The true evil of the open-borders ideology revealed

Stephen T. writes:

As we’re constantly told that immigration is “our lifeblood,” as we hear our President flatly assert that “this country could not survive” without illegal immigrants, I wish that someday you might address this question: What is the model for this dire prophecy? Where exactly IS this oft-mentioned, once-affluent country that now has grass growing in the streets and people living in caves due to a lack of immigrants, legal or illegal?

Surely there must be at least a few cautionary examples of nations which have indeed flat-lined for this reason—otherwise, so many people smarter than me wouldn’t be constantly referencing it. Yet, I only find historical examples of the opposite; i.e., a decline and fall which seems to neatly correlate with unlimited immigration. Am I missing something?

Is there, in fact, an established, developed country in the last 200 years or so that has bit the dust due to insufficient numbers of immigrants?

Stephen has made an excellent point. I would add that when we combine the constantly repeated statement, “This country could not survive without illegal [and legal] immigrants,” with the constantly repeated charge that we are racists if we don’t eagerly admit an unending mass flood of legal and illegal Third-World immigrants, we see for the first time the true malignity of the open-borders ideology. It is a radical remaking of America, which tells us that openness to mass immigration is the indispensable basis both of our goodness and of our continued existence—which tells us that America without a constant influx of cultural aliens, America in itself, is an evil nothingness.

So, not only must open borders inevitably result in the practical destruction of America, but the open-borders proponents, in order to convince us to open our borders, must first destroy America in our eyes.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 06, 2006 04:02 PM | Send