Also, the Scandinavian model works because the Nordic countries are small in both population and geographic range. The United States has too many people and too much ground to cover for that system to properly work.
True. This is why it pisses me off that so many of the (((traditionalist))) "race realist" fucktards will dismiss the Latinos for not being white when they have far more in common culturally with the European ethnics and their descendants than Muslims or inner-city blacks.
The Latino community tends to be blue-collar traditionalist Catholics, it's one of only two major unifying traits among the different Latino groups in the United States (the other is the Spanish language) and the high rates of crime and poverty tend to be concentrated in the urban areas with high rates of immigrants and first and second-generation Latino Americans.
The same thing was seen with the Irish and Italian immigrants in the 19th Century. The old Irish Mob and Italian Mafia weren't that different than the Latino street gangs of today prior to the one-two punch of Prohibition and the Great Depression allowing them to become organized crime powerhouses.
However, the Democratic Party wants more captive voter blocks, and they actively go out of their way to make sure there's a steady wave of new arrivals and discourage any attempts at assimilation (making it easier to get them on the gibs long-term) and resolving the border and proper immigration reform will go a long way in alleviating that
And thusly, we run into the greatest of calamities of American immigration reform.
"Give me your poor, your tired,
your huddled masses yearning to be free."
American children, even in the bluest of blues, are taught that we are a 'great American melting pot', that we are an amalgam of all of the greatest and brightest of all the world's countries, when, in fact, this is not the case. The Irish were poor farmers, the Cajuns were dejected religious outcasts, the Puritans were much the same, and many of even our earliest immigrants were those who could not find success in their homelands and chose to come to America to try and achieve that 'American Dream'. Our nation's very fabric is tied intrinsically to multiculturalism and immigration, to the point where you could say that our national identity
is a multinational identity. You could meet three men with the name John in America who all have totally different racial phenotypes, ethnic backgrounds, and moral and value systems.
As such, total immigration embargo simply won't happen in America, it's anethema to our idea of American society and the American Dream. Instead, I tend to lean more towards the idea of a nationalistic 'Americanization' of immigrants, something that we have the groundwork for in our citizenship tests.
Some church parishioners at my local assembly are Cuban immigrants, recently sworn in as citizens. To become citizens, they were steeped in American history and culture, taught our values and contributions to the arts, sciences, and history, and shown examples of immigrants like themselves who, through hard work and adherence to the rule of law, achieved great things. I feel that this is a solid foundation, but the solution is to sort of 'filter' what exactly we get sent.
Until Islam is radically 'Americanized', it cannot coexist with American values, let alone Western values. Whereas, despite our occasional failures, our legal system, in at least the writing, renders all men and women of every nation, creed, and color as equal in the eyes of the federal government, regardless of any factor save for legal standing and/or criminal record, Islam holds women to be fundamentally and inherently inferior to men in every way. It encourages violence and conquest of those who do not adhere to the 'way', and that a nation MUST be united under God, with God guiding every step of the national process and thought. While Islam is slowly starting to crystallize into a less violent and extremist form, the fact remains that it still has a strong bent towards militant zealotry and bigotry. If we are to hold everyone accountable under the law of the United States, the law of the United States must be superior to all law, including that of 'God'. As a Catholic, that almost sounds sacrilegious, but Christ never advocated slaughtering women for their honor being tainted or stoning a man for what he did in the privacy of his bedroom, so I'm willing to throw this one rock from my glass house.
