The common view of immigration on the Left is that Mass immigration is a useful weapon on four fronts
1.) The war against the ideal of limited government
The influx of third world immigrants that are being advocated will result in the burgeoning power of the State as these new immigrants vote for candidates who will take from the stolen monies of citizens, that are nested in the Government coffers, and redistribute those monies to the new race pimps representing the immigrant constituency. The consequence of this, of course, is to expand government in its stealing from Paul to give to Peter routine.
2.) The greater jihad against the historic American nation itself
Bertolt Brecht in a similar context where people had risen up against their government poetically asked,
Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
Clearly a state apparatus that fancies that the best arrangement for a State is a Centralized top down State replete with a planned economy is going to do all it can to create a citizenry that agrees with them and will support the State. Traditional Americans who know their history and are familiar with their birthright will be, at the very least, diluted by the immigration influx.
3.) Enriching the Super Wealthy by swamping the market with low wage slaves.
Immigration redistributes the wealth into the pockets of the super-wealthy as wages are suppressed while the super rich get richer. High stock prices, rising home values and surging corporate profits have buoyed the recovery-era incomes of the most affluent Americans, with the incomes of the rest still weighed down by high unemployment and stagnant wages for many blue- and white-collar workers due to the labor surplus created by untrammeled immigration.
4.) And the Ultimate goal … To destroy the Historically Orthodox Christian Faith
Most of the type of Biblical Christianity that informed America for the first 75 years or so has long gone into eclipse but remnants remain. With continued immigration Christianity will be redefined just as the rest of the nation is redefined. Biblical Christianity accounts for the belief in limited Government, the belief if just wages and just prices, and the belief system of traditional Americans. As such, this ultimate goal of destroying the Historically Orthodox Christian faith, if accomplished, assures that the lesser proximate goals are achieved.
I think that your fourth point is the least understood and least realized by all in this immigration debate.. (well, really, all of your points but, the fourth one even more!)
Several months ago, I was having an online exchange between two friends, both Christian.
Sadly, one of them kept insisting that the theonomic viewpoint logically entailed open borders, since Israel had “open” borders.
I repeatedly told him, in no uncertain terms, that regardless of what “open” borders meant to Israel, Israel would never have let their religious (and therefore, cultural) distinctives be destroyed by foreigners who decided to enter into their land.
They understood that their religious identity was key. Our Christian identity has been diminishing ever since the country’s founding. (There are other issues about how our founders should have been blatantly specific about Christian principles in the Constitution instead of a general Christian/theist/deist approach, but that is another issue for another time).
The problem is that this “mass” immigration has been happening for many years now. This whole ridiculous idol of “multiculturalism/religious pluralism” is really a symptom of a larger problem of the displacement of God’s law…
When the focus is not on a normative standard but on some arbitrary notion of multiculturalism/pluralism, which happens to not be defined and very fluid, it can be twisted and churned to mean anything, which renders it meaningless and destructive as a normative principle for societal cohesion and maintenance.
When God’s law is displaced, man will replace it with anything and everything else. How can religious plurality be a good thing? I wonder if the Boston bombings, Ft Hood or the recent riots in England are proof that religious pluralism are really a good thing.
Good insights Christopher. You’re absolutely correct in saying this has been a long time coming.
I would suggest that Israel’s open borders are indeed the pattern for all nations, but only because the Law of God as a whole is the pattern for all nations, and that Law does not offer much to the stranger except love from his new neighbours, legal justice, and a poor, basically slavish existence. It prohibits citizenship (except in some cases after multiple generations), suffrage and civil rule, land ownership, the stolen and redistributed wealth of the rightful citizenry, “free” education, access to cheap & easy credit, access to our women, asylum and/or sympathy for their false religion and culture, etc. The Law of God doesn’t offer the stranger what folks today call the “American Dream.” It certainly doesn’t offer the “unlimited opportunity” to the stranger that supposedly draws them here now. The only reason a stranger would want to immigrate to our land is if he just could not live in peaceful justice in his own native land. The “open borders” advocated by the Law of God wouldn’t really have to work very hard to keep folks out, as there wouldn’t be much to draw them here…maybe the climate.
Just my thoughts…
Good stuff Dabney. I could go with those kind of open borders.