The Morning Rant: This Is What We Voted For!

President Trump and his merry band of realists have dumped the conventional paradigm squarely on its head.

The United States does not need an endless supply of immigrants the way we did in the 19th century. We do not need farmers and factory workers to work the physical expansion of the country. We do not need to expand our domestic markets by importing new consumers, nor do we have the infrastructure to support those additional people.

But that convention was subverted anyway by the deeply unpatriotic Immigration Act of 1965: rejecting our traditional immigrants in favor of new ones who had no tradition of hard work, individualism, education, and self reliance. No, they began to import big-government loving 3rd worlders whose arrival coincided with the destruction of the traditional American dream of family, marriage, religion, and home ownership.

And of course they made welfare an integral part of government, so these newcomers would vote early and often for the government teat.

Well, Donald Trump & Company seem to be tired of that system, and have turned off the spigot!

US sees negative net migration for first time in 50 years during 2025

The United States experienced negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in more than five decades as the Trump administration continues a sweeping crackdown on immigration.

In a report released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution, the shift was driven by a combination of stepped-up immigration enforcement, removals of illegal immigrants, voluntary departures, but most significantly a sharp decline in new entries into the country over the past year.

The real question is: How many people do we need in this country, and what kind of people should they be? That conventional paradigm says that even asking the question is vile and racist, and the asker should be banished to the nether reaches. But our country asked that question for a few hundred years, and we know the answer. In fact we have a wonderful template for immigration...it's called "America Before the 1965 Immigration Act!"

But for the foreseeable future a negative migration rate is just the ticket. It will moderate housing costs, it will improve the employment opportunities for Americans, it will decrease our welfare and medical costs, it will decrease crime in America.

So what is the downside? That's a serious question!

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posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

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