The Quote Below—More Misinformation from the Media
“The United States, despite its various well-known flaws, is a place where a lot of people around the world would like to live. It’s also a country that is in a pitched competition for global economic primacy with China. There are signs that Washington is now adding these two facts together to make good policy.
“America’s cultural and historical legacy of immigration is enormous. An extremely large share of its most prominent and successful figures —Steve Jobs, Kamala Harris, Sergey Brin, Sidney Poitier — have been immigrants or the children of immigrants. . . .
“The same can’t be said about America’s main rivals in the world. Relatively few people want to move to China or Russia, and the regimes in Beijing and Moscow define themselves in terms of blood-and-soil nationalism in a way that makes diversity and assimilation difficult. And lately there are some signs that American politicians are getting smart and seeing the U.S.’s migration-friendly culture as a critical source of national strength. . . .
“It’s unfortunate that so many of the biggest China hawks in American politics are also hard-core immigration restrictionists. Part of what makes China such a formidable adversary is its large population, and the U.S. ought to be moving to counter it. . . .
“Senator Tom Cotton’s RAISE Act, for example . . . aims to reorganize the U.S. immigration system to emphasize wages and skills (fair enough) and then cut overall numbers in half. That’s absurd: If America can improve the quality of the immigrant mix, it ought to welcome more rather than fewer people.
“Congressional Democrats’ assignment, meanwhile, should be to fight hard for these ideas in House-Senate negotiations rather than standing their ground on the sanctity of the existing NSF structure. For its part, the White House seems to recognize the significance of the issue and has taken some modest administrative action to improve America’s ability to attract foreign STEM talent.
“As the U.S. tries to crawl out from the Trump-induced collapse in legal immigration, however, what it really needs is new legislation. Heightened bipartisan concern about the economic threat from China could be just what it takes to make immigration great again.” —The Anti-Immigration Coalition, Matthew Yglesias, Bloomberg, 1/30/22 [Link]
Fact Check of Above Quote: The writer claims we need mass immigration to compete with Russia and China, while suggesting that they are at a disadvantage because they aren’t being flooded with foreigners. But what really are the keys for a nation to compete successfully with other nations? Two things obviously are national unity and national confidence. Mass immigration and the multiculturalism it promotes are weakening our country’s cohesion and identity.
Immigration propagandists believe that if they repeat the cliché “diversity is our strength” enough times it will become true. In reality, it’s false. One extensive study found that high diversity in U.S. communities correlates with the weakening of social and civic ties.
As our diversity becomes divisive, we are no longer as confident as we once were. Mid-twentieth century America, before the current wave of mass immigration, was far more dynamic and self-assured than the country we have today. At present, unfortunately, a large segment of America’s elite classes is anti-American, as noted by the late Harvard professor Samuel Huntington in his book, Who Are We?
These elites view mass immigration as a means toward their overall goal of to submerging and dissolving our traditional heritage and culture to make way for some version of globalism. They push their agenda through all major U.S. institutions. One example of their messaging is Critical Race Theory (CRT), a Marxist-derived ideology that demonizes America and portrays white Americans as “privileged” oppressors.
With such narratives taught in our schools, we have little hope of maintaining our national strength. People may say what they like about Russia and China, but Russian and Chinese schools don’t teach their children to hate their respective countries. This gives them an enormous advantage over us. If our country wishes to compete against them, patriotic Americans will have to rout the globalists from power and repudiate their dogma of unending mass immigration. Certainly some immigration can be good for us, but not a flood tide that never stops surging.