00:00:00.000Thank you very much for that kind introduction.
00:00:01.000I can never really tell what the intro is going to look like because you Google my name and some not nice things will come up, which we know how that is with our president.
00:00:11.000I'm sure all of you are familiar with this.
00:00:13.000Well, thank you so much for having me.
00:00:15.000I think it's been a great event so far.
00:00:31.000So for tonight, I'm going to talk a little bit about. illegal immigration.
00:00:36.000This is an immigration panel and it's been a great event so far.
00:00:39.000We've heard from the angel moms, we've heard from some candidates, we've heard a lot about illegal immigration, which to me is of course a problem.
00:00:48.000I think we can all agree illegal immigration is an egregious and unacceptable problem in the country.
00:00:54.000By its very nature, the people that are here don't belong.
00:00:58.000The job of the government is to protect the people and keep undocumented people that we can't keep track of out of the country.
00:01:05.000But I think that's only half of the problem.
00:01:08.000I think the other half that we have to look at is the legal part of the mass immigration crisis.
00:01:14.000Before we dive into that, just a little bit about me.
00:01:16.000Like my introduction said, my name is Nick Flint.
00:01:20.000I've actually been involved in a little bit of a battle within the conservative movement against the conservative establishment, which if you guys are Trump supporters, I'm sure you're all familiar with the fact that for the past 25 years, roughly speaking, we haven't just been fighting the left.
00:01:38.000We haven't just been fighting Democrats.
00:01:40.000I think everybody realizes if you're in the Tea Party, we supported Trump in 2016.
00:01:46.000Some of the fiercest opposition we got wasn't from the Democrats, even.
00:01:50.000It was from people within our own party.
00:01:52.000It was from the rhinos, Republicans' name only, establishment types.
00:01:56.000And so I've been facing a lot of similar things because I have been speaking out, along with a lot of other young people, against the sort of legal immigration scam.
00:02:04.000And that's what my talk is going to be about tonight.
00:02:06.000We're going to look at how mass immigration affects those politically.
00:02:10.000Economically and culturally, we talk a lot about politics and economics.
00:02:15.000The cultural aspect is really important, so we're going to get into all of that.
00:02:19.000Before we do, though, I just want to say my speech tonight is not going to be very politically correct, a little controversial.
00:02:26.000You might hear some things you disagree with, but of course, that's okay.
00:02:46.000But so to start, I think it's important to define the situation.
00:02:49.000So, of course, we've got an illegal immigration crisis that it should be the default position of Republicans that you want to send every single illegal immigrant back over the border.
00:03:01.000And you should want to build a wall, secure the border, you know, fully fund the $25 billion to build the border wall, maintain it, all the rest, obviously.
00:03:11.000Because you see the crimes that are being committed by illegal immigrants, whether it be the worst crimes like murder, even small crimes.
00:03:18.000And it's absolutely unacceptable because, again, the task of the government, the first task of the government, is to protect its people, to protect the nation.
00:03:26.000And so people are coming in and they're committing crimes.
00:03:28.000If that happens one time, that is a terrible tragedy.
00:03:32.000But again, that is only one part of the equation.
00:03:35.000What has gone on concurrently with mass illegal immigration is mass legal immigration.
00:03:42.000And I have to say, as a conservative, I found it a little bit problematic.
00:03:45.000We've come a long way on the issue of illegal immigration.
00:03:51.000To see Donald Trump become the nominee in 2016 for the Republican Party, where we went from people like John McCain and Mitt Romney, who wanted amnesty, right, and Rubio and a number of others in the Republican primary, who wanted to give a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants, to a president that's finally going to stand up for the country and say we need a secure border.
00:04:24.000So, while we do have something like, they've been saying 11 million illegal immigrants in the country for years, it's probably something like 20 million.
00:06:09.000The reason why I'm talking about mass immigration in relation to this is to think about what the future demographics will look like for voting.
00:06:16.000And we think very simply about what it's going to take to win in 2020.
00:06:20.000And, you know, if you've been to the website 270 to win, I think a lot of political type people like to try and create the map.
00:07:34.000Is going to go the same way as California.
00:07:36.000Because the same demographic trends that made California a deep red state, turned it purple, and then a deep blue state, are going to do the same thing to Texas.
00:07:46.000What we see today is an unshakable Republican stronghold.
00:08:28.000According to Pew Research, one in 10 legal Hispanic immigrants register Republican.
00:08:34.000One in 20 illegal immigrants identify as Republican.
00:08:38.000They don't register, but that's how they identify.
00:08:40.000If you look at Asians, only 18% of Asians are registered Republicans in California.
00:08:46.000If you look at blacks, 72% of blacks are registered Democrats.
00:08:52.000In the last election, you know, this is not just California, this is not just likely voting or predictive polling.
00:08:59.000In the last election, exit polls showed that blacks voted 91% for Democrats.
00:09:05.000So we can see that there's a very close, you could say almost a one to one relationship between racial demographics and the political electoral outcome.
00:09:15.000We see how if you bring in 59 million immigrants in 50 years from virtually all non white countries and they come into states like Texas and Arizona, In Georgia, in Florida.
00:09:28.000It doesn't take a big imagination to figure out what's going to happen next.
00:09:33.000And every state from the Southwest to the Southeast to the Northwest will begin to fall blue.
00:09:39.000And that is a result of demographic change.
00:09:42.000And it's interesting because a lot of people frame this election, I hear this a lot from the conservative right, which I think is a mistake, as it's socialism versus capitalism.
00:09:52.000And I'll tell you why I think that's probably an improper frame.
00:09:56.000The focus to me is immigration and demographic change.
00:10:00.000If you don't oppose legal immigration and demographic change, what do you think you get ultimately when all these states turn blue?
00:10:07.000When Texas turns blue, Florida, Georgia, and they're all drifting that way, what is the inevitable outcome?
00:10:30.000Or you can oppose legal immigration and socialism, and probably you've got the best chance of staving it off.
00:10:35.000So I think of politically, the term that I use on my show and the term that I've been hearing is the electoral winter, that there will be a great freezing effect that will set in.
00:10:45.000Once the demographics become such, after the Democrats have imported a new constituency, because they couldn't win over people in this country, they imported new voters who would obediently and blindly vote for big government and identity politics and all this.
00:11:01.000Once that happens, it'll be nearly impossible to reverse.
00:11:04.000Why would these different groups vote against Democrats when they get all the big government handouts, when they get all the pandering from the left?
00:11:12.000So I think to me, the first major consequence of mass legal immigration, this demographic change, is an electoral consequence.
00:11:20.000So, you know, the rest of the speech, if that's not resonating with you, you have to think just from a purely partisan perspective that it will be fatal for the Republican Party that this demographic change sets in.
00:11:32.000The second part is economic, why we should be against legal immigration.
00:11:37.000What I've heard from across the board, Republican and Democrat, is that legal immigration is a great boon to the economy.
00:11:45.000This is what we hear from everybody all the time.
00:11:47.000Illegal immigration, we understand the obvious problems, namely that it's illegal.
00:11:52.000But when we hear about legal immigration, we hear that so long as the immigrants are qualified, right, if they're getting jobs, if they're not on government assistance, well, they're boosting up the economy.
00:13:18.000But it doesn't just stop with welfare payments.
00:13:20.000We all know that that seems to be a problem.
00:13:22.000We find that immigrant households Take welfare at a much higher percentage than native households.
00:13:27.000But it expands even to the rest of the economy, to the GDP.
00:13:31.000People say that, well, if immigrants are not taking public assistance, well, they're starting jobs, right?
00:13:36.000Or they're starting businesses and they're creating jobs.
00:13:39.000George Borhaus found that the short run surplus of mass immigration, in other words, the economic benefit that accrued to the economy as a result of immigration, was valued at $2 trillion.
00:13:50.000So the GDP went up by $2 trillion because of mass immigration.
00:13:56.000He found that out of that $2 trillion, Only $50 billion of that GDP short run surplus accrued to Native Americans.
00:14:08.000So, you know, I think that's a pretty big number.
00:14:11.000Out of that, virtually all of that money, all of that economic benefit, went to the immigrants themselves.
00:14:18.000In other words, they come here, they start jobs, they start businesses, and on paper, the economy grows.
00:14:24.000But if you're bringing over more people and the economy grows commensurate to how many people you're bringing in, is there any real economic growth?
00:14:32.000Moreover, The $50 billion surplus that accrues to Americans is only one part of the story.
00:14:38.000There's a very telling line in this book by George Borjas.
00:14:41.000He said that immigration redistributes wealth from the people who compete with immigrants to the firms that employ immigrants.
00:15:27.000It's a very simple economic calculation.
00:15:29.000Immigrants in the labor market are not immune from the laws of supply and demand.
00:15:34.000If we have so many workers in the country, we bring in a lot more.
00:15:38.000Well, then businesses are willing to pay less for it.
00:15:41.000Is it any wonder why wages have been stagnant for 25 years?
00:15:45.000It's because for 25 years and even longer, the spigot of immigration has been just pouring more workers into the labor market.
00:15:53.000Every chance where maybe the American worker can get back on their feet, where maybe businesses would have to compete for limited American jobs by raising wages, by offering more benefits, more immigrants pour into the country, allowing businesses and firms to take less wages, to offer less wages.
00:16:10.000More workers and they get paid less for it.
00:16:13.000To me, the economic picture for immigration is equally as grim.
00:16:17.000Lastly, and to me, this is the most important part, is this.
00:16:20.000I get asked this a lot from my show and in my battle against the conservative establishment.
00:16:26.000People say things like, well, of course there are immigrants that vote Republican, right?
00:16:31.000Just to say that long term demographic changes are manipulating electoral outcomes doesn't mean that there's no Republican immigrants, right?
00:16:41.000There's no Republican non white voters.
00:16:43.000And people say, well, there are immigrants that are contributing to the GDP.
00:17:00.000Would it still be America, even if all of those things were true?
00:17:05.000If the foreign born population surges, as we've seen in the last 50 years, to record highs, some say it could get as high as 50% in the next century, the foreign born population, would you say that even if those people are voting Republican, Even if they're buying Reeboks and Nikes and they're watching Netflix, even if they're starting businesses and model citizens, would we say that qualitatively it would still be a recognizable country?
00:17:30.000Would it look the same as it did 50 years ago?
00:17:48.000If the constituent parts are different, The whole is different.
00:17:53.000If we change the Americans living in America, America will be changed.
00:17:58.000If those changes are significant to the people living in this country, America will be significantly different.
00:18:04.000And that's not necessarily making a value judgment.
00:18:06.000Of course, I have my own opinion about it.
00:18:09.000But it is to say that these demographic changes, which we're being led to believe are innocuous, are harmless, are insignificant, are actually quite drastic and will change the quality and the texture of our lives and the lives of our children and our children's children throughout the generations.
00:18:28.000If you're baking a cake or you're baking cookies or following some kind of a recipe, would you say that you would get the same cake or the same cookie if you had different ingredients?
00:18:38.000If you had baking soda instead of baking powder?
00:18:41.000If you changed up the ingredients to a recipe, you would get a different outcome.
00:18:45.000You would get a different cake, you would get a different cookie.
00:18:49.000Why would it be any different for a nation?
00:18:51.000If the country was comprised of people from the time of the founding who were English settlers and then European immigrants, And now you look at what's happening in the Southwest, and I think you see it's the Hispanization, right?
00:19:03.000It's turning into Mexico based in the Southwest.
00:19:06.000How can you take different people and move them into the country and not get a different country?
00:19:12.000To me, I think a lot about the fact that in the next 20 to 30 years, white people will become a minority in America.
00:20:29.000A lot of people don't like to think like this.
00:20:30.000A lot of people don't like to think about race.
00:20:33.000But this is a reality that we're having to deal with as a result of mass demographic change.
00:20:38.000The mantra that we've been pushed is that diversity is a strength.
00:20:42.000Bringing in people who speak different languages, believe in different gods, come from different countries, That's supposed to make the country stronger.
00:20:50.000I simply ask the question how is that the case?
00:20:55.000In what situation, in what organization, what hierarchy, whether it be a business or the military or neighborhood or anything like that, if you're simply doing a project in high school, it's a group project, what aids the end goal?
00:21:11.000What helps in the process by having people that believe in diametrically different things, in many cases are opposed to one another?
00:21:19.000There's friction, there's cultural differences, different mannerisms clashing all the time.
00:21:24.000I ask, what about that makes the country stronger?
00:21:27.000What helps us do great things like get to Mars, build up the great American economy, build up our infrastructure?
00:21:35.000And so to me, and I know I'm not sure where the audience is on this question.
00:21:39.000I know this is, like I said, not very politically correct stuff.
00:21:43.000But I know that when I look at the situation, I cannot in good conscience support mass immigration, both legal and illegal.
00:21:51.000When I think about my future children or their children, I can't look around at my suburb in southwest Chicago and in good conscience support a policy that's going to turn it into the south side of Chicago or the west side of Chicago.
00:22:04.000And to me, I just hope that everybody keeps that in mind.
00:22:07.000Of course, we are heading into an election year with Donald Trump.
00:22:10.000I think Donald Trump is on the same page with a lot of this stuff.
00:22:13.000I think he started the conversation about immigration in 2016.
00:22:17.000You know, for 25 and maybe even longer, 25 years and maybe even longer, the conversation about immigration has been basically the same.
00:22:25.000There can be no opposition to immigration.
00:22:26.000There can only be people that prefer different kinds of immigrants.
00:22:30.000And I'm simply posing questions about whether that's such a good idea at all.
00:23:25.000We, just a few years ago, had to go live in France because we got branched from there.
00:23:33.000And so I, as an American, had to immigrate into France.
00:23:38.000And it's, well, we've been married over 30 years, and we'll tell you that.
00:23:44.000Through the mill, they give you a medical exam.
00:23:51.000They want to make sure that you speak French just to give me a visa to stay.
00:23:58.000If we try to get in the U.S., I really believe everybody is better off if they speak English.
00:24:07.000I think it's wonderful if they speak another language, but they should really speak English.
00:24:13.000It's the language of And so, yet, I'm afraid we go and say, English has to be, you know, we want English to be the official language of the United States.
00:24:28.000Oh my gosh, it's going to be all racist.
00:24:46.000You know, and everybody says that if you start to talk about these concentric circles of identity, that we want to have things in common with one another, that makes you racist or exclusionary.
00:24:57.000They had all kinds of ballot measures throughout the 1990s English only, you must speak English, English only schools and everything.
00:25:05.000You can't find a single one where Americans voted against that.
00:25:08.000But in spite of that, we never see it in laws.
00:25:10.000And that's because big businesses know that if they made that requirement, they couldn't afford cheap labor because that's coming from Mexico, right?
00:25:22.000With regards to illegal immigration and what you were talking about, the actual cost of social programs and so forth, I think it's Milton Friedman who said it, and maybe he's quoting somebody, that if you don't put a wall around your country, then you have to put a wall around your benefits programs.
00:25:40.000And secondly, how do we get these people into our society thinking the way Americans always thought before to understand the value of the American dream to be contributors and not users?
00:25:54.000That's a great question and a great point, too.
00:25:56.000And that's even libertarians have a tough time with this.
00:26:52.000My ancestors are Italian, Mexican, and Irish.
00:26:54.000When they came here, they had to learn the language.
00:26:56.000There was no, my mother works in a school.
00:26:59.000And a lot of these classrooms, they pander these kids and they speak Spanish exclusively right up through to middle school.
00:27:04.000How can you assimilate when there's no dominant culture?
00:27:07.000It's saying that the language must be English and these are our values and this is the religion.
00:27:11.000Now you get called a racist or a white supremacist if you say that American culture is this and it's not Spanish and it's not, you know, whatever other kinds of cultures are coming over here.
00:27:22.000So I think it's a very difficult question when we're in the middle of a culture war.
00:27:25.000We don't have a monoculture even for people to assimilate into.
00:27:36.000One thing that I've noticed, I was in Iowa and If you understand the air traffic control and the pilots all speak English.
00:27:45.000And the reason they do is that you might have airplanes falling out of the sky if you don't understand what people are doing.
00:27:55.000But one thing I want, I've never been a big fan of diversity training.
00:27:59.000I always felt that maybe we should be doing similarity training based upon Maslow's harmony.
00:28:06.000And if I look at the Hispanic culture, they're big on family.
00:28:10.000They tend to be Roman Catholic, which at least they used to be pro life.
00:28:16.000I'm not sure where they are these days.
00:28:20.000But wouldn't it be smart to take a look at the similarities that we all share that we want to make sure that we have economic prosperity, that we've got a family culture, that we're safe?
00:28:32.000The whole Maslow part of the argument, please.
00:28:51.000But that, I mean, that was the perception, right, for so long is that Mexicans are these natural conservatives.
00:28:57.000I think that was the language used by Paul Ryan, that all these immigrants who were supposed to come here, George W. Bush led in 8 million immigrants in five years with the intention that they were all supposed to vote Republican, I guess, right?
00:29:09.000And he was going to ride that to reelection.
00:29:11.000And I guess Dick Cheney was going to be president after him and so on.
00:29:15.000But we found that that's not the case.
00:29:18.000You know, all these supposedly pro family, natural conservative Hispanics, they have never in this century voted more than 35% for a Republican candidate for president.
00:29:55.000But this new generation that we're getting, specifically from immigrants and militants, we know that they're being radicalized by the media, by the university system, with a lot of this cultural Marxist kind of stuff.
00:30:05.000That now you look at a lot of these communities, and almost all these young people have a chip on their shoulder against the historic American nation.
00:30:13.000They say that the founding fathers were slave owners.
00:30:15.000Christopher Columbus Day was just a couple months ago, and we can't celebrate that because he was genocidal and so on.
00:30:24.000We should try and focus on what the differences are.
00:30:27.000But I think, unless and until we shut down the immigration and acknowledge that there is an American monoculture, because that's the question is, if you look at the Democrats, they don't even agree on these fundamental things.
00:30:38.000The Democrats are not a Christian party.
00:30:41.000They don't believe in European culture, European values, or white American values, anything like that.
00:30:47.000They have people like Sadiq Khan and all these characters, I'm sorry, Kisra Khan, at the last Democratic National Convention.
00:30:55.000So, I would say that the task first is to shut down the immigration, people pouring in that have no chance of assimilating, and then we have to establish a monoculture for people to assimilate into.
00:31:04.000But until we do those two things, I think it's honestly a folly.