Mass immigration

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'''Mass immigration''' (or '''mass migration''') is a favorite talking point of the anti-immigration [[right wing]]. It's very similar to the "support legal immigration, oppose [[illegal immigration]]" line: the idea is that "immigration is fine, but mass immigration is bad". In particular, the following claims are being made:

*[[White genocide]]: Whites are being replaced with nonwhites.
*Political conspiracy: Conservatives are being replaced with liberals.
*Educational downgrade: Educated folk are being replaced with uneducated folk.
*Religious suicide: [[Christians]] are being replaced with [[Muslims]].
*Cultural suicide: Patriots of [country] are being replaced with foreigners who don't accept the [country]'s culture.
*Crime-seekers: Immigrants are criminals!
*Unsustainability: the receiving (although generally thriving, very prosperous, and almost always looking for employees) country cannot withstand the shock of receiving many people at once

High levels of immigration certainly do affect societies; however, current levels of immigration into Western countries are not nearly high enough to "destroy" them.

==Too many immigrants==
'''''[[Dog whistle politics#Tak'n Ur Jerbs|Ther takin' our jerbs]]!'''''

Even though the absolute number of immigrants to the [[United States]] is higher than ever before, the current number of immigrants per capita is approximately equal to the historical average for the US:

[[File:US Immigration versus Population 1830 2020.png|center|600px]]

==Immigrant invasion==
'''''[[Genocide conspiracy|Ther makin' us all less white!]]'''''

While immigration numbers per capita are not unusually high from a historical perspective, data does indeed show that modern immigration to the US has changed in structure. Whereas most immigration up until 1965 was from Europe and Canada<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/immigration-waves/</ref>, after the removal of country-based quotas with the Hart-Celler act of 1965<ref>https://immigrationhistory.org/item/hart-celler-act/</ref>, the end of favoring European immigrants led to a marked increase in immigrants from Asia, and whereas previously, Canada had provided for the bulk of inner-American migration into the US, the share of Mexican immigrants now overtook it<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/learning/whats-going-on-in-this-graph-oct-19-2022.html</ref>. While the white population of the United States would likely have decreased to a share of 75% even without this change, the different flows of migration led to a share of merely 62% of the population by 2015<ref>https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2015/09/28/modern-immigration-wave-brings-59-million-to-u-s-driving-population-growth-and-change-through-2065/</ref>. Projections into the future indicate a trend towards the non-Hispanic white population decreasing to between 49.7% and 53% in the timeframe between 2045 and 2050, depending on source<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Projected-racial-profile-of-the-US-population-by-2045-20-Non-Hispanic-members-of-race_fig2_364364504</ref><ref>https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/9599/chapter/4#43</ref>.

==Is it actually harmful?==
Of course the question is even ''if'' there is "mass immigration" on an "unprecedented scale" (which clearly, there isn't) the question whether this is actually a ''bad'' thing has to be asked. Judging by all the [[Bill O'Reilly|O'Reillys]] and [[Thomas DiLorenzo|DiLorenzos]] who make those arguments today, immigration in the past certainly has not destroyed America's most enduring characteristic: Immigrants bitching about the people on the next boat arriving in the harbor.

==Intersectionality==
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Opposition to mass immigration is something that apparently every right-winger can get behind.

*Right-wing [[terrorist]] [[Anders Breivik]] wrote about a "cultural and demographic war waged by mass immigration against native Europeans".<ref>https://info.publicintelligence.net/AndersBehringBreivikManifesto.pdf</ref>
*[[Neo-Nazi]] websites [[Stormfront]],<ref>https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t751499/</ref> [[The Daily Stormer]],<ref>https://www.dailystormer.com/tag/mass-immigration/</ref> and [[The Right Stuff]]<ref>http://therightstuff.biz/2015/08/10/mass-immigration-as-a-weapon/</ref> all get some of the [[clickbait]] action.
*[[Alt-right|Meme-Nazi]] wonderboy [[Richard Spencer]],<ref>https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/452618696100302849</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/304709339124477953</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/676945498125770753</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/839525366247063553</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/793136243303260161</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/772944258479239168</ref> former Klansman [[David Duke]],<ref>https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/845659380192362496</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/854823153910067205</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/871694884809449472</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/826624445037084672</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/814196550322757633</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/789542390994350080</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/775679668204687360</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/753946374744395776</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/716771140807561217</ref> and "traditionalist" [[Matthew Heimbach]]<ref>https://twitter.com/TradYouth/status/640419911584608256</ref> all love to whine about mass immigration.
*[[Conspiracy theory|Conspiracy nutters]] [[Infowars]],<ref>https://www.infowars.com/le-pens-rothschild-rival-muslim-mass-migration-unstoppable/</ref> [[Paul Joseph Watson]],<ref>https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/834223838099599360</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/825041641362821123</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/835499875693363200</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/860885766368628738</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/836587731199340544</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/836531292607025153</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/834108043130466306</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/833728007852478465</ref> and [[Mike Cernovich]]<ref>https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/842946555783012352</ref> all express hatred against mass immigration.
*[[Fundamentalism|Religious fundamentalists]] [[Pat Buchanan]],<ref>http://buchanan.org/blog/immigration-issue-of-the-century-16368</ref> [[Theodore Beale]],<ref>https://bookstoread.info/book/9527065720/cuckservative-how-conservatives-betrayed-america</ref> and [[Lauren Southern]]<ref>https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/865423914112999428</ref> all fight mass immigration.

Even alleged "skeptics" [[Sargon of Akkad]],<ref>https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/805452027593654273</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/835525938880348161</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/793171633993375744</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/744462279706558464</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/739811749755490304</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/870743325002936322</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/838067782063427585</ref> [[The Amazing Atheist]],<ref>https://twitter.com/amazingatheist/status/806109554878521349</ref> and Vernaculis<ref>https://twitter.com/Vernaculis/status/842176718752387077</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/Vernaculis/status/818591562326282240</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/Vernaculis/status/818590430761807874</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/Vernaculis/status/687362949057503232</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/Vernaculis/status/681096282103005184</ref> complain about mass immigration.

==Climate exodus==
The bitter [[irony]] is that the only way a mass migration — as spoken of by fear-mongers — could happen is because of another thing many wingnuts deny… a thing called [[climate change]]. Climate change — via such delights as desertification<ref>{{wpa|desertification}}</ref> and water shortages<ref>{{wpa|water scarcity}}</ref> — is slowly but increasingly costing some of the poorest nations their inhabitability,<ref>
{{cite book
 | last1 = Kerr
 | first1 = Julie
 | title = Introduction to Energy and Climate: Developing a Sustainable Environment
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6UIwDwAAQBAJ
 | location = Boca Raton, Florida
 | publisher = CRC Press
 | publication-date = 2017
 | isbn = 9781498774420
 | access-date = 10 September 2019
 | quote = It is predicted that by 2100, … climate change will increase the area of desert climates by 17 percent, meaning more areas at risk of desertification. Worldwide, about 12 million hectares become useless for cultivation each year…}}
</ref>
and will likely cause multiple global exoduses unseen in human history as it begins to affect countries rich and poor. Another issue is that many of these countries, such as [[Syria]], are already so war-torn that their governments can do very little to stop emigration. By the time climate refugees<ref>{{wpa|climate refugee}}</ref> reach the US (itself desertification-prone<ref>{{wpa|Dust Bowl}}</ref>) and southern Europe, the exodus may be so huge that the host nations actually may have difficulty supporting it (even without taking over [[Greenland]]). The deserted countries would probably have their Mad Max-style [[dystopian]] remains conquered by extremist groups such as the [[Taliban]] and [[ISIS]], with virtually no governing bodies to stop them.

==See also==
*[[White genocide]]
*[[Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white]]
*[[Illegal immigration]]
*[[Eurabia]]
*[[The Great Replacement]]

==References==
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