10-01-2022, 05:19 PM
(10-01-2022, 03:18 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: I'm pleased to see people here can see the validity of Europe's concerns over immigration. With regards to the states, I'm pro-border security, but I don't see immigration (especially legal immigration) as one of our make or break issues. For comparison: immigrants to the United States are about 4 times less likely to commit crimes, while immigrants to France are about 3 times more likely to commit crimes.
Imo, it's important to look not just at the numbers and nationality of the immigrants themselves, but also at the incentives of all our policies: what kind of people are we encouraging to come here?
South, Southeast, and East Asians as a whole generally seem unobjectionable people. It's hard to tell many times which "Hispanics" are recent or even illegal immigrants and those who have a long heritage in the USA; Mexican-Americans can assimilate these, and they can assimilate Anglos.
Latin-Americans are far closer to the cultural mainstream of American culture by language and religion than are Arabs in France. Remember well: nearly half of Western Civilization lies within Latin America, especially if one includes the large Hispanic community in the USA.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.