Why Did the Anglosphere Go Hog Wild Over Immigration?
After Covid, English-speaking nations tended to go nuts over immigrants. How come?
Why did major Anglosphere governments such as the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia go hog wild on immigration after 2020?
What were they thinking?
Perhaps there were economic theories about how to deal with post Covid adjustments behind the splurge?
But keep in mind that the After Covid years were also the After Trump and After George Floyd years. Anti-Racism became the highest priority, and what is more racist than white people trying to keep their country white? Trump’s defeat in 2020 just showed that Goodness was prevailing.
Beyond that gut feeling, the Biden Administration didn't seem to have a well-worked out rationalization for letting in so many immigrants. Instead, they just seemed to feel that it was racist and Trump-like to try hard to keep immigrants out. And then they got surprised when they eased off border enforcement at how many migrants swarmed in, including from places that had sent very few migrants before.
So, in America, the best answer is the Biden Administration wasn’t thinking.
As far as I can tell, American liberals really don’t think that much about immigration. I’ve often suggested to liberals that since a lot of people want to move to America, we should carefully devise policies for letting in the best immigrants and keeping out the worst.
But I almost never get much intellectual engagement on this sensible idea, because American progressives don’t see who gets to immigrate to America as really being any of the business of Americans like themselves. Instead, it’s the fundamental civil right of all inhabitants of the planet to choose whether or not they want to move to America.
Recall that two things that Trump said that liberals found perhaps most shocking both involved Trump’s assumption that some immigrants are better than other immigrants: Mexico is not sending their best, and, judging from Norway and Haiti, Norwegians would make better immigrants than Haitians.
How dare the President of the United States have any opinions on what kind of immigrants the United States should get! That’s none of his business. Instead, immigrants will notify Americans of their decision to immigrate by showing up in America. We’ll just take whatever immigrants immigrants decide we’ll take. And we’ll like it.
Obviously, I’m exaggerating this insane mindset, but it helps explain things like why liberals are so irate over conservative charges of a Great Replacement in order to win elections. That’s a Conspiracy Theory!
And, indeed, I’m not familiar with much evidence that the left thinks carefully about how to rejigger immigration laws to maximize their vote haul. For example, Ted Kennedy sponsored both the 1965 immigration act and the 1990 diversity visa lottery. Did Teddy’s braintrust carefully calculate how to maximize the Great Replacement?
Nah. As far as I can tell, in both cases, Senator Ted drunkenly reasoned, Mayor Quimby-like, that his bills would bring in more Irishmen to vote for Kennedys.
Liberal thinking on immigration seems no more in depth than: Immigrants are Good and we are Good, while you are Bad, so of course us Goods will support each other in our ultimate triumph over you Bads.
So, they were especially shocked in November 2024 when Donald Trump got returned to power in large part because immigrants and other nonwhites were moving in his direction.
That helps explain how demoralized and confused Democrats have been ever since. They had a nice, simple model of the world in which there were Good People (e.g., immigrants, non-whites, and white Democrats) and Bad People. But then a lot more of the Good People voted for the ultimate Bad Person, Donald Trump.
That’s my theory on America. What do you think about other Anglosphere countries?
Property developers and universities have a lot to do with it. An unholy alliance between bleeding hearts (who have never seen a brown person they didn’t like) and a rapacious rentier class that is reliant on an immigration Ponzi scheme and cares nothing for the countries it destroys.
England, and especially the south east of England rather than the north east (where I live) and rather than Wales and Scotland, is being overrun with third world immigrants, both legal and illegal. The only explanation I have is that whoever is running our corrupt and clueless government wants to collapse the economy and civil society, i.e. everyone’s trust in everyone else. And then…they will bring in the solution: digital id - the sheep will beg for this as it will come with a promise that all illegals will be deported, being super easy to track down as they won’t have the fantastic id with which all all true Brits will be tagged.
The illegals on the ‘small boats’ could be easily stopped (machine guns would be my preference) and all those that are already here would leave pretty quickly if all benefits, including free housing and health care, were withdrawn. Also, we could ban the burqa and halal meat, cousin marriage etc…But these solutions will not ever be considered by those who presently rule us, although promises may be made, as long as the native white population just agrees to sign up to the agenda. The West needs to rise up, unfortunately I can’t see this happening. The majority of us are too old, too fat, too addled by the covid jabs, or too brainwashed (again, see the covid scam for evidence of the sheep’s’ indoctrination).
I am 63, my husband of 40 years is 66, my son is 38 and unmarried and childless but with a good, work from home job and mainstream lefty views (although he agrees with me about the third world creatures). My dear daughter lives in France with her partner and son, her only child. My family is typical: of all my children’s friends very few have more than one child, many have none. I am one of six children, all of us boomers, with only eleven children between us - there are two autistic children amongst our grandchildren….so…I am not optimistic, instead extremely angry at the waste of our civilisation. Perhaps this collapse was inevitable, given how whites are far outnumbered world wide, and how easy it is nowadays for the hoards to invade Europe.