Immigration is a Belief System

The debate over immigration represents the cleavage of an ideological moment, argues Andrew Keen .

Keen argues that immigration is a belief system tethered to ideological commitments.

Keen: Myths betray the fact-based façade that supporters of immigration proffer.

Keen says immigration as a solution to productivity stagnation is a means of adding fuel to the fire rather than presenting a solution.

Immigration is just an ersatz form of credit, forever paying off today and letting debt accumulate into the future.

Immigration has a direct link to the credit economy mentioned earlier in that they are fruits of the same thinking ploughing more resources into one avenue and assuming that only positive outcomes can occur.

In Texas , illegal immigrants are overrepresented for crimes such as sexual assault, murder and kidnapping.

In Sweden , “the consequence has been the emergence of neighborhoods where almost all residents are immigrants, where unemployment rates are.

There is an unfortunate tendency for discussions of migration policy to lionise or demonise migrants when they are only human.

The modern ideological regime vastly overestimates the value of a human life when it is representative of “the other’s” The solution should entail a much stricter, particularistic immigration system with high income thresholds.