Tag: immigration

Immigration is a Luxury

Eva is correct. Immigration is neither necessary nor is it “good for the economy”:

Every non-Western immigrant that enters The Netherlands puts an average strain of €600.000 on the Dutch national treasury. Yet many people still believe the diabolical lie that immigration is necessary to solve the aging population issue. The opposite is true.

Immigration cannot solve the birth rate problem because the loss of a net-productive native cannot be replaced by one, two, or ten net-negative immigrant. In fact, the more immigrants, the worse the problem will inevitably be.

Karl Denninger calculates that less than 15 percent of all US immigrants contribute anything at all. The percentage that are net-positive could be under five percent, which obviously cannot even begin to compensate for the negative effects of their fellow immigrants, let alone the native shortfall.

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Nationalist or Feminist

Time will tell. Given the disastrous historical performances by female leaders like Margaret Thatcher and Angela Merkel, it’s hard to have any confidence in Japan’s next prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, despite her ideological superiority to her LDP rivals:

Japan’s ruling party picked hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi as its head on Saturday, putting her on course to become the country’s first female prime minister in a move set to jolt investors and neighbors.

The Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for almost all of the postwar era, elected Takaichi, 64, to regain trust from a public angered by rising prices and drawn to opposition groups promising stimulus and clampdowns on migrants.

A vote in parliament to choose a replacement for outgoing Shigeru Ishiba is expected on October 15. Takaichi is favored as the ruling coalition has the largest number of seats.

Takaichi, the only woman among the five LDP candidates, beat a challenge from the more moderate Shinjiro Koizumi, 44, who was bidding to become the youngest modern leader.

Being more influenced by their social surroundings than men, women in positions of political leadership also tend to “grow” more in office because the influences on them once they become a broad spectrum leader, they are suddenly subject to pressure from a much broader range of interests and ideologies.

Margaret Thatcher violated her most precious principles when she sold out British sovereignty and permitted Great Britain to join the precursor to the European Union. Angela Merkel was the most conservative major party leader when she invited the invasion of Germany by the mass of third-world migrants in 2015.

So, I would not expect too much from either Takaichi or Alice Weidel of Germany’s AfD party. Because no matter hardline or conservative they are now, they are still women and they are still subject to the same social pressures that so easily manipulate their more liberal sisters.

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There Will Be No Integration

The migrants are being naturally selected for conquest and predation, not a better life through integration:

Imagine a fleet of large trucks arriving every week in villages all throughout subsaharan west Africa – countries like Gabon, Togo, Niger, Burkino Faso, and Guinea-Bissau Men aged 18-30 would be picked up, given phones, money, clothes, and some food and hauled up through the sahara desert with promises of reaching the El Dorado that is Europe for free handouts and the pick of any white women they want.

Let’s say on any particular day 10 men from 10 villages were picked up, filling a truck to 100 capacity. By the time the truck made it to Tripoli, half of them were dead, either through fighting, being left in the desert, hijacked by other traffickers.

So now you’ve got 50 of that original 100 in Tripoli, but they’ve got to make it to the port, avoid open slave markets, militia, drug gangs, and street bombings. Let’s halve that again, and now you’ve got 25 military aged African men at the Southern coast of the mediterranean. They get stuffed in a boat with the surviving 25 from other trucks, money exchanges hands from one trafficking group to the next to the next at each leg of the journey. The rubber dinghy goes across the sea and as its reaching the South of Spain or Italy it starts to sink. Some of the guys have already expired from dehydration, many of them find out they don’t know how to swim.

5 of the original 100 that were picked up in Niger have made it to Spain. Now imagine what those 5 guys are like: They would be hard, ruthless, brutal motherfuckers And what they want is what they’ve been promised. Your land, your culture, your women, your daughters, your money, your food, your drugs They don’t give a fuck about you or anything you represent, and they certainly aren’t asylum seekers They want to rape your women, piss on your idols, attack your young boys, and run your streets, and they feel like they’ve earned it.

These migrants have gone through their own personal hell to get to Europe so they feel completely entitled to the spoils of their journey.

No only are the USA, the UK, and Europe not going to vote their way out of the invasions, they’re not going to be able to escape the inevitable violence that will determine who rules whom.

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Oktoberfest Cancelled

It’s only a matter of time before either a) the New Germans shut down Oktoberfest or b) the Germans repatriate all the non-Germans back to their non-German homelands.

Police in the German city of Munich say the venue where Oktoberfest is taking place has been temporarily closed because of possible links to an explosion and fire at a house rigged with explosives.

A badly injured man was found at a nearby lake and he later died. Mayor Dieter Reiter said the festival site would remain closed until at least 17:00 (15:00 GMT) on Wednesday because of an unspecified bomb threat.

A large-scale emergency operation was under way in Lerchenau in northern Munich. Police said potential links to other locations were being investigated, including the site of the annual beer festival.

It should be eminently clear by now that maintaining one’s social and cultural traditions is not possible if statistically-significant immigration is permitted. It’s not a question of legality, illegality, or integration, because the dirt is not magic and a society is a consequence of its ingredients. A pinch of Islam and a dash of Africans is no more insignificant than adding curry and hot pepper to a recipe for baking bread.

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The Schools Aren’t Magic

Immigrants are proving literally uneducable(PDF) by the schools in the countries they have invaded:

In spite of the many criticisms to which PISA can and should be legitimately subjected, it is difficult to deny that this large and highly successful OECD project is a blessing for research in Comparative Education, as it provides strictly comparable data on inputs, processes and results for most educational systems in the world. The outcomes of analyzing these enormous data sets are rather disappointing for those who had expected from it quick and solid adjudications among rival theories. First the PISA reports, and then the many reanalyses carried out on the PISA data, have found only very weak relations between students’ outcomes and characteristics of educational systems which are usually thought of
paramount importance (Carabaña, 2008).

It is from these tenuous links that multilevel regressions extract cross-country coefficients that, when statistically significant, are quite hard to interpret even by the best willed officials and scholars. I will here address the question of the effects that schools in the destination countries have on the academic results of immigrant’s children. Immigration countries have generally better schools and better results than countries of emigration. It is therefore easy to imagine how the desire to improve the schooling conditions of their children might be one important pulling factor for emigrants. However, against all expectations of subjects and observers, immigrant students score in the PISA tests rather like students in their countries of origin than like native students in the countries of destination.

In spite of the allegedly better schools of the host countries, the learning of the newcomers remains at the level of their origin countries not only in the first generation, but also in the second and even later on.

This is because the differences across humanity are not merely “skin-deep”. The contents of one’s character do matter, but so too do the contents of one’s culture, and even more importantly, one’s genes. An 80-IQ Somali immigrant who attends a good public school in Minneapolis is still going to be an 80-IQ Somali after being given a piece of paper that declares he is educated. So too will his son, and his grandson, and his great-grandson.

This should be entirely obvious, as the British colonists did not gradually turn into American Indians after four generations in the New World. And the descendants of the African slaves imported into the Americas are still observably distinct in appearance, behavior, and educational outcome after many generations of education in the USA.

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Recalculate

Karl Denninger works out that at most 14.5 percent of illegal immigrants “work and pay taxes”.

Ok, 2 million people have been removed.

These are all (or mostly; nothing is ever “all”) productive working people just trying to make an honest living, right? That’s the line run by people who are against deporting those here illegally.

Really? Is that true?

Let’s ignore January because Trump didn’t take office until the 20th, and nothing really happened until February.

February 2025, Employed: 162.544 million
August 2025, Employed: 163.288 million

Hmmm…. 744,000 more people working in August of this year than in February.

Now let’s look at 2024, when Biden was in office and before this operation began, same months.

February 2024, Employed: 160.315 million
August 2024, Employed: 161.348 million

Hmmm…. 1,033,000 more people working in August than in February in…. 2024.

So….. 289,000 more people went to work from February to August of 2024 when illegal aliens were flooding the country than in the last seven months.

In other words of the 2 million illegal immigrants that have been expelled by one means or another it is a reasonable argument that a mere 14.5% of them, or about one in seven, were working in a form and fashion that was recorded in the household survey, which is a clean survey of people, not of employers who are paying everyone above the table on W2s. I’ve been following said survey since the 1990s privately and reporting on it monthly since 2007.

The rest of those who have been removed or self-deported were being showered with the proceeds of armed robbery committed by local, state and federal governments against everyone else here in the United States, including you and I, or they were living on outright criminal activity that is not counted as employment at all.

Oh, and beyond that 14.5% they were not paying any employment or income taxes either so spare me that tripe as well.

All of the economics-based pro-immigration arguments assume a much, much higher percentage of working and tax-paying immigrants than is actually the case, which, of course, is why the net drain on total economic resources is inevitably much higher than the pro-immigration “it’s good for the economy” idiots anticipate.

Even without the relevant statistics, it’s very, very easy to observer how deleterious mass immigration, legal or illegal, is for an economy, as all one has to do is look at the economic history of the USA post-1965, and the economic history of the UK and the European countries post-2010, to see how opening the borders to less-intelligent, less-productive peoples lowers the wage rate, reduces overall societal wealth, increases state spending, enlarges state debt, and shrinks the economy in real per-capita/debt terms.

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What a Difference 10 Years Makes

When people ask “how can you believe that women shouldn’t have the right to vote,” I don’t equivocate, retreat, or attempt to qualify my position on the subject. I simply ask them how it is possible for them to believe, with more than 100 years of evidence available, that extending the franchise to women has improved any society in any way anywhere on the planet.

In a reasonable and rational world, men and women would agree that some fundamental assumptions were incorrect, some very serious mistakes were made, and men would protect women by not permitting them any direct involvement in macro-level societal decisions. But this is not that world. We live in an irrational, unreasonable, and stupid one.

So, most women will have to protect themselves from the inevitable consequences of their personal decisions and political preferences. That should prove to be an interesting challenge. One certainly wonders what point they’ll have reached in another ten years.

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Mailvox: The World We Lost

Request to the GenX crowd — what is your best anecdote or memory or description of “how things used to be”? The before time, that we millennials and younger have no memory of.

The entire suburban 20-house neighborhood of 20-30 children between the ages of 5-11 playing outside, all day, every Saturday during the school year and every weekday too during the summers. My favorite was the huge Capture the Flag games the older kids would organize sometimes in the evenings after dinner. We’d play until it got too dark to be able to see very well, then everyone would go home.

In the summer, the people with the big house and the pool would put out a red flag on Saturdays to announce an open pool after lunch and half the kids on the street would play there all afternoon. In the winter, the open rink about a mile away would be one big pick-up hockey game and my parents would just leave me there after lunch and pick me up before it got dark. Usually some moms would show up with cookies and hot Russian tea in the warming hut.

The freedom and sense of community was entirely different than today. Many of the neighborhoods look more or less the same from the outside, but since the mid-1990s, one no longer sees large packs of kids playing outside together like they previously did.

And if you want conclusive evidence that immigrants to America will never, ever, understand the world of the 1950s-1980s that we lost, consider the perspective of one immigrant from Portugal who still doesn’t know what we’re talking about despite having spent most of her adult life in the USA.

Well, excuse me, I lived in a village growing up. And while I miss some things, sometimes, if you think for a little very Odd kid it was an ideal environment, you’re out of your ever loving mind. In fact, it wasn’t an ideal environment for anyone, judging by the epic fights and factions. Because people in point of fact had very little in common, and were together by utter necessity, which means that the group enforced absolute conformity and you couldn’t escape.

Whoever said anything about poor rural villages full of inbred Iberian peasants? That was never our world and it certainly isn’t the loss that we’re lamenting. These days of diversity and immigration are most certainly not “the good new days” in the eyes of any genuine American.

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“Destroying Your Heritage”

President Trump calls out the European countries that foolishly embraced open borders and third-world migration at the behest of Clown World.

US President Donald Trump has warned that open border policies and “suicidal energy ideas” will be “the death of Western Europe,” insisting that something must be done immediately to reverse course.

“This cannot be sustained,” Trump told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, calling the crisis of uncontrolled migration “the number one political issue of our time.”

Your countries are being ruined,” he said, accusing the UN of funding an “assault on Western countries and their borders,” citing the $372 million spent by the organization in 2024 on supporting an estimated 624,000 people migrating to the US.

He went on to claim that Europe is in “serious trouble” and has been “invaded” by an unprecedented “force of illegal aliens” that is “pouring” into the continent. He criticized European leaders for failing to do anything about it due to political correctness. Trump pointed to London and its “terrible mayor,” Sadiq Khan, claiming that the city has changed beyond recognition and is moving toward Sharia law.

“What makes the world so beautiful is that each country is unique. But to stay this way, every sovereign nation must have the right to control their own borders and to limit the sheer number of migrants entering their countries,” he said.

He stressed that while the US remains compassionate to people who have truly struggled in their home countries, it is important to “solve problems in their countries, not create new ones in our countries” by importing people from different cultural and religious backgrounds who break the law and make false asylum claims.

“You’re doing it because you want to be nice,” Trump said, addressing his European counterparts. “You want to be politically correct, and you’re destroying your heritage,” he claimed, calling for an end to “the failed experiment of open borders.”

Of course, the fact that he turned around and declared Ukraine could still win a war it has already lost tends to render his pronouncements a little less credible, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s correct about a) the failure of the open borders experiments and b) mass remigration being the number one political issue of our time now.

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