USA Immigration Laws Destroying the Nation

​USA Immigration Laws:
Premodern Diversity vs Civilizational Unity

10-27-23, Victor Davis Hanson* -- In the late decades of their 5th century AD, few in the Roman empire celebrated their newfound "diversity" of marauding Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns and Vandals. These tribes en masse had crossed the unsecured Rhine and Danube borders to harvest Roman bounty without a care about what had created it. Their agendas were focused on destroying the civilization they overran rather than peacefully integrating into and perpetuating the Empire. Ironically, Rome's prior greatness had been due to the extension of citizenship to diverse people throughout Europe, North Africa and Asia.
 
Millions had been assimilated, integrated and intermarried and often superseded the original Italians of the early Roman Republic. Such fractious diversity had led to unity around the idea of Rome. New citizens learned to enjoy the advantages of habeas corpus, sophisticated roads, aqueducts, and public architecture and the security offered by the legions. The unity of these diverse peoples fused into a single culture that empowered Rome.
 
In contrast, the later disunity of hundreds of thousands of tribal people flooding into and dividing Rome doomed it. To meet the challenge of a multiracial society, the only viable pathway to a stable civilization of racially and ethnically different people is a single shared culture. Some nations can find collective success as a single homogenous people like Japan or Switzerland. Or equally, but with more difficulty, nations can prosper with heterodox peoples -- but only if united by a single, inclusive culture as the American melting-pot once attested.
 
A destructive suicidal option: a multicultural society of diverse, unassimilated and often rival tribes -- historically is a prescription for the downfall of a nation. =>

<= ​In the USA we’re beginning to see just that as it sheds the melting pot adopting the salad bowl of unassimilated and warring tribes. Currently America is seeing a rise in violent racially and religiously motivated hate crimes. The border is nonexistent as millions of unlawful migrants mock their hosts by their brazen illegal entrance. They'll receive little civic education to become Americans; but learn that unassimilated tribalism wins them influence and advantages.
 
In contrast, America was once a rare historical example of a multiracial, but single-culture democracy that actually worked. Multigenerational American citizens were often energized by keeping up with new hard-working immigrants determined to have a shot at success in a free society long denied them in their home nation.
 
Other large nations have tried such a democratic multiracial experiment -- most notably Brazil and India. But both are still plagued by tribal feuding and serial violence. In the USA no one wants:

• Middle-East norms regarding gays or emancipated women
• Mexican jurisprudence to our courts
• the dictatorship of Venezuela or the totalitarianism of communist China

Tribalism wrecks nations - just compare what happened in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, or Iraq. Anytime one ethnic, racial, or religious group refuses to surrender its prime identity in exchange for a shared sense of self, other tribes for their own survival will do the same. All then rebrand their superficial appearance as essential not incidental to whom they are. And like nuclear proliferation that sees other nations go nuclear once a neighboring power gains the bomb, so too the tribalism of one group inevitably leads only to more tribalism of others – resulting in endless Hobbesian strife. [1]

Conclusion: Successful absorption of migrants from foreign nations requires a legal and measured approach. Newcomers must be manageable, assimilated and integrated rather than left on their own to form rival tribal cliques. The diversity of immigrants ensures that no one ethnic or political tribe seeks to use immigration to divide the nation further.

The USA’s old immigration policies enriched America when newcomers were screened for good intentions, health and ability to provide for themselves. However, America’s new version is destroying it.
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[1] Hobbesian: Theory explaining why preemptive strikes occur between two groups, out of bilateral fear of an imminent attack. Without outside influences this situation will lead to a fear spiral (catch-22, vicious circle) in which fear will lead to an arms race which in turn will lead to increasing fear. Wikipedia
 
*Excerpted and adapted full original report from Victor Davis Hanson here https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2023/10/27/premodern-diversity-vs-civilizational-unity-n263045