Illegal Immigration Is An Existential Threat
Dear Editor,
“You can’t have a welfare state and open borders.” – Milton Friedman.
Some might say, in today’s context, that this is racist. But it’s not. It’s just a reflection on human nature. We’d all like to get something without having to work for it, wouldn’t we? Any country that gives away money, housing, social care, free food and free health care to any and all who manage to flop on their beaches or borders is asking to be inundated by third world “asylum seekers.”
That’s what they claim they are as they cross from the French “refugee camp” that’s within sight of the White Cliffs of Dover. But are they really seeking asylum, or are they cynically preying on our decency and kindness? If they are really being persecuted in their homeland – like German Jews in Nazi Germany – then we must obviously give them refuge. But if they have traveled through a dozen safe haven countries before they wade onto Dover’s beach or Texas soil, are they really asylum seekers? Or just illegal immigrants?
European welfare states are more generous than the US, and geographically closer to the birth country of migrants who’d like to partake of their wealth without ever having contributed to it. So, France, Germany, and especially the UK are the most coveted destinations. Britain has the most advanced welfare state, including 100 percent socialized healthcare. Coincidence?
And let’s tell the truth: They’re illegal immigrants, whether they’re trying to get into the United Kingdom or the United States. Whatever their pretext might be, they have deliberately entered these countries without any regard for our immigration laws. Ergo, they are illegal immigrants. The left loves to distort language, so as to manipulate how you think. I suggest that you think for yourself.
My ancestors worked hard to create a better life for us. That’s why European countries have progressed. The people who built Europe were not indifferent to the fate of their progeny; they were anxious that their children should have a better life than they had. It’s called love.
So, when their own countries became oppressive or punitive, they decided to risk all and set off on little wooden ships. What breathtaking courage. Europeans have always succeeded in creating prosperous, happy and free societies out of undeveloped wildernesses, whether in North America, Australasia, South Africa or any other little corner of the world that they have settled (e.g. the Falkland Islands).
Should we allow those who have never contributed anything to short-circuit our centuries of work and sacrifice by simply crossing the English Channel or the Rio Grande and proclaiming that they have certain needs which must be met – by us? Are we really such suckers?
Joe Biden says yes – but he doesn’t live in Brownsville, Texas, does he?
Illegal immigration is not just a problem, it is an existential threat to our countries. My country of birth is already lost (Great Britain). My brother tells me that it is impossible even to drive around Leeds or Bradford or Manchester on Muslim holidays because the roads are clogged with thousands of Muslims who block the roads facing Mecca with their faces to the road and their bottoms in the air. The police are present not to keep His Majesty’s highways clear, but to ensure that the ceremonies of Islam are not disrupted. Blocking His Majesty’s highways used to be a serious crime. Not now. That is how comprehensively we have been vanquished.
The mayor of our capital city, London, is a Pakistani Muslim. Our prime minister is an Indian Hindu. Ethnically British people are a minority in Britain’s two biggest cities (London and Birmingham).
Don’t let the same fate befall the greatest country in the world. It could easily happen to you, and the Democratic Party is actively working to accomplish that, as they import millions from the third world. Your only hope is to build the wall, and re-instate a functioning immigration system.
The next presidential election will be crucial.
Vote for Trump. Or lose your country.
Trust me, I know.
Austin Morris
Apparently, Austin thinks that people who travel 100s of miles (often on foot) are just lazy people looking for handouts. He also seems to believe that only those with the access to expensive legal services required to navigate our complex (and also understaffed) immigration legal system should be allowed to immigrate to the US.
The truth is that most who come to the US via our southern border are able and happy to contribute to our growing economy here in the US. And more importantly, are CRITICAL to many industries here in the US. Look no further than the mess the Governor of FL created with his anti-immigration policies where several industries are unable to staff their operations due to dramatic reduction in immigrants in his State.
The UK with it’s self-inflicted economic struggles (see Brexit) simply don’t have the economic growth to support the level of immigration they experienced, and this has added to their challenges. (Note that most of what Austin complained about was cultural impact to UK, not economic…cuz you know…)
Key is that we need to manage the flow of immigration (yes declaring asylum at the Southern border is LEGAL regardless of where or how you cross) to align with the job opportunities in the US. Both seasonal and long-term. This will require overhaul of our immigration law which requires Congress. Regardless of what Trump tells you, immigration laws cannot be overridden unilaterally by the Executive Office (he tried and as usual failed). Both Trump and Biden have been shut down by the courts when attempting to restrict asylum access at our southern border.
It is long overdue to stop making immigration a presidential debate issue and make it what it really is, a congressional issue. We need people in congress who are willing to compromise and agree on an overhaul to the system that is clearly failing. Not just US citizens but the immigrants as well. Our own Senator Tillis supported such legislation, and most conservatives called him a RINO. Can’t get far thinking and acting unilaterally in a democracy.
Time to put country before party and make positive change versus the zero-sum politics favored today in the US.
Good grief! Are you ever blue-pilled! We have no southern border. We may as well lay off the “Homeland Security” and immigration people and save the money, as they aren’t doing anything useful to taxpayers. 7 million immigrants since the figurehead Biden was installed. The ruling class is intent on maximum chaos, the easier to rule.
Good grief! Are you ever red-pilled. Our border has been an issue for decades. Republicans turned down the budget proposal requesting additional funding for border security. Biden is just following the laws as passed by Congress. Heck he even recently tried to implement some of the policies that Trump proposed but the courts shut him down just as they did Trump.
But you be you pill boy.
Nonsense!
Biden has been flashing a huge Green Light to any and all illegal immigrants since the moment he stepped into the White House.
It is a calculated and cynical strategy to buttress the future power of the Democratic Party – and destroy the America they despise.
The border was almost secured under Trump, but the Dims eliminated the Trump policies when they came into office. Had Trump been relected, anyone wanting to come into our country would have had to “apply” to gain access, not swim the Rio Grande, or go thru Canada, etc.
If it were me, I’d have all prospective candiates for work-visa entry apply for it, not sneak across and declare they are being discriminated against.
What a joke. The border crossing slowed due to covid pandemic. No doubt his cruelty to families (separating and losing their children in the system) was effective in slowing crossing. But you be you.
Yep! I believe it’s called Cloward-Piven Chaos theory. They are implementing it as fast as they can.
Bollocks.
Hey, we got an illegal hangout over on Hobbs and Jefferson. Manning and city, county governments are thrilled. Don’t forget all the other freebies the city and county tax you on.
Spot on comments………..a tragedy that many citizens are blind to what you have written. The religious organizations and the heads of such (Pope Francis being one), are misguided and without compassion. They advocate something that is untenable and destructive. Thanks again for you comments.
You’re welcome, Rick. It’s sad to watch America make the same fatal mistake as Britain. If I can help raise awareness of this problem a little, then I feel obliged to do so.
Many in Britain were cowed into silence by the aggressive vitriol of the Left. Anyone who dared raise an objection to uncontrolled immigration was immediately smeared as a bigot, or a racist. I think you can see that my fears are not based in racism, but out of a love for my dear old country. What other countries in the World would implement their own cultural suicide?
The Anglosphere West has the right to protect its values, its mores, its customs and social cohesion, its beliefs and its religions – just like all the other countries.
We must have the courage to reject the baseless and vile claims of Leftists, and the hate they direct to those who dare do so.
Yes ,100%. Save humanity, save the unborn, respect Christian taxpayers.
Duck Tonald Frump
Austin might be “an illegal”
My immigration status has always been uninterrupted legal and “in status”. And I never used an attorney. The system is clear and easy – except for those who are trying to distort and manipulate it.
Asylum requests are very expensive unless you are lucky enough to have a non-profit attorney assist you. But again, Austin only thinks affluent people should migrate. Because…you know…
Asylum requests cost no more than the nominal fees associated with submitting the forms.
You are so narrow minded. Asylum requests require an attorney if you hope to present a viable case.
You don’t know me.
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Libertarians are not at all narrow minded.
… and when I came here I was 22, and in no way affluent at all. Poverty struck, more like. But the small fees associated with submitting the forms were easily afforded even by zero-wealth me!
And all done perfectly legally.
Prove it. You’re on a pseudo-anonymous right-wing opinion section, pardon our skepticism, you illegal.
You’re not going to let the facts get in the way of your opinions, are you mate?
You must be a Leftist.
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Came here on a Student Visa issued by the US Embassy when it was in Grosvenor Square, met my wife at UNC-G, married and received LPR (Lawful Permanent Resident) status – “Green Card”.
Sorry buddy, but your venomous imaginings are pure BS.
“Facts are stubborn things” – Ronald Reagan.
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Life’s a bitch, ain’t it?
So nothing like requesting asylum request. Most bigots view the world though their narrow life experiences and refuse to acknowledge the different challenges faced by others.
You’d know, Chrissy.
This is a great reminder that xenophobia, Islamophobia, and other identity based fear and hatred is not a uniquely American thing.
Just another fearful middle aged white guru ranting on the Rhino.
Try taking a Bible into Saudi Arabia, Mr. Al Hamar, and you’ll learn very quickly about REAL religious intolerance.
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And if you dare to engage in baseless character assassination of me, I have the right to return the favor :
– Just another obnoxious militant Muslim who enjoys Western freedoms while working to destroy them. Thrown any gays off buildings lately?
You are free to open your house and yard to anyone who wants to share in your open-mindedness. You are also free to donate 100% of your salary to the government if you like and request that it be used to support immigration efforts. Put your home and your money where your mouth is if open boarders are so great. Asking the government, aka the taxpayer, to pay to support as many illegal immigrants as would like to come get a free handout, is ridiculous, especially when you consider the volume of American homeless in desperate need of aid in this country. We ignore them, push them aside, and then call woe is me for someone who has never set foot in this country.
It’s easy to reduce yourself to name calling when you do not have a sound argument. Rather than doing that, go ahead and tell us all how the U.S. taxpayer can support an infinite number of people walking in with their hands out. That idea is no more tenable than you being able to support an extra 20 people in your house on your current budget.
Well said Austin. Every where you turn, more illegals are taking over the area. Hardly anywhere in Greensboro/Burlington/Asheboro/Winston Salem or anywhere between is English the primary language spoken. Now you can’t pick up a phone or buy a product without Spanish being included.
We don’t do this for any other nationality.
I met a man the other day. A young black man from Africa. His part of the country is going through a war. He asked for asylum here and received it. He asked before coming here!! He did it the right way. He filed the paperwork, went to the embassy there and got permission to come here. His parents are still in Africa and he’s terrified they will be killed. He has been here 8 years waiting on his official citizenship to go through. He has completed everything required of him.
He is angry about Biden just opening the borders. I don’t blame him!! So many thousands and thousands have come here the right and legal way. They went through years of waiting to be a citizen. Years of being separated from family and not able to return to their country to visit. It’s absolutely not fair that dementia Joe has ruined our laws and way of life by throwing open the borders without regard to who is coming in. Hundreds and hundreds of these illegals have already been arrested for rape, murder, drug dealing, molesting children and more. Yet they aren’t kicked out of our country but slapped on the wrist and let go or either disappear to another state or city.
I was approached at ncdmv by an illegal who offered me $500 if I would let him use my address!! I called the police on him. Nothing, absolutely nothing, was done to him. He was simply told to move on. He should have been taken by ice on the spot but thanks to our idiot governor, that’s not gonna happen!
We need to close our borders, plain and simple. We need voter ID to stop the illegals who are already here from voting! That’s why Biden opened the borders. There are organizations giving them state IDs without anything verifying who they really are and they are using those to vote. This has been proven time and time again.
We need genuine voter id to stop voter fraud. Illegals have no voting rights, no voice, no welfare rights, no rights period but they get them! We need to close the border and take care of our own people before worrying about someone else’s. OUR homeless. OUR veterans. OUR orphans. OUR elderly. OUR disabled. OUR handicapped. OUR poor. OUR hungry. THEY should come first! Not illegals!
Save our country. Vote Republican
Agreed 100%, Pat.
And it’s true that those most vehemently opposed to this uncontrolled illegal immigration are often legal immigrants like myself. We obeyed the laws of our new country and went through the process. We shouldn’t have bothered if all we needed to do was get our backs wet by wading across the Rio Grande. Easy peasy !
You should have took the $500 offered told him your address was 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington DC and your last name was biden
Chris and others,
My aunt is a LEGAL immigrant who went thru the process to entr this country so I’m familiar with the process. It took time but she’s now here. This argument of it’s too expensive is so much meadow muffins.
First off Chris, like the overwhelming majority of your socialist arguments, you are only half right, telling only half truths. First off, they are ILLEGAL immigrants, the key word being ILLEGAL. Also, these ILLEGAL invaders are NOT critical to our economy. If they are, how did the US become such an economic powerhouse in the world without them?
Again I refer to the definition of the word “invasion” because that is exactly what this is. We have American citizens who need help, but can’t get it because all the money is going to ILLEGAL “immigrants” who break into this country with their hands out. Not all of them, but the majority.
If you truly believe in the what you mindlessly spout, something I don’t believe, then contact the Immigration services and tell them you want to house a dozen ILLEGAL immigrants, but won’t take any tax-payer money from the government to help. Everybody who believes what you do needs to do the same thing. I bet I know the ultimate outcome.
Finally, Austin is here LEGALLY. Unlike what’s going on, he went thru the process and is a contributing, not a leaching, member of our society. That’s more then can be said about these thousands invading our country daily.
Thanks Alan.
I certainly am a contributing member of our society. I don’t even want to think about how much money my business has paid in taxes over the last 32 years. But I’m happy to pay it. The taxes here are still only a fraction of what the poor Brits have to pay. As an example, their sales tax (VAT) is 20%. Their excise taxes are confiscatory (Scotch whisky is cheaper in our ABC stores than it is in Scotland, and their gasoline (petrol) is well over $7 a US Gallon), and anything you do is taxed in one way or another.
And we are still free here (no guns in the UK!).
God Bless America.
Did she request Asylum? I bet not. Average legal cost for Asylum request is $10k. There are a large number of non-profits that help southern immigrants, but the wait list is long. If you want it to be illegal for border crosses to claim aslyum, then get congress to change the law. Right now Biden (and Trump before him) were forced to follow the law.
Long standing international law requires that refugees seek asylum in THE FIRST SAFE COUNTRY they reach.
The UK and the US are dealing with illegal immigrants who have passed through dozens of safe countries before getting here and then cynically claiming asylum status. It is perfectly obvious that they are not legitimate refugees, but just chancers who want to break into our countries for the goodies they get.
We need Trump as President, and a rational, functioning, and selective immigration system.
The fee to apply for asylum in the US is $50 (fifty Dollars).
Without borders, we have no Country. Look up the definition of the word “invasion”. We are being invaded. The LEFT wants votes, chaos, and power.
The Left wants better controls at the border as well. They just want a human approach. Until Congress changes the law, courts have blocked any unilateral approach to blocking asylum requests at the border. Heck, Biden tried the same rule changes Trump (except Biden didn’t lose track of children ripped away from their families) tried but was blocked by the same courts.
Get congress to do their job!!!
“The Left wants better controls at the border as well” – “CHRIS”.
What a load of bovine excrement.
Biden even tried to implement the ‘single border rule’ that you mistakenly thought was law. The courts tossed this out…just like they did when Trump tried it.
All of the Leftist crocodile tears over the illegals ignore the obvious but hidden agenda; the elephant, or rather, the jackass in the room. At heart, the Democrats believe that millions of illegals, overwhelmed by gratitude for coming to America and the welfare state, will vote for the Left, and keep them in power despite all. The only thing left to give them their dream would be to get the illegals the vote, aka amnesty. This non-negotiable demand is what has prevented the broken immigration system from being fixed, lo these many years.
All of the Leftist crocodile tears over the illegals ignore the obvious but hidden agenda; the elephant, or rather, the jackass in the room. At heart, the Democrats believe that millions of illegals, overwhelmed by gratitude for coming to America and the welfare state, will vote for the Left, and keep them in power despite all. The only thing left to give them their dream would be to get the illegals the vote, aka amnesty. This non-negotiable demand is what has prevented the broken immigration system from being fixed, lo these many years. However, if Trump’s allegations have some merit, any merit at all, then gaining unlawful control of the election system makes moot the demand for giving away our one-man-one-vote system.
If the republican party wasn’t so bigoted in general (you know, calling immigrants rapists and thieves), They could likely do much better with Latino vote.
Calling illegals “rapists and thieves “ is really kind compared to what we call you chris
Someone here is a nasty prejudiced bigot, and it’s the fellow who comments as “Chris” or “Christian”.
Your snide and arrogant comments display your character.
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European-Americans are projected to become a minority in the US around 2040, IF current trends continue.
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