A migration enrichment story that ended badly for a native-born American (Fox):
Suppose that Bekhzod Asrarov hadn’t killed anyone. How was his immigration to the U.S. in 2024 expected to make existing Americans better off? He won a “diversity lottery” at age 40 during the Biden administration. Given that he couldn’t speak English and was just 25 years from retirement age, how was his presence in the U.S. supposed to make this a better country?
Why does the U.S. continue to operate this diversity lottery? The New York Times, reporting on a Harvard study, says that diversity makes us worse off. If the goal is economic enrichment, you’d think we’d be selecting immigrants for their ability to earn a high income here in the U.S., which someone who doesn’t speak English is extremely unlikely to do. There is no international law or treaty that, as far as I know, requires us to turn foreigners selected at random into U.S. citizens.
RIP, Tobias “Toby” Forsythe, 21:
Related:
- How was the immigration of Mohamed Sabry Soliman supposed to benefit Americans?
- How was the immigration of Ndiaga Diagne supposed to make Americans better off?
- How was the immigration of Rahmanullah Lakanwal supposed to make Americans better off?
- How was the immigration of Akayed Ullah supposed to benefit native-born Americans?
- How was the immigration of José Antonio Ibarra supposed to make the average American better off?
- How was the immigration of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali supposed to make Americans better off?
- How was the immigration of Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov supposed to benefit native-born Americans?
I really got a chuckle from your comment: “How was his immigration to the U.S. in 2024 expected to make existing Americans better off?”
I noted recently in another of your similar posts that your comment was befitting a Dumbass. Are you really still so confused by the overwhelming need and desire of Good Americans to welcome New Americans like Bekhzod Asrarov and millions of others into my country?
Bekhzod Asrarov is a Muslim from Uzbekistan.
Mx. r u enriched yet. Typo…Perhaps you meant U.S.bekistan?
Speaking of comment was befitting a Dumbass, diversity lottery doesn’t make them American citizens.
Better than a 50/50 chance that young Mr. Forsyth’s parents, and certainly his mother, voted for Biden and straight democrat.
Not that the Republicans are any better on immigration.
DP: I mostly agree with you, though Trump (not exactly a Republican) has hugely cut down on what the haters call “illegal immigration”. It stuns me that there isn’t even an attempt to eliminate diversity- and asylum-based immigration. Who decided that the best way to build a coherent society was via random assemblage of humans?
Phil, it’s not about “build[ing] a coherent society”. Is it really that difficult for you to understand? Comprende?
> Who decided that the best way to build a coherent society was via random assemblage of humans?
Emma Lazarus? (Some kind of fund-raising thing.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus
Our neighborhood was built for mostly retired and nearly-retired professionals. It was quiet and livable (including many POCs, for the benefit of Phil’s huge woke reader base) before the new dark ages. Post-COVID, all kinds of “diversity” has made it quite unlivable. Fuck diversity. I also blame Boomers for not downsizing into neighborhoods like ours. As people die off here, whatever is fleeing from the coasts is moving here instead of the intended demographics. Demographic entropy, man.
Maybe we can find insight by looking at physics, specifically the beautiful coherence of a laser beam ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser ):
> In a lightbulb or a star, the energy is emitted from many different levels giving photons with a broad range of energies. This process is called thermal radiation.
> The underlying physical process creating photons in a laser is the same as in thermal radiation, but the actual emission is not the result of random thermal processes. Instead, the release of a photon is triggered by the nearby passage of another photon.
Q: Why does the U.S. continue to let in people who are unable to fit in and tend to be hostile towards the very people who let them in?
A:
1. Most Americans have a collective guilt for what they did to the natives and want to atone for their wrongdoing, and it comes across like this.
2. The atonement can be replaced by vice in the above point if the suffering is not done in a detached way. Like what happened to Alex Pretti, it’s difficult to see why it wasn’t a vice when he was carrying a gun.