Commentary: America Needs to Reform Its Legal Immigration System

by Josiah Lippincott

 

With massive ICE funding passed in the Big Beautiful Bill, Trump and his allies have won an enormous political battle. Trump, after 10 years of fighting, has finally made serious headway on the immigration front. It is time to press our advantage.

It isn’t just enough to get the illegals out; we need to seriously restrict all migration. The flood of legal foreigners into our country is a huge problem. These aliens become citizens and vote Democrat at extremely high rates. They are demographically changing the composition of our country. Many of them express viciously anti-White and anti-Christian sentiments.

Zohran Mamdani, a Ugandan-born Indian-Arab socialist who only became a citizen in 2018, is now the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York. In 2020, Mamdani posted a photo of himself on Twitter flipping the middle finger to a statue of Christopher Columbus.

This is the reality of modern American immigration. Ungrateful third-worlders come here just “looking for a better life” while actively subverting the way of life that made America great in the first place. The vast majority of our legal migrants are bad houseguests.

Every 9/11 hijacker was a legal immigrant, to put things in perspective.

America simply needs fewer foreigners on our soil. We definitely don’t need an influx of naturalized citizens from the third world. It is simply insane that the children of illegal immigrants born in America are treated as if they are American citizens.

Birthright citizenship is an absurd policy that makes a mockery of the consent of the governed. American citizenship is valuable. It is a privilege. We should not give it away so easily.

Economists like to make the argument that more labor is good for the economy and that it boosts GDP. They entirely leave out the costs associated with migration—the increased drain on public resources like hospitals, roads, police, and fire protection. They leave out migrant crime, which is massively underreported, and ignore the long-term political effects of bringing lots of leftist migrants to our shores.

Is immigration actually good for the economy if the migrants we bring here hate the principles on which our liberties are built? Is immigration good for the economy if it culminates in a left-wing socialist revolution?

Many of the Hispanics flying Mexican flags during the LA anti-ICE rallies are technically American citizens, and yet they despise America. This is untenable. There is no place for hostile aliens and communist activists in America. These people need to go.

The source of the problem is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, commonly known as Hart-Celler. This law got rid of the National Origins Formula that had previously restricted non-European immigration to the United States and allowed for the “chain migration” that currently allows a single immigrant to create a “foothold” by which dozens of their family members eventually come to America.

Hart-Celler dramatically opened the door to new immigration from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Central America. It radically transformed the demographics of the United States, flooding the nation with ethnic groups that previously had little to no cultural or historical ties to America.

The 1952 report Whom Shall We Welcome, authorized by President Truman and the basis of the creation of the Hart-Celler Act, stressed that American immigration policy was not welcoming enough to the downtrodden. The report was needed, the authors said, because the United States “had not yet fulfilled its duties to suffering humanity.”

The aim of Hart-Celler was not the good of the American people but rather concern for the migrants. It was oriented toward helping the “wretched refuse” of the earth find its way to America’s shores.

This immigration policy has gone on for far too long. Today, 90% of our immigrants are from the third world. Moreover, there are 80+ million Americans who would not be here if it were not for legal mass immigration.

There are more than 45 million immigrant foreigners living in the United States. The vast, overwhelming majority need to go back.

America cannot remain a united country while we have this many aliens wandering our shores. These people need to make their own countries great again. They don’t need to be here.

Hart-Celler needs to go.

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Josiah Lippincott is a Ph.D. student and a former U.S. Marine Corps officer. You can find him on Telegram at https://t.me/josiah_lippincott or subscribe to his Substack here.
Photo “Citizenship Paperwork” by Grand Canyon National Park. CC BY 2.0.

 

 

 

 

 

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