Summary: William Lind looks at immigration, a top public policy challenge of our time. Open borders can irrevocably change a nation in a few generations, and America is already far down this road. Lind discusses one factor governing our choices.
“What if they were to come? I did not know who “they” were, but it seemed inevitable to me that the numberless disinherited people of the South would, like a tidal wave, set sail one day for this opulent shore, our fortunate country’s wide-gaping frontier.”
— Jean Raspail, looking at the Mediterranean from the French Riviera in 1972 From the 2011 introduction to The Camp of the Saints.
The Crying Child.
By William S. Lind.
From Traditional Right • 30 June 2018.
Posted with his generous permission. Graphics added.
In its quest to swamp native-born Americans in a sea of third world immigrants, the Left last week deployed one of its most powerful weapons: a crying child. You have all seen the photo: the illegal immigrant, the Border Patrol officer and the small child bawling. At that sight, we are all supposed to dissolve into tears ourselves and do something, anything so the child does not cry.
This is the sort of drivel one gets in a feminized society. Facts and reason are to yield to feelings. It matters not that this day and every day somewhere around a billion children cry. If thirty seconds later the officer handed the brat a sucker and the tears turned to smiles, there was no picture of that. A feminized society indulges in a culture of emotion, of pathos, of weakness.
In a world of Fourth Generation war, such societies will not survive. While most people think of the 4GW threat in terms of terrorism, that is a very small threat compared to the threat of invasion by immigration. We would do well to remember that the barbarians who overwhelmed and destroyed the Roman Empire were immigrants. With the exception of the Vandals, most of them did not come to destroy the Empire. They were trying to move in and enjoy its benefits. But they came in such numbers that Rome was overwhelmed.
The 21st century is likely to see similar flows of whole peoples. A combination of climate change, state collapse, and famine will see not millions, but tens of millions and hundreds of millions of refugees. Few are going to flee to India or Africa. They will head to places where life is good, Europe and North America. Unless we are prepared to do whatever is necessary to keep them out, we, like Rome, will be swamped, and all will end up in a new Dark Age. The immigrants may be seeking our way of life, but their numbers will be such that they will turn us into whatever they are fleeing. This has already happened along much of our southern border.
President Trump’s policy of separating children from their families was a disincentive for illegal immigrants to come here. We need every such disincentive we can devise. If the policy seemed cruel – gain, to a feminized society – it was very moderate compared to what the U.S. and Europe will eventually have to do to stem the human tide. When most of a flooded Bangladesh boards a fleet of rust bucket ships and heads for Europe, Europe will either have to sink the ships or watch The Camp of the Saints
That is, after all, what borders meant well up into the post-World War II era. Border patrols did not arrest people trying to cross illegally. They shot them.
A practical measure we need to revive immediately is to prohibit all entry to anyone without prior approval, including asylum-seekers. In the case of legitimate travel, this means bringing back visas. If we are talking about immigrants, we should return to the policy we followed from 1920 until the 1960s. Anyone wishing to immigrate into the United States had to be examined, tested, and pre-approved, under a quota system and with an American citizen’s sponsorship. The sponsor was required to take responsibility for the new immigrant, which meant helping them find a place to live and a job. They weren’t just dumped on the American taxpayer.
A feminized society can do none of these things because, well, a child might cry. Someone might feel bad. To America’s good fortune, feminization and the broader cultural Marxism into which feminism has been subsumed in recent decades is largely confined to the coastal elites. Heartland Americans, men and women, know the world is a tough place. A culture of sentiment and of weakness does not appeal to them. They know their children and grandchildren will pay the price if we leave the floodgates open. And, as President Trump’s election showed, the Heartland is rising as the coastal elites, sobbing all the way, lose their grips. Heartland people’s answer to a crying child is the one their parents gave them: “Keep it up and I’ll give you something to cry about.” Starting with getting sent home.
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Editor’s comment
“All of Honduras wants to come here.”
— Reina Madrid, in the caravan coming to the United States. Seldom mentioned: most of the migrants are young men.
Lind’s essay brings together several important threads in American society. These will not work well for us.
- The increased emotionalism – often irrational – that makes it easy for our leaders to manipulate us.
- Our inability to formulate rational public policy in response to a changing world.
- And, most important, the lethal public policy mixture of open borders, multiculturalism (no encouragement to assimilate), and a welfare state.
Of course, our ruling elites are unmoved by crying children (whether American or foreign). That Congress has not authorized the expansion of the wall – despite its GOP majority – shows the bipartisan nature of our open borders policy. Open borders serves the political interests of the Democrat’s leaders (more voters, wrecking American culture) and the economic interests of the plutocrats who own the Republican Party. After November, the odds of Congress approving the wall will decrease (the GOP has a faction wanting the borders closed; the Democrats have a faction wanting them opened even more).
More broadly, is it rational for us to be stripping underdeveloped people of their best educated (e.g., doctors) – and attempt to take in the limitless number of their poorest? How can that work? Also, do the people of a nation have a responsibility to fix their own society? Obsessed with photos of crying children, we cannot not consider these questions.
About the author
William S. Lind’s director of the American Conservative Center for Public Transportation. He has a Master’s Degree in History from Princeton University in 1971. He worked as a legislative aide for armed services for Senator Robert Taft, Jr., of Ohio from 1973 to 1976 and held a similar position with Senator Gary Hart of Colorado from 1977 to 1986. See his bio at Wikipedia
Mr. Lind is author of the Maneuver Warfare Handbook
He’s perhaps best known for his articles about the long war, now published as On War: The Collected Columns of William S. Lind 2003-2009
- His posts at TraditionalRight.
- His articles about geopolitics at The American Conservative.
- His articles about transportation at The American Conservative.
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The book from 1973 by one who saw this coming
The Camp of the Saints.
By Jean Raspail (1973).
Raspail is a French author and explorer (see Wikipedia).
One hundred ships leave a squalid Third World slum, crammed with hungry, filthy, desperate people bound for Europe. How would people of the guilt-ridden West react. Written as a dystopian novel in 1973, It is today’s present and future. See Wikipedia for details. The author writes in the preface…
“I had wanted to write a lengthy preface to explain my position and show that this is no wild-eyed dream; that even if the specific action, symbolic as it is, may seem far-fetched, the fact remains that we are inevitably heading for something of the sort. But what good would it do?
“I should at least point out, though, that many of the texts I have put into my characters’ mouths or pens – editorials, speeches, pastoral letters, laws, news stories, statements of every description – are, in fact, authentic. Perhaps the reader will spot them as they go by. In terms of the fictional situation I have presented, they become all the more revealing.”
For more about the book, see “The Relevance Of Raspail, the Visionary French Novelist Saw It Coming” by Martin Witkerk at Vdare.
