In general, I am against high levels of immigration because I am an anthrophobe. I’d guess that many of my political views stem from this simple fact.
That said, as much as I like Sarah Jones, this is a remarkably clueless take:
anyway this will get buried under The Memo but there is no rational reason to fear immigrants or immigration; there never has been
— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) February 2, 2018
Most people do not “fear” immigrants, so that is the wrong framing. However, immigration causes dislocation. Especially in lower-paid industries and those dominated by minorities, immigration leads to job loss and lower wages. That’s why in communities where immigration is increasing or high, black people are more anti-immigration. They know the truth (denied by liberals and economists) of what is occurring in their own lives and neigborhoods.
The Left also likes to pretend that culture doesn’t matter, that it’s just something that can be discarded willy-nilly, that it’s some affectation that is irrelevant. However, for humans, culture is just about everything. Adopting some bullshit artifice that immigrants don’t alter the dominant culture is just that: a bunch of hooey. People are rightly anxious about that reality.
The Left’s attitude towards immigration is just as stupid as the Right’s, just as in denial of reality, and just as counterproductive to helping immigrants.