Mass Immigration Creates Racial Segregation in the American Economy

Observations on Washington DC

Mass immigration creates a de facto racially segregated economy. This harms Americans socially, culturally, economically, and politically.

While in DC for the inauguration, for instance, I noticed that virtually every valet, uber driver, restaurant cook, janitor, and coat check clerk is a migrant from Africa, Central America, or the Middle East.

There are absolutely zero Whites anywhere in these roles.

This means, in effect, that the economy in the nation's capital is bifurcated by not only class but by race and immigration status. Illiterate, non-White, third world migrants do all the low-paying menial service roles while Whites predominate among middle and upper class professionals.

“Wallahi, my brother, I have been driving uber driver now six year. Maybe you sponsor visa application for my whole family?”

This bifurcation occurs because the service jobs have a low barrier to entry and are easy to do. Therefore, foreigners who have zero education or language skills can still eke out a living (and even send money back home) doing these jobs.

This arrangement is pernicious. For one, the flood of migrants lowers wages in these roles. If it were not for the glut of third worlders, these entry level jobs would be much better paid and therefore more respected.

Taxi driver and valet are not noble professions but they should not be serfs. Young people, blue collar workers, and professionals who are down on their luck could use these jobs as a ladder to better things, a lower middle class life in its own right, or as a safety net, respectively.

For instance, a 19 year old college student working as a valet at a 5-star hotel could use that job not only to pay his bills but as a way to meet powerful and important people. The mere proximity to wealth and honor is a ladder to success for a young person who lacks connections.

But because employers have intentionally outsourced these roles to third world foreigners, that is no longer possible. In order to save money, employers have imposed a tax on their fellow citizens. Migrants are willing to accept these jobs now because the very low standard of living they make possible is still higher than what they had in their home countries. That is good for short term profits but bad for the long term economic health of the nation.

It is also bad for the quality of the work. Trying to communicate with someone who is illiterate in a service role is often unpleasant. Even simple problems are a hassle due to the language barrier.

Secondly, the racial distinctions between the poor and the middle class creates a political environment brimming with resentment and anger. The regime has imported tens of millions of non-Whites to work menial jobs at degrading wages. At the same time, it has (stupidly) offered these people citizenship and political power.

To top it off, it is the official doctrine of the regime that Whites are evil and that White majority countries are fundamentally fascistic and immoral. Mix all of this together and you get a politically toxic environment that empowers the radical Left.

In the future, the politics of racial resentment will be even more explosive and radical than they are now.

Finally, the elite class increasingly possesses an attitude of patronizing superiority toward those who work menial jobs due to the social and cultural gulf between them. Because services employees are often Black and Brown, liberal employers can feel good about themselves by having them around: "Look at us defeating Poverty by employing the Downtrodden. We are very Anti-Racist and Moral."

But they also treat these workers poorly. They don't care about their lives, don't know how they live, and don't understand their concerns. Seeing a "person of color" at his place of work makes the liberal feel good but that moral satiation also allows him to ignore the real problems that plague immigrant communities and the lower class as a whole.

In a more just country, there would be fewer super-wealthy and more middle class. Wages would be higher and stock market valuations lower. Income would be more important than investments. Communities would be stronger than corporations.

This model is better for the nation and for the individual. The stronger and broader the middle class, the higher the birth rates and the lower the crime rate. The more space there is for individual creativity and freedom.

Indeed, mass immigration from the third world is the leading component of nearly every social ill we face today from sky-high housing prices to the collapse of social life.

We can solve this problem easily: first we must shut off the spigot of new LEGAL migrants (90% reduction in annual admissions). Secondly, we must make it harder for the current immigrant class and their employers to grift in America. Tax remittances, ban English as a Second Language services, and tax companies for hiring too many foreigners (anything over 5% of their workforce).

Living in Japan radicalized me on this question. In Japan, Japanese people work as baggage handlers, taxi drivers, clerks, janitors, construction workers, and cooks. There is (not yet) a class of non-Japanese serfs imported from the third world to do these jobs.

The effect is very good for the life of the people. Japanese cities feel Japanese. They have a distinct cultural character and there is a great deal of mutual respect across classes. I noticed that Japanese train conductors, shop clerks, and sanitation staff took their jobs very seriously and did high quality work.

In America it is not like this because these jobs are so poorly paid and are filled with aliens who are indifferent at best and hostile at worst to our way of life.