Despite the fact that this is nothing new from the liberal media, it still blows me AWAY to see crap like this.
Basically, people are only against illegal immigration because they’re afraid their race is going to die out.
Way to go, New York Times.
Strip all the other rationales away from this draconian immigration policy, writes @CharlesMBlow. This is at the core: White extinction anxiety. https://t.co/j3WmiNHpFj
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) June 25, 2018
White people have been the majority of people considered United States citizens since this country was founded, but that period is rapidly drawing to a close.
White America is growing older, there are fewer white women of childbearing age, and the white fertility rate is lower than that of Hispanics and blacks.
All manner of current policy grows out of this panic over the loss of privilege and power: immigration policy, voter suppression, Trump economic isolationist impulses, his contempt for people from Haiti and Africa, the Muslim ban, his rage over Black Lives Matter and social justice protests. Everything.
These immigration policies are for people who conflated America with whiteness, and therefore a loss of white primacy becomes a loss of American identity.
WOOF.
So… what about people like me? I’m Hispanic, and I strongly oppose illegal immigration. Is it because I’m some kind of evil race traitor who only cares about white people?
(The left: yes. That’s exactly it.)
NO. I oppose illegal immigration because it HURTS EVERYONE.
Why is it that liberals NEVER mention the network of human smugglers, or “coyotes” who smuggle people into this country?To say that they have no regard for human life is putting it lightly. These people are not in the human smuggling business to “help.” They’re in the human smuggling business for profit. A large number of women making the journey are subject to vicious sexual assaults, which of course they have absolutely no recourse against, as their lives are entirely in the hands of their attackers. A large number of children make this journey alone, their tiny lives in the hands of someone who sees them as little more than a paycheck. The smugglers will abandon their human cargo at any sign of danger… they’re paid in advance.
Those who make it across alive are now criminals. They have begun their “new and hopeful lives” as fugitives from the law. More often than not this legal status precludes any chance at honest productivity, which leads many to gang affiliations, drugs, and a lifetime of dependence and poverty.
The left loves to virtue signal about letting them aaaaaaall in. Letting a flood of illegal immigrants in seems like the “good” thing to do, because they don’t have to actually deal with the problem. They feel fine and virtuous by leaving the border unsecured, never mind the dangerous journey and the dishonest life they are apparently encouraging these people to embark on. “SWIM ON OVER, MEXICAN AMIGOS! (You’re not really my problem, as I do not plan on interacting with you. You will not be hired by my white-collar employer, or live in my gated community.) WELCOME.” The left then feels extra virtuous by condemning blue-collar working class America, which does in many ways feel the strain of illegal immigration, as racists for complaining. They have a pretty sweet deal in all of this.
If the left actually cared, they wouldn’t encourage potential migrants to risk their lives to break the law. They’d encourage them to find legal recourse to come over. Better yet, they’d encourage Mexico to get their act together. How many leftists who CRY for justice and beg us to let illegal immigrants into our country have partaken in drugs smuggled in by Mexican cartels? How many of them stopped and thought about that before they took the first hit? Tell me how much you ACTUALLY care.
And of course, we simply do not have the resources to take care of anyone and everyone who decides to hop on over and stay a while. How does the left suggest we do this? This may come as a shock to the Bernie Bros – but MONEY DOES NOT GROW ON TREES.
No life is more “valuable” than another… EVERY LIFE IS VALUABLE. But of course, it is our government’s job to prioritize Americans. That goes without saying. When it comes to American resources, we cannot prioritize 7 billion people around the world equally. American resources are for Americans. It’s pretty simple.
Leftists will call it cold… but WHERE do you draw the line?
So the NYT wants to call apprehension over illegal immigration “White Extinction Anxiety”…
I’m a Hispanic conservative… and I call it “common sense.”