The American left’s position on mass immigration is logically absurd at this point
Let’s start with my favorite cliche saying- “No one is illegal on stolen land”.
If you follow this to its logical conclusion, the implication is that everyone on earth has the legal right to move wherever they want, because technically every square inch of useable land on the planet has been stolen from someone if you go back far enough.
This logic undermines the whole concept of sovereign nation states with the right to control their own affairs, of which the United States is one, like it or not. Either we have borders and are allowed to enforce our own rules for who crosses them or we aren’t.
The modern leftist argument for mass immigration is basically that, because most of our ancestors were immigrants, we have no moral basis for being opposed to immigration now. That’s just nonsensical.
It goes along with the line “We are all immigrants unless you’re Native American”
Most of our ancestors may have been immigrants , but the vast majority of Americans have been here at least three generations back at this point. This is our home now for better or for worse. But the left is essentially saying we have no basis to exercise the same sovereign right as any other country.
“Because your ancestors did a thing, you’re morally obligated to allow something similar now” is a terrible argument to justify mass migration.
Arguing about the economics of it or something is one thing, but the idea that we’re just obligated to allow mass immigration no matter what is crazy.
By the way, believe it or not, we have the highest immigrant population in American history. Remember learning about Ellis Island in school? We have more than that now, even when you look at percentages rather than raw numbers.
This is not commonly taught in schools any more, but last time we had immigration numbers even close to this, the border was closed almost entirely for thirty years. We survived.
Despite this, mainstream conservatives *still* favor legal immigration. We *only* want the ones who broke our duly established laws to get in to be removed. That doesn’t seem like too much to ask.
That is not “far right” or “fascism” at all. The left is so far left on this issue that I guess it seems like facism from your point of view. I won’t deny that we have some elements who are calling for things such as denaturalizing people already here legally. Those people I would actually call “far right”.
But it’s not “facism” to expel people who have no legal right to be here in the first place. Try sneaking into Mexico as an American and see what they do to you. It’ll make what ICE is doing look like a cakewalk by comparison.
Bottom line, you can’t have the highest number of legal immigrants in American history, allow even more to enter illegally by the millions, downplay any criticism as being mere racism, then seriously not expect backlash.