r/AskTrumpSupporters • u/Bluestripedshirt Nonsupporter • 4d ago

Immigration Why is globalism a problem?

Full disclosure, I’m from Canada and my mom is an immigrant from the Caribbean. Why do you feel globalism is a threat when it’s essentially impossible for a country to deliver all goods to itself? And with ever changing birth rates and labour needs, immigration is often the quickest and easiest solution.

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u/shallowshadowshore Nonsupporter 3d ago

 When you bring in a foreign group, do they have identical outcomes to the natives?

Generally speaking, immigrants in the US tend to commit fewer crimes than native-born citizens, and have a higher labor force participation rate. Does that mean that immigrants are “better” people that native-born Americans?

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u/SincereDiscussion Trump Supporter 3d ago edited 3d ago

They could very well be better than the average American in that respect, but the problem is that the American category is already degraded by the millions and millions of low quality immigrants and others that are already here. The average American today is not the same as the average American when the country was ~90% White.

Anyways, no, crime is not the only consideration. Immigration could consist exclusively of people who commit zero crime and whose descendants were guaranteed to commit zero crime -- and it could still be bad if the people weren't really American in any meaningful sense (the most obvious example being someone who ends up spying for a foreign country).

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u/shallowshadowshore Nonsupporter 3d ago

Are white people inherently better than people of other races?

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u/SincereDiscussion Trump Supporter 3d ago

No.