On Population and Immigration

From the pens of others-

There is a sense in which current immigration policy is Adolph Hitler’s posthumous revenge on America. The U. S. political elite emerged from the war passionately concerned to cleanse itself from all taints of racism or xenophobia. Eventually , it enacted the epochal Immigration Act of 1965. And this, quite accidentally, triggered a renewed mass immigration, so huge and systematically different from anything that had gone before as to transform - and ultimately, perhaps, even to destroy - the one unquestioned victor of World War II: the American nation, as it had evolved by the middle of the twentieth century.

Reproductive restraint, the solution, is also primarily local; it grows out of a sense that resources are shrinking... The perception of new opportunity, whether due to technological advance, expanded trade, moving to a richer land, or the disappearance of competitors (who may move away or die) encourages larger family size. Families eagerly fill any apparent larger niche...

The Western nations are becoming repositories of new migrant peoples fleeing the demographic cultural disaster in the third-world south. The realities are all about us. The dynamics of the last half century should have forewarned the West about the meaning of cultural decline. Surely the leadership should have addressed these dangers, at the least for their own national destiny. The United States, in this sad tale, leads the world with an astigmatism heavily laced with ideological smugness and the misty memories of earlier invulnerability. Will this once-great nation be the first of the powerful Western societies to unravel and unwarily enter the third world?

Besides, how much will they even understand? Will the word racism have any meaning for them at all? Even in my day the meaning has changed. What I always understood to be a simple expression of the races’ inability to get along together has become for my contemporaries-or most of them, I dearsay - a war cry, a call to arms, a crime against humanity and the dignity of man. Let them understand the word as best they can.

To the people who want the benefits of civilization without its restraints, the community will have to say "No public assistance without control of birth rates." Only by thus facing up to the principle that if the state is to feed, educate and support children, it has a right to control their production, will the community put an end to the grip of this social blackmailer.

A community that renounces war as a means of settling international disputes still cannot survive without that discriminating form of altruism we call patriotism. It must defend the integrity of its borders or succumb into chaos.