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establishment has extracted tens of millions of migrants and visa workers from poor countries to serve as legal or illegal workers, temporary workers, consumers, and renters for various U.S. If do not, their opponents can simply point out to the America of the last fifty years as a demographic aberration, and they would not be wrong. The current generation of immigrants and children of immigrants - like those who came before us - must articulate a new vision for the current era, one that embraces rather than elides how far America has drifted from its European roots. Yang’s parents migrated from Taiwan, and she wants to mobilize diverse migrants to transform America - quickly and permanently - regardless of Americans’ concerns:įor those Americans who want ethnic pluralism to be a foundation value of their nation, there is unfinished work. If there is salvation for this country, it very well may lie in the underlying gratitude of a refugee whose life has been saved by the granting of a visa. Set against all the sins of America’s past - from slavery to the removal and genocide of American Indians - the arrival of open-hearted immigrants, grateful for a chance at a new life on our shores serves as a constant renewal of hope in the American project.

The image of the Statue of Liberty, the Emma Lazarus poem at the statue’s base, the notion of America as an eternal “nation of immigrants,” - these make up an intoxicating part of this country’s mythology. In her 2020 pro-migration book, titled “ One Mighty and Irresistible Tide,” Yang wrote: For example, a top New York Times editor, Jia Lynn Yang, has shown herself to be a fervent advocate for importing unsullied immigrants to redeem Americans’ homeland from Americans’ sins. Unsurprisingly, Stephens’ support for imposed diversity is commonplace in the New York Times. Nor do they help ordinary Americans who fear they and their children are being discarded by the state’s desire for imported peoples. Instead, Stephens wants a state built on a “sense of common destiny bound by ideals.”īut those vague ideals do not help strangers trust each other in the chaotic diversity of a resentful, multicultural society. Pro-immigration activists from organizations including CASA and the Center for Popular Democracy, hold a “WeCantWait” march to urge Congress to act on immigration reform. He smears the shared duty of citizenship as “blood-and-soil nationalism” or even as “white-identity politics” - despite the resulting benefits of mutual obligations, understandings, and civic trust. Stephen opposes populists and nationalists who expect their elites to favor the rights and welfare of their own nation, whether defined by geography or genetics. The third replacement was caused by the arrival of non-English migrants from Ireland and mainland Europe, and the fourth replacement was the replacement of “WASP elites’ by arriving Jews, he said, adding: “To judge by enrollment figures at Brooklyn Tech or elite universities, the next generation of elites will also be immigrants or their children, many from South or East Asia.” The prior replacements include the European takeover of the Indian-held continent, and then the gradual displacement of Protestant societies by waves of Catholic migrants. The United States has, from its earliest days, repeatedly “replaced” its working class with migrants, not as an act of substitution, much less as a sinister conspiracy, but as the natural result of upward mobility, the demands of a growing economy and the benefits of a growing population. This is both nothing new and nothing at all.

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In this telling, Washington policies, from the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act to the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement to current enforcement failures at the border, are part of a broad conspiracy to give American businesses cheap labor and Democratic politicians ready votes. The fifth is the most contentious but also the most routine and unexceptional: the alleged replacement of the native-born white working class with a foreign-born nonwhite working class. Stephens’ op-ed described five great population replacements - beginning with the wipeout of Indian tribes and continuing today with the population changes caused by the 19 immigration laws.