The American people deserve the first fruits of America’s wealth and prosperity. America First means putting Americans first. Foreigners need to get to the back of the line. The benefits they receive from our successes ought to be tertiary.
America is not a nation of immigrants but a nation of citizens. The best and the brightest are already here. Campaigning for more immigration, of any sort, now when Americans are struggling to purchase houses, buy groceries, and pay their bills, is simply a non-starter.
Americans should not be forced to compete with the world to have a good middle-class life. They should not have to work 80-hour weeks just to “make it.” They certainly should not be insulted, as Vivek Ramaswamy did, for encouraging their kids to live a normal life, play sports, and have friends.
The simple truth is this: America does not need more immigration. It certainly does not need “high-skill” migrants. The flood of blue-collar workers from the third world since the 1970s has done enormous damage to America’s culture—cutting wages, driving up housing prices, and bringing crime: without Mexican immigration, there would not be Mexican drug gangs in America.
This was bad enough, but so-called high-skill immigration is, in many ways, even worse. In the past two decades, in particular, we have imported an entire class of foreigners who believe that their talents and “success” give them a right to rule over the people who welcomed them in. […]
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