Control Immigration for a Good and Just Society

True immigration reform means ending mass immigration. This is not a negative agenda. Reformers advocate immigration control as a positive endeavor, the means of   pursuing and maintaining a good and just society. Limiting immigration to reasonable levels reflects maturity, responsibility and genuine compassion. The following are the benefits that a sensible immigration policy offers to our country: harmony, freedom, general prosperity and sustainability   

            Harmony is a great blessing to any society. It means that people can live and work together without constant hostility and strife. For this to happen, a common culture with common values is essential. Mass immigration, and the multiculturalism that inevitably follows in its wake, make harmony impossible.

            To hide this obvious reality, immigrationists parrot the Big Lie that “diversity is our strength.” In truth, it is only the strength of those who push this propagandistic slogan on the rest of us. It is the strength of profiteers seeking cheap labor; the strength of political and ethnic interests who want more numerical clout for their respective groups; and the strength of radicals who want to overturn American society for their evil purposes.

            One promoter of diversity is Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam, this in spite of the fact that all of his research shows that diversity is destroying the cohesion of communities across the country. You can have harmony, or you can have multicultural diversity, but you can’t have them both.

            Freedom, as our Founding Fathers understood, depends on a society united by common values, particularly those values necessary for the maintenance of liberty such as personal responsibility and respect for the rule of law. Today, thanks to mass immigration, we have a large and growing number of people from countries where our concept of freedom is little understood. And as more keep coming, the less likely it is that they will assimilate to our viewpoints.

Furthermore, the influx increases the division and divisiveness that undermines our unity. As voluntary cooperation among people becomes more difficult, government will see the need—and opportunity—to step in as referee. As government grows more powerful to keep all the “diversity” from coming apart, freedom will decrease.

General prosperity, or our middle-class American economy, is one of our country’s greatest achievements. Unlike many countries in the world, we have not had extremes of wealth and poverty. Our “American Dream” has offered hope of a decent living to the majority of our citizens.

But today mass immigration is undercutting our general prosperity by driving down wage levels, particularly for lower-income Americans. At the same time, cheap labor profiteers grow more wealthy. Slowly but surely, we are becoming a have and have-not society with a dwindling middle. What we should be aiming for is a high-wage society by limiting the labor supply. Reducing immigration is essential to that aim.

Sustainability is maintaining our quality of life from generation to generation. To have a sustainable society, we must learn to live within our limits. If immigration continues as it is today, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, our population of 305 million today will increase to 433 million by 2050, just 41 years from now. Of the projected increase of 128 million, 82 percent of it, according to the Pew Research Center, will come from immigrants and their children.

In a report published in January, researcher Edwin Rubenstein concluded that such a high rate of population growth will outstrip our ability to maintain our infrastructure, including schools, hospitals, roads and highways, mass transit, electrical grids, and waste disposal. Also we face limits of natural resources, one example being water. Today water shortages are a looming problem in our southwest. As population skyrockets, this problem can only get worse.

Limiting immigration is common sense; it is patriotic and morally right. It is the only option if we truly want a country that is superior in liberty and livability to the countries sending us most of our immigrants.