Once, immigration was intended to benefit America and Americans. Today, for Democrats, the only benefit allowed is for the immigrants, especially the illegal ones.
One of the most useful aspects of the Trump presidency is that Democrats are no longer hiding their cards. Whether because Trump has driven them mad or because they truly believe Trump is the last gasp of Americanism and that they are on the verge of total control (there’s a scary thought), they’re being very open about their goals.
Currently, their overriding goal is to replace the American population, which is too white and too independent for their tastes. This project started in the 1960s, with Teddy Kennedy’s bill ending immigration based on quotas that favored immigrants from countries with values similar to America’s and who could vouch (or have someone vouch on their behalf) that they would not become a burden to the American taxpayer.
Instead, the new goals were family reunification and workers with needed skills. The former goal quickly outstripped the latter.
That change to the law reshaped America’s demographics. Suddenly, immigrants poured in from Latin America, Asia, Africa, India, and other regions. In the early days, most of these immigrants assimilated because assimilation was still part of the American educational and institutional ethos.
However, as Democrats reclassified assimilation as racism, and our education systems from kindergarten to graduate school taught that America is an evil nation, subsequent generations of illegal immigrants and their children not only did not assimilate but became actively hostile to their new home. You could say that Ilhan Omar is Exhibit A for this mindset.
Moreover, while many immigrant parents may still have been alive to the wonders of America compared to the third world, often totalitarian nations they fled, their children, products of leftist education, had nothing but disdain for this country. This was the case for the people I grew up with. The parents appreciated America. Their children (my former classmates), all of whom graduated from college, do not. As many proudly post on Facebook, they’ve been out on the streets screaming about “No Kings,” “Abolish ICE,” and “Reparations.”
The shift was about more than numbers and demographics. It was also about the answer to that famous Latin question: “Cui bono?” (Who benefits?) Is it America or the immigrants?
They proved that fact at President Trump’s last SOTU address