PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
One of the cornerstones of Liberalism/Progressivism is that sovereignty must be put aside....or asunder.....and borders eliminated.
Obama advanced this doctrine this very weekend:
"Obama slammed Trump’s proposal to build a wall along the country’s southern border, saying the world is becoming ever more interconnected and “building walls won’t change that.”
Obama assails Trump’s wall in Rutgers commencement speech
The basis of this is the definition of communism: international socialism.
In fact, it stands as one of the few differences between communism and Nazism (national socialism).
1. There is a powerful argument in favor of the Liberal desire for open borders and a tidal wave of immigration....let's overlook the refusal to differentiate between legal and illegal immigration, the euphemistic 'undocumented immigrants,'.....
.... have a look at a reason in favor of the waves of immigration around the world.
2. "....a nation that it is not willing/able to reproduce itself and pass on its cultural heritage to a new generation? .... the alternative to a country reproducing naturally to reverse demographic decline: immigration.
In particular we’ve circled back to two countries taking a very different tack on immigration as a solution to a dropping population: Germany and Japan.
While the Japanese approach of refusing any large-scale immigration might see the country continue to sink in population, clout and economic strength, we have seen the (perhaps insurmountable?) problems that the German response to the migrant crisis last year has brought.
3. ...the demographic benefit of migration?
One, obviously there is the increase in population: each migrant is another person for the country that he or she moves to. The picture is usually brighter than that, since migrants are often young they are therefore another potential taxpayer and contributor to the finances of their adopted country to help support the increasing health and superannuation bill for the ageing native population.
(This is all assuming that there are jobs for migrants to fill and that the migrants have the skills to fill them.)
Two, migrants tend to have more children than the native population, thus helping the ageing population in generations to come. This view lies behind the claims of authors such as Mark Steyn that Europe is inevitably going to become majority Muslim in the next couple of generations. In short, the largely Muslim migrants will out-breed their non-Muslim compatriots.
"However, according to this report by the Economist, this view might be outdated.....
Focussing on the western-German city of Duisburg, the birth rate of foreign-born women (those holding foreign passports) has dropped precipitously since 1980 until today where native-born Germans are actually more fertile than the foreign-born population (measured as live births per 1000 women aged 15-44 years old).
As the Economist notes this is “saying something” since German women do not have “nearly enough babies to keep the population ticking over naturally”. (Having said that, the last three years on the graph provided with the article show the foreign-born fertility rate tracking upwards so that, if things continue in the same manner, it will overtake the native-born fertility rate in the next couple of years.)" MercatorNet: Are immigrants a boon for fertility rates?
"....assuming that there are jobs for migrants to fill and that the migrants have the skills to fill them..." and "...migrants tend to have more children than the native population, thus helping the ageing population in generations to come."
But what if these conditions are not met.....?
We'll investigate.
Obama advanced this doctrine this very weekend:
"Obama slammed Trump’s proposal to build a wall along the country’s southern border, saying the world is becoming ever more interconnected and “building walls won’t change that.”
Obama assails Trump’s wall in Rutgers commencement speech
The basis of this is the definition of communism: international socialism.
In fact, it stands as one of the few differences between communism and Nazism (national socialism).
1. There is a powerful argument in favor of the Liberal desire for open borders and a tidal wave of immigration....let's overlook the refusal to differentiate between legal and illegal immigration, the euphemistic 'undocumented immigrants,'.....
.... have a look at a reason in favor of the waves of immigration around the world.
2. "....a nation that it is not willing/able to reproduce itself and pass on its cultural heritage to a new generation? .... the alternative to a country reproducing naturally to reverse demographic decline: immigration.
In particular we’ve circled back to two countries taking a very different tack on immigration as a solution to a dropping population: Germany and Japan.
While the Japanese approach of refusing any large-scale immigration might see the country continue to sink in population, clout and economic strength, we have seen the (perhaps insurmountable?) problems that the German response to the migrant crisis last year has brought.
3. ...the demographic benefit of migration?
One, obviously there is the increase in population: each migrant is another person for the country that he or she moves to. The picture is usually brighter than that, since migrants are often young they are therefore another potential taxpayer and contributor to the finances of their adopted country to help support the increasing health and superannuation bill for the ageing native population.
(This is all assuming that there are jobs for migrants to fill and that the migrants have the skills to fill them.)
Two, migrants tend to have more children than the native population, thus helping the ageing population in generations to come. This view lies behind the claims of authors such as Mark Steyn that Europe is inevitably going to become majority Muslim in the next couple of generations. In short, the largely Muslim migrants will out-breed their non-Muslim compatriots.
"However, according to this report by the Economist, this view might be outdated.....
Focussing on the western-German city of Duisburg, the birth rate of foreign-born women (those holding foreign passports) has dropped precipitously since 1980 until today where native-born Germans are actually more fertile than the foreign-born population (measured as live births per 1000 women aged 15-44 years old).
As the Economist notes this is “saying something” since German women do not have “nearly enough babies to keep the population ticking over naturally”. (Having said that, the last three years on the graph provided with the article show the foreign-born fertility rate tracking upwards so that, if things continue in the same manner, it will overtake the native-born fertility rate in the next couple of years.)" MercatorNet: Are immigrants a boon for fertility rates?
"....assuming that there are jobs for migrants to fill and that the migrants have the skills to fill them..." and "...migrants tend to have more children than the native population, thus helping the ageing population in generations to come."
But what if these conditions are not met.....?
We'll investigate.