Jefferson on allowing too many foreigners.

But are there no inconveniences to be thrown into the scale against the advantage expected from a multiplication of numbers by the importation of foreigners? It is for the happiness of those united in society to harmonize as much as possible in matters which they must of necessity transact together. Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent. Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason. To these nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of absolute monarchies [Note: today we call them despots, tyrants and kleptocrats. Vicente Fox comes to mind]. Yet, from such, we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation [that we enact to govern ourselves]. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass."^[1]

And these thoughtful and prescient observations will, in the minds of countless millions of our vote-cancelling fellow citizens, be completely and utterly cancelled out by the single most important fact they know about immigration, to wit, that we are A Nation of Immigrants.

Yup. That's the state of the art thinking by millions of Americans when the current de facto immigration policy is wide Open Borders, cultural dilution of European America, heavy pressure on wages for native Americans from illegal immigrants, and, among other things, bail out of the country's Social Security retirement system by working class Mexicans.

According to the guiding "Nation of Immigrants" principle, we are all immigrants somewhere back in time. Given this single fact that trumps all other considerations respecting immigration, there's simply no denying the Yemeni or Pakistani who wants to move in next door to you and match you vote for vote in each and every election for sheriff, governor, Congressman, and president.

For many seemingly intelligent Americans, the arrival of foreigners of any race, stripe, flavor, pedigree, caste, bent religion, or previous correctional experience cannot be questioned. Immigration is simply terrific. Nowwheredidthatdarnremotegetto?

This vapid principle guarantees that we will continue our flight on its present course with all pilots seated in the back of the plane watching the movie and eating peanuts.

Either that -- a grave analytical error and fidelity to a hoary irrelevancy -- or we have well and truly abandoned the First Republic -- the republic handed to us in 1789 by the Framers. In its place we have come to revere an America ruled in its essentials by an unchallengeable federal government holding sway over servile state governments and their equally servile populaces with no clear idea of what patriotism means, wanting only to get their fair share of someone else's taxes.

Owen Wister and Frederick Remington thought that even in the 1880s American politics and Americans themselves had lost their bearings:

Remington is an excellent American; that means he thinks as I do about the disgrace of our politics and the present asphyxiation of all real love of country. He used almost the same words that have of late been in my head that this continent does not hold a nation any longer but is merely a strip of land on which a crowd is struggling for riches.^[2]

Many an extraordinary American has individually proved Wister wrong. A good many Japanese infantry found to their dismay that Americans were not the pussies they had been led to believe.

Alas, a good many American pussies have no stomach for a fight AND they have no sense that "other" can sometimes be a vicious, deadly something best dealt with by the Crocodile Hunter and a long, forked stick. And these moon calves have sufficient numbers to obstruct the most urgent and salutary of amendments to our current suicidal immigration policies.

If you doubt Wister's "disgrace of our politics" persists and our assertion regarding other people's taxes, consider the internet witticism that floats around:

He who robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul.

In that alliance between the politicians and dependency is one of the disgraceful aspects of our politics (the non-border with Mexico is another) and perhaps our eventual undoing. It is proving to be the key element in the dismemberment of Sweden.^[3]

Notes
^[1]  "Smart Dead White Dudes II." Freedom Folks, 9/19/06 (our emphasis except bracketed text).
^[2] Owen Wister, quoted in "Guys of the Golden West. A Glorious Sunset." By Chilton Williamson, Jr., Chronicles, July 2005, p. 15 (emphasis added).
^[3] "The symbiosis of leftist sellouts and immigrants." Intergalactic Source of Truth, 8/31/06.