Posted on 03/05/2019 4:07:29 PM PST by Kaslin
Given the constantly reiterated left-wing charge that opposition to massive immigration is racist and xenophobic, it is important to restate the truth: The reason for opposition to mass immigration into the United States -- from almost anywhere in the world, whether legal or illegal -- has nothing to do with race or ethnicity. The issue is entirely one of values. Every immigrant, to anywhere, brings a set of social, moral, political and religious values. No one on earth is devoid of values, be they noble, ignoble or merely confused.
Wishful-thinking conservatives and Republicans have long argued that Latinos are potential Republicans because at heart they are social conservatives. They are said, for example, to oppose abortion and to have a strong commitment to the traditional nuclear family.
Yet, even assuming Latinos' overall opposition to abortion and strong belief in the mother and father-led family, this has paled in significance compared to Latinos' belief in big government. That the state should take care of people is now the most widely held belief in the world. More people believe in big government than believe in the God of the Bible. That is one reason, as I frequently note, that the most dynamic religion of the last hundred years has not been Christianity or Islam, but leftism.
America is the only country in the world founded on a belief in limited government. It is a uniquely American value. And that is precisely the problem: It is uniquely American. Very few immigrants to America bring with them a belief in limited government.
That is one reason Democrats want more and more immigrants -- more or less from anywhere (except Western Europe). Almost every immigrant is another vote for the Democratic Party. The only exceptions are some Europeans who crave individual liberty, and people fleeing socialist and communist dictatorships, such as those of the Soviet Union, Cuba and Venezuela. First-generation Cubans became a bedrock of the Republican Party in Florida. So, too, first-generation immigrants from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe formed a strong conservative block. And today, one suspects most Venezuelans allowed to immigrate to the United States would find American millennials' love affair with socialism ludicrous.
However, in every case, the words "first-generation" are operative. Once the children of first-generation immigrants from left-wing tyrannies attend American colleges (or, increasingly, American high schools), they are likely to become left-wing Democrats. Their parents' horrific experience with big government -- nearly always meaning left-wing government -- becomes irrelevant to them. Take, for example, Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google. Brin, about the 10th-richest man in the world, with an estimated net worth of $50 billion, was born in the Soviet Union, which he and his family fled, immigrating to the United States when he was 6 years old. Yet he is a man of the left who now censors PragerU videos and other conservative content and plays a major role in making Silicon Valley the closed left-wing world it is. Though his family fled the Soviet state, Soviet values have apparently influenced Brin more than American values have.
So, whether immigrants bring big-government values with them or embrace them within a generation, few immigrants of the last generation either brought American values or embraced them for long after coming here.
Nor is it only a belief in big government that nearly all immigrants bring with them. For example, many Muslim immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa bring with them a value that permeates the societies from which they came -- anti-Semitism. Witness the two newest Muslim members of Congress: Ilhan Omar, who came from Somalia, and Rashida Tlaib, whose parents are Palestinian.
The problem with mass immigration into America has nothing to do with ethnicity or race; it is entirely about values. The proof is this: The problem is the same with "internal" immigration. New Yorkers immigrating to Florida and Californians immigrating to Texas and Arizona do to those states what Latin Americans do to America: They bring different values -- specifically, left-wing values, starting with belief in big government.
Next time someone labels your opposition to mass immigration "racist" or "xenophobic," tell them you are equally opposed to New Yorkers immigrating to Florida and Californians immigrating to Arizona. And for the same reason: They bring with them the very values that caused them to flee. The only difference is Latin Americans are largely unaware of what they are doing; New Yorkers, Californians and other leftists who move to conservative states know exactly what they're doing: voting for the government policies from which they fled.
Hugh problem! I think most Americans want government out of their hair. If those illegals want government control then they should flood into Venezuela or other commie hellholes.
When Nooyawkas started fleeing New York City in the 80’s, I wanted to seal off Manhattan like the movie “Escape from New York”. Unfortunately they migrated to New Jersey and started electing the same type of people that caused New York’s problems.
Headline New Yorkers do to Florida what Latin Americans do to America
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At first I thought——
Toilet talk isn’t allowed on FR.
No dumping. Use Nancy Pelosi’s yard (if you can breach the wall).
AS I have said many times on FR the appeal of the socialists (dems) to Americans is: "Vote for me, I will get you someone else's money."
IMHO That will get the socialists(dems) 9 out of ten votes from the monetarily poor immigrants. - Tom
Same reason for Republicans, by the way, although the motive is much more cynical. They want THEIR district to vote for THEM individually, not necessarily for their party.
Trump in '20.
Very important edit
That the state should take care of people is now the most widely held belief in the world.
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The lure of socialism and the false notion of getting something for nothing is a powerful and enticing allure. Self responsibility and independence are a hard sell to those looking for a free ride or a paternal government.
Bingo! That sums it up perfectly. These parasites of today are nothing like our ancestoors that built this country.
Bingo! That sums it up perfectly. These parasites of today are nothing like our ancestors that built this country.
That's why democrats passed the 1965 immigration act. Democrats/marxists have imported an invading arming of 80 million 3rd world immigrants LEGAL and illegal that all vote for democrats/socialism.
Democrats and their big government policies and burdensome regulations have caused the Decline in America. For many decades democrats have added crippling laws and government regulations against businesses at all 3 levels of government, local, state and federal.
shoutout to User901. I hadn't read my email. but now i did and I agree.
“That’s why democrats passed the 1965 immigration act.”
Exactly. You only have to look at those who were responsible for the Hart-Cellar (they paid that rat Kennedy) act and compare them to the organizations who are still advocating for unlimited immigration today.
That is brilliant.
Hey!
WE are the ones luring them here with FREE benefits.
WE should stop it!
If I have no fence around my swimming pool and some little neighbor kid is tempted to it and drowns; it is MY ass that is gonna be in a sling!
(Golly; there just might be a parallel here!)
The people always must be the ones to change, never the corrupt government.... these fools.
Well; we DO have a REPRESENTITIVE government; so, if the gummint is corrupt; what does that say about US??
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