I get all that. "Funny names" have nothing to do with it, although that is nice code speech for calling me a racist without using the word. Well done.
I just think there is something valuable about the United States, and it is being destroyed, not intentionally, but destroyed nevertheless. When it's gone and San Francisco and New York work like Tegucigalpa and think like Karachi, it will be missed. At least I will miss it.
And, from the perspective of the net "donor" countries, the removal of those members of society possessed of an above-average of initiative and/or intelligence via migration to the US & Europe is screwing those societies. If the Robert Fultons, the Thomas Edisons, the George Washington Carvers had been scooped out and moved to Australia, the development of the United States might have been stunted forever. We could be an endless series of subsistence farmers, still eking out at living from the soil. Encouraging the departure of the initiative- and talent-laden from African and Latin American countries promises to do the same for them.
America (and Europe, where I am as I type) can accept a certain number of immigrants and remain America and Europe. At a certain rate of immigration, they adopt the culture of the host country, and maybe even add a little of their own to the host culture.
Accept too many too fast and the immigrants do not adopt and assimilate. They remain apart, deracinated and alienated, as the French and Belgians discovered to their chagrin last winter. We can have both immigration and keep the United States, but only if we avoid accepting so many immigrants that we crush the American culture under their weight. I’d rather err on the side of too few than too many. Right now we are not effectively controlling immigration at all (except via having a crap economy). That bodes ill for the future.
