Posted on 05/05/2024 10:04:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Why does the Biden administration want open borders? As a researcher and writer on immigration, that’s the question I often get asked.
Here are the three reasons I think are behind President Joe Biden’s deliberate border chaos:
electoral politics,
extortion, and,
most insidiously, ideology.
I’ll start with ideology and come back to the other two reasons in my next columns.
The most dangerous driver behind Biden’s open borders is ideological. Policy differences can be negotiated, but as we’re seeing on college campuses, people fanatically committed to an idea can prove intransigent, regardless of the facts.
When you see the word “abolition” used in connection with criminal justice and immigration, you might be confused. Americans rightly associate the term with ending slavery and abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison who were active before the Civil War.
Why are academics, politicians, and race professionals using it in 2024?
Those saying “abolitionist” today have appropriated it for the positive historical connotation it possesses, but they mean something else entirely. To see the roots of their ideology, you have to go back to the dawn of the New Left, as described by Chris Rufo in his book “America’s Cultural Revolution.”
Under their intellectual godfather, German academic Herbert Marcuse, Marxist-Leninists, Black Panthers, the Weather Underground terrorist group, and Students for a Democratic Society gathered.
This leftist alliance believed—as the Students for a Democratic Society magazine Prairie Fire explained—that the United States was founded on genocide, slavery, and racism. Its goal was to abolish the existing capitalist America and build a new society. One element of this was destroying the justice system. The Black Panthers’ manifesto thus called for the release of all black men who were incarcerated, no matter for what crime.
As Rufo writes, “[Communist Angela] Davis and her comrades began to call not for the release of individual criminals, but for the abolition of the entire system.” Davis said that “a society without racism … has to be a society without prisons.”
The Black Lives Matter organization adopted the same agenda of “abolition.” The mobs that destroyed a police station and looted Minneapolis in 2020 shouted, “Abolish the police, then the prisons.” The “abolitionist” activists in the Seattle CHAZ commune wanted to abolish the police, prisons, and courts.
BLM founder Patrisse Cullors was crystal clear in this Harvard Law Review essay from 2019: “Abolition means no borders. Abolition means no Border Patrol. Abolition means no Immigration and Customs Enforcement.” America is the source of world evil, in her view, and thus has no right to exist as a nation state nor keep anyone in the world from entering its borders.
Some Biden administration officials seem to share this core belief. Avideh Moussavian, a senior appointee at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, tweeted “#abolishICE” in 2018 and “cut ICE and [Customs and Border Protection] funding” in 2019.
Another Biden appointee, Claire Trickler-McNulty, undermined ICE from within before leaving for a nongovernmental organization partly funded by the Vera Institute for Justice. The Vera Institute says, “The U.S. immigration system is an arrest-to-deportation pipeline rooted in racism,” wants no detention of people in the United States illegally, and grants millions to nongovernmental organizations defending illegal immigrants.
“Abolition” ideology also has clear links with today’s campus support of Hamas. Take a look at this course taught at Columbia University this Spring by professor Mohamed Abdou, titled “Decolonial-Queerness and Abolition in SWAN.” SWANA likely stands for South West Asian and North African people. A sentence from the course description sums it up:
“Using intersectional/assemblage-based theories, what decolonial, gender-based readings and formulations of feminisms/queerness exist that evade the apparent tidiness of European feminist and narrow LGBTQIA categories that characterizes most (non)Euro-American political queer-feminist scholarship beyond the depiction of queer BIPOC as co-opted and duped, colonized pawns of ‘Gay Empire’ towards elucidating critical discussions on identity, agency, subjectivity, and dissidence?”
Parents are paying $90,000 a year for their kids to learn that kind of balderdash. But even if you can’t make any sense of that sentence, you can be sure of what Abdou means by “abolition.”
Columbia University now resembles Gaza as designed by outdoor equipment retailer Eastern Mountain Sports. Meanwhile at Princeton University, students briefly set up a camp last week “in solidarity with Gaza to protest Princeton’s role in funding the ongoing genocide,” according to organizers Princeton Israeli Apartheid Divest.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta was among faculty who signed a letter supporting the Princeton students and boycotting Columbia University. He is a “classics” professor who calls his field “equal parts vampire and cannibal” and the foundation of white supremacy, and argues that it should be abolished.
Peralta came from the Dominican Republic as a child, and his family overstayed their visas and became illegal immigrants. Leftist academics such as Peralta do not like nations or borders any more than they do classical antiquity. In his book “Undocumented,” Peralta wrote, “Demography is a [expletive]. Holla at me if you want me to break it down for you.” By this, Peralta implies that without immigration enforcement, the “global majority”—defined here as everyone but white Europeans—will be able to dominate every country.
What we’re seeing at the southern border and on college campuses comes from the same ideological roots and ends the same way: anarchy.
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Reprinted by permission from The Daily Signal, a publication of The Heritage Foundation.
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The billionaires want open borders, because it creates an eternal supply of replacement people who can keep wages down.
The liberals want open border because it creates a permanent power base to draw from.
Then there are those who want white people eliminated from the face of the earth and be a historical memory.
Commies start with porous borders, welcoming in anyone loyal to the cause.
PS
I think one can find the ideological roots here:
Antonio Gramsci: the Godfather of Cultural Marxism
https://fee.org/articles/antonio-gramsci-the-godfather-of-cultural-marxism/
(you may have posted this here)
To destroy the United States.
I took our dog into the downtown suburban park to get it acclimated to people. I didn’t realize there was a Mexican celebration going on with music and all sorts of vendors.
The state drivers license booth, Democrat party registration booth, and another booth with some sort of Hispanic assistance thing were all next to each other.
Karl Marx loved open borders. These current Marxists are simply carrying out his wishes. The utopian fantasy never dies.
Now the question of whether it can be destroyed is an open one.
The same mass immigration is also present throughout the West.
One ideological basis comes from people like Clement Attlee, the postWW2 Prime Minister. Attlee, and others of his like from the socialist anti-colonial movement purported to believe that if the races mixed together, there would be no more wars.
I doubt they actually believed this, and just used it as a justification to reduce Whiteness in Britain.
In this was embodied in the 1948 British Nationality Act, which put every resident of any colony as equal citizenship with the UK. (Theoretically, everyone in India and the UK colonies in Africa could have moved to the UK. The criteria was tightened in 1962).
Those who are attacking whiteness really just want to eliminate Christianity. For them, Christianity is the enemy and Western Christianity more so than anybody else.
Attlee was an atheist, but not an aggressive one
Some of the Labour tradition came out of the less strident Non-Conformist Churches. Always prolific sources of woolly-minded Christian Socialism.
But i think you are right that the biggest proponents of mass non-White immigration were always the atheists or (((others))).
BTTT
Declaration of North America (DNA) | The White House
WEB Jan 10, 2023 · Mexico, the United States, and Canada will focus on strategies to bolster our shared continental security against domestic, regional, and global threats, including cyber threats.
The three could become one in the final days. As perhaps one of the ten kings.
bttt
Then there are people who want to see the country destroyed.
“...a society without racism has to be a society without prisons...”
They must think Africa has no prisons. The next time the Hutu’s and Tutsi’s kill each other, the world should just sit back and let it happen. I am actually OK with that. In fact, it should be encouraged (gangs killing each other off).
Get rid of prisons and simply execute the Rat criminals immediately. For misdemeanor offenses, gouge out their eyes and let them beg for food from strangers. /spit
Bonk
Rush nailed it years ago:
The dims want a permanent underclass that will be dependent on the govt and will always vote democrat. This is designed to overwhelm those that vote against big government and ensure that no republican wins any election going forward.
Communists love dissent and chaos until they get control, then any deviation from the accepted state ethos is brutally crushed. Communism and Islam share many of the same attributes with regard to “toeing the line”, mass ignorance to suppress too many questions about policy, and eliminating opponents.
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