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March 16, 2026 - RadixJournal - Richard Spencer
07:12
Why Legal Immigration Is The Real Problem

Richard Spencer argues that legal immigration, particularly high-skilled inflows from nations like India, devastates the American professional class more than low-wage labor from Mexico. He advocates for restricting elite immigrants while allowing manual guest workers, urging Gavin Newsom to abolish ICE and favor citizens from Scandinavia or Germany. Criticizing Trump's deportation tactics as toxic, Spencer contends that conservatives failed by prioritizing a multi-racial coalition over protecting domestic workers from global displacement, ultimately proposing a liberal policy to preserve American opportunities. [Automatically generated summary]

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Toxic Solutions vs Smart Policies 00:01:51
So it's the low IQ solution, which is to kick the shit out of Hispanics, shoot liberal whites, deport Mexican family men to death camps.
I mean, this is, I don't know what to say other than like, yeah, I think you're going to make the issue toxic, do you think, by doing that shit?
Whereas if the liberals are smart, perhaps I'm engaging in wishful thinking here.
If the liberals are smart, they are incentivized to reduce high-skilled legal immigration.
So if I were a liberal like Gavin Newsom, for instance, please take my advice here.
I would say, well, we might need some low-skilled immigration and illegals, ah, you can get abused.
You're not paid enough.
It's not fair.
So we're going to have some guest workers from Mexico, South America.
They can come here, build stuff, be busboys, whatever.
They might need to go home.
Maybe there's, I don't know, some sort of way that they can become a citizen if they stay here 20 years or something, but there's that.
But what we really worry about is the fact that our wealthy elite snobs who are white and vote Democrat are going to lose out at getting into elite snobby colleges and having elite snobby careers.
And I'm being a little bit tongue in cheek here, but you get my point, which is that I don't know what bothers you more.
Maybe it's just me.
This is just my background and my personality.
Protecting Workers and Middle Class 00:05:20
What bothers you more?
Like some Mexican who's here illegal, who's, let's be honest, busting his ass, you know, laying some concrete, doing some work, busting some tables,
or the prospect of the graduating class of Harvard or the University of Texas or Stanford or the University of Montana being high IQ Indians who are cheating their ways into professional careers.
What do you think is more damaging in terms of our trajectory as a country?
Jose, who's selling you a burrito or busting his ass for eight bucks an hour or Vivek, who is getting a law degree or medical degree so that he can engage in some sort of Wall Street Ponzi scheme once he's 40 years old and then runs for president.
What's more damaging?
I just don't understand why they can't see it.
And I mean that both with Republicans who are just bad on this issue, but also I don't understand why Gavin Newsom, please someone send this to him, can't get the idea.
You don't have to talk about it in a racist way.
You don't have to talk about it in a nasty way.
You can say, ICE, we're abolishing it.
It got out of control.
They hurt people.
Do we really want to be cracking down on guys that just want to get a job?
Maybe there's a more humane, reasonable way we could deal with them.
That's good.
It's a good start, right?
Conservatives are going to hate on you for that.
Yes.
All the idiotic Trump charts are going to hate on you for that.
But who cares?
They hate you anyway.
They're not voting for you.
Who gives a shit?
Don't give them anything because they already are on the other team.
Just fuck them.
Then you say the real issue is that when I was growing up, i.e. Gavin Newsom in the 80s and 90s, we were competing with a smaller pool of fellow Americans for top colleges, for top careers.
Now we're competing with the world and it's just impossible.
There are a billion Chinese, there are a billion Indians.
Among those, let's say that it's only 20% of the society.
That is millions of people who have high IQs.
You might not say that, but say a euphemism.
High IQs, speak English, they can do things.
Are we just going to displace the middle class and the professional class?
No, we've got to have a more humane, liberal, you should say a liberal immigration policy.
And that means a stark reduction in legal immigration and maybe also some quotas to countries, to liberal countries, liberal quotas.
So the only people who can immigrate are from liberal lands like Scandinavia and like Italy and like Germany.
So basically you get to Madison Grant's Nordicism policy through liberal means and you reach it.
Now, again, this is in juxtaposition to the Trump-Tard policy of kicking people's ass, killing liberals, and sending, I mean, I'm not even exaggerating when I say they are sending people to death camps in El Salvador.
That is toxic as hell.
That is the most toxic thing you could come up with, as opposed to liberal policies, like reducing immigration and helping out the middle class.
You could just call it the middle class, but the professional class, making sure that your sons and daughters aren't competing with the world when they're trying to start out their life.
So Trump fucked it up.
That is true.
But a couple of points just to summarize.
Immigration's been fucked up for a very long time.
The whole conservative movement has constantly fucked up immigration.
And I think liberals, at least theoretically, I hope I'm right, are more incentivized to have better policies.
Because one thing lurking in the background for the bad Trump policies of immigration is this conception of MAGA as like the multi-racial working class coalition.
So if you want to defend the multiracial working class coalition, then you need to defend against competitive workers.
We should bring in more Viveks, right?
That's great.
More Vivex.
They can come in, become doctors, lawyers, tech entrepreneurs.
That's wonderful stuff.
We just need to protect our workers.
We need to gear society around janitors.
And it's just a very, from my personal perspective, a very, very bad way of doing this.
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