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My maternal grandfather spent part of his childhood in Colonia Mauricio, a small town in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, founded in the late 19th century by the Jewish Colonization Association to shelter Jews fleeing pogroms in the Russian Empire. It was a community of Jewish gauchos \u2014 farmers, horsemen, men of the land \u2014 who built synagogues and schools in the middle of the Argentine pampas. My grandmother, the fifth daughter of a couple from Odessa, in Ukraine, was born in Buenos Aires itself. Both grew up in a country that wanted them, needed them, and had decided \u2014 with a clarity of vision rare in the history of nations \u2014 exactly what kind of immigrants it was seeking.<\/p>\n

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That vision came from Juan Bautista Alberdi, an Argentine jurist who in 1852 wrote, from his exile in Chile, the book that would shape his country\u2019s future. His argument was simple: the territory was enormous, the population almost nonexistent, and the only path to prosperity was to attract European immigrants who would bring capital, skills, and the working habits of more advanced societies. The following year that idea became law. Article 25 of the 1853 Constitution \u2014 unchanged to this day \u2014 made it the federal government\u2019s obligation to actively encourage European immigration. It worked beyond anyone\u2019s expectations. In 1880, Argentina had barely 3 million people and a per capita GDP worth 35 percent of that of the United States. Between 1880 and 1930, the population went from 3.4 to 11 million. Italians, Spaniards, Central European Jews, Welsh, Germans, English, Lebanese Christians: they came, they stayed, they built. In half a century, what Alberdi had called a desert was one of the ten richest countries on earth. What came after \u2014 Peronism, a century of bad decisions, squandered inheritance \u2014 is a different story, one that Javier Milei is now trying to rewrite.<\/p>\n

The point isn\u2019t that Argentina is some unique case. It\u2019s that the United States, at its best, proves the same thing: good immigration works. When people show up willing to work, with useful skills and values that fit reasonably well with the country they\u2019re joining, the results speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

Not all Immigration is the Same<\/strong><\/h2>\n

What the left refuses to acknowledge \u2014 and what Alberdi understood perfectly well 175 years ago \u2014 is that not all immigration is the same. Countries have not just the right but the responsibility to choose who comes in. When Alberdi talked about bringing \u201cliving pieces of the customs\u201d of advanced nations to Argentina, he wasn\u2019t being bigoted. He was being clear-eyed. A South Korean immigrant and a Somali immigrant do not have the same impact on a receiving society. Not because of race \u2014 because of culture, institutions, and history.<\/p>\n

In Switzerland, immigrants from Germany, France, and Austria commit crimes at rates 60 to 80 percent below the Swiss average, according to their Federal Statistical Office. Immigrants from certain North African countries commit them at six times the national rate. In Sweden, peer-reviewed studies tracking two decades of data have found a persistent link between immigrant origin and crime rates, even after adjusting for income and education. <\/p>\n

The Scrapped National Origins<\/strong> Formula<\/strong><\/h2>\n

America has been here before \u2014 and blew it. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Hart-Celler, scrapped the national origins formula that had shaped American immigration policy since the 1920s. That system had real problems. But it also recognized something true: that cultural fit matters, that a country has a legitimate stake in who joins it.<\/p>\n

Hart-Celler swapped it for a family reunification model that gradually, then dramatically, shifted immigration away from Europe and toward the developing world. The people who wrote it swore it wouldn\u2019t change the country\u2019s ethnic makeup. It did \u2014 completely, permanently \u2014 and nobody had an honest conversation about what that would mean. We\u2019re still not having it.<\/p>\n

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Democrats\u2019 Open Borders<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Biden years made the cost of that silence impossible to ignore. More than 10 million people are estimated to have entered the country illegally between 2021 and 2024 \u2014 more than the entire population of many states. The Democratic Party\u2019s working assumption, whatever they said publicly, was that enforcing immigration law was racist, that asking where people came from was xenophobic, and that arriving at the border was basically enough to earn the right to stay. In New York, Chicago, and Denver, local governments burned through billions of dollars housing and feeding migrants while their own residents dealt with higher rents, rampant crime, and services that couldn\u2019t keep up. Minnesota was worse. Billions of dollars were wasted on welfare fraud. And, strangest of all, there\u2019s credible evidence that stolen taxpayer money ended up with Al-Shabaab, the Somali terror group tied to Al-Qaeda. A federal law enforcement source put it to City Journal this way: \u201cThe largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before America can even begin to think about a smarter, more selective immigration policy, it needs to deal honestly with what the Biden years left behind: With massive deportations of those who entered illegally, and a serious, non-negotiable demand for assimilation from those who stay. Selective immigration means nothing if the house isn\u2019t put in order first.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m Jewish, which gives me a specific reason to find all of this alarming. The surge in antisemitic incidents across America in recent years \u2014 not just on campuses, but in cities and neighborhoods \u2014 didn\u2019t materialize out of thin air. A significant part of it came from communities that brought with them a deep, ingrained hatred of Jews \u2014 not as a fringe view but as something perfectly normal, the kind of thing that gets taught in schools and preached in mosques in Somalia, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Gaza. I\u2019m not talking about the occasional exception \u2014 the educated, Westernized Muslim professional who has genuinely made his peace with Western values. I\u2019m talking about mass immigration from societies where hating Jews is unremarkable. The Democratic Party spent years building its coalition on the votes of these communities. At the same time, Jewish Americans were getting harassed, threatened, and assaulted. These two things are related.<\/p>\n

Selective Immigration<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I\u2019m not against immigration. I come from immigrants and I\u2019m an immigrant myself. My argument is simpler than that: a country has the right to be selective. Every serious country acts on this. The Gulf states have their own brutal version of it. Japan and South Korea are unapologetic about it.<\/p>\n

Alberdi knew what he was doing when he chose his immigrants carefully. His successors built one of the richest countries in the world in 50 years. What the Biden administration practiced wasn\u2019t immigration policy \u2014 it was the mass, indiscriminate admission of entire populations with no honest reckoning with cultural compatibility, no real vetting, and no willingness to have a conversation about it. To defend this system, anyone who asked the obvious questions about it would be accused of racism. Alberdi would have had a name for it. We just call it progress.<\/p>\n

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