Radical Civic Nationalism & Immigration

Since the issue of immigration is in the news given the unrest and demonstrations in Los Angeles and other major American cities, I felt it would be more than appropriate to publish this chapter from my book Turning the Page: My Evolution from Conservatism to Radical Civic Nationalism. (Please note that these demonstrations have been spurred on by the communist Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) exploiting the real missteps and lack of strategic foresight by the Trump Administration. How do I know this? The PSL has admitted this on their Telegram chat and X page.)

On the issue of immigration, Radical Civic Nationalists are stentorian opponents of the concept of open borders. We view unguarded, unregulated borders as both an economic and national security challenge. Unlike elements of the corporate Right and much of the Republican Party Establishment, Radical Civic Nationalists turn much of our scorn to the economic elites which exploit the labor of undocumented as well as legal immigrant workers from all continents. Many conservatives and rank-and-file Trump supporters focus on the “shithole countries” and the very real transgressions (e.g. criminal actions) of individual, politically powerless immigrants. It is very rare that they focus their outrage towards corporate elites who push for mass immigration and exploit undocumented foreign workers. Angela Nagle posed the following question and answer in an article for American Affairs, “…why do presidential campaigns revolve around building a vast border wall? Why do current migration debates revolve around controversial ICE tactics to target migrants—especially when the more humane and popular method of placing the burden on employers to hire legal labor in the first place is also the most effective? The answer, in short, is that business lobbies have been blocking and sabotaging efforts like E-Verify for decades, while the open-borders Left has abandoned any serious discussion of these issues.” Angela Nagle wrote, “…politicians like Trump rally their base by stirring up anti-immigration sentiment, but they rarely if ever address the structural exploitation-whether at home or abroad-that is the root cause of mass migration. Often, they make these problems worse, expanding the power of employers and capital against labor, while turning the rage of their supporters-often the victims of these forces-against other victims, immigrants.” Angela Nagle wrote, “But for all Trump’s anti-immigration bluster, his administration has done virtually nothing to expand the implementation of E-Verify, preferring instead to boast about a border wall that never seems to materialize. While families are separated at the border, the administration has turned a blind eye toward employers who use immigrants as pawns in a game of labor arbitrage.”[1] Liberal and progressive Democrats have increasingly toned down their critique of corporate-led efforts to increase immigration and instead doubled down on identity politics which incessantly inveighed against white privilege and other SJW causes celebres. Increased immigration to the US would depress wages simply because the supply of labor would increase, far outpacing the demand. As David Ricardo wrote in 1817, “In the natural advance of society, the wages of labour will have a tendency to fall, as far as they are regulated by supply and demand; for the supply of labourers will continue to increase at the same rate, while the demand for them will increase at a slower rate...”[2] Karl Marx stated in 1867, “…a study of the struggle waged by the English working class reveals that, in order to oppose their workers, the employers either bring in workers from abroad or else transfer manufacture to countries where there is a cheap labour force.”[3] In contemporary America, the number of exploitable, undocumented immigrants in the US was relatively high. One statistic from 2013 placed the number of undocumented immigrant workers at 11.7 million. [4] By Ricardo’s logic, this undocumented foreign labor force would play a definitive role in depressing American wages. However, the target should be greedy employers, not politically powerless individuals who are seeking to improve their economic circumstances and remit money to their often disadvantaged, impoverished families.

Both the contemporary American Right and Left support open borders in varying degrees. The Marxist Left supports open borders on the account of their internationalism, while the Right and their corporate funders believe that companies should source the cheapest possible labor. The Left within the Democratic Party was divided into two camps: one section (the corporate neoliberals) believed American corporations should source the cheapest possible labor. In that regard, they were aligned with the free market Right. For example, the pro-corporate Democratic leaning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote, “Get your kids to think like new immigrants…We are all new immigrants today…We are new immigrants to a hyper-connected world. And how does the new immigrant think? He or she starts everyday and says: Nothing is owed me. Nothing is owed me in this world. There is no legacy place waiting for me at IBM or Harvard or my state university…”[5] The other element within the Democratic Party coalition was a faction of the Marxist Left (especially Democratic Socialists of America or the DSA). Despite their stridently anti-capitalist ideology, the DSA aligned themselves with the most exploitative element of capital when it opposed the imposition of penalties levied against businessmen who employed undocumented immigrants.[6] A Tweet by the New York City DSA supported, “No Borders, No Nations, No Deportations.”[7] These Marxists opposed anything that would smack of “racism” or policies that would enhance national unity. They would be very satisfied with the US collapsing into oblivion and a Marxist state rising from the wreckage. On the Right, free marketeers and their corporate funders sought the most exploitable labor. Any moral qualms about exploiting desperate families/individuals did not figure into their calculations. Their economic model was the Southern Plantation economy, pure and simple. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, YouTube, Dropbox, Airbnb, Netflix, Groupon, Walmart, Yahoo, Lyft, and Instagram were some of the biggest corporate sponsors of liberalized migration policies. [8] One of the chief rightwing villains in this corporate scheme was Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR). Back in the 1990s, Norquist was a registered lobbyist for Microsoft. Funds from Microsoft were funneled into ATR in exchange for that organization’s advocacy for H-1B visas.[9] Norquist was also able to prevent reforms to the H-1B program that was championed by Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY). These reforms would have required firms to make meaningful attempts to hire American citizens before resorting to H-1B workers.[10] Others on the neoliberal Right were longtime champions of open borders immigration polices. For example, Ludwig von Mises asserted in 1935, “Without the reestablishment of freedom of migration throughout the world, there can be no lasting peace.”[11] According to Charles Johnson of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), “Liberty has nothing to do with national interests. It is about the individual…That means nothing short of free immigration, open borders, and immediate and unconditional amnesty for all currently undocumented immigrants…Nations are toxic hellholes of false identity and purveyors of monstrous political violence…For anyone committed to individual liberty, a nations’ ‘interests’ deserve no notice at all except to trample them underfoot.”[12] Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA revealed his true open borders colors when he wrote in his (Trump-endorsed) book: “Perhaps one day when the entire apparatus of the modern welfare state has been turned into private and voluntary services, the United States can afford to let in everyone—everyone who abides by the rules of the marketplace and pays their own way. Until then, it’s good to have a wall.”[13] In light of this evidence, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) accurately claimed that “open borders” was “a Koch brothers proposal.” Sanders correctly claimed, “What right-wing people in this country would love is an open-border policy. Bring in all kinds of people, work for $2 or $3 an hour, that would be great for them. I don’t believe in that.”[14] Within this author’s lifetime, the open borders Right became politically prominent on the heels of the so-called Reagan Revolution. In a radio address from 1977, Reagan viewed undocumented foreign laborers as “illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won’t do?”[15] During the immigration policy debates of the mid-1980s, the Reagan Administration was split between the advocates of law and order in the Justice Department which desired tighter borders versus the free marketeers in the Council of Economic Advisors which sympathized with the needs of the Cheap Labor Constituency.[16] In fact, the February 1986 report of President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers concluded that immigration benefits Americans.[17] However, Reagan desired liberalized immigration in order to break the unions and benefit his allies in big business. Commentator Burt Prelutsky was correct when he asserted that, “The real reason Reagan signed the amnesty bill is because American business always wants the cheapest labor it can get its hands on.”[18] Republican advocates of trickle down economics sympathized with the radical open borders agenda. For example, Congressman Jack Kemp (R-NY) noted in 1984, “Immigrants don’t take jobs and wealth away from Americans. Immigrants create jobs and wealth, as consumers of American goods and services and entrepreneurs beginning small businesses, which are the major source of new jobs for all Americans. Immigration is not a zero-sum proposition.”[19] Under the flowery rhetoric of the corporate conservatives and libertarians lay the true motivation for increased immigration to the US: greed. Eric Schlosser wrote that the influx of immigrants into the US during the 1980s and after “was actually a corporate recruitment drive for poor, vulnerable, undocumented, often desperate workers.”[20] During the 1980s, the Reagan Administration encouraged immigration (legal and illegal) to the US in an effort to break the unions in the beef and pork industries. As a result, wages plummeted by fifty percent and injured workers were pressured to remain on the job or get fired. Latino workers in the South were abused at the poultry plants.[21] The open borders advocates within the Right continued to gain prominence during the Bush and Obama years. In 2001, the editor of the Wall Street Journal Robert Bartley proclaimed his support for a Constitutional Amendment stating, “There shall be open borders.”[22] Bartley also crowed, “I think the nation-state is finished.”[23] Larry Kudlow proclaimed in 2011, “We need more immigration to jump-start this economy!”[24] John Birch Society author Sam Blumenfeld argued that “thousands of illegals are willing to work for very low wages. If American employers could legally use more of this great work force to perform low-end industry jobs, we could produce at home much of what we are now importing from American plants built in low-wage countries. Indeed, it would be cheaper to manufacture these products here than import them from abroad.”[25] In fact, Blumenfeld recommended amnesty for undocumented workers, claiming that it will “provide us with a cheap labor force, enabling Americans to get many services done at low cost.”[26] He also admitted in 2006, “If we have easy access to the cheapest work force on the planet, let’s make the most of it.”[27] Edward Conard of Bain Capital wrote in Unintended Consequences “In the future, when we have learned to manage our economy more effectively, immigrants will begin life in America as temporary guest workers before we give them permanent residency. We’ll skim the cream from the rest of the world’s workforce and replace the less skilled and less reliable with an unlimited flow of temporary workers eager for their chance to make more money. We’ll save a lot of money managing our workforce that way, by avoiding retiree benefits, for example.”[28]

Big capitalist elites subjected legal immigrants employed in the US under various Federal visa programs (H-2, H-1B, L-1, etc.) to extreme exploitation. Dr. Norm Matloff of the University of California at Davis reported that a “major attraction for employers, especially in Silicon Valley, is the ‘handcuffed’ status of H-1Bs. In practical terms, foreign tech workers have mobility issues. In particular, if the worker is being sponsored by the employer for a green card, the worker dare not switch jobs, as that would entail starting the multiyear green card process all over again. Employers value this immobility very highly, since the exit of an engineer in the midst of an urgent project is very harmful. Thus employers tend to give preference to the foreign workers when hiring.”[29] According to a report on the treatment of Mexican H-2B workers at the Wal-Mart supplier C.J. Seafood in Louisiana, “Guest workers said they sometimes labored more than 80 hours a week, had been threatened with beatings to press them to work faster and had been warned that their families in Mexico would be hurt if they complained to government agencies.”[30] The Hershey’s chocolate plant relied on imported J-1 visa workers (recruited by a nonunion firm) at their candy packing operations. After deductions were made for fees and exorbitant rent costs in crowded housing, Hershey’s J-1 workers made between $1 and $3.50 an hour as opposed to $18 to $30 per hour for its unionized packers which the company once employed. The J-1 workers were also threatened with deportation if they complained to Federal authorities.[31] During a mass layoff of African-American workers in June 2009, a supervisor employed with Hamilton Growers in Georgia shouted “All you black American people, fuck you all...just go to the office and pick up your check.” They were replaced by exploited Mexican workers holding H-2 visas. Usafarmlabor, a labor broker serving the agricultural industry, brazenly admitted on its website: “Our workers actually save you money each month in a comparison with U.S. workers.”[32] A representative for Dupaco (a Nebraska meat packing firm) stated bluntly: “We need to get us a minority group in here.”[33] Capitalist elites retained many resources (including high priced lawyers) in order to ensure that they avoided hiring American workers and professionals as much as humanly possible. Foreign workers under Federal visa programs were paid wages far lower than their American counterparts. Lawrence Lebowitz of the law firm Cohen & Grigsby PC stated that employers and law firms were not interested in locating qualified American workers for technology jobs, which was a violation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1990 (which brought about the H-1B program in the first place). Instead, according to a video captured by the Programmers Guild, Lebowitz stated “Our goal is clearly not to find a qualified and interested U.S. worker…And that, in a sense, sounds funny, but it’s what we are trying to do here.”^[34] Big corporation lobbyists succeeded in paralyzing crackdowns on the abuses with the H-1B program.[35] When the INS cracked down on the employment of undocumented immigrants in Georgia’s onion fields, the employers pressured local officials who in turn pressured the INS to halt such enforcement actions.[36]

Since our plutocratic oligarchic political system is almost entirely dominated by the wealthy globalist elite in this country, the barriers to foreign visa workers were gradually lowered. This was due in large part to the adherence of many corporate Democratic and Republican politicians to the ideology of open borders/free trade neoliberalism and hefty campaign donations from big corporations (i.e. legalized bribery). Under the Clinton Administration, the White House joined with corporate elements in both parties to increase the number of H-1B visas issued to foreign workers in the technology industries. After intense lobbying by technology firms, Congress voted in 2000 to increase the number of H-1B visas to 195,000. [37] As Senator Robert Bennett (R-UT) admitted in 2000, “There were, in fact, a whole lot of folks against (the H-1B expansion bill), but because they are tapping the high-tech community for campaign contributions, they don’t want to admit that in public.”[38] Congressman Tom Davis (R-VA), the Chair of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, admitted in 2000, “This (H-1B expansion legislation) is not a popular bill with the public. It’s popular with the CEOs...This is a very important issue for the high-tech executives who give the money.”[39] This problem continues to the present day. Joe Green, the head of Mark Zuckerberg’s new immigration lobbying group admitted “(We in tech) control massive distribution channels, both as companies and individuals...We have individuals with a lot of money. If deployed properly, this can have huge influence in the current campaign finance environment.”[40] Simply put, if the political system was not dependent on the campaign contributions from wealthy individuals, anti-labor advocates, and big corporations, the H-1B program would not be exploited (or perhaps even exist). In fact, under a Radical Civic Nationalist government foreign work visa programs would either not exist or would not be used as tools for exploiting non-citizens and citizens alike.

Lastly, there is a critical national security aspect of immigration which needs to be addressed by the Federal government. First, foreign work visa holders could very well be potential espionage/sabotage agents for hostile powers. Others could serve as Trojan Horses aimed at the American economy. Our commitment to free markets and liberal openness allows foreign enemies to subvert our Nation through immigration. One such tool for subversion is the EB-5 visa program, which is heavily utilized by China. Chinese nationals were issued EB-5 visas in exchange for setting up investments in the US. During the period from 2012 to 2013, 6,900 EB-5 visas were issued to Chinese nationals.[41] This opened the US to espionage by Chinese agents masquerading as EB-5 visa holders. The more foreign cash is infused in the American economy, the more such powers have political influence in the US. Aside from the potential threats posed by EB-5 holders, reports also indicated that Chinese H-1B visa holders were sources of high technology acquisitions by the communist government in Beijing.[42] Even more amazing was the permission given by our government for Cuban, North Korean, Iranian, Sudanese, and Syrian nationals to apply for H-1B visas.[43] A sizable portion of the H-1B visa workers in the US are nationals from unfriendly countries (the Russian Federation, Red China, and Venezuela) who could have access to technologies that could be transferred to their native governments in Moscow, Beijing, and Caracas. According to government statistics (2012), 22,858 H-1B visa holders were Russian, Chinese, and Venezuelan nationals.[44] Aside from labor arbitrage, foreign work visas also pose a national security challenge which needs to be addressed. Only a government free of capitalist influence can meet this challenge and push back on Corporate America’s attack on the independence of the US through open immigration policies.

Many elements within the Left as well as the politically correct portions of the Right ignore the challenge of immigrant subgroups and foreign peoples who refuse to assimilate into the culture of their host country. This is particularly true for at least a portion of the immigrants and refugees from the Islamic world. This poses another potential threat to not only liberal societies, but a Radical Civic Nationalist order in the US. Readers should understand that such statements do not stem from xenophobia or provincial fears. Instead, such concerns originate from a national/collective will to survive as a free country. Groups masquerading as advocates for tolerance are especially devious in their public versus private statements concerning the loyalty of Islamic immigrants in American society. Omar M. Ahmad, the Chairman of the Board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), stated in 1998, “Muslims should not assimilate into American society. If you choose to live here, you have a responsibility to deliver the message of Islam...Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”[45] Instead, Islamists sought to overthrow the US. For example, Muhammed Faheed Al-Muhajiroun stated in a speech to Muslim students attending Queensborough Community College in 2003, “…The only relationship you should have with America is to topple it!”[46] Other Islamists and Arab dictators called for Muslims to outpopulate the Unbelievers in the US. In 1996, Shaykh Umar Abd al-Rahman, an Egyptian Islamic cleric, predicted, “A time bomb will explode in America, France and elsewhere in the Western countries. This bomb is the Islamic population explosion. The number of Muslims will multiply and they will march towards America and elsewhere. No force on earth will be able to stop them. This bomb has nothing to do with entry or exit visas, or whether Shaykh Umar Abd al-Rahman is arrested or not. It is an Islamic march which no government or laws can prevent.”[47] Muammar Qaddafi admitted in 2003, “We have 50 million Muslims in Europe…There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe–without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades…Europe is in a predicament, and so is America…They should agree to become Islamic in the course of time, or else declare war on the Muslims.”[48] Saudi cleric Sheik Nasser bin Suleiman Al-Omar stated “Islam is growing even within America, my brothers…Islam is making steady progress in America…Twenty-five thousand people have converted to Islam every year since 9-11, and an even larger figure was mentioned in the New York Times.”[49] In a June 2004 interview, Al-Omar said “America is collapsing from within” while Islam is “advancing according to a steady plan, to the point that tens of thousands of Muslims have joined the American army and Islam is the second largest religion in America…Today, America is defeated. I have no doubt, not even for a minute, that America is on its way to destruction.” He predicted that the United States “will be destroyed gradually” and urged that Islamists should be “patient” on their path to overtake America.[50] Islamic preacher Sheikh Muhammad Ayed stated in 2015, “They have lost their fertility, so they look for fertility in their midst. We will give them fertility! We will breed children with them, because we shall conquer their countries–whether you like it or not, oh Germans, oh Americans, oh French, oh Italians, and all those like you. Take the refugees! We shall soon collect them in the name of the coming caliphate. We will say to you: These are our sons. Send them, or we will send our armies to you.”[51] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed revealed how al-Qaeda planned to destroy the United States through the process of immigration, which would pave the way for “outbreeding non-Muslims” who would use the legal system to install Sharia law. According to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al-Qaeda agents would take advantage of the welfare system in order to support themselves while spreading their jihadi message. They planned to wrap themselves in America’s rights and laws for protection, ratchet up acceptance of Sharia law, and then, only when they were strong enough, rise up and violently impose Sharia from within. According to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, this was a more “practical” way of defeating the US.[52]

The principles of Radical Civic Nationalist immigration policy would entail the following:

1) We are not xenophobes but Civic Nationalists.

2) We are not against immigration on the account of an individual’s race or religion, unless it is based on a messianic fundamentalist ideology seeking the overthrow of the existing social order in a Nationalist United States.

3) We accept immigrants into the US since they can provide additional skill sets.

4) We accept immigrants into the US since a portion of them are fleeing enemy tyrannies and their success in the US could reflect well on American society.

5) We accept immigrants who sincerely desire to improve their own lives and become integrated members of our national community.

6) We refuse to accept the notion that American citizens would never pick fruit or work in other hard labor occupations in exchange for living wages.

7) We are ardently opposed to the radical open borders advocates of the Right and Left.

8) American institutions and elites who exploit undocumented immigrants and work visa holders are the chief objects of our ire.

9) While we value immigrants, Radical Civic Nationalists will not embark on fulfilling the dreams of radical open borders advocates on the account of:

a) National security.

b) A refusal to empower unscrupulous employers to exploit immigrant workers and visa holders. We are OK with consumers paying a few pennies more for their fruits and vegetables.

Under a Radical Civic Nationalist government, the focus of our immigration enforcement policy will be targeted mostly at our wealthy elites, who more than anyone else provides the most incentives for open borders. While we would crack down and swiftly deport criminals and subversives within undocumented immigrant communities, our government would break the power of the ultra-wealthy and corporations as a first step in regulating our borders. As summarized by the leftwing talk show host Thom Hartmann, “It’s an Illegal Employer Problem.” He noted further, “When jobs are not available, most undocumented workers will simply leave the country (as they always did before), or begin the normal process to obtain citizenship that millions (including my own sister-in-law-this hits many of us close to home) go through each year.”^[53] As Border Patrol veteran Walt Edward commented, “When we start enforcing the law, these various businesses are, on their own, going to replace their (illegal) workforce with a legal workforce.”[54] Specifically, Radical Civic Nationalists will implement the following measures:

1) We will punish employers for employing undocumented immigrants. We would impose steep fines on the business owner(s) for the first offense. If the businessperson commits a second offense, they will receive a jail term, while the business will be administered by the vice president of the company or their equivalent. For the third offense, the business will be confiscated and sold on auction to a qualified, nationally minded entrepreneur. E-Verify will be expanded on the Federal level. Sterner measures on corporate abuses of immigrants are quite popular with the American public. According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, mandatory E-Verify has eighty percent approval from the American public (which is more than double the support for a wall on our southern border).[55] According to Gallup, Bloomberg, and CBS News/New York Times polls from 2013, over 77% of Americans supported laws which essentially banned the practice of hiring undocumented immigrants as employees. They also supported, if necessary, penalties on the employers who hire them.[56]

2) We will extol those businesspeople that treat their workers as resources worthy of living wages as model capitalists. Higher wages and the profitability of businesses do work hand-in-hand. For example, during the World War II years, a farmer from Virginia, Frank P. Whitehurst, sought to attract labor by offering higher wages than most of his counterparts. He raised wages, which sparked a bidding war amongst his counterparts. In fact, one African-American woman worker on Whitehurst’s farm was paid $9.56 for one day’s work. He noted, “Farming not only is a business, but is the most vital of businesses and it is a mystery to me why so many people think agricultural labor should be the lowest paid of all.” Whitehurst called cheap labor the “greatest curse to agriculture in the United States.”[57]

3) We will increase targeted investments in educational and trades programs that will in turn ensure a steady flow of native-born American workers and professionals in the business world. This will render foreign high skill worker visa programs and the need for undocumented immigrant laborers as unneeded in our new economic community. Our Federal government will strongly incentivize (through tax breaks and subsidies) businesses formerly dependent on undocumented immigrant laborers to mechanize their operations. Because of our rejuvenated labor unions, employers formerly dependent on undocumented immigrant labor and visa programs will now have to pay American workers more money. The notion that Americans would turn down jobs that involve hard labor has been hyperbolic at best. In fact, when Senator John McCain (R-AZ) claimed that Americans would never pick lettuce even at $50 an hour, his office received an avalanche of calls of people willing to fill those positions at such a payrate.[58] Ever since Governor Jan Brewer cracked down on undocumented immigration and instituted mandatory E-Verify in Arizona, wages for farm workers rose by 15 percent. During this period, wages rose 10 percent for construction workers.[59] The effect on consumers would be negligible. For example, a raise of $3,200 per year for each of our one to two million farm workers would entail a cost of only $50 per household.[60] Even a corporate greed head like Edward Conard of Bain Capital admitted, “…a restricted supply of labor produced healthy wage growth.”[61]

4) The Department of Commerce will ensure that engineering, medical, legal, and IT programs at colleges and universities will be well-funded. Our aspiring college students and professionals should receive the appropriate education to help create an atmosphere of technological competency and innovation, thus eliminating the lies and excuses that we lack qualified STEM graduates.

5) The H-1B, H-2B, L-1, J-1, and H-2C visa programs will be abolished in a period of five years. Even some former advocates of the work visa programs turned against it, when the evidence of exploitation continued to pile up. Don Tennant, a former defender of the H-1B visa program, argued that “In the 10 years or so that I’ve been writing about the H-1B visa program, I have steadfastly argued that despite rampant abuse of the system, the positive contributions of many, many people here on H-1B visas warrant continued support of the program. I was wrong. The H-1B visa program needs to be abolished.”[62]

6) We would also triple the security presence on our borders with Canada and Mexico in order to halt the flow of immigrants illegally entering our country. Our government would also consider implementing a temporary moratorium of all immigration into our country until our underemployment levels become nil (or affecting less than 2% of our population) and the existing immigrant population are fully naturalized. Underemployment would be measured by the Federal Department of Labor through a number of criteria which would include savings levels of Americans, the number of Americans working multiple jobs to survive, and the average yearly salaries of Americans nationwide (with differences spread over varying regions and localities).

Other immigration-related policies that would be implemented by a Radical Civic Nationalist would also include:

1) All undocumented immigrants who are criminals will be immediately and forcibly deported, while terrorists posing as immigrants will be detained at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

2) We will consider the installation of a high tech barrier on the southern border with Mexico. Our Federal government will quickly explore the feasibility of constructing a wall on vulnerable sections of our southern border with Mexico. According to Brandon Judd, the head of the National Border Patrol Council (which is the union which represents Border Patrol agents), constructing a wall along “strategic locations” on our southern border with Mexico would help the Border Patrol agents “do their job better.” He underlined the following point, “We’re not talking about a continuous wall from California down to Texas” since there are sections of the border whose ground conditions are “fierce,” “harsh,” and are “sparsely populated.”[63]

3) While ethnic-racial diversity is welcomed by Radical Civic Nationalists, new immigrants should be fully assimilated into appreciating our Constitution and the other American institutions. The Federal, state and local governments will take the lead in this assimilation process, while immigrants will not be financially overburdened during both the assimilation and naturalization process.

4) English will be the only language of official business within the United States. Immigrants will be networked by Federal, state, and local agencies (and private nonprofits) into jobs which pay a living wage and mandatory (free) English language and American history courses (which would encourage the assimilation process).

5) We would strongly encourage labor unions to embrace a program of full economic nationalism in the areas of BOTH trade AND immigration. As the founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) Samuel Gompers argued “…while the industries are protected by preventing the importation of foreign manufactured articles, it does not prevent the importation of the cheapest and most servile labor.”[64] In a speech before the AFL, Senator George Malone (R-NV) outlined the negative outcomes of both free trade and open borders: “There is no effective difference between importing the products of foreign low-wage living standard labor and in importing labor itself. In either case we are importing unemployment.”[65]

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[1] Angela Nagle “The Left Case against Open Borders” American Affairs Winter 2018 Accessed From: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/11/the-left-case-against-open-borders/#.W_gWAyMilWE.facebook

[2] David Ricardo On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation Accessed From: http://www.econlib.org/library/Ricardo/ricP.html

[3] Karl Marx “On The Lausanne Congress International Workingmen’s Association 1867 Accessed From:

[4] Stoney Bird “Corporate Power Dissecting the Powell Memorandum” Accessed From:

http://whatcomwatch.org/php/WW_open.php?id=1674

[5] Matt Trivisonno “Thomas L. Friedman Patriotic Globican” September 7, 2012 Accessed From: http://www.trivisonno.com/thomas-l-friedman

[6] Simpson, James. “GOP Immigration Plan Devised by Communist Party” WorldnetDaily July 9, 2013 Accessed From: http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/gop-immigration-plan-devised-by-communist-party/

[7] Accessed From:

https://mobile.twitter.com/nycdsa/status/1012465933468782594?lang=en

[8] Angela Nagle “The Left Case against Open Borders” American Affairs Winter 2018 Accessed From: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/11/the-left-case-against-open-borders/#.W_gWAyMilWE.facebook

[9] “Microsoft Gets Help From Both Sides of the Aisle on Lobbying” Computerworld December 4, 2006

[10] Gene A. Nelson “The Greedy Gates Immigration Gambit” The Social Contract Journal Volume 18, Number 1 (Fall 2007) Accessed From: https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_18_1/tsc_18_1_nelson.shtml

[11] Ludwig von Mises “The Freedom To Move as an International Problem (1935)” Accessed From: https://mises.org/library/clash-group-interests-and-other-essays/html/c/93

[12] Charles Johnson “Why Free Immigration is a Right” Foundation for Economic Education March 30, 2017 Accessed From: https://fee.org/articles/why-free-immigration-is-a-right/

[13] Sasha O’Conner “Charlie Kirk Supports ‘Unlimited’ Immigration” March 8, 2020 Accessed From: http://theredelephants.com/charlie-kirk-supports-unlimited-immigration/

[14] “Bernie Sanders Vox Conversation” Interview July 28, 2015 Accessed From: https://www.vox.com/2015/7/28/9014491/bernie-sanders-vox-conversation

[15] Stuart W. Lambert The Perfect Revolution (LULU, 2014) page 266.

[16] Thomas Muller Immigrants and the American City (NYU Press 1994) page 59.

[17] “The Economic Effects of Immigration,” Economic Report of the President February 1986, pages 213-234.

[18] Burt Prelutsky “The High Cost of Cheap Labor” Worldnetdaily December 4, 2014 Accessed From: http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/the-high-cost-of-cheap-labor/

[19] Nick Foley Mexicans in the Making of America (Harvard University Press 2014) pages 195-196.

[20] Eric Schlosser “Why It’s Immigrants Who Pack Your Meat: What Trump has called an ‘invasion’ was actually a corporate recruitment drive” The Atlantic August 16, 2019 Accessed From: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/trumps-invasion-was-a-corporate-recruitment-drive/596230/

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[38] Michelle Malkin, John Miano Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers (Simon and Schuster, 2016) page 240.

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