They Have To Go Back
They Have To Go Back
As the Trump administration ramps up arrests of illegal aliens, right-leaning Americans on X are increasingly making the case that the administration should turn its attention to legal immigrants as well. Our friend Josiah Lippincott offered an excellent post illustrating the case for this, which I have shared below.
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Now on to Josiah's post.
Authored by Josiah Lippincott on X
They Have To Go Back, Uber Edition
In 2021, while visiting DC, I took an Uber from Dulles to my hotel. My driver was an Afghan "refugee" who had been allowed into the country because of his "service" to the American government during the war.
When I dug deeper, I discovered that he had really just been receiving a grant to do bullshit work out in rural Afghanistan. He willingly admitted that virtually no American officials ever came to supervise whether the money he was receiving was being spent correctly.
I asked him how he made ends meet in NOVA while driving Uber. He explained that he, his wife, and his three kids were all on welfare and received subsidized housing. His wife couldn't get a job because she couldn't speak English and didn't want to learn.
He also explained that he sent a big portion of his paycheck, about half, to a dozen relatives back in Afghanistan.
At the end of the ride, he asked if I would be willing to sponsor their visa applications. I politely declined.
This is, quite simply, the reality of most migration to America. This entirely alien foreigner was brought here not to work, not to contribute, not to become a part of our way of life but because liberals felt bad about his condition in this world. They felt they owed him something above and beyond the money he'd already grifted from the taxpayer.
He wouldn't have been killed if he had stayed in Afghanistan. That is a lie. He was a low-grade grifter in the middle of nowhere. The Taliban did not give a shit that he was spending American dollars on bringing "clean drinking water" or whatever.
His productive labor in America--driving a taxi--is more than balanced out by the immense social cost of the welfare he receives and the reality that his kids will all grow up to be shitlibs that hate America.
For the price of us getting a taxi driver, we now have a foreigner in our country who barely speaks our language, doesn't share our religious heritage, actively supports the leftwing political party, and wants to import all of his fellow tribesmen to join him here.
So don't tell me immigration is about "the economy" or "our" values. Immigration is designed to destroy my way of life. That's it.
Now we could make this arrangement better. If this guy were only here to work, couldn't get welfare, couldn't become a citizen, got taxed at a higher rate than Americans, and left when he was done "looking for a better life" then yeah, it would be a much better arrangement. Not perfect (do we really need foreign workers?) but better.
As it stands now, we simply need to get all of these people out of the country. We need to send this Uber driver and his whole family back to Afghanistan. He needs to learn to contribute to the 21st century global economy there, where he can't vote for Democrats and has to work a lot harder to grift off my tax dollars.
So I say let the deportations flow. Send ICE to every Home Depot, Uber pick up point, and hotel housekeeping break room. Deport. Deport. Deport.
Deport so many people that these third worlders get the message: you are not here to wreck America. This is not your country. You will not be allowed to serve as tools for the global left in their war on freedom and civilization.
Until we formulate a genuinely America First immigration policy this is the only acceptable option. This isn't about the economy; this is about securing the conditions that make liberty and genuine freedom possible.
Never forget that.