Her August 3rd column in the Danville Register & Bee has a hyper-bland title—Rational Immigration Policies Needed—but veteran foreign correspondent Georgie Anne Geyer is no "drive-by" commentator on immigration. She's been engaged with the subject for decades, and her 1996 book Americans No More was a worthy precursor to Samuel Huntington's better-known volume Who Are We?, eight years later.
That brief current column is an international tour d'horizon, concluding with a sober flourish:
For now, let’s begin with reasonable and rational immigration policies that protect the nation-state and its people first, and then attempt to deal with the poor of the world in their own societies. The alternative is the migration chaos we are seeing now, and believe me, it has only begun.
But an observation she makes along the way ...
The multiculturalists’ blithe notion of expecting all kinds of peoples, with all kinds of histories, to live together happily is perhaps the most profoundly irresponsible idea of all.
... seems to me to be more profound. And striking.
Nevertheless, the latter is not a new idea here at VDARE.com. Our own Brenda Walker has repeatedly and memorably made the same point. Here's an example from June 24, 2007:
We all prefer to be around others who speak our language, share our values and understand our jokes. Human community is based upon similarities, not differences. Wouldn’t it be better to develop public policy on the basis of human nature as it really is?
If you're discussing immigration with diversity-addled friends, you might use words from Geyer or Walker to get basic truths across.
