Ending the Immigration Crisis
The Great Betrayal
A steelworker in Pittsburgh rises at 4:30 in the morning. He drives to the mill, works a twelve-hour shift in conditions that would break a lesser man, and returns home to a paycheck that cannot cover his family's bills. A construction laborer in Phoenix, carrying blocks in hundred-degree heat, watches his wage stagnate year after year while his employer hires workers who will accept half his pay, workers who have no right to be in this country at all. The farm worker in California, whose family has worked the land for three generations, finds himself competing with a flood of cheap labor brought in by corporate agribusiness that cares nothing for the communities it destroys.
These men and women are not statistics. They are not talking points. They are the American people: The producers, the workers, the citizens who built this nation with their sweat and their blood. And they have been betrayed.
The immigration crisis is not a humanitarian accident. It is not a "natural" consequence of globalization. It is a deliberate policy, a weapon wielded by multinational corporations and their political servants against the American working class. Every illegal alien crossing the border is a wage reduction for an American worker. Every cheap labor import is a family displaced. Every unchecked mile of the border is an act of economic warfare against the American people.
For decades, the American people have been told that mass migration is inevitable, that the border cannot be secured, that we must accept wage suppression as the price of "globalization." These are lies told by those who profit from the misery of the American worker. The financial class that controls both parties has sold the American worker to the highest foreign bidder, and they have done so with the full cooperation of a political class that has forgotten whom it serves. We the people will end this betrayal. We will secure the border. We will deport those who have no right to be here. We will protect American wages and American jobs. We will restore American sovereignty. Not out of hatred for foreigners, but thanks to the love we share of our country and our people.
The American worker has waited long enough. The American family has suffered enough. The American nation has been weakened enough. The time for action is now.
How We Got Here
Mass migration is not a humanitarian policy. It is an economic weapon. Since the 1960s, wave after wave of immigration has been used to flood the labor market with cheap, exploitable workers, driving down wages, undermining collective bargaining, and breaking the solidarity of the American working class. Consider the numbers. In 1954, 34.8 percent of the American workforce was unionized. Today, private sector union density stands at just 5.9 percent. The decline in unionization explains more than 70 percent of the decline in the manufacturing wage premium since the 1990s. When workers cannot organize, they cannot demand better wages. When they cannot demand better wages, they cannot support their families. When they cannot support their families, the American Dream dies.
The architects of this betrayal are well known. The Hart-Celler Act of 1965 resumed the mass migration that had been held in check since 1924. The Reagan amnesty of 1986 granted citizenship to nearly 3 million illegal aliens while promising "employer sanctions" that were never enforced. The H-1B visa program has been exploited to replace American tech workers with cheaper foreign labor. Guest-worker programs in agriculture and construction have suppressed wages and prevented the reemergence of organized labor. Every one of these policies was sold to the American people as a benefit. Every one of them was a betrayal. The result has been a permanent underclass of low-wage labor that has undercut American wages, especially for Black and Hispanic workers who had only recently gained a foothold in the industrial economy. A nation that cannot employ its own people has no business employing the people of other nations. Yet that is precisely what the DC establishment has done, and they have done it with the full support of both parties.
Who benefits from mass migration? Not the American worker. Not the American family. Not the American community. The beneficiaries are the multinational corporations that can pay poverty wages to workers who cannot complain, organize, or demand better. The beneficiaries are the banks, the financiers, the globalist elites who profit from wage suppression and the destruction of American labor solidarity. The beneficiaries are the political class, who receive campaign contributions from the same corporate interests that benefit from cheap labor. The beneficiaries are the bureaucratic state, which expands its power and budget by managing a permanent underclass. This is not speculation. The same international system that has destroyed American industry has also destroyed the American labor market. The free movement of capital and goods across borders has been accompanied by the free movement of labor, but only in one direction. American capital can go anywhere, but American workers cannot follow it. American jobs can be shipped overseas, but American wages cannot be protected. American factories can be closed, but American communities cannot be rebuilt. The international system of trade, which the old parties of the State support without question, rests on the assumption that goods and services and labor should flow freely across borders. This is the very system that has destroyed American purchasing power, American industry, and American sovereignty. How can American wages be raised or even maintained in the face of competition from millions of illegal workers paid below minimum wage, working off the books, and afraid to demand better conditions? They cannot. The international system is designed to drive American wages down to the global minimum. We must reject this system entirely.
The immigration crisis is not an abstract policy debate. It is a matter of life and death for American communities. The "deaths of despair" documented by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton, the rising rates of suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholic liver disease among middle-aged Americans without college degrees, are directly tied to the disappearance of stable, high-wage employment. When a man loses not just his job but his reason for getting up in the morning, he has nowhere else to go. Consider Youngstown, Ohio. When the steel mills closed, the city's population fell from 170,000 in 1970 to 60,000 today, a loss of nearly two-thirds of the population. Grocery stores, retailers, banks, and other businesses collapsed in sync. Droves of American families left. The city became a symbol of the death of American industry. But it is not just cities that have been destroyed. It is lives. A 2020 study published in JAMA Network Open found that five years after an automotive plant closure, opioid overdose mortality increased by 8.6 deaths per 100,000 individuals, an 85 percent relative increase compared to unaffected counties. The closure of an auto plant did not merely cause unemployment. It killed American workers. The average American male today earns, in real terms, less than his counterpart did in the 1970s. The median family now requires two incomes to afford what a single income purchased a generation ago. The savings rate has collapsed to near zero, while credit card debt has exploded to over one trillion dollars. The immigration crisis is a direct cause of this devastation. Every illegal worker who accepts lower wages than an American would demand makes it harder for American families to survive. Every employer who hires illegal workers instead of American citizens makes it harder for American workers to find jobs. Every politician who refuses to enforce the law makes it harder for American communities to thrive. We will not stand idly by while the American people are destroyed.
The Solution
The border must be secured as a matter of national survival. Under the current enforcement regime, border crossings are down 93 percent year-over-year. We have had 14 consecutive months of zero releases of illegal aliens into American communities. Native-born Americans have gained 2 million jobs while foreign-born workers have lost 662,000 jobs. Over 2.5 million illegal aliens have left the United States, including 605,000 deportations and 1.9 million self-deportations. These numbers prove what the DC establishment has long denied: The border can be secured. The only question left answering is whether we, the American people, have the political will to maintain it.
The NNA demands the completion of the border wall across all critical sectors. We demand a zero releases policy, ensuring that no illegal alien is released into American communities. The current policy of 14 consecutive months of zero releases must be made permanent. We demand a massive expansion of Border Patrol, providing the men and women who protect our border with the resources, personnel, and support they need. They must be treated as the heroes they are. We demand the reinstatement of the "Remain in Mexico" policy for asylum seekers, a policy that worked and will be made permanent. We demand an end to "catch and release," requiring that illegal aliens be detained until their immigration proceedings are complete. No more releasing them into American communities to disappear. We demand the deployment of the US military to secure the border, just as it is used to defend the nation from any other invasion. If the border is an invasion, let us treat it as one. The American people have a right to a secure border. The American worker has a right to a labor market free from illegal competition. The American community has a right to safety from the crime and drugs that flow across an open border. The NNA will secure that border. Not because we hate foreigners, but because we love our country.
Securing the border is only half the battle. The millions of illegal aliens already in the United States represent a permanent underclass that depresses wages, strains public services, and threatens the integrity of American sovereignty. The NNA will not accept a permanent underclass in the United States. We will not accept millions of people living in the shadows, subject to exploitation by unscrupulous employers, undermining the wages of American workers. We will not accept a situation in which the law is openly flouted and those who break it are rewarded with amnesty.
The New Nationalists demand the mass deportation of criminal aliens. Those who have committed crimes must be deported first. Under current enforcement, 167,000 criminals have been deported. This must be accelerated. Murderers, rapists, drug dealers— any illegal alien who has committed a crime, must be removed. We demand mandatory E-Verify for all employers, with severe penalties including criminal prosecution for those who hire illegal aliens. The employers who profit from illegal labor are just as guilty as the illegal workers themselves. We demand an end to birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens. The 14th Amendment was never intended to grant citizenship to the children of those who entered the country illegally. The NNA supports legislation to restore common-sense limits on birthright citizenship. We demand the expansion of expedited removal, streamlining the immigration court system to ensure that those who have no legal right to be here are removed quickly and efficiently. We demand mandatory detention for all illegal aliens until their deportation proceedings are complete. No more releases. No more disappearances. We demand an end to sanctuary cities, with cities and states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement losing federal funding. If a city will not enforce the law, the city will not receive the benefits of the law. We demand the encouragement and facilitation of voluntary self-deportation, a policy that has already resulted in 1.9 million illegal aliens leaving the United States. The American people have been told that deportation is impossible, that the task is too large, that we must accept the presence of millions of illegals in our midst. These are lies told by those who profit from cheap labor. The NNA will deport those who have no right to be here, not out of cruelty, but out of justice for the American worker.
Legal immigration must also be reformed. The current system is designed to import cheap labor and suppress American wages. The New Nationalists demand an end to the H-1B visa program, which has been exploited to replace American tech workers with cheaper foreign labor. It is not a program for bringing the "best and brightest", it is a program for importing wage slaves. We demand an end to the OPT program, the Optional Practical Training program that allows foreign graduates to work in the US without proper labor market testing. It is another backdoor for cheap labor and will be eliminated. We demand limits on guest worker programs in agriculture and construction, ensuring they are not used to suppress wages. When American workers are unemployed, there is no justification for importing foreign labor. We demand that employers demonstrate they cannot find an American worker before hiring a foreign worker. We demand the raising of prevailing wage minimums for foreign workers, ensuring they are paid wages that do not undercut American workers. The minimum wage for foreign workers must be high enough to remove the incentive to hire them. The NNA will end the cheap labor import system that has devastated American wages and destroyed American communities.
What Happens if We Do Nothing
The DC establishment will tell you that the current system is the only option, that mass migration is inevitable, that we must accept wage suppression and cultural displacement as the price of "globalization." They are wrong. The consequences of inaction are catastrophic. Wages will continue to fall. The middle class will continue to shrink. The American Dream will become unattainable for millions. The average American family will continue to struggle, unable to afford housing, healthcare, education, or retirement. Mass migration will continue to tear the cultural fabric of this nation apart. Communities will become more divided, more polarized, more unstable. The bonds that hold society together will dissolve. The resentment and anger generated by mass migration will continue to destabilize American politics. Extremism of both left and right will flourish in the vacuum left by the collapse of reason. A nation that cannot control its borders is not a sovereign nation. America will become a province of globalism, ruled by international capital and unaccountable bureaucrats. The will of the American people will be irrelevant. The human cost will continue to mount. More Americans will die from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism, deaths directly caused by the loss of stable, high-wage employment.
America for Americans
The immigration crisis is not merely a failure of policy. It is a betrayal of the American worker. A betrayal of the American family. A betrayal of the American nation. America and its vibrant economy should exist for Americans and Americans only. American workers must come first, because the government is first and foremost responsible for its own people. And American sovereignty must be restored, because a nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation at all. The wealthiest nation in the history of the world can afford to care for its own people. But it cannot afford to care for the world at the expense of its own. Putting America First is a duty, not a slogan, and it is up to the American people to restore that duty.
