Henry Kissinger Admits Unchecked Immigration, Multiculturalism 'a Mistake'

[Michie]

100-year-old senior diplomat Henry Kissinger has said the quiet part out loud.

Hamas’ attack against Israel being celebrated on the streets of Berlin indicates that Germany has let too many foreigners into the country, according to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
“It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts, because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that,” the 100-year-old ex-top American diplomat said in an interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner for Germany’s Welt TV. Axel Springer is POLITICO’s parent company.
German-born Kissinger — who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, and went on to become the architect of American foreign policy during the Vietnam War — said that it was “painful,” in response to a question about seeing Arabs in Berlin celebrating last weekend’s assault on Israel.

This statement, coming from someone whose (Jewish) family escaped from Nazi Germany in 1938, is especially prescient today. Europe, especially now following the attacks on Israel by Hamas, is reaping the results of unchecked immigration without assimilation. Dr. Kissinger also warns that the conflict could spread to engulf more of the Middle East:

“The Middle East conflict has the danger of escalating and bringing in other Arab countries under the pressure of their public opinion,” Kissinger warned, while pointing to the lessons learned from the 1973 Yom Kippur War, during which an Arab coalition led by Egypt and Syria attacked Israel.
The real goal of Hamas and its supporters “can only be to mobilize the Arab world against Israel and to get off the track of peaceful negotiations,” Kissinger said.
It is also “possible” that Israel could take action against Iran, if it considers Tehran to have had a hand in perpetrating the attack, the former top diplomat added.

France and the United Kingdom are among those nations seeing the results of their immigration policies come to the fore this week, as pro-Hamas protests, bordering on riots, have taken place in both countries. France is pushing back. The UK's response has been tepid, but they appear to be listening to the call of reality. We can hope, but if Europe does not do a turnabout, especially in the demographics area, then the various European cultures are in danger of extinction through apathy by the end of the century.

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Henry Kissinger Admits Unchecked Immigration, Multiculturalism 'a Mistake'

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[Wolseley]

I think all the various puzzle pieces around the world are slowly drifting into place, and will soon interlock into the End of Days.

 

[The Barbarian]

If so, Kissinger is like a host of other immigrants who have said "I'm in now; let's shut the door and lock it."

 

[Wolseley]

If so, Kissinger is like a host of other immigrants who have said "I'm in now; let's shut the door and lock it."

Ever wonder why lifeboats have a stated capacity stenciled on the side of the gunwale?

 

[The Barbarian]

Ever wonder why lifeboats have a stated capacity stenciled on the side of the gunwale?

That's the point. Right now, America isn't having enough kids to maintain our population. Without immigration, we'd be in the same mess China is in.

 

[Wolseley]

That's the point. Right now, America isn't having enough kids to maintain our population. Without immigration, we'd be in the same mess China is in.

Ah, I see. So in other words, when old Paul Erlich wrote "The Population Bomb" back in the 1960s warning we would all perish from overpopulation, he was full of baloney, just like His Numerous Detractors said in the first place. Gotcha. Be sure to tell all your liberal friends.

However, given the fact that we have US veterans living on the streets, elderly Americans who are bring evicted into the cold so their residences can filled with illegal aliens, and normal middke-class folks who can't afford groceries, I fail to see how we can absorb any more foreign freeloaders.

 

[The Barbarian]

Ah, I see. So in other words, when old Paul Erlich wrote "The Population Bomb" back in the 1960s warning we would all perish from overpopulation, he was full of baloney

He just was looking at the biology, not the economics. In fact, experience has shown that rising prosperity produces lower fertility and thereby controls population. Ehrlich had no idea.

Gotcha.

Ehrlich must have really gotten under your skin for you to hold a grudge that long. Hope this helps.

However, given the fact that we have US veterans living on the streets, elderly Americans who are bring evicted into the cold so their residences can filled with illegal aliens, and normal middke-class folks who can't afford groceries, I fail to see how we can absorb any more foreign freeloaders.

As you have learned here, illegal immigrants come here and work. And that benefits everyone. They put in SS taxes, but never get them. They pay medicaid taxes, but aren't eligible for medicaid.

In fact, our population would be falling, if it weren't for immigration. We need those people. Ironically, you and Ehrlich shared the same misconceptions about human population dynamics.

A 2012 United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service study used a simulation analysis to estimate the impact a 5.8-million-person reduction in the number of unauthorized workers—agricultural and nonagricultural. This was compared to a base forecast which simulated how the economy would evolve under current laws and policies.

The unauthorized workforce was assumed to decrease by 2.1 million over the first 5 years. In Year 5, the unauthorized workforce in the U.S. economy as a whole would be 4.0 million people smaller than in the base forecast. Growth in the unauthorized workforce was assumed to resume thereafter but at a slower pace than in the base forecast. By Year 15, the projected size of the unauthorized workforce was 8.5 million, compared with 14.3 million in the base forecast, a difference of 5.8 million, or 40%.

Here is a summary of the study’s findings.

The long-run results from the decreased unauthorized labor supply showed a reduction in the labor supply to agriculture with effects on agricultural output and exports. Fruit, tree nuts, vegetables, and nursery production were among the most affected sectors with long-run relative declines of 2.0% to 5.4% in output and 2.5% to 9.3% in exports. These effects were smaller in other, less labor-intensive, parts of agriculture—a 1.6% to 4.9% decrease in output and a 0.3% to 7.4% decrease in exports.

The number of unauthorized workers employed as farmworkers fell by between 34.1% and 38.8 %, relative to the base forecast for Year 15. The number of farmworkers who were either U.S.-born or foreign-born, permanent residents increased by about 2.4% to 4.0% in the long run, compared with the base forecast, and their wage rate increased by 3.3% to 7.5%. However, the increased farm employment of U.S.-born and other permanent resident workers was not sufficient to offset the decrease in unauthorized farmworkers. As a result, the total number of farmworkers decreased by 3.4% to 5.5%.

Model results suggested that wages would rise for U.S.-born and other permanent resident workers, relative to the base forecast, in some lower paying occupations where unauthorized workers are common, decrease slightly in many higher paying occupations, and decrease on average. Several factors accounted for the slight decrease in earnings. First, the decrease in the supply of unauthorized labor lead to a long-run relative decrease in production, not just in agriculture but in all sectors of the economy. This, in turn, reduced incomes to many complementary factors of production, including U.S.-born and foreign-born, permanent resident workers in higher paying occupations. Second, with the departure of so many unauthorized workers, the occupational distribution of U.S.-born and other permanent resident workers necessarily shifted in the direction of more hired farm work and other lower paying occupations, such as food service, child care, and housekeeping, and away from higher paying occupations which is a much larger category. The effect of this compositional change was to reduce the average real wage for U.S.-born and foreign-born, permanent resident workers in all sectors of the economy, even as real wages in many lower paying occupations rose.

In the long term, overall gross national product accruing to U.S.-born and foreign-born, permanent residents would fall by about 1%, compared with the base forecast. This result indicated that the negative economic effects generated by the departure of a significant portion of the labor force outweighed the positive effects on the wages of U.S.-born workers and other permanent residents employed in lower paying occupations.

What if all illegal immigrants were deported?

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