“As for immigration, I’m for having it unlimited. Just no welfare and no ballots in other languages, etc.”
Well that’s nice, but go back and watch the debates over the 1965 Immigration Act and you’ll find that you are far to the left of even Teddy Kennedy with that position.
No one, no matter how liberal, argued that view. In fact Teddy promised that his bill wouldn’t increase the number of immigrants at all.
America has a culture and it gets passed on within families. Drowning that culture in a tidal wave of immigration changes the nation to the culture of the incoming group.
And the reality is that we have had welfare since the beginning of the country. It was just more local earlier. I think what you are arguing here is a utopian libertarian position that ignores reality and pretends that there can be a society that doesn’t provide welfare.
What I’m arguing for is assimilation. Church welfare is one thing, the government dole is another. If schools and society taught American values and ditched the absurd notion of the value of diversity, I’m quite confident that the country could handle all who wanted to come. Sure, bar the sick, the criminals, but send out notice. If you want to work, come.
Call me leftist if you wish. I tell everyone I’m practically a fascist.