Here is a little thought experiment. Imagine that Los Angeles in 20 years is almost entirely Hispanic, mostly from Mexico. Imagine almost all of the institutions, legal and cultural are controlled by Hispanics, and that Los Angeles County is almost entirely Hispanic except for a large, but still minority Asian community, mostly from China.
But now imagine that the port of LA and Long Beach are largely controlled by Chinese Americans, and they are bringing in, illegally, hundreds of thousands of poor, Chinese immigrants each year who work for 1/4 of what the Mexicans will work for, and, as a result, are deeply undercutting the wages and jobs of what have been traditional Mexican occupations like construction and light industrial and manufacturing. Further, the huge influx of Chinese illegals is dislocating whole neighborhoods and causing tremendous strains on the already overburdened infrastructure as they move into Hispanic parts of LA.
Does anyone seriously believe that today’s tribal apologists for all the Hispanic illegals, once comfortably in power, at the top of the political and cultural food chain of Southern California would be forwarding the same arguments they are now on behalf of Chinese illegals? What if the Chinese leadership made jokes about colonizing all of California for China and drew maps showing such an eventuality? What if the Chinese political class routinely portrayed the Hispanics as fat and lazy and too rich to work hard, and applauded all the Chinese illegals as devoted to their families and tremendously hard-working? Do you still think the current crop of Hispanic “activists” would be writing sympathetic articles about the dear, Chinese illegals in the LA Times? What if the Chinese formed fearsome, violent street gangs to defend their turf, and demanded that the Chinese language be recognized at all levels of society? Still think the Hispanic tribalists would be demanding that the US should have open borders?
Just change the identities around and you have one of the greatest hypocritical positions in recent memory. The Hispanic tribalists are for themselves at the expense of their competition; they support “open borders” because of their geographical advantage to bum-rush the gates. The more Hispanics who can get in illegally will mean fewer Asians can get in through legal channels. The real racists here are the Hispanics who argue, essentially, that Mexicans and Central Americans have a more essential demand to a shot at the good life than do people from Asia or Africa, even if the people from other nations and races and cultures have a superior skill set and can contribute much more to the overall wealth of the US.
