In the weeks since Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump met on the debate stage, the national firefight over the impacts of mass migration has escalated to new heights — or descended to new lows — even if the encounter viewed by nearly 70 million people hasn’t moved the needle decisively for either candidate.
For residents in Santa Barbara County and throughout California, however, the hyperbole sounds all too familiar because we’ve been down this road before.
We’ve seen this movie, back when it was being screened in communities up and down the Golden State as migrants from foreign lands arrived in large numbers, overwhelming everything from classrooms to emergency rooms, from job sites to housing markets.
California struggled as a border state long before “Every state is now a border state” became the popular platitude that it is now.
Tens of thousands of migrants arriving in short order and remaking communities amid blizzards of acrimony is old hat in California, but one that remains a very instructive lesson for the rest of the nation today.
Aurora and Springfield in Spotlight
The communities of Aurora, Colorado, and Springfield, Ohio, are now on the high-rotation play list of both mass migration proponents and opponents.
The public discourse surrounding those communities remains more sideshow than substantive in nature, and consequently obscures the very real dangers that continued mass immigration into the United States poses for the nation.
Few places in America reflect the ultimate results of such distractions more than California, which is home to millions of migrants who have no legal right to be living in the country or working on the job site.
By 2019, nearly 3 million migrants had settled illegally in California alone, according to the Migration Policy Institute, with an estimated 44,000 of them in Santa Barbara County.
Taken at face value, MPI’s numbers mean there are more people living illegally in California than the entire populations of 17 other states.
But the real kicker is that the Washington, D.C.-based institute’s data is almost certainly an undercount of significant proportions.
The telltale sign is that it reasserts that the standing population of migrants illegally in the United States as of 2019 is an estimated 11 million people.
That figure of 11 million migrants illegally present in the United States has been a long-past-stale façade, an accounting line leading to a fictional figure, that has remained static across the news media for two decades.
Relentless Flow of Immigrants
It has become more of a cult slogan than an empirical data point, and it has proven impervious to the relentless migratory inflow across the borders dating back to before the millennium.
Eleven million foreigners illegally present in the United States are the proverbial tip of the iceberg, albeit an iceberg one is not supposed to notice even if it is ripping the ship of state wide open and flooding it.
The mass of humanity rushing across America’s southern frontier in the biblical-scale tsunami that President Joe Biden’s administration intentionally unleashed at the dawn of 2021 betrays the lie of the 11 million figure.
There’s no question that a significant percentage of the estimated 6 million to 20 million migrants arriving under just the Biden administration now call California home.
Yet in another brazen demonstration of just how mercurial estimates of the population of illegal immigrants in California actually is, the Pew Research Center claimed that in 2021 the number of illegal immigrants in California had declined by more than 1 million since the mid-2000s.
So according to the Pew Research Center, despite vast caravans of migrants from all corners of the globe crossing the Rio Grande and despite the State of California ever expanding its menu of public benefits open to migrants of any varietal, California was somehow magically losing its population of illegal immigrants.
All of which is to say that California residents should probably double or even triple the MPI and Pew statistics to gain a much more accurate sense of just how many migrants have encamped in the state illegally.
One can’t have an honest discussion over the true impacts of mass migration unless and until one honestly acknowledges the actual inventory of people here and the sweeping scope of the problem.
Political Malfeasance, Journalistic Malpractice
Which brings us back to exactly what the city and county of Santa Barbara, as well as California, share in common with Aurora and Springfield: political malfeasance supported by journalistic malpractice.
Yes, Trump botched a gift-wrapped opportunity to cite the actual facts surrounding the impacts of mass migration and he failed to make a detailed case for ending the relentless flow of impoverished humanity into America.
He bungled a golden opportunity to lay out specific policy initiatives intended to accomplish that goal.
But even severely hobbled by his own stunted syntax, skeletal fact retention and shriveled attention span, Trump did manage to succeed in at least raising the issue of what mass migration has wrought in the two towns, though that is truly damnation by faint praise.
Make no mistake, behind their choreographed collective hysteria, progressive Democrats are pleased as punch that a petulantly unprepared Trump used the stage to shout something about pet-eating migrants instead of calmly laying out the very real terms of the disaster that is unfolding across the nation courtesy of mass migration.
They are greatly relieved that he didn’t focus and cogently connect the dots of what happened in California over the past few decades, where U.S. citizens were largely replaced throughout entire industries — construction, hospitality and health care among them — and forced to compete for shrinking stocks of available housing to the recent arrival of 20,000 migrants in Springfield, Ohio.
The vacuum created by Trump’s aversion to the hard facts that might convince undecided voters has since been filled by the news media mounting a full-court press run from the same playbook that ultimately turned California from Reagan Country in the 1980s to the Jonestown People’s Temple that Gov. Gavin Newsom lords over today.
Now, the California Republican Party still technically exists, primarily for cosmetic reasons and occasional comic relief, but for decades it has been unable to win a single statewide seat of public office.
The national media, open-border think tanks and corporate interests have once more launched a frenzied campaign extolling the virtues of mass migration, one that repeats all the same narrative heartbeats of what Californians witnessed in the mid-1990s: migrants invigorate the economy by working harder than Americans, migrants are more law-abiding than citizens and — drumroll, please — those who oppose mass migration are just racists hiding behind outrageous slogans like “America First!”
Consequently, Trump and his vice presidential candidate, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, have been denounced daily as bigots by a national media that paints their supporters as dangerous and deplorable troglodytes who will ultimately have to be dealt with at a date still to be determined.
Proposition 187
This tactic was first hammered out 30 years ago in California, during the 1994 campaign around Proposition 187, a state ballot initiative that would have barred migrants in California illegally from accessing most nonemergency social services.
Gov. Pete Wilson, a moderate Republican who had risen from San Diego mayor to U.S. senator before being elected governor in 1990, got behind the initiative during his successful re-election bid in 1994.
While Prop. 187 was passed by a massive majority of voters — nearly 60% of the ballots cast — and won handily in virtually every county outside the Bay Area, Wilson was subsequently tarred as a Klansman sans the robes and the initiative’s supporters smeared as goose-stepping xenophobes in a relentless and long-running smear campaign.
Overwhelming voter support for Prop. 187 ultimately proved meaningless to the power structure in California and the vox populi was litigated to death (finally being quietly euthanized by Gov. Gray Davis, who abandoned defending it in court). Its supporters were shouted down and silenced as the demographic relandscaping of California continued apace and rendered it unrecognizable three decades later.
The fate that befell California is now playing out across the nation in communities like Springfield and Aurora and in many more locales.
Whether they are able to successfully resist the highly coordinated and deeply financed effort to remake their communities and the nation they once reflected remains to be seen.
But they cannot say they weren’t warned of what the consequences will be if they fail.
In a word: California.
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Publish date : 2024-10-01 09:21:00
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