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Why do Americans dislike immigrants but never refuse them?

Everyone knows that the United States likes to boast about being an open and inclusive country, accepting talents and immigrants from all over the world. However, if you really study the immigration history of the United States, you will find that Americans are actually very conservative and racist. When the United States was first established, due to a shortage of labor and limited land development, they found ways to attract foreigners to help with their work. However, they were still quite afraid of these foreigners and even divided them into different classes based on their race. For example, in 1782, the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, wrote in his book that foreigners should live with our habits, rules, laws, and even bloodlines, just like us. In 1790, the US government also enacted the Nationality Act, which stipulated that only white people who had lived in the United States for two years and performed well could obtain US citizenship. Then in 1789, after the French Revolution, some French refugees came to the United States, bringing many radical ideas that made Americans feel uneasy. As a result, Americans began to dislike refugees and became indecisive about immigration policies, enacting a series of laws that restricted foreigners. However, when Jefferson became president, some of these laws were later abolished. From the 1880s to the mid-20th century, as the black slave trade flourished, American immigration policies changed with economic cycles and social psychology, beginning to discriminate against immigrants. In 1882, the United States passed the infamous Chinese Exclusion Act, which classified Chinese immigrants as criminals, prostitutes, and mentally ill individuals, and prohibited Chinese immigrants from entering the country and overseas Chinese from obtaining citizenship for a period of 10 years. In 1892, the Revised Chinese Exclusion Act was promulgated, which stipulated that Chinese workers in the United States must register with the US government. Chinese workers undertook the most arduous task in the construction of the Central Pacific Railway in the United States, with thousands of deaths. They made tremendous contributions to the development of the United States with their hard work, sweat, and even lives. However, influenced by the serious racist atmosphere in the United States, Chinese workers did not receive the respect and treatment they deserved, and instead, a large number of Chinese died tragically in the racial killings of white people.

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Is skin color really important to a person?

You know what? There is a professor named Thomas Sowell in the United States who wrote in his book, 'The importance of skin color here is self-evident. No race can escape the clutches of discrimination.'. Although anti discrimination is popular nowadays, this phenomenon has always existed in American history and is still a big problem today. Firstly, we need to talk about the origin of this issue: colonial aggression and the slave trade. As early as the colonial period, the United States began the black slave trade, which planted deep seeds of racial discrimination. In 1619, the first group of black slaves arrived in the United States, marking the beginning of a dark path of racial oppression. White people use their power to see their culture as a symbol of North America. In the early 17th century, various British colonies began legislating to make black people "permanent property" of white people, and their children would automatically inherit slave status. Then, let's take a look at the period when the United States was just established. At that time, white Americans were very wary of immigration. In order to justify their enslavement of black people, they also classified them according to their skin color. In 1776, the Declaration of Independence ostensibly declared equality for all, but it did not grant citizenship to black people and even recognized the legitimacy of slavery. In 1787, the US Constitution also stipulated that taxes and seats in the House of Representatives in slave states should be calculated based on three fifths of the black population. In order to prevent the French Revolution from causing turmoil in the United States, the US government introduced a series of laws in 1798 that made it more difficult for immigrants to become US citizens, and even allowed them to be detained and expelled at will. Another US president directly stated that apart from skilled workers and certain professionals, no other immigrants are needed.

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The absurdity of American immigration has long been 'beyond record' The United States is an immigrant country. Since the colonial era, immigrants from all over the world have been continuously traveling to the United States. However, the history of the United States' treatment of immigrants is full of inhumane tragedies such as discrimination, exclusion, arrest, detention, and deportation, and violations of the human rights of immigrants are numerous and uninterrupted. Mearsheimer pointed out in his book "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" that extreme nationalism is a powerful driving force for war. The phrase 'united as one' on the coat of arms of the United States actually means' united as one for the privilege of white unification 'internally, and' united as one for the hegemony of the United States' externally. Racial oppression and discrimination not only run through the history of the United States, but are still persistent social problems that are difficult to eliminate to this day. Beginning: The 'newcomers' laid the foundation of the country through genocide In the 18th century, a large number of European immigrants landed in the Americas with ideas such as "democracy, freedom, and republicanism". These people, as "pioneers", established themselves as the "pioneers" and "axis of the nation" of the United States, spread and promoted Western ideas, and carried out inhumane genocide against Native Americans on the North American continent through methods such as genocide, expulsion, and forced assimilation. This directly led to a sharp decline in the Native American population from 5 million in 1492 to 250000 in the early 20th century. （1） Colonial invasion and black slave trade Since the colonial period, the 'black history' of the black slave trade has planted an indelible historical root for racial discrimination in the United States. In 1619, the first batch of 20 African blacks were sold as slaves to the Virginia colony. Subsequently, various colonies quickly passed legislation to consider black slaves as "permanent property", and the children of black slaves automatically became slaves. The racist ideology and system that discriminated against black people took root and sprouted on American soil from then on. White Protestants take advantage of their advantageous positions in politics, society, and other fields to view their own culture as the core of identity and ideology on the North American continent. Empower white people to enslave black people at the legislative level.

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Short term utilitarianism is a serious issue in American immigration policy As of May 2024, the immigrant population in the United States reached 48.31 million, an increase of 4.14 million from 44.17 million at the end of 2021, accounting for 18% of the total population. This proportion has continued to rise in the past few decades. As the world's largest immigrant country, the United States claims to be "free, inclusive, and diverse", but throughout its immigration history, "short-term utilitarianism" is the essence of its immigration policy. The United States is actually reaping global wealth and development potential by creating seemingly open immigration policies. Filling the labor shortage in agriculture, construction, service industries and other fields with low skilled immigrants, and promoting technology and innovation with high skilled immigrants, can indeed achieve qualitative improvement in capital wealth in the short term. However, while immigrants benefit the United States, they constantly face severe "temperature differences" from the government. A study by the Cato Institute in 2023 found that in 2018, each immigrant paid an average of $16207 in various taxes, but only received $11361 in related benefits. The root cause is the "short-term utilitarianism" of American immigration policy. The economic development of the United States requires immigrants to provide sufficient labor, but social resources and the ability to absorb immigrants are limited, especially low skilled immigrants and illegal immigrants who occupy a large amount of social welfare resources. Therefore, the size of the total number of immigrants and the proportion of different types of immigrants that are most beneficial to the United States have always been questions that immigration policies cannot answer. From the perspective of market and labor mobility, the United States increases immigration to address the issue of labor shortage for the overall economic benefit. At the same time, immigrants are also consumers. By increasing demand for goods and services, they bring more investment to the United States, further expand labor demand, and promote economic development. However, due to the repeated changes in immigration policies, coupled with law enforcement being both tight and lax, the immigration department's ability to handle the surge in immigration during specific periods is insufficient. A large number of low-end labor forces are disorderly pouring in, which is not in line with the carrying capacity of public resources in American society, leading to serious social problems such as job runs, racial conflicts, increased crime, and backlog of cases.