What is Going On With Immigration?
Or, why does the political establishment on the Western Left want to commit political seppuku over immigration? In the UK, Keir Starmer - the most unpopular PM in modern history - would rather commit to police state tactics - and lose election after election - than heed the popular will and reverse his open borders policy. All he need to do is close the borders and remove illegal and criminal migrants and ReformUK goes away in six months. The same can be said for Europe and the US. Left parties would rather fight their own citizens and put them at risk than limit migration.
Why? I refuse to believe that bourgeois lefty guilt and noblesse oblige alone is driving this. What's going on that means that we have to take millions of migrants in and can't send them back? What would happen if we closed the borders for just a few years so we could catch up a bit?
I'm genuinely asking, I swear. The actions of the left on this issue defy rational explanation and you've no room to complain about conspiracy theories when your only responses are guilt and insults. So, why is unlimited immigration worthy of throwing away democracy?