Replacement Migration and the Slow Death of Illinois (2/2)

Pictured: The 18th Street Bridge, Chicago, Illinois

Earlier: Replacement Migration and the Slow Death of Illinois (1/2)

It must be said at the outset that our policy recommendations cannot cure all that ails Illinois. The state suffers from many of the serious policy-making deficits of a typical blue state, and the most we can hope for is that a serious national and state level remigration policy program would allow for a reassessment of many of these policies. To give but one example, Illinois has the third highest state tax in the Midwest at 4.95% and is only modestly behind second place Wisconsin at 7.65% and first place Minnesota at 9.85%—two other states, it is worth noting, which are suffering from increasingly rapid demographic replacement. Illinois also pours countless billions into its failing Medicaid programs—programs which are in severe deficit in part because of the state’s extension of Medicaid to immigrants, including illegal immigrants. The state and its major metro area of Chicago are in serious trouble.

Illinois will never pull upward and out of this budgetary and taxation spiral without first stopping and then reversing mass immigration. If there are no Americans around to make the necessary policy changes because they have been replaced by a new population, then Illinois will come to resemble a strange combination of Latin America, Africa, and Southern Asia. Regions of the world which are not, in general, noted for their social and economic successes.

The first step, and one which the second Trump administration is already working hard to do, is to deal with the issue of illegal aliens and their children. According to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), more than 588,000 illegal aliens current reside in Illinois with a further 240,000 or so people being the children of illegal aliens.

It is worth mentioning that we believe these figures to be underestimations, but we must stick to what data sources we have available. What we do know is that at least 6.5% of Illinois’ population consists of illegal aliens and that this figure is both morally and economically unacceptable. Illinois is part of the American homeland and people who do not have permission to be here must not be allowed to remain within our borders.

By removing all welfare benefits for illegal aliens, passing mandatory E-Verify laws, and enforcing extant federal laws such as the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 that fines employers for employing illegals, the state can rapidly entice this population to self-deport to other more illegal-friendly locales (or preferably, their home countries). These policies should also be combined with widespread and mandatory state and local law enforcement cooperation with ICE and other federal authorities to speed up the detention and deportation of illegal aliens.

The next step is to deal with the very large legal immigrant population in the state, many of whom will have committed fraud to enter the country, gain legal status, and in many cases citizenship. Currently some two million immigrants call the state home and compose roughly 16% of the state’s population. A further 922,000 residents are the US-born children of these immigrants, and they compose a further 7.2% of the state’s population. In total, more than 23% of Illinois population is composed of people with no significant American heritage. This is replacement.

As such, legal immigration must be reversed in much the same way that illegal immigration is now being reversed. Citizenships must be revoked, visas must be canceled, and Green Cards are going to need to be shredded. We already know that America’s immigration apparatus is hopelessly compromised, after all. Many hundreds of thousands of people have been admitted to this country legally and through these compromised systems. Furthermore, our immigration system is not about finding “hard workers” or the “best and the brightest” but has instead become a way to facilitate the steady replacement of the American people.

Each year roughly 70% to 80% of immigrants admitted to the United States are admitted on the basis of family ties, not for work or school. This means that a large portion of people who have acquired US citizenship did so via fraud either through deceit or by welfare dependence which we shall address below. The proof for this is best demonstrated by a 2008 incident wherein the U.S. State Department discovered, through DNA testing, that only 20% of individuals admitted into the U.S. as a family member of a “refugee” were related to that individual.

The US government has since mandated DNA testing for refugees who request their family members come to the US, but this DNA testing mandate has not been put in place for any other category of family reunification. Further proof is found in the data of the Center for Immigration Studies which shows that 53% of immigrants including 50.2% of naturalized immigrants are dependent upon the welfare state, in violation of American law and moral expectation.

Yet more proof of how unfit many of our new “fellow Americans” are can be found in the recently executed Operation Twin Shield in which immigration officers visited more than 1,000 legal migrants in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area and found that a staggering 44% had committed some form of fraud, crime, or otherwise posed a national security threat to the American people.

Operation Twin Shield Press Conference – Minneapolis–Saint Paul

Furthermore, the federal government has found that USCIS needs much better enforcement of H-1B verification, that as many as 20% of H-1B suspects investigated are involved in program violations or fraud, and it suspects that the number is even higher but, due to a lack of enforcement, we simply do not know. It is time for states to step up and begin investigating and enabling federal investigations into massive fraud in our legal immigration system.

Were Illinois to provide support and resources to the federal government to conduct a similar, much larger, operation in the state (including reviewing naturalizations), then it is entirely within the realm of possibility that of the roughly 1.42 legal immigrants in the state, some 752,000 have committed a similar fraud, crime, pose a national security threat, or are welfare dependent in violation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. A further ~ 488,000 children of immigrants can be added to this count, as they would need to depart the country with their now visa-deprived or denaturalized parents.

Were these policies to be implemented comprehensively, Illinois could see a decline in its foreign-born population from 16% today to roughly 6.2% post-remigration. A 61% decrease! The overall state population would decline from 12.72 million to 10.67 million and the White, Heritage American share of the population would increase from its current 58% to roughly 70%, a 12-point increase! This would give Americans a much greater political say in Illinois, go a long way to making the state more attractive to potential American returnees, and lighten many fiscal burdens. Most importantly, though, Illinois would become noticeably more American.

Building further on this success would require voluntary paid remigration programs, which White Papers proposes here. If the U.S. were to implement such a program to allow the 47-61% of immigrants and their descendants who say they want to leave to do, so the White share of Illinois’s population would jump to about 71.3% assuming minimal African American departure.

The demographic decline of Illinois is a policy choice that state and federal lawmakers have made for far too long. Americans can decide to reverse this decline. Remigration is the start of that process and the foundation from which the revival of our nation can begin.