Jack of Harts

Not all mass migrations are created equal. For every nation that invaded another one and then sent their own people in to push out the native population, there are multiple mass migrations where people moved from one place they didn’t want to live to a place where either nobody or very few people lived. Often times, people just wanted to get away from powerful people telling them how to live.

The colonies that would later spark the revolution to form the United States were famously founded by religious minorities who wanted to get away from the religious authorities of the time. They left a comfortable, built up, civilized land, to try to build a new civilization in a strange climate where even the animals and the weather killed them. And almost nobody lived in the places they landed and built up.

The nation we know of as South Africa now was a desolate spit of inhospitable land on the southern tip of Africa that the Africans stayed away from because it was too harsh. And then religious minorities left Europe to build a new civilization there. And after they built it up into a rich area, people came to try to take away what they built. They fought wars to defend what they built, and they still live there today.

Israel was a sparsely populated desert wasteland on the fringes of the great empires of the late 1800s when the Jews began returning to the land the Romans threw them out of. They built water systems, and roads, and when the world finally allowed them to actually recreate their old nation, they weathered decades of Arab invasions trying to sweep them into the sea. But they brought water to the desert. They grew food and built great industries. They created a rich, multi-faith society in the land that had been a sparsely populated desert a century before.

Hong Kong was a sparsely populated island off the coast of China when they and Great Britain went to war. Just some small fishing villages and a bunch of empty land around them. Great Britain negotiated a century-long lease on the island, so they could keep a watch on the Chinese, when the war ended. And then they built it up into one of the world’s most powerful economic hubs in the world. A beacon of free speech and liberty and production. I remember a time when Built in Hong Kong was one of the most common stamps seen in stores.

Many of the world’s richest, prosperous, and healthiest civilizations right now were created by a small or a mass migration of people who just wanted to get away from where they were to build something better where nobody else was. Mass migration itself is neither good nor bad, but it can be used for good or ill by people of good or ill intent.

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America has a complicated relationship with Mass Migrations. The fact is that we love them. We wouldn’t exist without them. We were born of a mass migration started by people who wanted religious liberty and built a nation that enshrined it in the highest laws of the land. And though it took us over a century, we built an economic powerhouse that helped lift the world out of poverty and war via continued mass migration.

And even now our companies are always looking for new workers willing to work for less money than someone who grew up in America. Illegal mass immigration into America didn’t start four years ago. Or twelve. Or twenty. An estimated tens of millions of illegal aliens already lived in America when I was young and Reagan was president and the first big border bill compromise between Republicans and Democrats was signed. Republicans promised and delivered amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. Democrats promised funding towards border security and then blocked all attempts to follow through on that.

That is not the origin of the old joke about Democrats needing people to do the jobs Americans won’t do. Like voting for Democrats. But when combined with how much Democrats hate requiring photo ID or proof of citizenship to vote, it certainly emphasizes the joke.

Even twenty years ago, twenty or thirty million illegal aliens wasn’t an issue most Americans considered critical. They literally did the jobs other people didn’t want to do. Picking the crops too delicate for machine harvesting. Cleaning hotel rooms. And then they went back home during the winter. It was largely an ebb and flow that most people weren’t concerned about.

Obama changed the manner of mass migration in America, but it took a while for most people to realize it. He granted 1 million green cards to people from all over the world, but targeting Muslim majority countries. And he did not deport five hundred thousand people who overstayed their temporary visas. Yes, he deported millions of illegal aliens who crossed the border, but what does an absolute minimum, documented, 1-2 million person mass migration in eight years look like?

It looks like Third World Ghettos in a dozen or so big cities all across America. Imagine seventy thousand new Somalis in one neighborhood of one city, who are happy to go out and march in favor of killing American cops. Who DO kill cops. And civilians as well. Looking at documented cases here. Imagine a woman born in Somalia, now a Representative of a major American city to our nation’s capital. Imagine entire big city neighborhoods burned down in “mostly peaceful protests.”

That is the destabilizing environment a 1-2 million person mass migration over eight years can help to build. That is one way mass migration can work that most Americans never guessed because we remember building a great and powerful society on it. But if you ask the Indians, growing up on their Indian Reservations, out on the edges of the civilization we built over the last few centuries of our mass migration, they would just nod and smile because they DO remember what mass migration can do to the people who live there.