The World Population Explosion and the Cost of Uncontrolled Immigration Dwight D. Murphey Wichita State University The Immigration InvasionWayne Lutton and John Tanton Petoskey, Michigan: The Social Contract Press, 1994

The World Population Explosion and the Cost of Uncontrolled Immigration

The World Population Explosion and the Cost of Uncontrolled Immigration Dwight D. Murphey Wichita State University The Immigration InvasionWayne Lutton and John Tanton Petoskey, Michigan: The Social Contract Press, 1994 It would hardly seem too much to say that data released in The Immigration Invasion indicate that thecultural and even the political existence of the United States as history has known it is now seriously injeopardy. If there were the mere fact that in the United States the attacks on mainstream American culture havebecome both increasingly common and embittered, that in itself would not be especially remarkable;”bourgeois culture,” after all, has been under attack in the United States since at least 1820. The”alienation of the intellectual” against precisely that culture has been one of the major factors inAmerican history. But what is remarkable is that in recent years the mainstream of the society hasbeen willing, through an unprecedented forfeiture, to allow a vast demographic change to occur thatarms the alienation with ever-increasing “muscle.” If that change continues, the apostles of division(consisting of many of those marching under the banner of “diversity”) are likely to become ever morestrident – and will be backed up, far more than they are even today, by political lobbies representingopposing ethnic blocs. The change will be a demographic one resulting from accelerating immigration,both legal and illegal, mostly of non-European origin, and the higher birth rate among the immigrants. Atsome time, a “tipping point” will be reached, beyond which the demographic balance will have swung sofar that the “mainstream” will no longer be in a position to know its own mind or assert its own will.This will occur long before the present mainstream loses its majority status. It isn’t certain just whenthe political- ideological tipping point will be reached, but a serious argument can be made that theUnited States has gone beyond that point already. The usual reaction by white middle class Americans to such crises as they affect their individual liveshas been simply to take advantage of the mobility that a free society makes possible: they haveengaged in all sorts of “white flight,” first from the central cities to the suburbs and then out intoexurbia. They now even flee from an entire state such as California, doing so as a new type of affluentrefugee to Oregon and Colorado and even Kansas. This flight is understandable on the part of eachindividual family, but it has lessened the desire to “stand and fight” politically and is one of the factorsthat accounts for the peculiar political impotence of the American middle class during the years whenangry “minorities” have stood bestride the American landscape. There are many signs, however, that the average American is awakening to the saignificance of theimmigration issue. Most conspicuous, of course, is the fact that for several years polls have shown anincreasing opposition to the influx. Another sign is the June 1994 publication – in a first printing of200,000 copies! – of The Immigration Invasion by Wayne Lutton and John Tanton, as well as theinterest taken in other books on the subject, such as Will America Drown? Immigration and theThird World Population Explosion (Humphrey Dalton, Editor, Scott-Townsend Publishers, 1994).The Foreword to The Immigration Invasion is written by former Senator Eugene McCarthy, and thisby itself attests to the breadth of the emerging consensus. Those who are identified as “culturalconservatives” are not alone in voicing concern. It is true that the Lutton-Tanton book is one among many that have sought to catch the public’s eye.For reasons that will become apparent, this author has been especially impressed by LawrenceAuster’s The Path to National Suicide (American Immigration Control Foundation 1990). But Luttonand Tanton have assembled, in a brief and easily readable book, so compelling a compilation of factsabout the recent tidal wave of immigration that this article will mostly be a review of that book, addingsuch additional facts and observations as may be relevant. Wayne Lutton has his doctorate in historyfrom Southern Illinois University and is a prolific author on the immigration issue. John H. Tanton, aphysician, who long been concerned with over-population, and was the national president of ZeroPopulation Growth between 1975-77. The discussion here will proceed in somewhat a different order than their own. They start with theconsequences flowing from the immigration in such areas as health and welfare costs, labor marketimpact, the politics of race, crime, and quality of life, probably because they want to make clear quiteearly why the subject is of vital interest to their readers. It is only then that they recount the facts aboutthe extent of the immigration itself. In the present article, it will be important to explore the extent ofthe immigration first, doing so as part of placing the phenomenon in a worldwide perspective. The ThirdWorld influx offers to swamp out not just the United States but Europe as well. The challenge to theUnited States must be seen in the context of a massively swelling world population and of demographicshifts that place the continued existence of both European and American civilization, in anything likethe form they have heretofore taken, in jeopardy. Our change in the order of discussion will also reflect our sense that the “tangible consequences” of theimmigration, such as are set out so fully in the Lutton and Tanton book, even though highly significant,are not as important as the intangible consequences. Even if the immigration had no adverse effects insuch areas as health and welfare costs, it would be a fact of the utmost historical importance if Europeand the United States were to lose their cultural identity. Such vital “intangible” issues will occupy atleast the initial part of our discussion. Two Matters That Must be Seen in Perspective World Population Growth and the Swamping of Europe Writing in Conservative Review, James K. Patterson has said that “for thousands of years the world’spopulation was between 100 and 300 million…By 1945, the world population of human beings hadgrown to 2 billion; by 1975 it had risen to nearly 4 billion and today [1991] it is moving on towards 5 anda half billion, with nearly 100 million being added annually.”1 Palmer Stacy cites a projection that “worldpopulation…is expected to reach 8.5 billion in the next 31 years,” to which he adds that “most of thisincrease is in poor Third World countries.”2 To have some sense of the immensity of these figures, it isworth keeping in mind that a billion is one thousand million. So vast an increase in world population arises out of, and is dependent upon, modern technology,agriculture, medicine, sanitation, market freedoms, and trade. Humanity has, so to speak, “climbed outon a limb” by so greatly increasing its numbers; any failure to maintain the high level of civilization thatexists in the more developed countries can lead to catastrophes throughout the world that will farexceed any horrors witnessed so far in human history. The impact on conditions within individual countries is incalculable. Patterson says that “in Kenya, theaverage woman produces eight living children, so that country doubles its population everyseventeen years. With statistics such as these, no ‘developing country’ can hope to save itself, let alonedevelop.”3 Stacy tells us that Mexico increased “from 34 million in 1960 to 72 million in 1980.”4 We know, of course, that in the aftermath of World Wars I and II, which have been aptly describedtogether as at least in major part a great European civil war, the nations of Europe suffered severedebilitation and withdrew from their colonial empires, which prior to the mid-twentieth centuryextended European influence over much of what is today called the Third World. What is perhapsequally significant is that since the end of World War II European civilization, including its UnitedStates extension, has been under heavy ideological and moral siege. As the voices of non-Europeanpeoples have been amplified the world over, everything “Eurocentric” has come under attack asinherently repressive. Subject, of course, to notable exceptions, the professional and academic elites inEurope and America (who in any case have been under the influence of the cultural alienation of theLeft) have been anxious to add their voices to this siege, projecting a mentality of apology and moraldejection. In the United States, for example, a great many educated Americans are more than ready -even anxious – to believe that earlier Americans acted immorally in “taking the continent from theIndians” and that the Roosevelt administration “interned” the Japanese-Americans during World WarII.5 It is in this demoralized context that the vast population pressures from the Third World have come tobear. Even if Europe and America’s morale and will-to-exist were at their highest, the vastly explodingworld population would exert enormous pressure to overflow its national and continental boundaries,and to run like a stream into all available spaces, especially into places that offer the affluence and highquality of life t………………………..

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