APRIL 12 / Why do Democrats support unchecked immigration of the poor and uneducated?

Easy. They make better Democrats. So argues Victor Davis Hanson.

EUROPE'S IMMIGRATION POLICY is a disaster -- and for reasons that transcend the idiocy of allowing the free influx of young male Muslims from a premodern, war-torn Middle East into . . .

. . . a postmodern, pacifist, and post-Christian Europe. Europe . . . lacks the ingredients necessary to assimilate, integrate, and intermarry large numbers of newcomers each year: There is no dynamic and fluid economy, no confidence in its own values, no belief that class and race are incidental, not essential, to one's persona, no courage to assume that an immigrant made a choice to leave a worse place for a better one. And all this in the context of a class-bound hierarchy masked and excused by boutique leftism.

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In Europe, immigrants are political tools of the Left. The rapid influx of fast numbers of unassimilated, uneducated, poor, and often illegal newcomers may violate every rule of successful immigration policy. Yet the onrush does serve the purposes of the statist, who demagogues for an instantaneous equality of result. Bloc voters, constituents of bigger government, needy recipients of state largesse, and perennial whiners about inequality are all fodder for European multicultural leftists, who always seek arguments for more of themselves.

So unassimilated poor immigrants from the former Third World become easy proof that inequality and unfairness are still here and must be addressed with someone else's money . . . .

The same phenomenon is with us in the United States. Without open borders, the Democrats would have had to explain to Americans how and why more taxes, larger government, more subsidies, less personal freedom, racial separatism, ethnic chauvinism, and a smaller military make them more prosperous and secure. Yet importing the poor and the uneducated expands the Democratic constituency. The Democrats logically fear measured, meritocratic, and racially and religiously blind legal immigration of those who want to come to America to seek freedom from statism. If a poor Oaxacan, who cross into the [United States] three years ago -- without education, legality, or knowledge of English -- does not have a good  car, adequate living space, and federalized health care, then the Koch brothers, Wall Street, Fox News, or the Chamber of Commerce -- fill in the blank -- is to blame, and legions of progressives are available to be hired out to redress such social injustice.

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Europe's perfect storm is upon us. A shrinking, statist, and agnostic society that does not believe in transcendence, either familial or religious, is now at war with near neighbors of a very different sort. In the Middle East, the fundamentalists are growing in numbers, and they most certainly do believe that their own lives are nothing in comparison to the Phoenix-like resurrection of their Caliphate and the sensual pleasures in the hereafter that will reward their martial sacrifices in the here and now. . . .

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As a general rule, whatever Europe is now doing, we should do the opposite -- the our very survival in an increasingly scary world.

(Victor Davis Hanson, "Europe at the Edge of the Abyss," nationalreview.com, March 28, 2016)

 

 

 

Comments

[Houbagger]

God sure hated handouts to immigrants. Our values as a nation should reflect it: "For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt."

Jesus set very clear limits on how much we are to give: "For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me."

We are certainly told to keep a comfortable amount of wealth for ourselves and dole out safe amounts to the needy: "If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me."