Sohrab Ahmari: Mass MN Welfare Fraud Among Somalis Exposes the Failure of Assimilation...

...and Democrat mass immigration schemes.

Even setting aside the terror connection, the organised fraud on display in the indictments and guilty pleas is a reminder that social-democratic programmes are at risk when overwhelmed by ill-assimilated newcomers with no sense of duty and reciprocity to the host community.
But this isn’t a problem without a solution. As Barbara Jordan, the African-American lawmaker and civil-rights pioneer who chaired the Clinton-era Commission on Immigration Reform, argued, assimilation breaks down when the numbers pile up. When migrant communities can mass-import their own relatives via the so-called family preference programme, the result is ghettoised enclaves in which newcomers can pretend like they’re still living back home — only with colder weather and thicker welfare nets.
The best way to break this cycle is by significantly slashing the aggregate number of newcomers [immigrants] ; and shifting away from family-reunification to skills as the main basis for immigration. To put it bluntly: America doesn’t need Somali Uber drivers just as autonomous vehicles take off.
As for those already here, America might follow Denmark’s lead in actively breaking up ethnic ghettos, while, of course, mass-deporting anyone even marginally involved in such fraudulent schemes. Law-abiding Americans, including law-abiding immigrants, deserve no less.

The left's plan is to overwhelm the U.S. with difficult-to-assimilate and outright unassimilable foreigners. This plan is sold to the less-radical parts of the blue team with the following "arguments:" Oh, those poor people...why are conservatives so mean...?

   As is so often the case the left is driven here by ignorance, emotion, and anti-conservative/anti-white sentiment. Oh and: weaponized sympathy.

   Here is what we can't have: large enclaves of difficult-to-assimilate immigrants. That's a blueprint for disaster...which, of course, is what the radical left wants. The relatively more centrist left, as usual, derives its descriptive beliefs from its normative political sentiments: immigrants good, ergo [here insert whatever they must believe in order not to undermine the sentiment]. Sometimes that bracketed bit is: so all immigrants can be assimilated more-or-less without cost. But more often now it's: so assimilation is unnecessary. 

   Though actually what much of the left believes now is:  assimilation is bad.

   That's basically just another way of saying:  Multiculturalism! (hooray!)

   The left doesn't like people of European extraction, and it doesn't like Western culture. Its goal is to reduce Europeans to just one ethnic group among many--preferably no bigger than its worldwide percentage. So...like 10% of the U.S. population. And to reduce Western/U.S. culture to just one (minor) culture among many... So long as white people and American culture are "overrepresented (...y'know...in America...) America is racist, jack.

   Not to put too fine a point on it: that goal is basically equivalent to the goal of destroying the USA.

   The extremist left explicitly wants that--it could not possibly be clearer about it. The relatively more centrist left doesn't exactly want it...but also isn't all that alarmed at the prospect. And, when they have to choose between (a) the destruction of the USA and (b) supporting policies that might possibly get them called racist...they go with (a) every time.