If you do one thing this week...
Make sure you read, watch, or listen to this 10-minute discussion between Glenn Loury and John McWhorter.
Glenn Loury (economics professor, author, and political commentator) and John McWhorter (linguistics professor and columnist at The New York Times) are key influencers with large, important platforms. They also have voices that are more likely to amplify the message that high immigration levels have a long history of harming Black Americans - a truth we are committed to acknowledging.
The YouTube video of the conversation only has 139 comments, so please, weigh in there with support for the discussion and any opinions you want to add.
If I had to pull out one point that Loury makes, it would be this gem:
And therefore what's going on on the border is something that we should all be upset about, and we should be intervening. If it's a wall, it's a wall. If it's enhanced border security forces, that's what it is. If it's sending people back to Mexico, if it's deporting, if it's changing the asylum process, that's what we should do. We need to get control of this issue. Now, I'm asking you: What's racist about that? And the reason I ask is because I could see African Americans, who are disproportionately exposed to perhaps the adverse consequences of uncontrolled immigration coming in, whether it's through the labor market or through competition for public resources or whatever it is, saying, 'Well, wait a minute. It's my country, too...'"
And if I had to highlight one concerning line from McWhorter, it would be this one:
But who are the ones who would be turned away who get in otherwise? Or are you saying it's just that there are too many (which seems to no longer actually be the case)?
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Two bonus reads:
Cindi Castilla of The Western Journal wrote "It Will Only Take a Few Senate Democrats to Expose the Biden Administration as a Feeble Sham," an op-ed highlighting the continuing illegal crossings on the southern border while DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas facilitates rolling back policies that had secured it before he arrived.
Connie L. Clark of The Daily News wrote "A better way to hit Russian oligarchs where it hurts," where she discusses the absurd and fraud-ridden EB-5 visa program which allows wealthy foreign nationals from security-risk countries like Russia and China to essentially purchase citizenship in the United States.
Thanks for your time on these items today, and your activism every day!
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