It is important to understand that the constitutional system our forefathers created through revolution, reason, and strong principles has been greatly weakened by planned actions from within the country. The open-borders situation from fiscal years 2021 through 2024 was the final major step against national independence. It was a carefully organized change in the population, carried out with clear purpose. U.S. Customs and Border Protection records show more than 8.8 million encounters at the southwest land border alone during FY2021 to FY2024. Nationwide totals exceeded 10.9 million. The highest years saw 2.2 million encounters in FY2022 and 2.0 million in FY2023. The Department of Homeland Security estimates that known gotaways numbered more than 2 million in that period, bringing the total illegal entries to well over 12 million. Millions of these people were sent directly into American communities through catch-and-release programs, mass parole, and sanctuary-city rules that did not follow federal law. This was not done out of compassion or economic need. It was a planned effort to bring in large numbers of low-skill, low-assimilation people in order to weaken the country’s cultural foundation and make self-government much harder.

The results are clear from the facts, not from personal views. Cultures that focus on quick pleasures, low trust, and immediate actions—rather than discipline, self-control, and learning—now appear widely in our media, schools, and everyday life. This shows a real decline in our society, supported by measurable information. Manhattan Institute analysis finds that the average new unlawful immigrant creates a net cost of $80,000 over thirty years. The average unlawful immigrant already living in the United States takes $225,000 more in benefits than they pay in taxes over the same period. These numbers come from careful studies of taxes, welfare, education, and other programs. Center for Immigration Studies data show that 61 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants use at least one major welfare program. This creates tens of billions of dollars in direct payments each year. In addition, U.S.-born children of these families add another $68 billion yearly in public-school costs alone. Hospitals are overcrowded, classrooms face extra pressure from language and behavior issues, and crime has risen in some areas: Border Patrol has recorded 56,154 arrests of non-citizens with criminal convictions or warrants since FY2021. Social-trust measures drop exactly as Robert Putnam’s well-known research described. In areas with very high diversity, people of all backgrounds tend to pull back. They trust their neighbors less, join fewer community activities, volunteer less, and give less to charity. Trust falls even within the same ethnic groups because separate communities form instead of blending together. Educated people who value merit, reading, scientific thinking, ordered liberty, and high-trust relationships now see their children growing up in a divided society. In that society, success is labeled “privilege,” poor choices are called “vibrancy,” thoughtful thinkers are pushed aside, and entertainers who celebrate pornographic and vile acts are praised instead.

We are not becoming stronger as a society. We are divided in ways that are hard to repair. The large-scale experiment with low-skill, low-education immigration has produced exactly the results that history and studies have long predicted: hospitals under heavy strain, classrooms turned into places for basic support, hundreds of thousands of deaths from fentanyl that came through the open borders, $200 billion sent out of the country each year in remittances, and a culture that puts quick pleasures ahead of deeper thinking. The sharp rise in the foreign-born population has not added positive variety to America. It has brought in some of the same problems that made the home countries less successful—lower community trust, greater dependence on government help, and less respect for the ideas of the Enlightenment.

No real repair seems possible for the current system. The republic created in 1787 no longer exists in its original form. It has been replaced by a large government structure influenced by international interests and major population changes. The only reasonable future for civilized, educated people—the direct heirs of the academies of Athens, the republican values of Rome, and the rational order of the Enlightenment—is to create their own independent nation. This could be on this continent or elsewhere. It would be a place based on merit, with strong borders, clear protection of culture, and guided by the intelligence that built the West. History shows that similar groups have done this before when their society was overtaken by outside influences. We can do it again. Groups with different values can be kept separate through strong laws and high standards of excellence. The ideas of the West will continue. Educated people are already thinking in their own way; a step toward physical separation will be needed next. Otherwise, we risk losing everything in the situation we chose not to leave. The time for avoiding these choices has passed.

This post was edited on 6/2/26 at 9:51 am