Simultaneous with the Biden plan to completely open our southern border to the Central and South American hordes clamoring for admittance is another plan, getting less airplay but already passed by the Democratic House and under debate by the de facto Democratic Senate. That plan, potentially far more destructive to American society than Biden’s, is summed up in the HR version of the bill: “H.R.8428 – Hong Kong People’s Freedom and Choice Act of 2020.”
We remarked about this bill shortly after its passage in the House in December. The motive of the bill and the plan behind it is for America to once again signal proudly to the world her awesome virtue by playing savior to the planet’s oppressed and excess, in blind denial of the effects on American society. Basically, the bill would grant Temporary Protected Status to every one of the approximately 7.5 million persons currently living in Hong Kong. (And if you think the word “Temporary” means what it says, read this by Mark Krikorian.)
Our rulers–one refuses to use the first-person “we”–periodically like to demonstrate their moral virtue by either going to war or bringing the war-threatened to us. It’s all a part of their well known “invade the world, invite the world” policy.
In this case, the “world-inviters” in Congress tell us, in the bill’s text, that “the human rights of the people of Hong Kong are of great importance to the United States.” This is stated as an article of faith, one of those self-evident propositions that are said to need no defense because they in fact have no defense. They simply resonate sentimentally in the minds of Americans trained to believe such myths as that a pedestrian poem on the Statue of Liberty is holy writ.
For some on the immigrant-happy left, however, granting mere “temporary” status to Hong Kong’s residents–as mendacious as that word is–is not enough.
Consider, for example, a piece published on the globalist-minded VOX.com website in May, 2020, entitled “Let Hong Kong move to America.” That article argues that the U.S. is somehow obligated to permanently protect Hong Kongers, virtually all of whom are ethnic Chinese, from the Chinese government. Apparently, we must do this because we’ve always done this: It is a “role . . . played time and again for victims of political repression abroad — open America’s borders and offer a place of refuge, freedom, and prosperity.”
The author urges that the U.S. offer a special visa to all Hong Kongers, possibly along the lines of the “Community Renewal Visa,” first floated in the Democrat primaries last year by the now-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and soon plagiarized adopted by Joe Biden. This visa would permit “communities experiencing population loss to issue temporary visas to skilled foreigners that would allow them to live and work in places that want more workers.” Applied to the massive influx of millions of Chinese, this would result in the immediate sinofication of countless towns in middle America, a fate appealing to only the most anti-American elements of the ruling elite.
But wait, there’s more. The movement represented by H.R. 8428 goes even further. The bill was inspired by actions of the government of the United Kingdom, which has offered U.K. passports to all residents of Hong Kong. That would be disastrous enough for both the U.K. and the U.S. The current clamor, however, is to include all 12 million of China’s Muslim Uyghurs as well. See, for example, a January 21, 2021, piece on The Federalist website titled “The United States Should Give Hong Kongers And Uighurs A Ticket To Freedom.” Concentrating heavily and irrelevantly on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, the authors Aaron Tao and Amy Lutz state breathlessly and without argument:
The United States should consider providing an unlimited number of special visas for vetted Uighurs, dissidents, and targeted religious minorities. The situation is dire — we cannot wait.
So, the world-inviters are gearing up for a virtual frenzy of invitation delivery: not only will our southern border be opened to asylum seekers from everywhere, we are expected to offer refugee visas and ultimately citizenship to more than 20 million Chinese, more than half of whom are Muslim. All because, in the words of the VOX author, “it would be a way to deliver concrete help to many people currently suffering through no fault of their own.”
There are quite a few Americans suffering through no such fault as well, and these proposals won’t help them. But why should they matter anyway?
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