Above: A scene from the Comal County Young Republicans Meeting. On this slide, I’m discussing the astronomical welfare rates in immigrant headed households and remittances. More here!
Local left-wing media pitches a fit, but Comal County stands their ground. And no, we are not a “Nation of Immigrants.”
I don’t believe in responding to hysterics.
There are malicious and deranged actors such as Heidi Beirich at the SPLC who somehow make a handsome living calling people racist. But there are also otherwise-normal, pro-social people who still have a knee-jerk reaction to discussing topics such as immigration restriction and ethnicity. They’re not mean-spirited, just ignorant.
That’s how I understood Canyon Lake’s reporting on my presentation at the Comal County Young Republicans event on August 3rd. After an incredible reception with an engaged and bright local audience of 74(!), the local paper ran this smear article: Comal Young Republicans Call for Minorities to ‘Remigrate to Ancestral Homes’ by Stephanie Johnson August 12, 2026.
They interviewed D.J. Seeger, one of their own associates who was not present at the meeting and presumably did not read the content.
I won’t respond to the “euthanasia of brown people” comment because that was wildly out of touch. However, I will respond to this protest because I hear it all the time:
“…The biggest issue here is if they honestly believe that other cultures and religions existing in the United States is a bad thing, then the great American experiment that (President) George Washington talked about is failed. The experiment failed. Because what they are suggesting is that the idea that people from all walks of life and all backgrounds and all creeds and all cultures, if they cannot coexist together and they cannot find a way to work together, then the great American experiment failed, and it’s time to file for bankruptcy and close the business.”
He’s spot-on in one sense. Multiculturalism has failed. This is now generally widely understood to be true. Here’s where he goes wrong: he believes the common propaganda that we are a “nation of immigrants.” He thinks that the Founding Fathers intended the US to be a multicultural tossed-salad of people spontaneously existing on the same plot of land. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The “American experiment that (President) George Washington talked about” did not include mass immigration from the third world, and the history of US immigration law from the Founding until 1965 clearly seeks to preserve an ethnically and culturally coherent nation state.
- The very first immigration law, the Naturalization Act of 1790 restricted naturalization to free white persons of good character (who had to wait two years).
- The naturalization Acts of 1795 and 1798 increased the required residency to 5, then 14 years respectively.
- Naturalization expanded to African Americans with the 14th Amendment and the 1870 Naturalization Act, but this was intended only for freed slaves, NOT African immigrants.
- The Page Act of 1875 explicitly listed Asian immigration as undesirable and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 tried to end it entirely.
- Congress was so determined to bar Third World immigration that it overrode a presidential veto in 1917 to pass the Immigration Act of 1917 which implemented the Asiatic Barred Zone (including India) and enforced a literacy test. The Supreme Court later ruled in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind that Indians were not white and therefore ineligible to become US citizens. America then retroactively denaturalized 50%-70% of Indians between 1923 – 1927.
- In 1921, Americans passed the Emergency Quota Act because there were even too many European immigrants after WWI.
- Then, in 1924, the Johnson-Reed Act established quotas that gave 98% of immigration places to Europeans (72% to Brits, Germans, Irish, and Dutch).
- The 1965 Hart-Celler Act was a dramatic departure from American Immigration Law and was passed via deliberate deception. The chair of the Senate subcommittee hearings, Edward Kennedy, promised “the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset.” That’s exactly the opposite of what happened.
Prior to 1964, very few people believed America was a “nation of immigrants.” The phrase was only popularized by John F. Kennedy’s essay, “Nation of Immigrants,” posthumously published that year after being commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith (now known as the ADL).
Now, I don’t believe people who think we are a “nation of immigrants” are by any means stupid. They are a product of social conditioning and propaganda.
We are surrounded with messaging in media, Hollywood, and education that tells us ethnicity doesn’t matter. That “we the people” means everyone on earth. Multiculturalism and open borders are supposedly desirable because we get to partake in the global strip mall of ethnic food and traditions.
We think we have the freedom to import burritos and chicken Biryani and opt out of other undesirable cultural norms like incest. We never ask why things like female genital mutilation persist despite constant and expensive Western intervention.
Addressing the role of non-Western immigration in cultural change an uncomfortable topic. Texas should be proud of the Comal County Young Republicans who are brave enough to face these discussions with courage and grace.
Yet there are still people who would rather close their eyes—the ones affluent enough to escape diversity. To these people, the effects of immigration and cultural change will be faced by someone else—another generation, someone else’s kids, or people who can’t afford to move out of Gary, Indiana.
Pressured by a small screeching social media mob promoted by this hefty former opera singer, the 5 Stones Artisan Brewing Co. cowered and refused to host future meetings. But this opens up the opportunity for a new venue.
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