What Do Immigrants Owe Us?
Kurt Schlichter
We keep hearing it, over and over again, about how we Americans are somehow morally obligated to aliens – illegal or otherwise. About how we Americans are obligated to allow them into our country without our permission, and once they’re here, to not only subsidize them but to validate the garbage cultures that they came from and now insist on replanting in our sacred soil. But there’s a question that we need to start asking, particularly Republican politicians, whenever the subject of immigration arises. I don’t mean the Republican politicians who were all for illegal immigration; these are the ones who insist that we somehow owe these people “dignity,” as if it is we, and not their own actions, that have somehow deprived them of it. No, when we’re talking about immigration, we need to ask a very simple question and demand an answer.
What do immigrants owe us?
Because we don’t owe them anything. Nothing. The terrible conditions of their trash homelands are not the fault of America or Americans. It is the fault of the people who lived there, their people, not ours. And yes, I know about colonialism. We didn’t colonize most of the places these people are coming from, but even if we did, let’s be honest here. Colonization is the best thing that has happened to most of the world. Without colonization, most of them would still be living in huts, curing diseases by waving smoking twigs over the sick, and occasionally dining on one another. All you have to do to lose respect for most of the world is go there, which is why most of the people there want to go here.
So, what do immigrants owe us? And not just illegal ones. The legal ones, too, because we seem to have a problem with ingratitude on the part of losers our country, for some reason, took in. Take Ihan Omar, as her brother apparently did as his unlawfully wedded wife. She came from a dumpster country and is now intent on turning our country into a similar dumpster, all the time endlessly complaining and whining about how terrible it is. A simple “thank you” would suffice, but we’re never going to get that from her. She hates us. And she hates us in large part because our culture’s success shames her by highlighting the comparative total failure of her own. She takes it as a personal insult that Americans don’t suck, and she should.
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