Diversity Really is Our Strength - Immigration destroys social cohesion - Good.

Richard Hanania's Newsletter ^ | 6/10/2023 | Richard Hanania

[Zhang Fei]

Some people are naturally tribal and don’t like immigration. So they’ll use whatever justifications they can come up with to argue against it. I’ve seen the topic of immigration make capitalists talk like trade unionists when thinking about wages, and people who’ve never shown any interest in climate policy start worrying about carbon emissions. There’s been a lot of controversy around whether immigrants litter too much, but I never see the people making this complaint talk about littering in any other context. It makes me suspect that it might not be their main concern.

It’s kind of pointless to argue about climate policy with people who don’t think that much about the climate, or wages with people who believe that one set of laws of economics applies when you’re dealing with citizens and another when you’re dealing with foreigners. Most anti-immigration arguments can be dismissed as emotional outbursts that mask concerns people don’t want to be completely honest about.

Of all the anti-immigration arguments that have been made, I see two that one should take seriously and are not just covers for other concerns. These are that immigrants vote for the left, and, relatedly, that they make the country poorer and less functioning due to their lower IQs. I don’t think these are great arguments, but they’re the best that restrictionists have, so they will be the ones I address here. In the end, I don’t think there’s much to suggest we should be concerned about how many immigrants are currently coming to the United States, or the characteristics of newcomers, and in fact we should be letting a lot more people in.

Public Opinion is Already Socialist

This argument that immigrants will make the country more liberal is straightforward and has a surface plausibility, but I think it sort

[Elsie]

Bingo!

[Elsie]

their’s kept people in;
ours will keep them OUT!

[bert]

Diversity is pollution of the well

[Elsie]

This resulted in a divided people who were not able to resist when the elite were squabbling and the invaders arrived.

The Good, Ol', USA is just about there!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yep.

But hey, ol Richard might make some money off the deal so what does he care.

[Organic Panic]

All western nations did to curb “illegal” i migration is legalize it via bogus asylum claims. When I lived in Germany there was no enforcement. Anyone with skin darker than a sheet of paper was immediately called a refugee. Not a single one works and everyone of them is on welfare living a life of relative luxury and sloth. AND they are legal. While people like me, with technical degrees that were even teaching in German technical colleges, had our residencies revoked to make room for Merkel’s pet “New Germans.” A poor violent illiterate savage can walk right in and be granted instant residency, legally, but an engineer from a white nation will have to go through decades of harassment and trouble to even stay past the 90 days tourist allowance.