North American Committee Against Zionism and Imperialism (NACAZAI)

OPPOSE IMMIGRATION

by Kevin Walsh
Editor of NACAZAI

The main tactic of imperialism and old-style colonialism has always been "divide and rule." Despite their superior military technology, the British in the 19th Century could not have directly conquered all of India. India had such an advantage in sheer numbers that this would have been impossible. The British conquered India by intervening in India's internal quarrels and turning one raja or nawab against another. India was conquered, because India did not present a united front against British imperialism. In a 21st Century throwback to old-style colonialism, the United States military is trying to hold on to Iraq by turning Iraqis against each other by various means. These include encouraging sectarian feuds between Sunni and Shia, buying off some tribal sheikhs to turn against resistance fighters, and promoting the Maliki puppet government that gives the external appearance of representing the democratic will of the Iraqi people. Whether Iraq will stay conquered or throws off the yoke of United States imperialism depends on whether the Iraqi people can present a united front and resist this division. Mighty as the United States military is, it is still no match for an Iraqi people determined not to be ruled by foreigners.

The imperialist grand-bourgeosie, led by the Jews, also practices "divide and rule" in more subtle but equally dangerous ways through globalism. Their most dangerous tactic is immigration, which includes its necessary companion, emigration. Immigration destroys the ability of a nation to resist globalism by utterly destroying its national character through the influx of large numbers of people of other nationalities. Immigration also brings in large numbers of people willing to work for lower wages and in worse conditions than the native working class. This smashes trade unions and the ability of the native working class to engage in class struggle and results in reduced wages and harsher working conditions for all. Emigration, the necessary companion of immigration, destroys the ability of a nation to resist globalism by giving the discontent a means to escape to a wealthier country and encouraging the more talented and better-educated citizens to move abroad in search of higher salaries, rather than staying in their own countries and using their talents and education for the betterment of their own people.

All of the political trends that are in the pockets of the Jews, from the cosmopolitan neoconservatives on the "right" to the social-democrats, anarchists, and pseudo-communists on the "left" are united in promotion of immigration. In the USA, both McCain and Obama want immigration increased. This alone should give us a clue that pro-immigration sentiments are ideological poison. They call any desire to protect national character racist, chauvinistic, xenophobic and backward. Those who promote immigration from the right stress that it's important that immigrants learn the language of the new country and assimilate into its culture, as if trying to change one's nationality were a natural and desirable thing. Those who promote immigration from the left assert that it's natural to have different cultures and languages in the same country and that nations themselves are artificial and must be destroyed.

It is fashionable for the phony left and phony anti-imperialists to cloak themselves in the rhetoric that promoting immigration to wealthy countries helps reduce differences in national wealth, acts as reparations to oppressed peoples for the crimes of imperialism, and shows solidarity towards oppressed peoples. None of this is correct.

Immigration may bring wealthy countries down to "third world" levels, but it does not improve the wealth of the less developed countries. The immigrants play a scab role in reducing wages and working conditions for the native proletariat, and their emigration also decreases the wealth of the less developed country left behind, because many of those who leave do so because they have skills that are marketable in the developed countries, and therefore they no longer put those skills to use in their own countries. The only people who gain are the imperialist grand-bourgeoisie. If, for example, a Pakistani doctor moves to Scotland, he is willing to earn less than a Scottish doctor for doing the same work and undercuts the salaries of doctors in Scotland. The expense of his training was borne by the Pakistani people, and that wealth is lost to Pakistan, and the people of Pakikstan have one fewer doctor to treat them when they are sick or injured, and so health care costs for Pakistanis must necessarily rise. It's a lose-lose proposition for the people of Pakistan and Scotland. There's no solidarity or reparations in this. Even this doctor is cheating himself in the long run. He earns more money, but he is disconnected from his nationality. He finds himself a Muslim in a predominantly Protestant country and among many other customs and practices which are strange to him. Those who remain behind in Pakistan have little incentive to make Pakistan a better place and overthrow the comprador regime in Islamabad, because they know if things are too bad for them, they can go to a wealthier country.

It is impossible to show solidarity with invaders. When the Soviet Union was invaded in 1941, Comrade Stalin asked the peoples of the Soviet Union not to hate Germans. Of course, the peoples of the Soviet Union were not able to show solidarity with the Germans who were invading their country and shooting at them. If an African-American janitor loses his job to a Salvadoran immigrant who is willing to work for lower wages, that African-American doesn't need to hate all Salvadorans, but he certainly can't show solidarity with the Salvadoran immigrants who are undercutting his wages and ruining his livelihood. Phony leftists who ask us to show solidarity with immigrants playing scab roles ask the undesirable and impossible. They are essentially asking us to accept defeat and abandon any real struggle against globalism and imperialism and any real class struggle.

Phony anti-imperialists cheer on the invasion of the USA by Mexicans and Central American nationalities under the banner of "reconquista" and "Aztlan." Whatever one thinks of the merits of these national concepts, the presence of these immigrants is clearly lowering the wages and allowing working conditions to deteriorate for everyone in the USA, including Mexican-Americans and other "Latino" nationalities, while doing nothing whatever to improve living conditions in Mexico or Central America. Indeed, Mexicans and Central American nationalities have no incentive to engage in revolutionary struggles in their own countries if they can simply flee to "El Norte." Further, these wetbacks are found all over the USA, even in the far Northeast, 1500 kilometres from the nearest land seized in 1848. Some are even infiltrating Canada.

Certain phony Arab nationalist organisations have been spewing as much propaganda promoting opening countries in Europe and North America to Arab immigration as they have devoted to opposing Zionism and the American occupation of Iraq. If any Arab who is discontent can move to Europe, who will stay to fight the Zionists and the Americans? For the Islamists who take this line, how can it be healthy for Muslims to live among people who eat pork and drink beer and wine? How can you expect any solidarity from Europeans and North Americans, if you destroy their national character?

Many countries in Europe are in serious danger of losing their national character because of immigration. England hardly seems English now. There are Jamaicans, Poles, Pakistanis, Indians, Nigerians and many others drowning the English in a multicultural sea. Those who dare protest are prosecuted under "hate speech" laws promoted by the Jews and their multicultural allies. The English people can hardly be expected to help resist imperialism if they don't even have a homeland. European-Americans likewise are powerless to aid the anti-imperialist struggle if they are deprived of a homeland and are living in a new Latin American country.

Promotion of immigration is not solidarity among peoples. It is treason. Patriotism and international solidarity are complementary, not opposites, for you cannot love others without loving yourself. Let us defend the integrity of our nations to defend the integrity of all nations!