Much is made of Immigration.
Many would say that a particular stance on domestic immigration is the defining trait of both sides of today’s culture wars. More immigration left wing. Less immigration right wing.
Immigration doesn’t matter. Stopping it wont do anything. It is way too late. What is the plan? To take over America, and say, the water muddies this much and no more?
What is even the point?
Are you supposed to kick these people out?
How or why would you do that?
America is many drops past one. The national genetic character has changed forever. It will never ever be what it used to be. A country is its land and its people. Both have changed irrevocably. For one side of the culture wars this is a good thing. For the other side, you lost. Get over it.
Power and Borders
A common perception when looking at border control and immigration control in general would be to watch the tv and say: “they’re not even trying to stop them”. That is correct.
The amount of effort and power spent by USG to police and defend the border is essentially the same amount that New York city spends on parades. It’s not nothing, but people like that we have it, so we’ll keep doing it.
But directly policing “borders” or points of entry is not America’s only means of controlling the flow of people around the world.
Far more power and might is spent controlling the economic activities of those countries who fall into the category of “the global south”.
If you are part of the global south then, in exchange for military protection and access to trade route policed by America TM, your country must cede control of all of its major economic decisions. Obviously, this does not mean direct control. But the rules of membership in the American trade protectorate are posted often and loudly by a portion of the US Government called “Non-Government” and its organizations are likewise called “Non-Governmental Organizations”.
While these organizations are either implicitly funded by USG through tax incentives, or explicitly funed by government through grants (which are themselves often either directly or indirectly funded by government), they do no count as technically being part of the US Government. Ostensibly you can determine which US government funded organizations are officially part of USG by looking at which organizations have the prefix “non”, before government. Which, basically, appears to have the same rules as a game of “Simon Says” — “I didn’t say ‘Simon Says’ governmental organization”.
These people hold conferences. They talk. Loudly. In your country or around it. Then after they hold enough conferences some of the actors in the space of “non-governance” may be promoted to “governance” for a time, and then eventually retire to return to “non-governance”. George HW Bush did it. He was head of the CIA, then he was officially in “non-governance”, then he went back to simon says governance again. Then back to simon says non-governance. Bush Sr. called this system of telling foreign countries what to do without telling them what to do via NGO’s "1000 points of light”.
What happens to you if you ignore what the non-government implies to you about what you shouldn’t not do? Well, if you get it wrong they will tell you. If you ignore them when they tell you to fix it, then you become Iran, Russia, or North Korea.
The strongest border is the one holding you in
So if America exerts all of this leverage and control over the broke-ass countries, why don’t they leverage this situation to help you and your gringo pals score some sweet digs in south america the same way the Europeans can easily live and work anywhere in Europe?
Because they really don’t fucking want you to do that. Immigration is illegal only for you. Coming into the global north is fine. It’s allowed. From a certain perspective it may even be mandatory.
Going to the global south? Hold it right there pardner!
Monopoly and Lawfare
How can non-government keep you out of a country without ever actually telling you not to go there?
Two ways.
Monopoly on force. In the global system of USG Ameritrade Protectorate Plus Unlimited Members, Governments have a monopoly on force over their citizens. The government that has a monopoly on force over other Governments is the American government. And the entity that has a monopoly on influence over American government actions is… non-government. This means the only force allowed in the countries of the global south is the force that is implicitly sanctioned by those who hold the existing monopoly on force. And, guess what? Gringo force is not allowed.
Lawfare. The laws of basically every government in the global south are essentially entirely written by pinko-NGO-copycat lawfags. They all include more or less the same set of rules and regulations regarding gringo in-migration. The rules boil down to basically, don’t come here unless super old, in which case America doesn’t want you anyways. Or if you can come if you are super rich, in which case America can’t stop you from leaving. Or you can come here if you jump through some bizarre rube-goldberg hoop machine that looks an awful lot like the hoop machine entrance testomatic 5000 they have set up in the neighbouring shit-hole country.
If USG had any interest at all in getting you a chance to leave their country for the global south, that could be easily mandated in to every trade deal. But it is not. In fact, basically the reverse is true in every country in the global south, which implies strongly this is not an accident.
The point
The clear pill on immigration is that it is too late to “save” America. But America is not the only place in the world. What you must do to win your freedom is not build some sisyphean wall to keep the tides at bay, but strike out into the waters.
Power fears this greatly.
Great write up. Definitely a fresh take I hadn't thought of.