Mike Taylor’s The Truth About Immigration deftly uncovers what future historians will undoubtedly call “The Great Immigration Scam.” This swindle takes place both globally and nationally, orchestrated by elites connected with multinational corporations and international finance who are obsessed with the “bottom line.”
Taylor, a former immigration investigator for the Canadian government, reveals that these elites desired access to Third World resources and markets following the Second World War and the decolonization of Asia and Africa during the next two decades. To maintain friendly trading relations with these new nations, the West adopted an egalitarian and humanitarian façade, opening its borders to Third World immigrants. These events prove E.H. Carr’s observation in The Twenty Years’ Crisis that self-interest is often cloaked in altruist garb.
At home, the elites sought to increase profits by depressing the wages of labor and weakening the countervailing power of labor unions, regardless of the effect on the social fabric and cohesiveness of the nation. Flooding Canada with poor immigrants and “refugees” furthered this goal. These immigrants were radically different from their Western hosts, and the ensuing tensions guaranteed that public concern would focus on identity victimology rather than economic and class issues, giving the elites a “free pass.”
Taylor highlights the “propaganda value” to elites in admitting Third Worlders to the wealthy West, just as they claim that anybody in Canada can succeed if they work hard. This is nothing less than the globalization of the Horatio Alger myth. Taylor challenges many such myths, including the myth that immigrants are needed to do the grunt jobs in a successful economy. For instance, he rightly asks how Canada filled such jobs before the 1970s.
The book boldly addresses the National Question: What is a Canadian? What makes Canada unique and different from the constituency of the UN General Assembly or the Tower of Babel Revisited? Thankfully, Taylor is courageous enough to point out that Whites are endangered as a race; they are a shrinking percentage of the world’s population, due in part to feminism and low fertility rates. He makes the case that Whites should not be ashamed to fight for their own interests and should work to retake the country they founded and built. Taylor discusses the “good cop-bad cop” routine the elites play on White Canadians in order to get them to cooperate in their own demise: feel-good diversity propaganda on the one hand, and on the other, “hate speech” laws for anyone who objects.
Taylor wisely makes a distinction between acceptance of diversity versus acquiescence in the face of dispossession, and he contrasts the richness of particularity, an organic and ethnic nationalism, from the abstract “civic nationalism” that is now promoted by the elites. He restores the meaning of the once-honorable word “discrimination,” which meant “fine intellectual discernment,” just as he challenges the basis for the Orwellian use of that same word today.
The elites may yet curtail immigration, emphasizing skills over raw numbers, but this shift does not cure the larger problem. Taylor notes, “Big business would like nothing better than to flood the market with high-tech workers so as to depress professional wages.” Americans will recognize the parallel with their own H1-B visa program.
American readers will find much in Taylor’s book that speaks to their concerns. Taylor shows that there is an eerie attachment between the immigration policies of Canada and the United States. For example, when the U.S. repealed its Asian Exclusion Act in 1943, Canada did so in 1947. When the U.S. opened its doors to the Third World in 1965, Canada followed suit in 1967. As signs of backlash appeared in America in the late nineties, they also emerged in Canada. On another front, the United States has a problem with Hispanics, particularly Mexicans, arriving and replicating their own self-contained cultures. Taylor shows that the same process is happening in Canada: substitute the word “Asians” for “Mexicans.”
Patrick Buchanan’s Death of the West, released four years after Taylor’s book, covers some of the same ground as Taylor, and is one of the top non-fiction bestsellers today. Buchanan read Taylor’s book as a resource while putting his own together. There are important differences between the two books. Taylor focuses on a meat-and-potatoes economic and class history of immigration, while Buchanan deals more with the philosophy of the social movements of the sixties and analyzes the Gramscian “Long March through the Institutions” launched by the Frankfurt School radicals. Taylor’s book is free of the Catholic social teaching sub-themes that infuse Buchanan’s work, making Taylor’s book more accessible to non-Catholics. The fact Taylor is a man of the Left who opposes open immigration also invites attention and garners credibility. Only Nixon could go to China.
Perhaps one of the strengths of Taylor’s book is that it is not Buchanan’s book. While there is an advantage gained from Buchanan’s visibility and name recognition on the immigration issue, there are also liabilities. Some focus too much on the messenger rather than the message, and important points are lost in the noise. Readers are more likely to approach Taylor’s text without this “prejudice of the personalities,” making his book a better “conversion tool” for immigration-restrictionist activists.
For the West, there is cause for hope. Taylor writes of cleaning up the immigration problem, “any number of restrictive measures could be implemented, only the political will is lacking.” He predicts things may get worse before they get better, but notes that Whites ultimately “will not go willingly into that racial slaughterhouse” that the New World Order has built. Taylor, a fine Canadian patriot and defender of our Western Civilization more broadly, gives us the truth we need to resist global capitalism’s attack on the nation-state. Taylor’s book, if widely read, will help generate the “critical mass” needed to muster our collective political will.
The Truth About Immigration: Exposing the Economic and Humanitarian Myths. Mike Taylor. Coquitlam, BC: Karma Publishing. 1998. Paperback. ISBN 0-9683952-0-1. $19.95 (CDN). 250 pp.