{"id":2229788,"date":"2024-04-25T07:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T11:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-isnt-the-first-empire-doomed-by-open-borders\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T07:13:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T11:13:11","slug":"america-isnt-the-first-empire-doomed-by-open-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-isnt-the-first-empire-doomed-by-open-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"America is not the inaugural empire to face downfall due to open borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerica-isnt-the-first-empire-doomed-by-open-borders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2229788&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200darticle discusses the critical role of immigration policy in America&#8217;s \u200bfuture and the historical consequences of\u2062 uncontrolled immigration on past empires like Rome. It raises questions about the changing demographics of America and the potential impact on political power dynamics. The text underscores the importance of learning from historical lessons to navigate present challenges effectively.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>No subject is as central to America\u2019s future and no subject gets to the heart of the failure of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolina-state-legislature-introduces-bill-to-ban-biological-males-from-womens-sports\/\" title=\"North Carolina State Legislature Introduces Bill To Ban Biological Males From Women\u2019s Sports\">current regime<\/a> more than immigration policy. As a result, few subjects are as riddled with taboos in their public discussion. What will happen when the ethnic composition of large parts of America is transformed in ways America\u2019s European founders never could have foreseen? And in the interim, what will happen to whites as they continue to lose political power amid their shrinking proportion of the population, as anti-white rhetoric and actions accelerate?<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you believe that \u201cdemography is destiny,\u201d these fundamental demographic questions cannot simply be papered over with happy talk. The reality is that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/life-expectancy-in-u-s-drops-most-since-wwii\/\" title=\"Life Expectancy In U.S. Drops Most Since WWII\">white population<\/a>, and thus the white voting share of the population, is rapidly diminishing. The fact that whites and \u201cwhiteness\u201d are so frequently publicly demonized in a country with a current white voting supermajority does not inspire confidence in how society is likely to treat whites when they are a much-diminished minority.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1144788497\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7ac20a6a5c7dba179d9744e8aa27f22a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7ac20a6a5c7dba179d9744e8aa27f22a\"><\/div>\n<p>There is a graphic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homeland-Security-Fighting-Terrorism-Native\/dp\/B07P9KJVQ1\/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1SQBZDY7HMVRD&#038;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ak3GPPHwOzvIVh0K02L9mRh4O0H8jo3WeCpykXUGMOh5ifWnMNrR2z7dmEw2zj4ZPW-Dc4EfCGfnVLj3NIGTy9vGM7YF_nWpUO9PfJ7U61zEfBBmhR4OPOxzAyg6HNOi4ZJOfcG113SB5R-ytHQVnfmL9O262YKkITOOhFu0I74B4-Hw3c5kFEIAe6QphDmGVRqRrK_f3l8Pa6pipaVSXKoYWLvireGPZxPa4l37SazPQisBjvEeky-RnbDpEblsuc1eXwOpMCSgzqA_SR5b3cPES4iwMgllHAwft2_1TI8.QZQBMwabIFXGzapod5SGJynWhD5Fn5s8cOy3IZLP-uo&#038;dib_tag=se&#038;keywords=Homeland+Security%3A+Fighting+Illegal+Immigration+Since+1492+shirt&#038;qid=1713984528&#038;sprefix=homeland+security+fighting+illegal+immigration+since+1492+shirt%2Caps%2C114&#038;sr=8-5\">T-shirt<\/a> that\u2019s popular in \u201cIndian country\u201d and on some left-wing college campuses. It comes in several versions, but the most popular has several Native Americans in traditional dress hoisting rifles while looking sternly at the camera. \u201cHomeland Security: Fighting Illegal Immigration Since 1492,\u201d it reads. Another version with the same picture says, \u201cWe should have built a wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I chuckled the first time I saw one of these shirts. It\u2019s a clever slogan on its own terms that makes the point that Native Americans, of course, were here when the first white settlers arrived. But upon further thought, I realized the statement it made was profound \u2014 it just cut in the opposite direction of the way it was intended.<\/p>\n<p>While Native Americans have arguably benefitted from joining the most globe-spanning power that has ever existed, they also paid a heavy price. Today, there are almost 10 million self-identified Native Americans in the United States, as well as millions of other white-identified Americans with at least some Native American ancestry. But Native Americans learned, much to their regret, the consequences of the failure to protect their border, their language, and their culture. Their failure to do so should cause whites to redouble their efforts not to make the same mistake.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>America\u2019s Wide-Open Gates<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For as long as there have been political communities, immigration \u2014 ultimately who is allowed to join a political community \u2014 has been a central concern. It was certainly a lively debate in the days of ancient Rome, which many scholars have argued fell in large part thanks to poorly controlled immigration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6457c8d1f67daad2ad95b02e312faf66 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6457c8d1f67daad2ad95b02e312faf66\"><\/div>\n<p>Distinguished English historian Peter Heather of King\u2019s College in London is one of those scholars who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fall-Roman-Empire-History-Barbarians\/dp\/0195159543\">argued<\/a> for the centrality of immigration in causing the fall of the Roman Empire. This interpretation was echoed by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \u201cWhen the Roman Empire fell,\u201d Johnson remarked on a 2021 trip to Rome, \u201cit was largely as a result of uncontrolled immigration. The empire could no longer control its borders, people came in from the east, all over the place, and we went into a Dark Ages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romans had not always been so lax about immigration. At the peak of Roman power, immigration was only offered to conquered peoples. And even then, most were barred from settling in the Italian heartland. As another writer, Annalisa Merelli <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/677380\/1700-years-ago-the-mismanagement-of-a-migrant-crisis-cost-rome-its-empire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pointed out<\/a>, it was the Roman Empire\u2019s saving of thousands and thousands (some say upward of 200,000) of Goth tribal refugees fleeing from the Huns in 376 that led to Rome\u2019s sack less than a century later. After a variety of mutually broken promises between the two sides, the Goths turned on their Roman rescuers at the Battle of Adrianople in 378, a massacre of Romans that saw the deaths of more than 30,000 and would eventually lead to the fall of the Western Roman Empire.<\/p>\n<p>While few would suggest that today\u2019s immigrants have plans to militarily besiege America, it does not take a leap of the imagination to extend the analogy to our own times. Like Rome, we have lost our cultural confidence and moorings, which dramatically increases our risk of being overrun both literally and metaphorically by newcomers. <\/p>\n<p>As the Christian conservative writer Rod Dreher wrote pointedly of the essential question facing the West:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a1dd42d7702265ed2c13dd605a207519 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a1dd42d7702265ed2c13dd605a207519\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>The massive migration of barbarians into the Roman Empire, in the 4th through 6th centuries, changed European civilization permanently. They caused the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and centuries later, the rise of a new civilization there, based on the descendants of old Roman stock and Christianized Germanic tribes. Will the latter-day descendants of those Europeans be able to hold back the \u201cbarbarian invasions\u201d from Africa [by far the largest source of coming global population growth] in the 21st century? Or will they have to do as the Romans did and absorb the strangers, and, over centuries, create a new civilization?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One can argue that the latter strategy is the correct one, both practically and morally. But either way, one cannot deny it is a choice. Today, white people in America and throughout the West are facing the prospect of permanent minority status in countries founded by their ancestors. American (and increasingly European) immigration policies are not copied anywhere else in the world. China tightly controls its borders, letting in only a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-quietly-opens-overstay-door-to-economic-migrants\/\" title=\"DHS Quietly Opens 'Overstay' Door to Economic Migrants\">thousand legal immigrants<\/a> per year. In Japan, despite having the world\u2019s most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-biden-administration-must-clarify-u-s-commitments-to-taiwan-before-things-get-ugly\/\" title=\"The Biden Administration Must Clarify U.S. Commitments To Taiwan Before Things Get Ugly\">rapidly aging population<\/a> and a shrinking workforce, just 2 percent of its population are immigrants, mostly from ethnically and culturally similar Asian countries. Immigrants make up less than 1 percent of Mexico\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>Yet increasingly whites find themselves self-ghettoized in America and Europe, with the new leaders of the \u201ccoalition of the ascendant\u201d increasing daily in number using the institutions and sociopolitical mechanisms developed from European traditions in the West to seize political power at the expense of Americans of European origin.<\/p>\n<p>In 1938, future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill published <em>While England Slept, <\/em>a collection of his speeches delivered over a decade that warned of the country\u2019s dangerous passivity in the wake of German rearmament. By the time the British public and political class took his warnings seriously, it was almost too late. <\/p>\n<p>Many contemporary immigration writers on the right, this one included, have sounded similar warnings for many years about the dangers of America\u2019s wide-open border and about the risks we face as a society as we rapidly transform the demographics of the American people.\u00a0 To this point, while our writings have been received enthusiastically on the grassroots right, most \u201cconservative\u201d politicians continue to sleep peacefully.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether they can be awakened from their slumber in time to save the country for their posterity.   <\/p>\n<p><em>This passage is excerpted and adapted from the author\u2019s new book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unprotected-Class-Anti-White-Destroying-America\/dp\/1684514584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism is Tearing America Apart<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c073bdd85618000492443c3a6226108e fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c073bdd85618000492443c3a6226108e\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration policy is crucial to America&#8217;s future and reflects the failures of the current regime. Taboos surround this sensitive topic. 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