These United States have a lot of people. Our population has more than doubled over the lifetime of today’s seniors. From 150 million in the early 1950s to 200 million by 1970, crossing 300 million around 2006, finally approximating 340 million today.
Yes, you read that right. Forty million during the last seventeen years of recession and depression, with only a couple of years of real economic growth (2017-2019).
And that’s not counting all the illegal aliens, some of whom show up in census counts and some of whom don’t, for various reasons. So the real number is somewhere closer to 350 million.
A lot of them were and are children of Americans; a lot of them were and are immigrants, both legal and illegal.
Now, that’s not, in itself, a problem; we have an enormous amount of land; with a healthy free market, the country is big enough to thrive with 340 million people, if they have all had time to assimilate, to become Americans.
A growing economy needs an increase in population, but there are limits. No country can absorb this many people – with such different cultures, languages, and abilities – that quickly.
So we ask ourselves, are there things we can do to reduce the inflow, to slow it down, or to get some of those unassimilated ones already here to leave – particularly the ones who aren’t a good fit for us – and relieve the pressure for a while, to give us time to absorb the ones who are already here?
Well, now, there are several.
We can tighten the quotas on legal immigration, but that’s hard to do politically. A lot of these are relatives of people already here, or educated, skilled workers who our economy can easily absorb. Many of them aren’t the problem.
We can close the border, hard. Stop the millions per year of illegal crossings along our southern border (and to a much lesser degree, our northern border too). This has in fact been one of our biggest challenges for 50 years, as the Right wants to preserve our country and take the time to assimilate new arrivals, while the Left specifically wants new voters who don’t think like Americans, so the Democrats have a better chance at the polls. With this being such a political fight, we aren’t going to see the borders managed properly during a Democrat regime.
There are about a million foreign exchange students in the USA at any given time. Our colleges could choose to accept fewer, or stop taking foreign students at all. But colleges like foreign students for their revenue; they often pay the full rack rate without financial aid. State universities would much rather have the $50,000 a foreign student’s parents pay than the $20,000 that an American taxpayer from their own state pays (you know, the students who the schools were actually built to serve). So reducing these numbers is probably a non-starter too. Besides, too many politicians count on this route for sharing the scientific work of these research universities with foreign competitors and enemy governments in exchange for their illegal campaign donations, so that’s probably a non-starter too.
How about street crime? The nation is suffering from an explosion of violent crime, primarily in our big cities. Downtown shopping districts and suburban malls, big box stores and convenience stores alike, already struggling from shrinkage, are collapsing under the weight of armed robberies, flash mobs, and other wilding. Most of these criminals are homegrown, but some are immigrants, often members of foreign gangs like MS-13. Soros-funded prosecutors don’t prosecute many of these crimes because (they claim) the punishment isn’t worth the cost of pursuit and trial, but foreign criminals can be deported for this. If we wanted, we could deport any non-citizen, whether here on a visa or a green card, or here illegally, based on a single conviction of such serious crimes. But we don’t, do we? Why not? By failing to prosecute them, these “immigrants” have clean records in case they do apply for full citizenship someday. And then they can stay for good, and the option of deportation is gone for good.
Which brings us to the news of the day.
On October 7, a bloodthirsty terrorist group named Hamas – largely run by the rogue nation of Iran – attacked our friend Israel from their bases in the Gaza Strip, brutally killing over a thousand Israelis, mostly civilian, injuring thousands more, and taking hundreds hostage. Sane people the world over denounced the attack and agreed that Israel has the right and duty to defend itself from these demons.
Immediately, all over the western world, particularly all over the United States, demonstrations commenced – shockingly – in full support of Hamas.
Under U.S. law – such as the US Export Controls and the sanctions operated by the State, Commerce, and Treasury Departments – it is illegal to provide funds or most forms of material support to known terrorist organizations. Many of these demonstrations were clearly organized directly by Hamas or Iran, or by their agents. That means we have the grounds – and under U.S. law, the obligation – to jail any U.S. citizen involved in such collaboration, and to deport any foreigner involved, whether here legally or illegally.
This is not to say that we can deport everyone who attended a rally, automatically. But where did they get the transportation, the brand new “palestinian” flags and flagpoles, the picket signs and flyers, the sound and light equipment? Who funds these events? Some are doubtless locally funded and locally organized. But some – at least – are funded and organized by individuals or organizations on our many sanction lists, such as the BIS Denied Persons List, the State Department Nonproliferation Sanctions List, and OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals and Foreign Sanctions Evaders lists. There are numerous such lists with thousands of known enemies on them, and any prosecutor worth his salt would have started looking for connections to these vermin the day the first pro-Hamas rally was staged.
But have you heard of arrests at these demonstrations, in Chicago, New York, Washington, and elsewhere?
Back during the Cold War, the CIA and FBI watched for such anti-American activity and made sure that such unwelcome guests were deported. No longer.
Too much of American law enforcement today has lost track of its obligation to protect the American people. We are a pro-immigration country, and rightly so.
Nearly all of us are descendants of immigrants (this writer, for example, is descended from Irishmen, Scots, Italians, Austrians, and Bohemians) – people who came to America because they loved something about what the country stood for: its Judeo-Christian heritage, its protestant work ethic, its libertarian Scottish enlightenment philosophy, its economic opportunity. Regardless of ethnic background, the people who share these values are the ones our government is designed to support.
When we allow foreigners in, it’s a privilege, not a right. It can be revoked. And we, the citizens and voters, expect our government to utilize that authority to identify and deport the ones who don’t belong, the ones who bring anti-American values with them and try to spread them.
Politically and legally, we cannot eject every person who doesn’t really belong here. But there are some for whom the case is so blatant, there is simply no excuse for tolerating their presence another day, and the law is on the side of deportation in these cases.
We can call on our federal government to enforce the laws on the books, now, without further delay. Deport any non-citizen protester who has collaborated with these criminal organizations. We don’t need these people in our colleges, our communities, our businesses.
Surely, looking at this conflict, to take the side of Hamas – these monstrous anti-semitic baby-killers who fired rockets into residential neighborhoods, who shot up a music festival, who so eagerly slaughtered whole families minding their own business in quiet kibbutzes – are so contrary to the American way of life, they have no business being here at all.
If law enforcement doesn’t even try to remove the most vicious, the most poisonous influences from our society when it easily and legally can, why have a government at all?
Copyright 2023 John F Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation and trade compliance professional and consultant. A onetime Milwaukee County Republican Party chairman, he has been writing a regular column for Illinois Review since 2009. His book on vote fraud (The Tales of Little Pavel) and his political satires on the current administration (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I and II) are available only on Amazon
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