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I mostly agree with them, but what do they expect to be different about today than in 2014-2016? Trump ran on combatting illegal immigration with tremendous passion; nothing happened. We can try the same thing next time, but I doubt anything will happen. “45 percent of Hispanics support deportation” means that the more Hispanics you import the harder deportation gets. I imagine that as Indian Americans ascend as a political force, they will push for greater Indian migration like in Canada.
It just strikes me as an ineffectual hope that there is ever going to be a change in immigration policy. Maybe a national boycott of companies that donate / are complicit in replace migration would be more helpful? That is at least halfways feasible.
edit another thought: in order to create an energetic political culture which can actually expand, regenerate, and effectively complete its goals re: immigration or something else, you need the kind of political culture that thrived in the 19th and early 20th century in America. Politics was intwined with drinking, music, dancing, fashion, brotherhoods, art, unique magazines, and so on — they weren’t a spectator sport, they made up most of your social identity. When I try to imagine a conservative youth movement that forms a brotherhood, shouts political chants, meets for drinks and dancing, and wear the same attire… the media will go 100 on declaring this fascism. Any viable and energetic conservative political expression is fascism, literal Hitlerism. See how they hate VDare and their castle when it’s mostly innocent old men? University clubs and the infrequent conference is not enough culture to create the political culture necessary to curb illegal immigration.
Indians are fairly racists or in their case castiste.
The data shows Indian being a relatively low IQ country. But at the same time they have no problem finding extremely brilliant people to be US executives. It’s just the caste system and having inbred Ashkenazi Jew type groups.
As an investor I always heard the term India is the next big thing. 1.4 billion people where in America the ones who made it here are extremely successful. Until you start jumping into the hbd game it seemed logical India would be a very rich country because the population is huge and the Indians who come here are brilliant.
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