Worse Than Illegal

The border crisis is a disaster for the rule of law. Approximately five million inadmissible migrants [illegal alien invaders] have already entered during Joe Biden’s presidency, and the numbers continue to climb. Far from attempting to block the flow, the Biden Administration is actually facilitating it, inviting migrants without visas to come to the U.S. to receive “parole” or other temporary status. The legal situation has deteriorated to the point where the administration effectively claims the right to wave through any migrants it wants, from whatever countries it wants, at any time it wants...

Wage reduction is not the only way that immigration harms the poorest Americans. A related, but more insidious phenomenon is how immigration devalues them in the eyes of wealthier Americans...

... the U.S. has a welfare system that privileges low-earning families with children. Because so many immigrant households fit that description, they naturally consume welfare at higher rates than natives...

There is in fact a large body of academic literature documenting the tendency of migrant groups to transplant old-country values to their new homes. America has certainly not been immune to this cultural persistence. Even descendants of European immigrants still exhibit differences more than 100 years after the peak of their immigration to the U.S. One of those differences is the strength of their civic values—social trust, tolerance, community engagement, etc. Researchers have found a remarkably strong rank-order correlation between the civic values of European American groups on one hand and the civic values of their ancestral countries on the other...

None of this has to happen. American culture need not be transformed. The political balance need not be upset. We don’t have to add more clients of the welfare state, nor must we import low-skill workers to avoid tackling our own social problems...