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The "Gang of Eight" plans for 33 million aliens from Latin America to soon become "chain immigrants" on a new government funded plantation. m/rThe Immigration Transformation | National Review Online
A rational immigration reform would attempt to reorient, not
accelerate, current policy.
By Mark Steyn May 4, 2013
Most countries in the world have irrelevant numbers of
“immigrants.” In the Americas, for example, only Canada, America, and the
British West Indies have significant non-native populations. In Mexico,
immigrants account for 0.6 percent of the population, and that generally
negligible level prevails all the way down through Latin America until you hit
a blip of 1.4 percent with Chile and 3.8 percent in Argentina. There’s an
isolated exception in Belize, which, like the English Caribbean, has historical
patterns of internal migration within the British Commonwealth, such as one
sees, for example, in the number of New Zealand–born residents of Australia.
But profound sweeping demographic transformation through immigration is a phenomenon
only of the Western world in the modern era, and even there America leads the
way.
Over 20 percent of all the immigrants on the planet are in
the United States. The country’s foreign-born population has doubled in the
last two decades to 40 million — officially. Which is the equivalent of
Washington taking a decision to admit every single living Canadian, and
throwing in the population of New Zealand as a bonus. Thank goodness they
didn’t do that, eh? (Whoops.) Otherwise, America would have been subject to
some hideous, freakish cultural transformation in which there would be hockey
franchises in Florida, and Canadian banks on every street corner in New York
trumpeting their obnoxious jingoistic slogans (“TD: America’s neighborhood bank”),
and creepy little pop stars with weird foreign names like Justin and Carly Rae
doing the jobs America’s teen heartthrobs won’t do. What a vile alien nightmare
that would be to wake up in.
Not so very long ago, its national mythology
notwithstanding, the United States was little different from most other
countries. In 1970, its foreign-born population was 4.7 percent. And, while
most of the West has embraced mass immigration in the last half-century,
America differs significantly from those developed countries, like Canada and
Australia, that favor skilled migrants. Personally, I don’t see what’s so
enlightened and progressive about denuding Third World nations of their best
and brightest to be your doctors and nurses, but it does demonstrate a certain
ruthless self-interest. By contrast the majority of U.S. foreign-born residents
now come from Latin America, and more than a quarter of them — 12 million —
from Mexico. A policy of “family reunification” will by definition lead to
low-skilled immigrants: An engineer or computer scientist is less likely to
bring in an unending string of relatives — because his dad’s a millionaire
businessman in Bangalore and his brother’s a barrister in London, and they’re
both happy and prosperous where they are. Insofar as there is any economic
benefit to mass immigration, it’s more than entirely wiped out by chain
importation of elderly dependents and other clients for the Big Government
state.
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