If America Can’t Get Immigration Right, Nothing Else Matters
The article argues that for decades, American political elites and corporations have misled the public on immigration, prioritizing cheap foreign labor over national security and social cohesion. It highlights President Trump’s 2015 speech and his recent Thanksgiving Day post criticizing immigration policies-especially those allowing Somali and Afghan migrants-following a deadly terrorist attack linked to an Afghan refugee in the national Guard. The author claims that Afghan migrants cannot be properly vetted and that current immigration policies harm Americans by allowing influxes of populations with allegedly antagonistic attitudes and criminal activities, such as Somali communities involved in fraud and terrorism.
The piece emphasizes that immigration has become the dominant political issue, shaping voting patterns and contributing to demographic changes that favor the Democratic Party, which the author accuses of intentionally importing certain groups (Somalis, Afghans, Haitians) for electoral advantage. The article contrasts this with the refusal to accept white South African refugees, alleging hypocrisy.
It critiqued previous Republican administrations for ignoring these realities and maintaining a more permissive immigration stance that made conservatives unelectable nationally. The author insists that America was founded by settlers rather than immigrants and that current immigration is fundamentally different, leading to cultural and political instability.
Specifically, Minnesota’s Somali population and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar are spotlighted as examples of unassimilable migrants with divided loyalties, citing ties to terrorism and welfare fraud. The article claims Somalis wield disproportionate political influence despite their small numbers.
The author calls for strict immigration enforcement, deportation of illegal and unassimilable migrants, and “reverse migration” to preserve the nation’s security, culture, and political future.The overall tone is critical of current U.S. immigration policies and skeptical of the benefits of immigration in its present form.
Prior to President Trump’s infamous 2015 escalator speech, the political class lied to Americans about immigration for 60 years with the help of the media and the backing of America’s corporations as the primary beneficiaries of cheap foreign labor. On Thanksgiving Day, the president made a fantastic post on X that decried the destructive effects of immigration (including Somali fraud) on the heels of an Islamic terror attack that resulted in the tragic death of National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom. A second National Guardsman, Andrew Wolfe, remains in critical condition.
The horrific attack on Beckstrom and Wolfe is the direct result of a Biden-era program that rolled out the red carpet for a pipeline of Afghan migrants. Notice that I didn’t say “unvetted” migrants, which implies that there’s such a thing as a “vetted” Afghan migrant. It is, of course, impossible to vet a potential migrant from Afghanistan with any acceptable degree of accuracy. All Afghan migrants are by definition unvetted.
As we yet again pay dearly for an immigration system that benefits foreigners at the expense of Americans, we should be asking one question: What is a country? A country has three components: a group of people, living in a defined area, under some sort of shared system of government. Who determines the boundaries of that defined area? The people. Who determines if those boundaries are enforced and decides who ought to become a citizen? The people. Who establishes and maintains that shared system of government? The people.
Notice a pattern? I became a single-issue voter during Barack Obama’s second term as America’s continued demographic transformation made discussions about any other issue pointless by comparison. Unless one ignores incontestable demographic voting patterns because they make one uncomfortable, one must accept the fact that immigration determines the outcome of every political issue.
For as much as the left hates truth, Democrats embraced and bragged about demographic truisms and the ensuing political consequences, then ruthlessly used those realities to their advantage. Between 1965 and 2025, there were 15 presidential elections. Of those 15 elections, how many times did black or Hispanic demographic groups vote as a majority for the Republican nominee? Zero. Asian Americans favored the GOP in 1992 — the first year they were accounted for as a separate group in exit polls — but the majority have voted Democrat every year since.
As much as I wish that weren’t true, it cannot be ignored. Do you think the left hasn’t noticed this? Do you think it’s a coincidence that Democrats are willing to import Somalis, Afghans, and Haitians but had a panic attack when we accepted a whopping 59 white refugees from South Africa?
Prior to President Trump, every Republican administration of the last 60 years pretended these realities didn’t exist, joining forces with Democrats to reflexively remind us that “we are a nation of immigrants” as they barreled down a policy path to make conservatives unelectable at the national level.
Except for the region where modern man first emerged, every place on the planet is populated by people whose ancestors originally came from somewhere else. America is not unique in that regard. Further, America was founded by settlers and their descendants, not immigrants, and most of the immigrants who came here before the 1965 Hart-Celler Act had more in common with one another than the hodgepodge of immigrants we receive today from every backward, primitive, violent hellhole on earth.
Nonetheless, ask America’s elites if immigration is a good thing and a fistfight will break out to see who can be first in line to repeat some banality about how wonderful and infallible immigration is. Being asked if immigration is a good thing is like being asked whether heat is good without being told if the source is an electric blanket or a grease fire. There’s not enough information to answer the question.
“There cannot be any blanket conclusions about immigrations in general because there is no such thing as immigrants in general.” Thomas Sowell wrote that in Applied Economics more than 20 years ago. It remains truer than ever, yet even the most destructive types of immigration are consecrated axioms in the church of leftism.
As Trump mentioned in his Thanksgiving Day post, there is another group of migrants that strongly illustrates this reality: Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her fellow Somalis. As far as I can tell, the sole purpose of Omar’s career is to illustrate why America should never take immigrants or “refugees” from Somalia. Omar once invited former Prime Minister of Somalia Hassan Ali Khaire to speak at one of her Somali-first rallies.
Before he served as prime minister, Khaire worked as an executive for Soma Oil and Gas, where he was investigated for ties to terrorist groups in Africa. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who understands that terrorism, fraud, piracy, and violence are the chief accomplishments of the Somali people, including a recent welfare fraud scam in Minnesota that reportedly funneled millions of American tax dollars to a Somali terror group abroad.
According to a translation that accompanied the video circulating online, during his speech at Omar’s rally, Khaire said: “The interests of Ilhan are not Ilhan’s. It’s not the interest of Minnesota, or the interests of the American people. The interests of Ilhan are that of the Somalian people and of Somalia.” The crowd, dressed in Islamic garb and waving Somali flags, went wild with applause. None of this should surprise anyone familiar with Ilhan Omar’s history, or the parasitic relationship Somalis have with America. During the heyday of ISIS, one in four terrorists who left the U.S. to join ISIS came from Minnesota. In addition to acting as a conveyor belt for terrorist recruitment, the city of Minneapolis has long struggled with a hostile and self-segregating Somali population, as police grapple with Somali gangs.
It’s becoming difficult to have a successful political career in Minnesota without broad support from Somalis — an insane and enraging fact. Even comparatively small populations of these people are uniquely dangerous because their militant attitudes — combined with the left’s slobbering desire to appease them — mean they wield power disproportionate to their population. On paper they might be a small minority, but they enjoy an outsized influence on culture and politics.
It must also be noted that any argument about Somalis being net contributors to America is fake, and nothing but a cover for electoral power. If Democrats are certain that any given demographic will vote as a majority for their party, there is no amount of increased dysfunction, disease, terrorism, fraud, or crime that will stop them from importing that population.
As Trump lamented on X, we must “denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.” More important, the president noted that “Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation.”
Deporting illegal aliens who crossed our southern border is critical to saving our republic, but it is not enough. Ilhan Omar must be sent back to her actual home, along with thousands of other Somalis. If Somalis and Afghans and other unassimilable immigrants are allowed to remain here, they will metastasize into a national fifth column of saboteurs hostile to the very people who were suicidally kind enough to bring them here.
B.L Hahn is a freelance writer covering topics including culture, politics, and economics. Follow him on X @REALKLOPEK.
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