[ April 19, 2024 ]
Republicans who want to kill chain migration — and it’s no wonder.
Democrats see chain migration as their most powerful tool in the war on conservatism.
The logic is that if they bring in enough migrants, they’ll be able to secure a Democrat voting base for generations to come. And they’ve been largely successful in winning this war in recent years.
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Our Founders were very clear that they intended naturalization to be controlled by the federal government instead of by the states, as it had been under the Articles of Confederation, because they wanted stricter standards, not looser standards. While there were several motivations for this principle, the overarching reason was that they wanted to ensure the voting populace would consist of those who shared our democratic-republican values.
Even though immigrants back then were all from the same European stock as the current Americans, Theodore Sedgewick said during the debate on the 1790 naturalization bill that “their sensations, impregnated with prejudices of education, acquired under monarchical and aristocratical Governments, may deprive them of that zest for pure republicanism, which is necessary in order to taste its beneficence with that gratitude which we feel on the occasion.” Madison spoke of admitting only those “who are attached to our Country by its natural and political advantages.”
Jefferson feared they would “bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth…These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.”
The solution to this problem is having a gradual and balanced immigration system based on merit and shared values. Instead, the endless cycles of illegal immigration, amnesties, and back-door amnesty-style programs (asylum, temporary protected status, refugees), in conjunction with chain migration, has made our immigration system work for foreigners, not for citizens, realizing the worst nightmares of our founders.
Look no further than California to understand how immigration done wrong can lead to a permanent majority of anti-life, pro-big-government Democrats. The problem is that many other states are headed down the same path, in a slower but inexorable trajectory. If the same policies continue, if chain migration is not immediately halted, conservatives will find themselves in the minority nationwide, and no other issue will matter. Even though the Republican Party is not conservative, it is perceived as such and should take heed of the obvious warning signs.
No, this is not like the great immigration wave of the last century
There has been a lot of focus in recent years on the number of green cards issued each year, but not on the number of people becoming citizens. Over the past 20 years, the U.S. has admitted roughly 700,000-800,000 citizens into our voting population every year, with a few years reaching one million. Most of them have come from countries with dramatically different worldviews on issues such as guns, health care, and the size of government. Many deniers within the GOP of the political problems of mass migration point to past history and saying our previous large wave of immigration didn’t create a permanent liberal majority. But that is because we are now dwarfing the previous great wave in numbers.
Even during the highest naturalization years of the great wave, we admitted anywhere from 100,000 to 250,000 new citizens to our electorate. In other words, even during the great wave, when there were some years we admitted roughly as many annual immigrants as we do today, that era of immigration didn’t result in as many people becoming citizens. Some of this had to do with life expectancy, but either way, the wave didn’t result in nearly as many naturalizations. And even the peak period of naturalization was not only much smaller but only lasted for a short period of time.
From 1996 to 2013, 12,609,174 new immigrants became citizens. During the actual great wave, the number of naturalizations was still very low because it took time for them to go through the system and become citizens. But even if you take an equivalent 18-year period with the highest level of naturalizations, which was from 1928 to1945, just 3,835,758 immigrants were naturalized. In other words, while the immigration wave of the modern era was 66 percent larger than the great wave, the “naturalization wave” was 329 percent greater.
Moreover, we have not even actualized the full extent of this wave of immigration, which is still growing.
Finally, let’s not forget that because of the shutoff in the ’20s, the peak of naturalizations resulting from the great wave coincided with a cool-off in new immigration. Contrast that to today’s wave of naturalizations that are coinciding with an even larger wave of new admissions from similar areas. This ensures a lack of assimilation into our constitutional values. Although immigrants have always voted for more liberal politicians, enough of them were moving on to the second generation and becoming conservatives. The ’30s and ’40s, when the highest numbers of great wave immigrants were becoming voting members of society, was the lowest of our new immigration levels. As noted immigration historian Maldwyn Allen Jones observed, “With reinforcements no longer arriving from across the ocean, ties with Europe were gradually weakened and memories of the old life grew dimmer with each passing year.” This dynamic “accelerated the Americanization of those groups which had come earlier.”
That is changing because the numbers are too great, the welfare state too expansive, and the immigrants dramatically and disproportionately coming from impoverished lands.
Let’s explore the results of this wave as it relates to critical states electorally, and you will see why it is so hard for Republicans to crack the blue firewall. This is somewhat old data, and the trajectory is growing every year:
What is self-evident from this data is not only the danger of Republicans losing places like Texas, Florida, and Arizona. It’s not only an explanation of why Republicans lost Virginia, Colorado, and Nevada. It also foreshadows what will happen to North Carolina, Georgia, and beyond. As late as 1990, the foreign-born population of Virginia was just five percent. It swelled to 11.4 percent in 2010 and is still surging, as high as 12.3 percent in 2016. While Virginia has experienced an influx of already-American liberals over the past two decades, that would only explain why it’s a marginal red state or even a purple state, not why it’s become a blue state.
Now take a look at the numbers and recent trajectory from Georgia. Again, there is an influx of American white liberals from other states as well as a general increase in black turnout. But immigration is what is going to paint those states purple.
Trump talks about shutting off chain migration 10 to 15 years from now, but the reality is that just the existing trajectory will paint the map blue.
While not every state will become as blue as California, the lessons of the Golden State should be a stark warning for what happens with salad-bowl rather than melting-pot immigration. Orange County, California, was once the bread basket of GOP dominance in California. As late as 1988, George H.W. Bush won more than twice as many votes as Democrat Michael Dukakis there. As late as 2004, when the broader state was long gone, George W. Bush won it by 20 points. Republicans narrowly carried it for the next two elections, until they downright lost it by 8 points in 2016.
What happened? In 1980, 12.7 percent of the county was foreign-born. In 2016, an estimated 30 percent of the county was foreign-born, and 45.6 percent of its residents speak a foreign language at home. Orange County, California, will now be blue forever.
Although California is lost forever, Texas and Florida are both independently vital to the GOP’s relevance. Dallas County, Texas, for example, has gone from 5 percent foreign-born in 1980 to 23 percent in 2016. Reagan won the county by 59.2 percent in 1980, while Trump lost it by a whopping 26 points in 2016. Sure, some of this has to do with Trump’s particular weakness with some college-educated urban/suburban white voters, and he has compensated for it by running up margins elsewhere. But the influx of unprecedented immigration has gradually and relentlessly shifted a number of counties to the Democrats over the past few elections.
One cannot escape the conclusion that unless there is a cool-off on overall immigration, the unprecedented size and duration of this wave, constantly reinforcing itself, will ensure that there are not enough second-generation voters assimilating into constitutional values to offset the new influx voting for big government. This is a clear distinction from past waves of immigration.
Of course, conservatives need to reach out to all new voters from all parts of the world to sell their message. But numbers and time matter greatly. Constitutional values can be sold to a melting pot of Americans; it will not resonate with a salad bowl.
The bottom line is this: There are many good policy reasons to cool down mass migration at this point. We need a more balanced immigration system for cultural, economic, and security reasons. But for Republicans who don’t care about policy and only care about political survival, they must understand that unless they change their tune on immigration and do so immediately, they and their party will become completely irrelevant.
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25 Comments
6 years ago
In 1996, at the DNC convention, the democrats agreed to allow unfettered illegal immigration into the U.S.
They would get these people on welfare and expand the democrat voter base.
It is all about democrats creating a voter base so large no one can out vote them.
Remember, Hillary said “I will be the last president”.
6 years ago
Reply to
AeroLog
Get enough people on welfare and the whole house of cards will collapse, there will be too few with jobs to support the welfare hordes.
6 years ago
The hatred the left has for this country is very egregious. It is never about concern for TURD world immigrants. They could care less about them.
This is about WHITE DESTRUCTION!! That’s all that matters to the left. With whites out of the way they can then put a BOOT on humanities’ neck.
The left HATES HUMANS. Only ONE race stands in the way. The WHITE AMERICAN MALE!!! Get rid of him and his country and the world is THEIRS.
Then they will start a WAR and KILL each other till there is NOTHING and NOBODY left. So to prevent this massive shift towards death you must BAN the left from society. They are like poison. Do what you want with them. HANG them, send them to prison, re-education camps, torture, starve them, have medical experiments.
For those of you that are shocked, this is what the left like to do to anyone than opposes them. So, they must like it, right? 😉
Then, at least one half of humanity can survive and no leftist for miles. Win-win situation.
6 years ago
Most of the countries the illegal aliens and even legal immigrants are coming from have very little diversity and a homogeneous population. Why do the DEMs demand that the USA be different, even to the point of rejecting a common language?
6 years ago
A little election reform would go a long ways in breaking the “I vote democrat because my grand pappy voted democrat” syndrome. Simply make it necessary for a person to have lived in the United States for a minimum five years, as well as maintaining employment and paying taxes. Welfare recipients can be bought with taxpayer money, they should not be allowed to vote for that reason.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
The generational dem0rat reflex voting syndrome is well entrenched in my family. If the Dem0rats nominated Farrakhan they would probably vote for him.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Voting patterns are solidly etched in too many people’s brains, that has to be looked at and fixed.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
It’s all the more ironic, because many Muslims even in the West are actually relatively conservative, they just vote Democrat to spite Republicans.
6 years ago
This is what MUSLIM JUSTIN & HIS MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ARE DOING ACTUALLY! Canadians are for the most part FAST asleep about the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD & who they are & where they are in TRUDEAU:S cabinet & Government!
Fewer still are aware of or have read the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PLAN & AGENDA for NORTH AMERICA .
Many do not know that C.A.I.R Is the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD !
They are for the most part CLUELESS!!
D
6 years ago
I’m strongly thinking to move all my family to USA and I will probably need chain migration to bring my 20-21yo.
Why ? because all western life is worldwide FU because of birth rate lower than rest of way of lifes in world, so sooner or later, we will be wipe out.. So 2 solutions ?
1 – be like the most leftist kind and welcome migrant convert to islam and be more fan than mahomed, stay in Europe and die slowly for 300 years enjoying mass slavery or mass murdering before wheel change again to freedom. (and let my kid in this becoming shithole)
2 – Move to US, give best Constitution so far to my kids. (1st and 2nd) and enjoy coming civil war if immigration is not controlled better than now.
But capitalist or communist systems need low educated worker so they can just work and die (similar than slavery) with no hope, only people healthy and whealthy have more chance to develop and build a stable situation.
Am I going to sacrify myself(and my spouce) life to give a better hope to my kids (because I still have a good life in Europe… so far) ?
Remember, freedom concept is not the same everywhere, freedom can be like free to have babies with certainity that community is going to welcome them and pay for their futur needs or let them die or commit crime because parents cannot afford contraception or just don’t care.
see the point here about immigration… to have a suggestion, just try to evaluate/determine political view of immigrants and keep a balance between left and right (quota) or just put a 5 years citizenship before right to vote.
Just to remind USA, chain migration just killed Western Europe and Christianity, thanks socialism.
So let you comment and enjoy your nice country I’m dreaming of, I’ve to fill my IRS TR2017 and I’m not citizen yet.
God (if exist) bless you all
MAGA
6 years ago
Reply to
Jpp
If changes are made to immigration policy, it still (supposedly) includes immediate family. One will still be able to sponsor their parents and children, whether adult or otherwise (children, as I would assume parents to be adults).
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Yes, indeed, problem will be settlement and build a strong credit history.
6 years ago
Dems/Left/Liberal/socialist/feminazis have only destroyed countries which they ruled/misruled.
Just Like this Bernie/Dems socialist utopia has collapsed https://tinyurl.com/yavxfl4m
6 years ago
The problem with this new “wave” of immigrants is that they are NOT like the immigrants of the last century – civilised, educated, self-reliant people ready to integrate and contribute, to co-exist and respect others. Now, we have millions from the world’s two most backward and violent cultures, Muslim and black African. The two least likely to integrate or contribute, the two with no concept of birth control. And the only reasons for bringing them in are political correctness and fantasies of multiculturalism and “diversity”, and because it would be seen as racist or Islamophobic not to.
Never mind that many are unemployable, many unskilled and uneducated, and so are draining the welfare systems of every Western country, from North America through Europe to Australasia. Of course, in time, their economies will face collapse. It’s a ‘lose lose’ situation for the West. But at least it will be multicultural and “diverse”. Some consolation.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mike Wolff
At the time, of the great “wave”. There was no social welfare system in place. When someone emigrated, typically, they would find work and save up, in order to bring others. If the US went back to a similar system, there would be little need to fight “chain immigration”.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
I agree with you totally. Welfare systems were set up to give temporary help to working people to see them through hard times: now they are abused, they were never intended to subsidise indefinitely any economic parasites from the Third World who just fancied an easy life in the rich West!
6 years ago
Reply to
Mike Wolff
I’ve often wondered how people existed, were able to stay fed, clothed, and sheltered before there were any “temporary” assistance” to see them through “hard times”.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
People managed because they had no choice. Literally struggle through or die. A welfare system might have been a good thing in principle, but it was always open to abuse, and it is now unworkable and unsustainable in every Western country. But there’s no going back, and Democrats/left wingers will make sure of that, because there are votes in there for the polticians who will keep the welfare tap running – never mind that it will bankrupt the country eventually.
6 years ago
VERY HARD to break voting patterns in a generation!
The BIGGEST ISSUE of our time in the WEST is POLITICAL ISLAM & NO PARTY is REALLY HIGHLIGHTING this as major issue!
The POLITICIANS are mired in CORRUPTION & Have taken one hell of a lot of PETRO DOLLARS over the decades & they do not want the CASH TO STOP!
Begin with BUSH & THEIR COSY LITTLE DEALS with the Bin Ladin Family & the Saudi Royals ( Prince Bandar) & others!
Then LOOK at CHEYNEY & the CLINTONS all of whom were & probably still are in league with the MIDDLE EASTERN STATES!
The MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD FINANCES COME LARGELY THROUGH SAUDI PRINCES & the SUPER WEALTHY in QATAR & Other Gulf States & until this connection is broken this POLITICAL ISLAM ONSLAUGHT WILL NEVER STOP!!
6 years ago
They are already embedded in our society, yet unassimilated. They are breeding like sewer rats, illegally voting for Commiecrats. The USA is mortally wounded, but too clueless to fall over. I’m afraid that our great-great-grandchildren will have to learn Arabic and Spanglish to communicate with their rulers.
6 years ago
Pamela: THEY DON’T CARE. Most of them have already sold their miserable souls to their globalist, oligarch New World Ordure cabal masters. Most of them are indeed what amounts to traitors and perjurers of their respective oaths of office.
The so-called “refugee” invasion and the continued toleration of the INVASION of aliens (legal and illegal) – particularly from Third World countries – constitute the “shock troops” of the globalist, oligarch “New World Ordure” cabal. The plan: destroy whatever hegemony the nations of the West still retain. Destroy – with their “diversity” – their ability to be self-governing. Destroy their sovereignty. Cause as much strife, economic hardship, crime, mayhem and murder as possible. The brainwashed zombies of the Left are just the current “useful idiots” helping this to occur.
When the situation gets bad enough the sheeple of the once-free nations of the West will beg their so-called “leaders” to “do something”. Then the NWO cabal will come out with their “solution”: WORLD GOVERNMENT. (Translated: enslavement of all who are not part of their cabal or the government drones that do their dirty work.)
“The Decline and Fall of American Nationhood”
http://canadafreepress.com/article/the-decline-and-fall-of-american-nationhood
“Refugee Crisis: Using Chaos to build Power”
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/22793-refugee-crisis-using-chaos-to-build-power
“UN-‘Together’: Propaganda Bid Seeks to Flood West With Migrants”
https://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=25414:un-together-propaganda-bid-seeks-to-flood-west-with-migrants
“New UN Chief to Europe: Ignore Voters. Open the Borders”
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/24744-new-un-chief-to-europe-ignore-voters-open-the-borders
“EU Insider: US Must Take More Refugees – Get Rid of Sovereignty”
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/item/21730-insider-eu-u-s-must-take-more-refugees-get-rid-of-sovereignty
“Soros and CFR Exploit Refugee Crisis for New World Order”
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/22447-soros-and-cfr-exploit-refugee-crisis-for-new-world-order
“Hungarian PM: Mass Migration A Plot To Destroy Christian West”
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/22853-hungarian-pm-mass-migration-a-plot-to-destroy-christian-west
“Soros Hack Reveals Plot Behind Europe’s Refugee Crisis, Media Funding and Manipulation”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-16/soros-hack-reveals-plot-behind-europes-refugee-crisis-media-funding-and-manipulation
Global Free Movement: UN Chief Calls Migration a ‘Right’ in a ‘World on the Move’
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/20/un-director-general-calls-migration-right-world-move/
“New United Nations Boss Unveils Plan to Promote Global Mass Migration”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/12/new-united-nations-boss-plan-promote-global-mass-migration/
6 years ago
It’s all the ironic that most of these refugees are by no means “liberal”, most left-wingers don’t exactly pray five days a day, but they are overwhelmingly Democrat because of identity politics.
