Immigration, Migration, Invasion, and the Colonization of America

We are being invaded. There is no other word that fits as well. However bad you thought the situation is, it is probably much worse than that.

It is true that everyone in this country is descended from people who came here from somewhere else. Even the ancestors of "Native Americans" migrated here from Asia about 30,000 years ago. It's worth spending a moment to look at the history of immigration to America. Does that justify, though, allowing the massive influx into the country that we have seen in the last few years?

At no time did immigration exceed even two percent of the population--until now

Can we absorb that number without serious damage to our country? If we have difficulty providing food and housing for our own citizens, how shall we feed and house millions more? What lessons can we draw from the history of prior waves of immigration? How will our society be affected? We will look at all these questions and more in this and subsequent parts of this investigation.

America has long been a refuge for those in need. Most of the major periods of immigration resulted from periods of war or famine. The 1840s saw a wave of immigrants fleeing the Irish Potato Famine.

Another wave from south, east, and central Europe came as a result of the economic problems that preceded the First World War. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and Italians fled to the US in that time. A steady stream of Chinese came in the early to mid 1800s. At no time, though, did immigration exceed even two percent of the population - until now.

Even the black slave trade brought in fewer than 400,000 people over more than a 50 year period, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database - considered the best data available today.

Legal immigration has been steady for years at around 100,000 per year. These people go through an extensive process to ensure that they will be good citizens. Among them are skilled workers, genuine asylum seekers, entrepreneurs and business people, all of whom can be expected to make positive contributions to the country.

History teaches that a healthy nation can absorb roughly one to two percent of its population over a brief period without serious disruption. Providing food, shelter, employment, education, healthcare, and other essentials is manageable for those numbers. Language differences, religion and culture differences, education levels and useful skill levels all affect the ability of a host to absorb immigrants. The greater the differences, the fewer that can be absorbed.

By the numbers

Currently, estimates of the number of illegal immigrants run as high as nearly 60 million, or over 18% of the population. Even allowing for some exaggeration in that number, just ten percent would still be over 30 million, and is likely on the low end.

The Biden regime has brought in more than eight million people in just over three years. In that same time, there have been over 15 million reported "encounters" with illegal border crossers, many of whom escaped into the country. Those eight million alone are more people than all but the largest twelve states. Added to previous numbers and including got-aways, The number swells to over 40 million--more than the population of our largest state, California.

The current numbers of non-citizen immigrants are more than 5-8 times the proportion from any previous time in our history. Many of these people come from countries with vastly different cultures, beliefs, religions, and values--many of them incompatible with our own, and too many openly hostile to ours. How can we assimilate them into our own culture? How many of them WANT to assimilate?

Much smaller fractions of immigrants have proven extremely disruptive in the past. One need only look at the history of the problems absorbing Irish immigrants, and later Italian and German immigrants, These were only about 1% of the population of the time, and most of them came from cultures similar to our own and even spoke the same language. Chinese immigrants, in even fewer numbers, fared much worse.

An unsupportable situation

Throughout history, whenever immigration has exceeded about 2% of the population the host country has suffered significant disruption. We are currently facing immigration levels over 15% and by some estimates as much as 20%.-- 8 to 10 times the danger level. This is not sustainable.

Does anyone seriously think that we can absorb and assimilate an additional 10 - 15% invaders while still retaining our own culture? If we need examples, we only have to look across the pond to see cultures attempting and failing to deal with numbers of migrants rivaling our own. Mass immigration has affected all of Europe and not in a good way. For them, diversity is death, just as it might be for us.

Violent crime in Sweden has skyrocketed, with most perpetrators being migrants from Islamic countries; Middle East immigrants in Germany consume most of the social service resources that Germans had accumulated for themselves over years of work; Hungary was just fined over two hundred million Euros for refusing to take in their "fair share" of migrants as dictated by EU bureaucrats.

The four basic classes of invaders:

An immigrant is someone who comes to a country expecting to adopt its culture and follow its laws and customs, replacing their own with those of their new home.

A colonizer arrives with the intention of claiming new territory for their original homeland, establishing an enclave of that homeland without regard for the culture, rights, or values of the lands claimed.

A settler is someone who comes to a country expecting to impose their own culture, laws and customs on a territory, displacing whatever was there before

An infiltrator comes to a country intending to cause harm in some way that favors another country or organization. Smugglers, soldiers, saboteurs, criminals, and ideologues all fall in this category.

Unfortunately, of the more than eight million known immigrants from the period of the Biden regime alone, nearly all of them would never qualify for acceptance, and are here illegally. While some of them are fleeing dire circumstances, much like those who came in the 1800s, that is not the case of many, if not most, of the others.

Biden has enabled large numbers of all four categories of invaders: immigrants, colonizers, settlers, and infiltrators to enter in virtually unrestricted numbers. A modest number of the first category is justifiable. Any number of the last three is unacceptable.

The result is a twofold problem. First, the number of invaders is far beyond our ability to absorb without drastic adverse effect on our society. The second is even more serious as they strike at the root of our country's ability even to exist.

What brings them here?

We can now look at what these migrants expect when they arrive here. Many organizations have assisted migrants from across the world, offering directions, transportation, food and water, and many other forms of assistance. Even our own government is flying people directly into the country, providing illegals with stipends, cellphones, and legal representation.

In the course of this assistance, they have provided migrants with a series of promises of what awaits them when they arrive. Yes, the journey is long, arduous, and full of danger, but a promised land awaits at the end of the road. From a variety of sources, including materials obtained from migrants themselves, we know much of what they are being promised. The list includes:

• housing
• food
• medical care
• work
• voting rights
• free legal assistance

The first three on the list are basic humanitarian items. The remaining three are not. Indeed, they are destructive to our society and should be reserved for citizens, not given freely to invaders.

Our corrupt administration has been issuing work permits to illegal border crossers. Some states have been providing illegals with welfare applications and voter registration forms. Recently, when citizens tried to restrict voting to only citizens, they were blocked and told that if someone believes they have a legal right to vote, even if they are not citizens, then they can vote. An Arizona court ruled that proof of citizenship cannot be required to vote.

Many of these invaders have been told that they will have a right to vote once they cross the border

Official records show that many of the new arrivals are being routed to "red" states of Florida and Texas. Is that a deliberate attempt to turn them "blue"? Or is that just an attempt to overwhelm their economies?

Many of these invaders have been told that they will have a right to vote once they cross the border. Do they believe? Will they register? Will they try to vote? Just as a note, recent studies show that almost 90% of recent arrivals vote Democrat.

Even among the first three items, we have nearly three-quarter million homeless people in this country, living in tents along freeways and under bridges, or simply on streets. Too many of these are veterans. Where is the concern, where is the government provision of food, shelter, medical care that is provided freely to illegal invaders? Of course, these people aren't future Democrat voters, so the oh-so-caring Left can dismiss and ignore them. Better to have them around as visible reminders of what can happen to people if they don't support Progressives.

Part 2 will explore in more detail just who is coming into the country. It is not a comforting picture. More to follow soon.