Anti-immigration: Reaping the Whirlwind

Human migration has become my obsession, I guess. It is, I think, basically unstoppable, at least in the long term. Walls, incarcerations, deportations, exterminations, etc., can, of course, TEMPORARILY and UNEVENLY arrest mass movements of humans. But over time, the walls will be breached and the posses outrun. Human beings are hard-wired to seek the best conditions available, and thus they are willing to take considerable risks to acquire them. Over time, they will figure out ways to get in and settle down. 

IMO , therefore , the existing populations of places chosen by migrants (fortunate countries like the U.S.) can best serve their OWN interests by accepting and ASSIMILATING new arrivals ( provided , of course, these arrivals have no malicious intent to exterminate, expel or somehow endanger the natives—i.e., orchestrated conquest is not involved). Otherwise, needless, inexcusable, human suffering is likely to result, merely because devotees of two primordial impulses—improve yourself/fear outsiders—have been unwilling or unable to use human reason to devise a modus vivendi. In that scenario, alas, no one wins.  And if such reptilian tribalism prevails, the once “greener grass” will, almost certainly, itself be neglected by a newly-fractious society, more worried about profitless infighting than cooperative gardening. 

In other words, it is likely that—untended—the former Eden will ultimately wither and find itself transformed into an unhappy desert—a land resembling, alas, the very shithole countries that the immigrants had so recently sought to escape. And all this is plausible because anti-immigration campaigns, in their stupid refusal to acknowledge fundamental human impulses, are almost organically destined to produce little gain and much loss—on both sides:  loss for the immigrants—whose hoped-for green grass turned out to be unattainable —and even greater loss for the natives—whose forsaken green grass has dried up and blown away.

 “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind". (Hosea 8:7.) All so stupid. All so sad.