I’d like to point out what’s been happening on our Southern border is not “immigration” of any kind. Not legal (obviously) not illegal (though what is happening is illegal) and not refugees of any kind, either.
What’s been happening is unprecedented, it’s happening all over the West (look up poor little Italian islands overwhelmed by waves of illegals from Africa and Middle East) and it is in fact an attempt at extinguishing the West and its uniqueness.
Now you can insert a lot of stuff here about race, and replacement of races, but that’s not what’s happening either. The problem would be just as bad if they were channeling exclusively from the underclass of Europe. (Some of whom are in fact here.)
Whether that’s what the left thinks it’s doing or not, that’s something else, since the left is utterly convinced that cultural is hereditary in a genetic way (yes, there are hereditary basic character traits, but those are very malleable. Humans are creatures of culture as well as genes, and the split is so close no one has ever identified one as a decisive factor over the other. Defects, like autism or actual, verifiable mental issues DO win over culture, but that’s a different kettle of fish. And the heredity of such defects is… debatable in many cases, and we should have more research on it, tbf. ) I mean, back in the nineties I had an argument with someone in the letters column of analog. The poor idiot thought that Chinese were genetically more “community oriented” and “non materialist.” Where they get these idiocies, only Heaven knows.
Yesterday I got bogged down trying to write this because I got caught in a rabbit hole of attempting to figure out how the left came up with this mode of attack. There are many reasons it has the support of their base who doesn’t view it as an attack, but as a way to utopia. See above. They believe certain races/heredities are more “communitarian” and “natural communists.” (Please, if you invent a time machine go beat Gramsci black and blue for me, okay?) Which is just part of their being the same genocidal eugenicists they’ve always been, right? They just changed targets.
But also some of them firmly believe we owe the third world supporting them and giving them anything their heart desires, since in the leftists’ blinkered, narrow minds there is no wealth creation, and the only way some countries/cultures are more productive is that they have “stolen” the “Wealth” from other countries. This is the whole rage against “colonialism” ignoring that most countries in the world have been both colonies and colonizers and that if your culture is broken, being a colonizer and actually for real stealing wealth (Hello USSR) does not do you any good and you’ll remain a sh*thole.
These same cartoon characters believe that people become instantly productive and rich by moving here. Call it the Garden of Eden effect (You shall be like gods…)
And for the bunch of you who are going to tell me no one on the left believes that utter nonsense, your argument is invalid. Find a recent college geography book (probably history too, but geography is where I found it for my kids. And yeah, we repaired the ceiling above where I went off like a rocket when I read that some countries were poor because other countries stole their “natural resources.”) Also talk to anyone under the age of… oh, 35. Particularly someone who is nice and not a particularly deep thinker. Sooner or later you’ll get them to say that they’re poor because we’re rich. Or some other piece of nonsense.
If you want to look up why they’re more communist than the US, do not look at genes, but at the fact that most of them were under a (heavier than here) concerted barrage of propaganda by the USSR for its entire existence, and the fact that their best and brightest learned communism everywhere from Patrick Lumunba University in Moscow, to Harvard and Yale. The worst colonialism ever perpetrated against the third world was exporting communism to them. Also, for the record, they’re poor because they’re communist. Communism (and socialism) destroys wealth and kill humans (the only different about socialism is it does it slower and with crappier writing and art telling you that you should love it.)
But all of this is utterly irrelevant as I’m convinced the leftists at the top, the ones who designed this strategy, have no warm fuzzies for third worlders, any more than they do for the west. All they have is will to power and a naked thirst to dominate all of humanity. Or perhaps to exterminate it. They don’t seem to like humans very much. In fact, they seem to despise humans to the point that one wonders if all the jokes about lizard beings are just jokes.
What happened was this: the left — the powerful on the left — always imagined they’d get all the power, as the west succumbed to over population and lack of resources, was conquered by the USSR, and post collapse became a wasteland ruled by them as overlords.
Some wrenches dropped in the way of their grand plans, one being the fall of the USSR, another being that the overpopulation crisis failed to materialize, and even demographers are becoming aware that statistics are not reality and that no economy, no every day reality corresponds to “too many people.” Not even in the third world.
To add to this, humans — the pests! — came up with an agricultural miracle that feeds everyone we have. And continue to be endlessly adaptable.
Most of these horrors of communism, these international villains that would make a James Bond villain blush are older than I, or not very far off my age.
Your sixties, no matter how well you’re doing, even in the first world, are when you start thinking “Whoa. At this point, I might live another forty years, or I could die tomorrow, and it wouldn’t be exactly a surprise.”
A lot of these people are in their eighties and nineties. And they’re starting to suspect they’ll never rule over the world and everyone in it, while most humans die or grub in the dirt for subsistence. And they were PROMISED.
Well, they really couldn’t hope to conquer the West. Or let’s be blunt, America. Europe is still too free for them — which should give you pause. Or fill you with rage. Or yes. — but America? America is two middle fingers raised in their sight. We were supposed to have collapsed from our prosperity (“decadence”) by now. We were supposed to be conquered by the USSR. We were supposed to be communists, the seat of their power.
Instead, we keep denying them their promised glory and just being…. America.
They couldn’t attack us frontally. Or with armies. Look, even under Biden, with as much as they’ve done to destroy our military, there is no one in the world who can take us. And even as wimpy as Europe is, their soldiers are better fed and generally better equipped than, oh, the Chinese. (No, really. If you believe in the amazing Chinese might, you should remember that totalitarian regimes not only lie, most of the time they don’t even know they lie, because the lies are baked in at every level of their society. And that fact alone means they can’t fight free or mostly free countries that have a clear sight of their capabilities. In the end, information is the most powerful weapon.)
China has been their great hope since the nineties, but it’s now obvious it really is a paper tiger, and one that is smoldering if not outright on fire.
So they came up with a last desperate strategy: send the third world in waves, masses and unimaginable multitudes into the west, particularly America.
The strategy is brilliant on the level of damage it causes: It destroys the high trust society when there is a large number of strangers who do not share our assumptions, our morals or our culture; it exploits and destroys our social welfare net (you know what I think of it, but we have it and I can’t convince people to get rid of it) which is enough to bankrupt us; it challenges the West’s Happy Go Lucky belief in human potential and the value of every human; it creates deep ethnic and nationalist rifts within society that leads to nepotism which by itself destroys productivity.
Like all smart weapons, it takes advantage of the best qualities of those attacked and weaponizes them against the victim. (Not that it’s in any way helping the people used as weapons either. More on that later. Put a pin in it.)
But Sarah! You’ll say “It’s just people who want a better life, who are, at worse, economic refugees.”
Well, no, it damn well isn’t. Go look at the series here, by Bill Reader. He did a deep dive, and it was obvious, early on that the “caravans” were being filled with communists. Devote, dyed in the wool commies, who came here to “conquer.” (Remember all the flags and anthems sung at the border? Yeah.)
Since then, it’s got complex, simply because there aren’t that many commies, even in South America. (I do wonder though if that’s what allowed sanity to happen in Argentina and El Salvador. They sent the commies North.)
However, if you think the flow at the border is natural, you must believe in “global warming” or another widespread disaster that could cause that. Study history. That much of a movement of people simply doesn’t happen just because they “want a better life” and a rich country has its border open.
I do realize we’re an attractive nuisance. (And the only way to get rid of it is to stop both welfare to all illegals, but also to revoke minimum wage laws, which make illiterate, lost peasants worth it because you can pay them less. This is what’s known as a signal that our minimum wage is too high. Economics is a bitch. You can’t really legislate it. You can try, but you just end up with pathologies like illegal immigration.) BUT even so.
Look, humans are social animals. That means we’re creatures not just of economic well being, but of connections to family, friends, to the way things work.
As someone who immigrated, and who comes from a family where a lot of people immigrated over the generations (not here.) I can tell you that the drive is neither universal nor particularly widespread. Dad’s family is WEIRD. They’re born with wandering feet and tend not to fit where they were born, so they leave in search of where they belong. Sometimes they even find it.
Mom’s family is more normal and seems to be the pattern of normal human beings: Stay where you’re planted, unless there is a major push to make you move. How major? You and your entire family will otherwise be murdered. Or you’ll starve to death.
Go look at the great migratory movements of the world. That is exactly what’s happened. If you see places emptying themselves to go elsewhere, they’re either being invaded or climate change (real one) has made it impossible to feed themselves; or there is some other form of destruction, including governmental. (See Irish Potato Famine.)
The thing is that you need to get to the point of famine in stupid government tricks for people to move in any amount worth noting. The USSR didn’t manage it. The DDR didn’t manage it. CUBA hasn’t managed it. There are immigrants into the US and the west, sure, but never en masse.
The people movement we’ve seen over the border is too large for it to be just the people who naturally seek better. (So those of you Libertarians who feel queasy about supporting deportations, stand down. This is not the movement of free people or free markets.)
Even if countries aren’t emptying (and one hears stories) the numbers coming over our border indicate something is going on other than “I want to earn a living for my family.”
Also, honestly, look at any picture. I remember reading Simak’s Our Children Children and their talking about how the refugees from the future didn’t behave as any other refugee in the history of mankind. This was taken as evidence that they were more “evolved” or something. The thing was that Simak was a journalist and he nailed it on what refugees look like. They usually look hungry. They almost always look tired, ragged, and clutch with hopeless despair a few possessions, some of which are nonsensical. A teddy bear. A sheaf of papers. A bag of potatoes. Something that gives them security when entering the unknown territory ahead.
This is not what we see with the people coming over the border. By and large they’re well fed. Most of the few women who come over are actually better dressed than I on any given day. They clutch no few possessions. Most of them are male, which negates refugees, but not economic immigrants. Most economic immigrants start as unaccompanied males who hope to ‘send for’ family, or to send money home and eventually return.
So, what is going on here? Where are these people coming from? Who are they?
Well, we know for a fact that a lot of them are the prison populations of communist countries, ala Mariel boat lift. There will also — we’ve captured several — Jihadists bent on revenge against us. There are probably still communists, particularly from China, Europe and Africa, who come here to destroy America, as their holy mission.
But I honestly think — based on the reports from people who work border patrol, and who talk off the record — that a lot of the people being flung against us are actually coerced to come.
Coerced, you say? Well…. Mexico is a failed Narco state. The biggest resorts, the most powerful families are up to their necks in drug trafficking and other public. And the way the society works is Lords and Peons. (Throughout most of the American continent south of the border, to be fair.) If the Lord make the Peons move, the Peons will move. Through debt, or attrition, through terror or orders, they will move. Because the alternative is death.
I think that’s how we end up with people who quite obviously come from so far from civilization that they have no clue what a toilet is, and think it’s a water fountain. (Yes, fairly regularly, it does happen.)
More importantly, Spanish isn’t the majority spoken language of those coming from south of the border, and many of those we can’t find interpreters for. (The dirty secret being that most Spanish-Speaking American countries are actually and for real ultra-racist against their tribal “Indio” populations. So getting rid of them is a bonus.)
But I suspect if the media cared to look, a lot of favelas, remote, poor villages and slums in Mexico, Central and South America and for that matter the rest of the world have been cleared and sent to the border. Once here, they are ruthlessly exploited by the cartels and the other criminal elements of their own or associated countries already here. The over a third of a million missing children aren’t the only ones exploited. Yes, women have been trafficked too. But I bet you anything men are working in conditions of inhuman servitude and compelled not to leave.
If you read “missing family” reports, you’ll find some of them still did, heading mullishly back to the border and back home. They were just overwhelmed by people coming the other way.
Of course, in this there were also the people that preferentially want to go beyond the sidewalks, or to the totally strange place. BUT those are a minority of humanity.
I think most Americans, and a large number of Europeans are unaware of how much of the rest of the world is run by “mobs” o a sort or the other. Either hereditary power of a few families, or power of armed gangs, or true mafioso organizations run most of the world for their benefit. And until this past week it was to their benefit to send their serfs to invade, exploit and destroy the West, particularly the US.
(Real immigration doesn’t need well-funded NGOs to chase the “migrants” towards your border or give them what they need to survive here.)
This has been a disaster to the countries of origin as much or more than the US. Okay, so maybe not the sending us their criminals, though kindly remember that “criminal” in places like Venezuela might just mean “doesn’t sit down and shut up”. Probably sending us their underclass (and tomorrow or the day after I’ll write about underclass and what makes an underclass, a group that has more to do with each other across races and cultures and TIMES than is comfortable to contemplate.) also doesn’t hurt them. Maybe.
But an uninterested press has ignored the rumors of children kidnapped to be sent North, the stories of entire villages left empty, and of course the stories of places left without men (which to be fair happens with real economic migration, too.)
It has also been a disaster for the people sent over. Yes, even those put in luxury NYC hotels. Again, humans are social. These people have been ripped from their society, culture, and ways of living, and are fish out of water in ours. The fact we don’t appreciate their effects on us is just icing on the cr*p cake. Most of them don’t fit, don’t have the skills to fit, and are either exploited or turn utterly feral.
So… For the sake of humanity, for the sake of our country, for the sake of the future and our children, the best thing is for them to leave. The best thing is for them to go home, if possible. But if not possible, well… “You don’t have to go home. You just can’t stay here.”
As for the hand wringing over who will pick our crops or work in our factories: Frens, what we’ve seen are people being laid off and having to subsist on various kinds of welfare and assistance while the illegal immigrants are moved in to work at very low wages and in substandard conditions. Yes, minimum wage laws are an abomination onto economics, but you know, we can bridge that with technology. Automate more and hire locals for where you need them. (Which honestly would already have happened without this source of sub-standard but very cheap labor.)
More importantly, our economy will benefit greatly by having the burden placed on it lifted. Burden? Well, since we — malgre people like me — live in a society that insists on having a governmental safety net, illegal immigrants who can barely look after themselves are a drain on the collective resources.
How big of a drain? Oy, people. Even before the last four years of insanity? Ask anyone who works in an urban hospital, say, how many of the people filling emergency rooms were here illegally/didn’t speak English; ask any social worker how much of their case load are illegal immigrants who don’t speak English and who might or might not be passing the same six kids around amid various families, for extra benes; ask any school teacher in a place not utterly isolated how many of their students are non-English speakers and poorly socialized; have anyone who works for a charity food distribution tell you how many illegal immigrants they feed; figure out how much of homeless encampments are actually non-English speaking illegal immigrants, whose struggles to survive/criminal activities make our cities unsafe.
How big of a drain? I don’t know. I’d be tempted to tell you half of our expenditures are going to support people who shouldn’t be here, and who are paying mordida to some sort of criminal overlords. I have a cold feeling in my stomach that I’m way underestimating the numbers, though.
I was relieved when Trump declared this an invasion and the cartels enemy non-national organizations. Because it meant he saw what I saw.
The West has always welcomed those in true distress and willing to adapt and acculturate (a process that is not easy, and might be impossible for those without the desire or ability to thrive in the US) but this is no normal migration.
This is people being used as weapons by other people who don’t view humans as individuals or, frankly, human, and who are throwing them at us hoping to take us out and to finally achieve the world in which we are all serfs and they are the few, god-like overlords.
The only way to counter these human weapons is to send them back. As fast and as economically as possible.
I firmly believe even in the short run the money we safe on social services will more than pay for the price of deporting them.
We don’t have to hate them. If I’m right they’re not even here of their own volition. And we don’t have to despise them. And we don’t have to make sure they go “home.” The integrity of their culture and their nation is their lookout, not ours. (Their standards are also not ours.)
For our good, for their good, the attack has to stop and reverse.
We don’t in fact care where they go. They just can’t stay here.
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