About immigration, I mostly agree with James Kunstler.

I think borders matter and they need to be protected. I think our immigration law enforcement under Obama has been deeply dishonest and damaging to our politics in ways that go far beyond the question of who gets to come here. I believe we are under no obligation to take in everybody and anybody who wants to move here. I believe we need an official time out from the high-volume immigration of recent decades. I believe we have good reasons to be picky about who we let in.

In case you are very, very dense the “open borders” nonsense is something promulgated not by hippie utopians but by large corporations and their functionaries who salivate over the cheap labor and the devastation of wages and living standard this causes among the working class. Then they pay economists to massage the numbers to show that the net effects are always positive of this calamity.

Modern immigration politics as actually practiced has almost nothing to do with humanism or with charity, but rather with the destabiliziation of societal arrangements for various corporate and neolib purposes.

Again: I am not against all immigration. I think it can be a net gain for every culture and society, including our own. I am against being called a “racist Nazi misogynist KKK Hitler-loving stormtrooper demon” — as is the wont of much of the Left — because I don’t support neoliberal destruction of my society and culture.

Also, there’s this. As I’ve pointed out many times before, you can have open borders or any sort of welfare state. You absolutely will not get both.

So, choose.