It’s Not Just Haitians In Springfield. Mass Immigration Is Destroying The American Nation: We argue about illegal immigration, but we should be arguing about assimilation and what it means to be a nation; Chip Roy: America Invaded

It’s Not Just Haitians In Springfield. Mass Immigration Is Destroying The American Nation:

We argue about illegal immigration, but we should be arguing about assimilation and what it means to be a nation.

fter the presidential debate last Tuesday night, J.D. Vance told CNN’s Kaitlin Collins the only reason the media is talking about places like Springfield, Ohio, is because the right turned the cats and geese thing into a meme. He reiterated the point in a hostile interview with Dana Bash on CNN over the weekend, saying these concerns about Haitian immigrants have been brought to him directly by his constituents — concerns the media totally ignored until he and Trump started talking about them.

Vance is right. One of the purposes of a meme is to reveal a deep truth, not to prove a specific claim. In this case, the deep truth is that mass immigration destabilizes and destroys communities, in part by bringing in people who haven’t assimilated to the host country and don’t shares its mores and way of life, which is exactly what’s happening in Springfield and towns like it across America under the Biden-Harris administration. Haitians allegedly slaughtering and eating cats and geese is just a particularly dramatic instance of the phenomenon.

Sure, there’s some evidence that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are stealing and slaughtering animals, mostly from local people speaking out about it on social media. We at The Federalist last week published a police report about a group of Haitians allegedly removing geese from a local park. A second police report has now surfaced, of a woman claiming her cat was stolen and chopped up by Haitians in her neighborhood. This week, video footage surfaced of a local man conveying similar reports to the city council back in March.

None of this is really all that surprising, given that slaughtering and eating such animals is part of Haitian culture and the dominant vodou religion in Haiti. There’s no reason to think that Haitians, simply by relocating to the U.S., would give all that up, any more than Muslims immigrants would give up Islam.

So the question is, what happens to a community like Springfield, population 60,000, when some 20,000 Haitians suddenly show up? The answer should be fairly obvious: it destroys the community and transforms it into something else, decidedly less American.

I don’t mean merely that an influx of unassimilated immigrants from a place like Haiti brings a host of serious social problems and steep costs. Those problems have now been widely reported, from the public schools crowded with non-English-speaking students, to the housing shortage, to the strain on the healthcare system. All these social costs aren’t canceled out by the fact that some of them have gotten jobs at local businesses.

This of course is one of the major leftist and libertarian talking points in the immigration debate, that immigrants grow our economy by doing jobs Americans won’t do or can’t do, and that more immigration just means more prosperity for everyone, regardless of who is coming here or why.

That’s the view of Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, who last week said the Haitians came to Springfield for jobs, and local employers are happy to have them. He thinks the discussion should end there. As long as they’re working, Haitians are free to pour into any Ohio town they please. This has been the GOP establishment/Chamber of Commerce position on immigration for decades, that people are nothing but economic units and that communities are nothing but GDP. Springfield, goes the thinking, was declining for years until Haitian immigrants came in, increasing jobs and generating wealth for local businesses. Isn’t that what America is all about? Aren’t the Haitians entitled to the American dream like everyone else?

President Joe Biden said as much this week. Incorrectly referring to “Haitian-Americans” in Ohio, he said, “There are those who want a country for some of us, but not for all of us.” It would be hard to imagine a more perfect way to convey the idea of America as a propositional nation. Who is “all of us”? Anyone who sneaks over the border and is later paroled by federal authorities? Everyone who happens to be physically in the United States? The reality is that eventually the idea of America as a propositional nation devolves into this: anyone who manages to get across the Rio Grande is entitled to America, which according to this logic is nothing more than a place to make money — not a homeland, not a nation, and certainly not a people with a shared culture and way of life. —>READ MORE HERE

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