Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - The USA Is Not a Nation of Immigrants
Aired: 2021-05-12
Duration: 07:28


=== Population Shifts and Immigration (04:21) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
[00:00:08]  We are a nation of immigrants.
[00:00:10]  It's astonishing how many people trot out this slogan as if it were a serious justification for immigration policy, as if it actually meant something.
[00:00:19]  I'm not an immigrant.
[00:00:20]  I bet you're not an immigrant either.
[00:00:22]  I guess we're just not part of the nation.
[00:00:25]  So far as I can tell...
[00:00:27]  People who say we are a nation of immigrants are saying that since we have let in immigrants in the past, we should keep letting them in.
[00:00:34]  This is actually a well-known logical fallacy known as the argument from tradition.
[00:00:39]  It's like saying we've always done it this way, so we shouldn't stop.
[00:00:44]  Of course, most of the people who make this argument despise tradition and would never use it to justify any other policy.
[00:00:52]  How about basing policy on slogans that Unlike this nonsense about immigrants are actually true.
[00:00:58]  We are a nation of male presidents.
[00:01:01]  We are a majority white nation.
[00:01:04]  The people who say we are a nation of immigrants would think it was absurd to base policy on those true statements.
[00:01:12]  But when it comes to immigration, and only immigration, they are perfectly happy to let the past dictate the future.
[00:01:20]  But they are dead wrong about the past.
[00:01:24]  To be an immigrant, there has to be a country to go to.
[00:01:28]  If you settled Antarctica, would you be an immigrant?
[00:01:32]  No. You'd be a pioneer.
[00:01:34]  Were the Jamestown colonists immigrants?
[00:01:37]  Unlike Antarctica, there were Stone Age people living there, but they didn't welcome the newcomers with food stamps and bilingual education, did they?
[00:01:47]  About ten days after the English chose their campsite, hundreds of Indians attacked them.
[00:01:53]  And tried to exterminate them.
[00:01:55]  That's worse than trying to settle Antarctica.
[00:01:58]  So, no, the colonists were not immigrants.
[00:02:02]  Now, once there was a nation, yes, there was immigration.
[00:02:07]  From 1790 to 1820, the US population grew from 3.9 million to 10 million.
[00:02:13]  That's 250% growth.
[00:02:16]  Lots of immigration, right?
[00:02:18]  Wrong. That population increase of 6 million was almost entirely due to natives having children.
[00:02:26]  At the end of that period, only 1% of the population was foreign-born.
[00:02:31]  1%. We were not a nation of immigrants.
[00:02:34]  And if the Founders wanted immigrants, they wanted white immigrants.
[00:02:39]  The very first Congress of the United States met in 1790.
[00:02:44]  The Constitution had just been ratified.
[00:02:47]  It was a brand new country and Congress had to decide what kind of country it was going to be.
[00:02:54]  And that year they passed the very first naturalization law that restricted citizenship to free white persons.
[00:03:02]  The founders wanted a white country.
[00:03:05]  Later on, immigration did pick up.
[00:03:08]  And it was immigration from Europe.
[00:03:10]  The vertical bars on this chart show the number of foreign-born people.
[00:03:14]  That's immigrants.
[00:03:16]  Living in the country at the time of each census from 1850 all the way to 2010.
[00:03:21]  The graph line over the bars is the percentage of immigrants in the U.S. population.
[00:03:26]  By 1850, immigrants were 9.7% of the population.
[00:03:31]  The highest that percentage ever got was 14.8% in 1890.
[00:03:37]  14.8%.
[00:03:39]  15% of the U.S. population is 11 or younger.
[00:03:43]  Does that mean we are a nation of children?
[00:03:46]  And from 1910 until 1970, the percentage of immigrants dropped steadily to under 5%.
[00:03:53]  We were, once again, becoming a nation exclusively of natives.
[00:03:58]  And until 1965, we had an immigration policy specifically designed to keep the country white.
[00:04:05]  The rise you see after 1970 was a repudiation of two centuries of deliberately favoring Europeans.

=== E Pluribus Unum's True Meaning (03:15) ===

[00:04:13]  It was only then that we started letting in lots of Mexicans, Chinese, Guatemalans, Haitians, Somalis, you name it, who are transforming this country and are reducing whites to a minority.
[00:04:25]  So that is the real meaning of"We are a nation of immigrants." It is a profoundly anti-white slogan for people who don't like the United States and want to turn it into something else.
[00:04:38]  It's the slogan of immigrants themselves.
[00:04:41]  who naturally want the country to look more like them, and of sick white people who think it's virtuous to phase out their own people.
[00:04:50]  And there's another slogan people associate with immigration.
[00:04:53]  The Great Seal of the United States contains the Latin phrase"e pluribus unum," which means"out of many, one." It's on the back of the dollar bill.
[00:05:04]  The slogan was first proposed in 1776 to celebrate the 13 independent colonies Coming together to form one country.
[00:05:13]  A lot of people think the slogan means"immigration," of immigrants coming from all around the world to become one people.
[00:05:22]  Even Barack Obama thinks this.
[00:05:24]  On July 1, 2010, he gave a speech on immigration in which he said the usual goofy stuff that letting people in is"one of our most basic American values." And then he said this: That is what has drawn the persecuted and impoverished to our shores.
[00:05:44]  As if ever since 1776, E Pluribus Unum was an invitation to the world's poor people.
[00:05:50]  There is a pro-immigration non-profit called the Migration Policy Institute that gives out E Pluribus Unum prizes for initiatives in immigrant integration.
[00:06:02]  That would be like awarding a Peyton Manning prize for economics research.
[00:06:07]  There's just no connection.
[00:06:09]  And you can be sure that those E Pluribus Unum prizes are not going to people who help Europeans integrate.
[00:06:17]  Europeans wouldn't need any help, would they?
[00:06:20]  And look at the title of this book: E Pluribus Unum?
[00:06:24]  Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation.
[00:06:29]  These people have hijacked the motto on the Great Seal.
[00:06:33]  Just like Barack Obama, they act as if what it really meant was,"We're a nation of immigrants." So, don't fall for the baloney.
[00:06:42]  E Pluribus Unum celebrates 13 sovereign colonies joining to form a federal union.
[00:06:48]  It's got nothing, and I mean nothing, to do with immigration.
[00:06:53]  Anyone who tells you that is either stupid or thinks you're stupid.
[00:06:59]  We are not and never have been a nation of immigrants.
[00:07:02]  And to say that we have to keep doing something just because we've been doing it since 1970 makes no sense.
[00:07:10]  The people who talk that way would never accept just keep doing it as a justification for any other policy.

=== Horrified By Its Past (00:17) ===

[00:07:18]  The people who founded this country founded it for Europeans.
[00:07:22]  They would be horrified by what's being done to it.
[00:07:26]  And you should be horrified too.