We're Living Through The Camp Of The Saints

The Camp of the Saints was a French novel by Jean Raspail postulating the destruction of Western Civilization through mass migration from the third world. According to the Wikipedia article about the novel (footnotes removed):

    Raspail has said his inspiration came while at the French Riviera in 1972, as he was looking out at the Mediterranean, he had a "vision":

    A million poor wretches, armed only with their weakness and their numbers, overwhelmed by misery, encumbered with starving brown and black children, ready to disembark on our soil, the vanguard of the multitudes pressing hard against every part of the tired and overfed West. I literally saw them, saw the major problem they presented, a problem absolutely insoluble by our present moral standards. To let them in would destroy us. To reject them would destroy them.

Raspail's vision was indeed prophetic for the West, particularly Europe. But it wasn't just refugees and illegal migrants that have brought down the West--legal immigration has played its role as well.

    Paul Craig Roberts warns that "The Camp of the Saints Is Upon Us," writing:

    The 1964 Civil Rights Act was misused by the EEOC to create race, gender, and sexual preference privileges to the detriment of white heterosexual males who became second class citizens in law in matters of university admission, employment, and promotion. The 1965 Immigration Act changed American immigration from 90% European to 90% non-European, with the consequence that white ethnic Americans are becoming a minority in what was their own country. The Democrats’ DEI policy originated in the 1964 and 1965 Acts. The Democrats’ Open Borders Policy accelerated the replacement of white Americans that began with the 1965 Immigration Act, which was called a “reform.” Feminism finished off the prospects for the white family and sent the white birth rate down. Majority white countries are disappearing.

    Now President Trump kowtowing to corporate interests furthers the demise of white American men. Only Marjorie Taylor Greene stands against Trump. 

The fight between Greene and Trump to which Roberts refers has to do with the H1B visa program. Robert Sterling has some information about the H1B program and its impact on American workers based on his review of 5 years of data from the U.S. Department of Labor:

    To start with, this program is MASSIVELY popular with employers. The program has a statutory limit of 85,000 visas per year, but employers routinely receive approval for more than 800k applications per year (868k, or 10x the limit, in 2024).

    Contrary to what I expected, the average salary for an H-1B is relatively low [for the tech industry]—slightly under $120k this year.

 He discusses some specifics of some of the data, one of which were the companies that were the biggest users of H1B visas. While a few were household names, most of the top users of the program were companies like Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, Capgemini, HCL, Compunnel, Tech Mahindra, and Mphasis. As he observes:

These aren’t American companies that needed international talent to fill critical roles. They’re foreign companies that appear to have been founded to place overseas tech workers into US companies as contractors. 

Meaning that the problem of the H1B program is even worse than you would think just looking at the numbers of workers for large American tech firms because not only must you consider the number of H1B visa holders they directly employ, but those that they are using from these companies that hire out contract workers. Sterling goes on:

    What jobs are these companies seeking visas for?

    A metric f**k ton of IT and software roles. Over the past five years, 80k+ computer systems analysts (Cognizant is the big player here). 50k+ systems engineers/architects (Cognizant + Tata). Programmers (looks like Wipro and Mphasis concentrate here) and IT project managers (Infosys). 

These are all jobs that could have gone to the U.S. STEM workers and graduates, of which there is no shortage contrary to what H1B supporters trumpet about. Citing a report from the New York Fed, Investopedia noted earlier this year that "[u]nemployment rates for computer science and computer engineering majors are currently among the highest for all majors, at 6.1% and 7.5%, respectively." Sterling concludes:

You can see where I’m going with this. A casual perusal of the data shows that this isn’t a program for the top 0.1% of talent, as it’s been described. This is simply a way to recruit hundreds of thousands of relatively lower-wage IT and financial services professionals.  

    So is there a way out of this? Probably not. Vox Day observes: "If the USA, the UK, and the European states are going to remain viable in a world of resurgent nationalism increasingly dominated by China and Russia, they are going to have to restore their demographic balances to something much more akin to what they were in the 1950s, prior to Windrush, the Gastarbeiten, and the Merkel migration." And, he adds:

    Illegal immigrants are a problem. Legal immigration from incompatible nations, religions, and cultures is a much bigger one, particularly when it stems from nations that are larger than the invaded nation. That conservative “it’s not the immigration, it’s the illegality” was always evasive rhetoric that obscured the issue and allowed people to pretend they were addressing the problem when they were actually enabling it. Prioritizing being seen as being nice is neither an effective means of determining government policy nor is it a responsible one.

    Some nations will restore their demographics, sooner or later. Some won’t, and those that don’t will disappear into the trash heap of history in a cloud of chaos, crime, and economic collapse.

    It’s not a game. The Enlightenment progressive equalitarian philosophy is a complete and comprehensive failure. It’s time for everyone to stop pretending it provides any forms of moral imperative or even a functional basis for a civilized society. 

Unfortunately, many in the West won't even recognize the problem because they have been brainwashed with pathological altruism based on (i) a view of many Christians that twists the universality of the church and tries to apply it to secular nation states and (ii) the libertarian ideal that promotes chasing the lowest costs and highest profits no matter the consequences.