Joel Kotkin: The West's immigration reckoning is here - "The recent riots in Los Angeles, sparked by President Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, could be a harbinger to a new era of ethnic conflict not only in the U.S. but throughout the West, including Canada. Many leading countries for immigrants, notably in the Middle East, may have higher percentages of international migrants, but many are only there temporarily. But in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. — where the foreign born represent between 15 and 30 per cent of the total population — most come to stay, with sometimes problematic results. President Joe Biden changed immigration policies, allowing millions, some barely vetted, to enter at ever increasing rates, causing the number of undocumented immigrants to soar past 11 million. Until recently, former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau followed a similar liberalization that allowed large numbers of migrants, some coming as refugees, into the country. In both countries, the mass migration has deepened already serious class divides as many new migrants remain poor. In Canada, one in five recent immigrants now lives in poverty, with most suffering from “deep poverty” — an income below 75 per cent of the poverty line — compared to only five per cent of the whole population. Such complexities are rarely part of the public discussion of immigration... as immigration levels have soared, the economic payoffs seem to be increasingly dubious, particularly when we put into account the changing structure of the labour market. The reality is that immigrants are not only filling in for jobs with no workers, but are replacing native born workers who are increasingly on the sidelines. In much of Europe up to one quarter to one-third of the population under 30 is neither in school or working. In the U.K. one out of seven under 25 is on the economic sidelines, the highest level in a decade. Much the same pattern is emerging in North America. In the U.S., labour participation has steadily dropped since 2000. More American men are now out of the workforce than in a half century. Canada too has a declining labour participation rate, which is now at the lowest level since 1997 . These two phenomena — immigrant poverty and native non-participation — likely intersect. The immigrant’s presence at the lower end of the labour market does tend to retard wage growth, as noted by a recent Congressional study, and could discourage natives from work. This may be a boon for professionals for cheaper waiters, busboys, gardeners, and nannies but not for working class people. Early claims that Trump’s crackdown has helped reduce crime and lifted wages for low-income workers should be treated with care, but could become persuasive, at least outside the media and academic establishment. In addition to purely economic calculations, there is also a political one. The new wave of immigrants includes a radical element bringing the tensions of their country of origin to their new home. This can be seen in particular with the rise of antisemitism on college campuses and leading urban centres in the West. It is tragic to see once tolerant places, notably Canada, including my wife’s hometown of Montreal, into noxious hubs of ethnic and religious strife."
The left wing cope is to mock natives for being lazy and not wanting to work, which is why mass migration is needed. Of course, take migration out of the picture and they accuse greedy businesses of not wanting to raise wages to get workers
Diversity isn’t ‘our strength’ when millions of foreigners refuse to assimilate - "When immigrants came to America, the unspoken deal used to be to “leave the beefs at home”. As newcomers assimilated, they abandoned ancient feuds that mired parts of the Old World in conflict for centuries. This has been a key to American success. Indians and Pakistanis may be at loggerheads, but in the US they were both “South Asians” and got along fine. As the Irish Republicans and Scots Irish left Emerald Isle politics behind, so Armenians and Turks, Arabs and Israelis, Hutu and Tutsi all respected the pax Americana. But America as a “melting pot” was replaced with the mantra “diversity is our strength”. The evidence for the latter being true is slim. A 2007 study based on a survey of 30,000 Americans found that “the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects”. A German study in 2022 suggested that “the public is more reluctant to support welfare where the proportion of migrants at the local level is larger”. Those promoting open borders and multiculturalism preach that mass migration comes only with benefits, never costs. But that can depend on the home culture of the migrants and how quickly they adapt to a new one. Let’s first look overseas. After decades of mass migration, once homogenous Sweden now has a 20 per cent foreign born population. It has also now been dubbed the bombing and gang murder capital of Europe. Children “whose parents were born abroad are five times more likely to be suspected of murder and manslaughter than Swedes whose parents were born in Sweden,” according to a 2021 study. In many European countries, there is evidence that crime rates among immigrants from certain countries are higher than among indigenous citizens... When Israel and Iran started trading bombs, Brendan O’Neill wrote in The Telegraph that it is “unbelievable” that “people are marching in London in support of the evil Iranian regime”. But it is believable. When Hamas raped, murdered, and kidnapped hundreds of Israelis on October 7, 2023, there were public demonstrations in support immediately afterwards in Britain. Police were either powerless to enforce civil order or chose not to. The white British population in London is now a minority. In the last few decades, millions of people from all over the world came to the UK, including many who are openly hostile to Israel’s existence... Here in America, the foreign-born population is nearing 16 per cent – the highest level in history, exceeding the previous high of the late 1890s. At the same time, the idea that, when you come to the Midwest, you leave the Middle East behind, is fraying. Local politicians are appealing to micro-constituencies along ethnic or religious lines in ways more reminiscent of the 19th century than the 20th. In New York City, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist candidate for mayor, has been accused of bringing the sectarian politics of the sub-continent to the Big Apple. He has called Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, head of the nationalist BJP (Indian People’s Party), a “war criminal”. Mamdani’s family are Muslims originally from the Indian state of Gujarat, where Modi is also from. When he was a local politician in 2005, the US refused Modi a visa due to his alleged role in communal violence... In Minnesota, Ilhan Omar, a Democratic representative, plays to her heavily Somali district and sometimes appears to conflate Somalia’s interests with those of the United States. Omar called it “really shocking” that president Trump organised a military parade for the 250th anniversary of the United States Army – which won our independence, kept Europe free in 1917-18, and defeated Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1942-45. “This is not the country we were born in,” says Omar (who was not born here). “I grew up in a dictatorship,” she told Democracy Now, where she doesn’t “remember ever witnessing anything like” the June 15th parade. Perhaps that’s because, in Somalia, the militias tend to kill each other with roadside bombs, AK-47s, and souped-up SUVs called “technicals”, all of which would make for a pretty sad parade. Rashida Tlaib, a congresswoman representing a heavily Arab area of Michigan, never lets you forget that she is Palestinian. She refers to the Palestinian people as “we,” although she is a US citizen representing Americans of many backgrounds in Congress. In 2023, she was censured by the House of Representatives for “calling for the destruction of the state of Israel”, because of her use of the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”."
Meme - "14 Heartbreaking Photos That Will Make You Say "Fuck Having Borders and Law And Shit""
Deuteronomy 28:43-44 - "Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours. They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers."
So much for left wingers selectively quoting the Bible to try to get Christians to accept open borders and free stuff for migrants
Meme - Smiling women in front of Edoras: "ORCS WELCOME"
"... A FEW YEARS LATER" *burning hall and Eye of Sauron flag*
Crying and sad women in front of Edoras: "WE DON'T FEEL SAFE"
Overqualified and underpaid: Are immigrants earning less than native workers? - "Immigrants earn, on average, 17.9% less per year than natives in Europe and North America, according to a Nature study. The research analysed the salaries of 13.5 million workers across nine countries, including Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden, between 2016 and 2019. Three-quarters of this pay gap was the result of a lack of access to higher-paying jobs, while only one-quarter of the gap was attributed to pay differences between migrant and native-born workers in the same job... The place where immigrants were born also mattered. The highest average overall pay gaps were for immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, at 26.1%, and the Middle East and North Africa, at 23.7%. Immigrants from Europe, North America and other Western countries experienced a much smaller average pay difference compared to natives, at just 9%. However, the children of immigrants had a substantially smaller earnings gap, earning an average of 5.7% less than workers with native-born parents. Within-job pay differences between natives and children of immigrants are uniformly very small, at less than 2% in all countries. In 2023, 39.4% of non-EU citizens were overqualified for the jobs they were in, according to the latest Eurostat figures. According to a McKinsey study, improving social mobility could raise the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of European countries by 3% to 9% and close the skills gap expected by 2030 without needing new training or reskilling."
‘Dublin is very multicultural, which I love. But there’s also this weird energy in certain areas’ – The Irish Times - "“I think for me, as an African, as a Ugandan, I just want to find my people. Find a group where I belong and then the rest can slowly happen from there, because being mostly alone is very difficult in a new place and trying to figure out things on your own.”"
Clearly, Ireland needs to import more Africans and specifically Ugandans so he can feel at home. But if white people want to be with other white people, they are dangerous racist white supremacists who must be stopped
Scrap the asylum system—and build something better - "THE RUles for refugees arose haphazardly. The UN Refugee Convention of 1951 applied only to Europe, and aimed to stop fugitives from Stalin being sent back to face his fury. It declared that anyone forced to flee by a “well-founded fear” of persecution must have sanctuary, and must not be returned to face peril (the principle of “non-refoulement”). In 1967 the treaty was extended to the rest of the world. Most countries have signed it. Yet dwindling numbers honour it. China admits fewer refugees than tiny Lesotho and sends North Koreans home to face the gulag. President Donald Trump has ended asylum in America for nearly everyone except white South Africans, and plans to spend more on deporting irregular migrants than other countries spend on defence. Western attitudes are hardening. In Europe the views of social democrats and right-wing populists are converging. The system is not working. Designed for post-war Europe, it cannot cope with a world of proliferating conflict, cheap travel and huge wage disparities. Roughly 900m people would like to migrate permanently. Since it is almost impossible for a citizen of a poor country to move legally to a rich one, many move without permission. In the past two decades many have discovered that asylum offers a back door. Instead of crossing a border stealthily, as in the past, they walk up to a border guard and request asylum, knowing that the claim will take years to adjudicate and, in the meantime, they can melt into the shadows and find work. Voters are right to think the system has been gamed. Most asylum claims in the European Union are now rejected outright. Fear of border chaos has fuelled the rise of populism, from Brexit to Donald Trump, and poisoned the debate about legal migration. To create a system that offers safety for those who need it but also a reasonable flow of labour migration, policymakers need to separate one from the other... The most pragmatic approach would be to offer more refugees sanctuary close to home. Typically, this means in the first safe country or regional bloc where they set foot. Refugees who travel shorter distances are more likely one day to return home. They are also more likely to be welcomed by their hosts, who tend to be culturally close to them and to be aware that they are seeking the first available refuge from a calamity. This is why Europeans have largely welcomed Ukrainians, Turks have been generous to Syrians and Chadians to Sudanese. Looking after refugees closer to home is often much cheaper. The UN refugee agency spends less than $1 a day on each refugee in Chad. Given limited budgets, rich countries would help far more people by funding refugee agencies properly—which they currently do not—than by housing refugees in first-world hostels or paying armies of lawyers to argue over their cases. They should also assist the host countries generously, and encourage them to let refugees support themselves by working, as an increasing number do. Compassionate Westerners may feel an urge to help the refugees they see arriving on their shores. But if the journey is long, arduous and costly, the ones who complete it will usually not be the most desperate, but male, healthy and relatively well-off. Fugitives from Syria’s war who made it to next-door Turkey were a broad cross-section of Syrians; those who reached Europe were 15 times more likely to have college degrees. When Germany opened its doors to Syrians in 2015-16, it inspired 1m refugees who had already found safety in Turkey to move to Europe in pursuit of higher wages. Many went on to lead productive lives, but it is not obvious why they deserved priority over the legions of other, sometimes better-qualified people who would have relished the same opportunity... Deals can be done to win the co-operation of third-country governments, especially if rich countries act together, as the EU is starting to. Once it becomes clear that arriving uninvited confers no advantage, the numbers doing so will plummet... If liberals do not build a better system, populists will build a worse one"
Damn fascists! All developed countries need to accept an unlimited number of refugees, or they're no better than the Nazis. Refugees never lie and it's racist and xenophobic to claim that they do
Clearly, racism is the only reason Europeans welcome Ukrainians but it's not why Turks welcome Syrians, because only white people can be racist
Countries need to jail populists to Protect Democracy. If there's one Nazi at a table of 10, there're 10 Nazis at the table
Meme - *Concentration Camp gates with motto 'See you later Alligator' instead of 'arbeit macht frei'*
William Meijer on X - "Immigrants from low-trust countries have been measured to remain low-trust up to the fourth generation, with no further assimilation since the second generation. Mass low-trust immigration can turn your high-trust society into a low-trust society, permanently"
The ungrateful refugee: ‘We have no debt to repay’ - "what America did was a basic human obligation. It is the obligation of every person born in a safer room to open the door when someone in danger knocks"
You must import even more people who hate you, or you are a bad person
Meme - Auron Macintyre: "Any sane person would realize this makes immigrants sound like a bitter 5th column waiting to harm anyone who wants to defend their nation. But to the lib, hurting the chuds is the highest good, so he though he would share this story as a treat"
derek guy @dieworkwear: "talked to an immigrant cobbler at my local shoe repair shop who told me he found out a customer supported deportations so he put tiny pebble in his insole on purpose"
Andrew Fleischman on X - "The Roman empire literally had universal citizenship by the 3rd century AD, and emperors from Syria, Illyria, Iberia etc etc etc. The United States of America had universal manhood suffrage by the 1870's, open borders until 1880's. Imported 50 million people from 1870 to 1920."
CrusaderPepe on X - "Wow, Rome had universal citizenship in the 3rd century? I wonder what happened to Rome over the next 200 years"
TF Stalshek on X - "He holds up Illyrian Emperors as some sort gotcha-ya, but neglecting to mention that Illyrians had been part of the emperor for 400 years and all of those Illyrian Emperors had come up through military service."
Collin Rugg on X - "NEW: Rioters in Mexico City demand that Americans stop immigrating to their country and “stop stealing” their homes. You can’t make this up. Locals are fuming that Americans are “imposing their culture” and taking over. Some went as far to say that “gringos” should be k*lled while others told them to “get out of Mexico.” Since COVID, American “digital nomads” have been flocking to Mexico City. “Mexico City is going through a transformation. There are a lot of foreigners, namely Americans, coming to live here,” said one local."
Julio Rosas on X - "I love pointing to Mexico’s problems with immigration because it totally undercuts the Left’s meltdown over deportations in the U.S. Mexico’s problems are for different reasons, but the end result is the same:
-Housing costs increase
-Local population gets replaced
-Culture starts to change
-Government gives foreigners special treatment
But just as Mexicans are right to say they should have the right to have their country and foreigners should respect it when visiting, it is also right for us Americans to say the same about our country.
The problems in Mexico City doesn’t even begin to address the issues Mexicans faced during the Biden-Harris border crisis. Tapachula, on MX’s southern border, was overwhelmed with illegal migrants. Locals told me the city became dangerous and dirtier. They called it an invasion."
Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 on X - "Mexican Antifa is vandalizing Americans living in Mexico. Incredible, really. Leftist radicals want Mexicans to live in America but don’t want Americans living in Mexico."
wanye on X - "This gets at a fundamental difference in worldview. To liberal types, the fact that we did a bunch of immigration before and it all eventually worked out is all the evidence you need to go ahead with any future immigration proposal. But what it looks like to me is that we picked the closest possible people in the world to us and it was still highly contentious, still had a ton of downsides, still took a long time to fully assimilate them, still had absolutely enormous changes on the character and nature of the country. What that says to me is that mass immigration is really contentious and difficult even in the best possible circumstances."
Charlie Bentley-Astor on X - "We are the first civilisation in history to pay for our colonisers to invade - to replace us. It was once the case that you had to be great and powerful people, and sacrifice resources and blood and men in order to conquer other lands."
Meme - "Leftists Believe: Migrants dont drive down wages
Leftists Also Believe: If you deport illegal migrants our food will cost more because you'll have to pay people properly to do those jobs"
Meme - Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen: "Ireland seeing the mass rape of 11-15 year-old girls by Pakistanis in the UK:"
"'I'll have what she's having"
Irish statistics @jimbobfrazzled: "Over 11,000 Pakistanis entered Ireland between January 2023 and July 2025, with 549 arriving in October 2024."
Charlotte Gill on X - "What was the point of Me Too if we’re just going to import the most misogynist men on earth… I know the answer. It’s because multiculturalism ALWAYS comes first for progressives - even if that culture is women and girls having 0 rights."
The Composite Guy on X - "The presence of Roma Gypsies in Europe completely destroys the argument that certain groups can be assimilated. Roma Gypsies originate from the Punjab region of India. Despite having lived in Europe for over a millennium, they have never assimilated and have been a problem population everywhere they have lived. In the latest disturbing case, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped, drugged, and sexually abused for three days by a group of Roma men in a caravan. The Ballymena riots were sparked by allegations that members of the Roma community sexually assaulted at least two young girls within three weeks. Over a third of the households in the area where the crimes occurred are occupied by Roma families. America has never assimilated its Black population. Australia has never assimilated its aborigine population. Europe has never assimilated its Roma population. Assimilation is an impossible task, and it is perverse to expect the British to suffer even more than they have, thanks to the disastrous immigration policies her party and others have inflicted on the UK."
CMV: Out of all the groups that immigrate to western countries, Muslim Arabs are hands down the worst at assimilating to western standards : r/changemyview - "I am saying this as an Exmuslim Arab myself and yes, I know there’s a lot of exceptions. I know they’re not all that way. But the painting is on the wall. I’m not saying anyone should abandon their religion, but integration is very important when you are moving to a new country but from my experience, all Muslim Arabs I know see moving to the west as an economic opportunity to them and they aren't interested in integrating into western societies. The reason why immigrants coming from let’s say Eastern Europe or Latin America integrate so well is because western cultures aren’t that different and share similar values. The differences between traditional Islamic Arab culture and western culture are so astronomically different that conflict usually arises. Europe's weak stance on who they let in from the Middle East proves this, just look at Birmingham or at Malmo. People say "racism" and “Islamophobia” very loosely. If people are coming to your home country(pick many of the EU), causing chaos, pushing their own beliefs, killings, getting benefits from a western nation, etc. of course people are going to start getting pissed off. Muslim Arabs originally born in the Middle East are used to their thoughts and values being the majority. They get a little confused in melting pot western cultures where they encounter a lot of people with different views. They’re so indoctrinated to think one way that assimilation is nearly impossible. Try going and be a raging Christian in Saudi Arabia, wouldn’t work. You would have to assimilate. What you worship or your religion is your business, but to move to a new western nation and expect to force the laws and beliefs of your former nation is just peak disrespect. European countries shouldn’t have ‘no go zones’ because some immigrants refuse to adopt the host country's culture and values."
Meme - "Half of all westem women when hostile foreign invaders are removed from their countries *Midsommar crying scene*"
Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "Almost every Western nation decided on a policy of infinity migration around the same time because they all practice the same universalist religion of Liberalism, which seeks to dissolve particular identity structures like nation-states themselves in favor of something resembling Karl Popper’s open society. And on that front, openness, inclusion, diversity, and deracination are not political policy choices so much as they are moral imperatives. Mass migration was never decided on a policy basis in the same way that tax rates or healthcare is because religious beliefs are never put up to a democratic vote. They’re simply asserted and then imposed."
Europe in shock: populist right-wing parties surge to unprecedented highs in Germany, France and Britain : r/CitizenWatchNews - "With automation there will be less and less jobs. Stop worrying about it immigrants."
"so you want to bring more and more people in a market that will have less and less jobs? make it make sense"
Meme - Patrick Basedman: "I love how they use two white nurses to illustrate 650,000 Chinese and Indians"
"Australia to be hit by a record population explosion with 650,000 immigrants to arrive in just two years"
