Tag: immigration

Give Them What They Voted For

The new Labour Prime Minister is going to provide refugees for those who welcomed them most enthusiastically:

There are 17 local authorities with no taxpayer-supported asylum seekers, an analysis by the Daily Mail reveals – as Andy Burnham vows to send more to middle-class areas. The Prime Minister yesterday promised to ensure arrivals are not only placed in the ‘poorest communities’ when he was pressed about proposals for a migrant camp near the tiny Oxfordshire village of Piddington.

‘All parts of the country need to play their part,’ he said – prompting the Tories to accuse him of wanting to ‘dish out another vindictive punishment beating to the UK’s middle classes’.

Asylum seekers who are waiting for a decision on their asylum claim are often eligible for accommodation and money to cover their living expenses. This is provided by the Home Office, and the migrants themselves are dispersed across the country.

Home Office figures showing the number of supported asylum seekers per local authority at the end of March reveal the areas that currently house no migrants are overwhelmingly rural beauty spots. These include the Cotswolds, Derbyshire Dales, Malvern Hills, the New Forest and the Scottish Highlands.

Others include Mid Devon, East Hertfordshire, Ceredigion (a scenic county in west Wales) and Hart, a 118-square-mile local authority taking in major towns, rural parishes and villages in Hampshire.

I think refugees and immigrants should only be permitted in states and cities where the population specifically voted to support asylum and immigration. Democracy, even in its limited form, has comprehensively failed due to its natural tendency to separate those who support the policies from the consequences of those policies. And in doing so, it becomes a potentially even more unjust system than monarchy.

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The 2nd Muslim Invasion of Spain

It’s now formally underway. And, of course, the media is still temporizing its coverage with sob stories about the poor migrants who just want a better life in someone else’s nation:

As more mayhem unfolds before me, I would challenge any liberal progressive to witness such troubling scenes and still advocate for open borders.

With migrants lurking with listless boredom on every street corner, in squares, avenues and bridge underpasses, forcing locals to cower in their homes, Ceuta today does not look like anyone’s idea of a utopia.

Tearful Sid didn’t seem much of a threat. But you don’t need to travel far to sense disquiet here.

Some migrants queue outside the small number of shops prepared to serve them. Most don’t want their custom.

Normally on a Saturday the city parks and beaches are alive with families and the sounds of children playing. Apart from the police, the military and a few hardy Spanish souls, the only people visible in Ceuta yesterday were migrants, seemingly from across Africa. For sure, some were friendly, but the locals’ deep unease was understandable.

‘They’ve taken over the city,’ said a police officer. ‘Look around you. It may as well be Morocco because all the Spaniards are indoors.’

If the Spanish people don’t fight back, they will lose their land. Again. And don’t forget that last time, it took them seven centuries to get it back and evict all of the invaders.

I don’t think the second Spanish Inquisition will be as merciful as the first one. And the next Franco isn’t going to be as circumspect as the previous one.

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Migration is Literally Invasion

For 50 years, the traitors in the West have insisted that immigration is not invasion. And now the inevitable has become undeniable:

Spain has deployed just 60 troops to its North African exclave of Ceuta after thousands of migrants overwhelmed security forces and stormed across the border from Morocco, with up to 30,000 more people reportedly swarming the frontier. The Spanish Interior Ministry said the military contingent consisted of three platoons of 20 soldiers each, sent to reinforce the Guardia Civil after officers admitted that the border had “totally collapsed.” Madrid also dispatched specialized police units, bringing their total number to around 200, as well as 30 additional Guardia Civil officers.

The small military deployment came after Ceuta’s regional government pleaded with Madrid to take “decisive” action, close the border and declare a national emergency, warning that local police, hospitals and migrant reception facilities had been overwhelmed.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s government rejected the emergency request, arguing that migration does not qualify under legislation covering natural disasters, major accidents and other national catastrophes.

Of course it doesn’t. It’s war. Migrants and refugees should be met with military force at the border, or they will wage war on the native population. This is a larger invasion than the original one from North Africa that led to 700 years of Muslim occupation.

UPDATE: the invading force is up to 49,000 strong and they’re pillaging the towns.

Terrifying footage showed scores of people seemingly breaking into homes across the city late at night. One clip appeared to show a man on top of a ladder, hitting a first-floor window with an object. After migrants flooded into the city, many local shops chose to close early. Enrique Serrano, who runs a women’s clothing store in central Ceuta, told Reuters business owners were organising self-defence because they believed police resources would be insufficient.

UPDATE: Finland has joined Italy and Denmark in calling for Spain to be removed from the Schengen agreement.

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Immigration and Economy

It’s been eleven years since Angela Merkel imported about a million young immigrants who were supposed to help the German economy and make up for the failure of Germans to have the children required to sustain the German social welfare system. And the verdict is not a positive one.

German auto giant BMW is planning to slash some 8,000 jobs globally by the end of 2027, according to several news media outlets, including Reuters and Bloomberg. German workers are expected to be particularly affected as the manufacturer is dealing with high production costs in Europe, as well as plunging sales in China, according to the reports.

The automaker employed 87,436 people in Germany as of late 2025, which accounted for more than a half of its global headcount. The company has already been making gradual reductions, with a reported decrease of 2.3% compared to 2024, according to Bloomberg.

It comes just a day after another German carmaker, Porsche, announced plans to eliminate another 5,000 jobs by 2035, bringing its total planned reduction to around 9,400 positions. Its parent company, Volkswagen, is considering slashing up to 100,000 jobs amid a protracted industrial slump caused by high energy prices. The Federation of German Industries (BDI) warned last week that the nation’s industrial sector was losing 15,000 jobs every month in what it described as a “critical” situation.

The “immigration is good for the economy” lie cannot be hammered hard enough. It was always false, but it was just barely possible to appeal to the abstract theory in the absence of any conclusive evidence refuting it. But, as with Darwin and DNA, the evidence is now available, and it conclusively and comprehensibly refutes the Post WWII-era justification.

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Immigration Economics

In which Germany demonstrates, again, that mass immigration is not, and has never been, actually good for the economy:

Friedrich Merz’s desperate attempt to appear tough on migration took another blow this week, after it was revealed that close to half the taxpayer cash spent on the Bürgergeld (citizens’ allowance) continues to go to individuals without German citizenship. Figures show that the Federal Employment Agency handed out almost €47 billion in benefits in 2025, and that 46.6% of this went to foreigners.

Right-wing news site NIUS on Wednesday reported that “the massive influx [of migrants] from non-European countries”—especially since 2015—“is increasingly pushing Germany’s social welfare system to its limits.” That is despite German Vice-Chancellor Lars Klingbeil (SPD) insisting last month that “the migration of recent years has significantly stabilised the German social security system—even if some give the impression that the opposite is true.”

Payments cover basic income support, as well as housing and heating costs.

The devil, as always, is revealed in the contradiction between the theory and the subsequent numbers. The idea that immigration boosts the economy is trivially true because it is a tautology dependent upon a definition of the economy as something measured by Gross Domestic Product.

C + I + G = GDP.

So, if you allow 10 immigrants and the government gives them money to spend, both C (consumer spending) and G (government spending) automatically go up. It’s financed by increasing the debt. The economy “grows” and the immigration is “good for the economy”. This is true whether there is one immigrant or one billion; if economists actually believed their own nonsense, then they would advocate for encouraging the entirety of India to immigrate.

And yes, it’s just possible that Canadian economists are actually that dumb, which would explain a lot about the current state of Canada.

The problem is that because immigrants primarily consume and do not produce anything except crime – the service industries in which the employed minority predominantly work is, by definition, not productive – they observably, inevitably, and structurally weaken the economy. As the sclerotic economies of all the countries that immigration has theoretically enhanced are now beginning to show.

All that mass immigration has really accomplished in economic terms is provide new debtors, thereby allowing the banks to remain pseudo-solvent for an additional decade or two. But not only has it not solved any problems, it has significantly exacerbated the existing ones.

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Germany Bankrupts Itself

Apparently all those migrants did not, in fact, turn out to be good for the economy:

Germany has recorded its highest number of corporate bankruptcies in more than two decades, with nearly 5,000 companies filing for insolvency in the second quarter of 2026, according to the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH).

A total of 4,996 companies filed for insolvency in April-June, up 9% from the previous quarter and marking the highest second-quarter figure since 2005, the institute said in a report published on Thursday.

The increase spanned almost all major sectors, including construction, real estate, trade, hospitality, and services, affecting around 45,500 jobs.

In June alone, 1,702 companies filed for insolvency, 20% more than a year earlier and 80% above the pre-pandemic average for the month.

The fundamental problem with all the Smart Boy reasoning about things is that they always try to reduce everything to a simple binary with no tangents or consequences. Even now, as services are overextended, housing prices are shooting through the roof, and unemployment is rising, you will hear the government policy-makers mindlessly intoning “we need more immigrants for the labor force”. And less-intellectually challenged ones will try to add a caveat about only “high-skill labor” or some other such nonsense.

But the reality is, has always been, and will always be that a high-skill foreign laborer comes attached with a low-skill wife, several useless children, three criminal cousins and two sets of useless parents. Except when the high-skill foreign laborer is coming from a similarly-advanced and compatible culture, the net impact is usually very negative, as we’re now seeing in Germany, the UK, the United States, and even Japan.

When Korean immigration into Japan continues to be an observable problem 70 years after the fact, there is no chance that the various third-world immigrations into the European world are going to end well for anyone. They never should have been permitted in the first place, and the ultimate responsibility for the inevitable outcome rests with those who permitted and encouraged it.

UPDATE: The current government isn’t going to fix the problem. Especially when all they have to do is rebuild the Russian pipeline and start buying Russian natural gas again.

The German government will introduce an energy levy to fund the construction of a national gas reserve. German industry, which is already struggling with soaring energy costs, will bear the brunt of the levy.

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They Were Never American

One can’t honestly call them traitors, or their actions betrayals.

Meta’s betrayal is crystal clear:

They’re firing 4,875 Americans on July 22 while filing for thousands of new H-1B visas in 2026 alone.

This is exactly why the H-1B program is dangerous. Big Tech uses it to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labor.

The H1B program needs to be abolished

Most US-based big tech is no more American than Alibaba or Deepseek. Which, of course, is why they’re perfectly happy to disemploy Americans and hire foreign labor, whether it is cheaper or not.

How many times do Paper Americans have to prove they are not Americans before Americans believe them?

Big tech shouldn’t be bailed out or awarded government contracts, it should be nationalized.

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The Useless College Degree

It used to be that at least the possession of a university degree meant that you weren’t an innumerate, half-illiterate peasant. This is no longer the case.

Gone are the days of university freshmen reading classical philosophers like Plato or contemporary pedagogues like Ta-Nehisi Coates. These days, incoming college students are lucky if they can get through Judy Blume’s “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.”

According to a new “Survey of Adult Skills” conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development – a forum for 38 high-income, predominantly Western countries – a not insignificant number of adult students enrolled in higher education are now reading and doing math at a level which, in a more functional society, would be alarming for a middle schooler.

The survey, first spotted by the Economist, tested around 160,000 people of all ages, across all 38 member states. It found that across all OECD member countries, a full 8 percent of college students are reading at the level of a ten-year-old, if not worse. While countries like Germany and France rang in at under 5 percent, countries like Poland, Israel, and the United States blew the curve at 21, 20, and 14 percent, respectively.

The numbers aren’t much better when it comes to math.

Across OECD countries, 9 percent of college students do math at or below a ten-year-old level. In Italy, the US, and Slovakia, that figure jumps to over 15 percent — only outdone by Israel, where roughly 21 percent of college students were underachieving at the same low benchmark.

This certainly puts the lie to the concept of Progress, or the idea that we are smarter than our ancestors because Science. But giving pieces of papers to peasants no more makes them educated or intelligent than giving pieces of paper to foreigners modifies their genetics.

Part of the reason for the decline of the Western countries is the mass importation of sub-100 IQs bringing down the average. But a more significant element is the convergence of the schools and universities, neither of which are still capable of performing what used to be their primary functions.

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Diversity Victory Lap

It’s not white supremacy that is going to cause massive violence across the West. It’s diversity doing victory laps:

Xbox Indian CEO Asha Sharma just announced firing 3,200 Americans.

She filed for 5,000 H-1B visa hires this year.

Asha was appointed CEO of Xbox in February by Indian Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

How is this not a matter of national security? Why are any corporations being permitted any H-1B visa hires?

What happened to the real Donald Trump?

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The Decline is Real

Remember when they told you that America has plenty of room for all those immigrants? And when they said Americans needed to reduce their dependence upon nuclear power and fossil fuels?

Well, the demand for electricity now surpasses the ability of American power plants to supply it.

  • The largest U.S. power grid operator has issued a Energy Emergency Alert – Level 2 (EEA2) because it is “NO LONGER ABLE TO PROVIDE EXPECTED ENERGY REQUIREMENTS.” According to the PJM Emergency Procedures Website, Electric Utilities MUST begin cutting the energy load immediately: The ⁠alert was issued to increase reserves on the system and avert outages during peak demand around ​6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) on Friday, it said. PJM also notified neighboring regional grids, including in New York ​and the Midwest, that electricity exports from PJM may be curtailed, a procedural step that allows those neighboring regions to plan accordingly.
  • Consolidated Edison Company, the electric utility for the five boroughs of New York City, has had to cut power levels by eight percent (8%) in areas of Brooklyn and Queens.   The announcement reads as follows: “We are asking customers in parts of Queens and Brooklyn to conserve energy while crews complete equipment repairs. As a precaution to help maintain reliable service, voltage has been reduced by 8% in neighborhoods including Glendale, Forest Hills, Forest Hills Gardens, Ridgewood, Maspeth, Middle Village, Long Island City, Hunters Point, Sunnyside, Sunnyside Gardens, Woodside, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, Carroll Gardens, Dyker Heights, Park Slope, Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace, Kensington, Flatbush, and Bensonhurst.
  • Liars. It’s 25% less here in Forest Hills.

Sooner or later, reality always intrudes. Not only can we touch the real, but the real will eventually touch even the most fevered ideological imaginations. 250 years is a very good run, but the USA will not make it to a third centennial.

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