Each time I hear US politicians claiming the UK is being 'swamped' by a flood of immigrants, I am wryly amused that they have no idea about (or refuse think about) how the USA was founded.... by a swamping of immigrants who destroyed the native (indigenous) population - immigrants driven by religious persecution & often seeking to better their family's economic circumstances.
Still why would US politicians be concerned with their country's own history?
History is a tool; they wield it clumsily.
Rich assholes here in the US have always relied on immigrant labor when they couldn't find enough cheap indigenous labor. I assume the current anti-immigration tilt comes from rich assholes who have enough labor at hand but want to make the locals afraid.
'Twas ever thus.
That’s the thing: facing an upcoming once-in-generation labor shortage, and the prospect of having to increase wages, after 2 generations of successfully suppressing them, lauding tools that will disempower labor even more, the most capital-efficient solution would be to admit more people from around the world.
The whole point of being a "rich asshole" is to push any costs - especially "once in a generation" costs - onto someone else. Those sound expensive.
Trump can sponsor and marry a foreign worker and still bellow about immigrants talking US jobs. Cognitive dissonance requires cognition. His racist supporters cheer and his rich asshole friends don't pay attention to the buffoonery as long as they don't have to get out their checkbooks.
US politicians don't even care about the "school shootings" that happen across the USofA...
It explains why they fear immigrants... They think they'll receive the same treatment!
Intelligence has limits, stupidity however…
Maybe they’re worried that the immigrants will treat them the way they treated Native Americans.
Oh, it's worse than that: US politicians are REWRITING the history, to sanitize it of the parts they do not wish to acknowledge.
The Bunker Hill Monument in Boston, for example, is having all "woke" elements forcibly removed, such as an acknowledgement of slavery, Native Americans, or immigrants.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/04/metro/bunker-hill-monument-quotes-removed-censorship/
@ChrisMayLA6 There's a reset timing, after which people forget about the past. Additionally, they are easily fooled to think that any history fact is made up.
Everything in their past was shiny glorious, if anything is wrong in their present time is due to someone else, outside of their idyllic memories.
There are signs here of a few classical psychosies, extended epidemically.
@ChrisMayLA6 it has nothing to do with immigration
it is about what color the immigrants are
@ChrisMayLA6 The English pilgrims on the Mayflower already had religious freedom as they had been living in Leiden in Holland where they could do what they liked.
However, they disliked the permissiveness of Dutch society especially around children. The Pilgrims thought that children should be punished. They were also poor so left Leiden essentially as economic migrants.
Yes, they wanted religious freedom but that was not the main driver as they had that already. It was economics.....
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They don't bother about the past or logic.
They are simple minds.
They put words together, they believe support things they want to do.
If we spiral about understanding that, we are blocked and doozed - and they win!
As soon as we stop trying to imply reason to their 'content' it all makes 'sense'.
But even then, I am still lost about, what's next 
If we stop trying to hold them to the measure of reason & truth, then we really are lost
Hard to know where to begin with this one. Offensive, racist, hypocritical, historically illiterate, diplomatically inappropriate, ironic..... Yes, let's start at offensive.
Migration is part of the human condition. It's literally in our DNA. Immigration makes our societies stronger, better, more vibrant.
We need to push back hard at the anti-immigrant rhetoric that is ascendant. And it beggars belief that this comes from people who are themselves immigrants, or the descendants of immigrants, in nations built by immigrants.
Exactly; completely agree
Must remember to pop in to a pub for a pint and a curry next time I'm in Londinium. 😉
The political class (across the world) are specialists in hypocrisy - its in their DNA (if they have such a thing)
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