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Sailer in Taki's: Immigration and the Deep State

01/16/2018

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Here’s the beginning of my new column in Taki’s Magazine:

Immigration and the Deep State

by Steve Sailer

January 17, 2018
Why did received opinion melt down so spectacularly when Donald Trump allegedly said in private that he wanted more immigrants from places like “Norway and Asia” and fewer from places like Haiti and Africa?
Last Thursday, Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) scheduled a meeting with the president to try to trick him into supporting their politically suicidal immigration bill. To their dismay, however, when they arrived they found that Trump had also invited realist immigration experts such as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), and the president’s speechwriter Stephen Miller.

Later I proceed into a comparison of immigration from Norway versus from Haiti from the perspective of the Beltway foreign policy establishment that I don’t think anybody has made before.

Read the whole thing there.