in Mexico The Demorat party ignores what any any citizen of America gets in Mexico .Illegal or legal enty by a Gringo ?No Mexican tax money goes into free legal assistance, paid motel rooms for sneaking in, or subsidized living as well as free medical assistance all not being paid at the expense of the average struggling working tax paying Mexicans .
.Our border with Mexico has always been contentious not only with smugglers but on ocassion with Mexican bandits and military using Mexican Claims ,Allowing potential hostiles to the US property ownership to happen in those states could lead to serious problems in the future. There are constant claims that crop up by Mexican politicians that some of our southwestern states are Mexican territory.
.What Yahoo and CNN and the alphabetical swill mills won’t report this; Here’s aMexican Senator who recently said Mexico should take back states;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-mews/3754791/posts Mex House speaker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3756257/posts
Worse yet Huge ammounts of taxpayers funds are being given to illegals through taxes which are being passed on to our children’s children along with jobs which should be going to black Americans property ownership by illegal (another word banned ) is used in states which Mexico has previously claimed espcially Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and of course California .That could be used to support any reclaiming effort should regime changes in Mexico arise . Our border with Mexico has always been contentious not only with smugglers but on ocassion with Mexican bandits and military problems which General Black Jack Pershing put down.
What never gets mentioned is that 2nd class treatment Americans get in Mexico in all of this Our allowing the hordes illegally entering the US through the Mexican border and granting them rights American cannot recieve in Mexico even when legally migrating there. We have avoided recognizing and dealing with the 2nd class treatment that American citizens get which is in their constitition while legally residing in Mexico.That includes denial of voting privileges but employment, and land ownership in their name.
.It’s time we consider illegal entry by any person who is a non Mexican citizen illegally entering the United States through the US Mexican border a defacto Mexican citizen with limited Mexican constitutional rights subject to their laws while transiting. As well as any Mexican citizen entering illegally exempting those who do so legally and meet US citizenship requirements.
. If we applied that reciprocal policy . Would that continue ? By.prohibiting and strictly enforcing existing laws prohibiting any illegal entrant employment, voting, and land ownership privileges fully enforced these problems would drop loke a rock. .In other words Once we remove the incentives to Sneak into this country before expulsion no job no voting no landowning this stuff would stop
However...
We either fight back or allow the TROJANS to win.
Strangers in a Strange Land
Says you. Look around you...immigration without assimilation is part of our problem. Without assimilation, the immigrant is just a visitor whose allegiance is to his “home” Country. Immigration without assimilation is akin to getting a divorce, remarrying and going around the house you share with your new husband and installing pictures of yourself and the ex.
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