Indeed.
I cringe when conservatives are vocal against illegal immigration, but then speak mindlessly about how much they support and love legal immigration, without any mention or consideration of numbers.
It is unending mass legal immigration that is shifting the demography of the nation ever more towards the Left. If mass legal immigration is not cut off (like the great Calvin Coolidge did to the last wave), then conservatism and probably the country too are doomed.
It reminds me of a quote I recently saw attributed to Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review. Apparently he once said that it’s not so much that we have an immigration problem, but rather that we have a problem with illegal immigration mostly from one country with Mexico.
I was struck by how stupid that comment was, especially coming from a conservative. Even if we had no illegal immigration at all, we’d still have a million or so, mostly natural democrat immigrants per year. We’d still have the absurd Diveristy Lottery visas. We’d still have unsuitable refugee and asylum visas. We’d still have chain migration spreading its tentacles ever deeper in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and other parts of Central and South America. And if the Democrats, or Republicans like Bush, Rubio, Graham (and sadly Cruz too) get their way then that influx would be massively increased, hastening the demographic doom of conservatism.
First of all, I'm all for a redo of Lady Liberty along these lines:
And no, I'm not going to knock the easy target of France for her gift to America of the statue. I'm sure they meant well and she's become an iconic symbol of our Republic's freedoms.
What I do protest are the words of native New York Emma Lazarus who penned these words added to the the Statue of Liberty in 1903, more than a decade and half after the statue was inaugurated:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Emma...Emma...Emma. No thanks. We have plenty of wretched refuse here already. NO MORE! Upon further consideration, perhaps an addition is needed for that lady in the harbor.
