Make Reality Deniers Face the Numbers

As time goes on, many supporters of mass immigration become more and more detached from reality. No matter how high our unemployment rates rises, they want the doors wide open for more foreigners to enter and compete with the 15 million or so unemployed Americans. And no matter how many Mexicans want to settle in our country (36 percent of the population according to a recent poll), they would encourage them to come by giving amnesty to the ones already living here.

But it’s not just Mexicans who would like to come. The Gallup polling organization did a survey of 135 countries between 2007 and 2009. It found that 700 million adults would like to relocate to other countries. Not surprisingly, most were people in poor Third World countries who would like to move to Western countries. Of the 700 million, 24 percent, a total of 165 million, would like to settle in the United States.

Now, let’s pose a question to our reality-defying immigrationists. Should we let them all in? And please, no sappy sentimentality about huddled masses and American Dreams. The question in point is simply this, can we admit so many people in the span of a few years and still keep our quality of life and indeed the very existence as a country. Bear in mind too that these 165 million, about half of our existing population, would just be the beginning of the influx.

Our current immigration laws place high priority on immigrants bringing in their family members. Thus we can be sure that the 165 million would certainly want to bring in their spouses and minor children. Also they can petition to bring in parents, adult children, and brothers and sisters. Furthermore, in chain fashion, these people can petition for their other relatives to come too.

Thus, if we don’t want to set limits and enforce them, upwards toward a billion people could come knocking at our door. This is the reality that sane and mature Americans must force the reality-deniers to confront. If they say we must have immigration, ask them if they are willing to accept all of the hundreds of millions who will line up to come. Perhaps to avoid looking like total fools, they will concede that some limits are necessary. When they say that, restrictionists should reply, “Congratulations, you have now joined our side as restrictionists. All we disagree on now is how much immigration, if any, that we need.

Sensible Americans must pull the immigration dreamers out of their delusional sleep. If not, their dreams will become our nightmares.