The comforting and naive delusion of progressive on immigration

The comforting delusion that immigrants come here because they love America is incredibly naïve

—as naïve as suggesting that the nineteenth-century Irish immigrants Marx described loved England. 

Most migrants emigrate out of economic necessity, and the vast majority would prefer to have better opportunities at home, among their own family and friends. But such opportunities are impossible within the current shape of globalization.

 By providing inadvertent cover for the ruling elite’s business interests, the Left risks a significant existential crisis, as more and more ordinary people defect to far-right parties