The Democrats Will Support Immigration Control — At This Precise Point
Selwyn Duke | January 27, 2026 www.americanthinker.com
A former KGB agent-turned-defector, Yuri Bezmenov, has some useful insights.
Anyone who thinks the Democrats oppose border control, or even deportation, in principle doesn’t grasp the principle operative here.
Leftists, morally relativistic/nihilistic to the core, don’t have principles—only provisional preferences. They could one day support the strictest immigration control imaginable, too. When? Well, while I’ll elaborate more on this later, here’s a hint:
No one wants the apple cart overturned when it’s his apple cart.
It’s no secret that having millions of unvetted, unknown interlopers in your midst imperils the citizenry. Many illegal aliens in our country are hard-core criminals, too — murderers, rapists, child molesters, and other assorted miscreants.
In fact, the Trump administration has removed approximately 5,000 illegals in this category within the past year. (I illustrate this a bit more in my video “What the Media WON'T Tell You About ICE—But Reagan Will.”)
Is it a stretch saying that had these 5,000 lowlifes been allowed to stay in the U.S., they’d have eventually harmed 5,000 more citizens? You can decide.
Also no secret, however, is that infinitely greater still are the harms of balkanizing your nation with massive numbers of unassimilable Third Worlders. Our country rose to prominence as a Western land, an inheritor of the greatest civilization to ever grace planet Earth. “Make American great again”? A prerequisite for her greatness is that she remain Western in character. It has become a cliché, but import enough of “there” here, and here becomes there.
Apropos to this, we hear stories about this or that Minnesota Somali rapist, such as the “diversifier” who kidnapped and raped a 12-year-old girl in 2024. (His mosque submitted letters of support for him post-conviction. Was the man just following Mohamed’s example?) But then there’s the wide-scale rape of our republic. In Minnesota, 81 percent of Somali immigrant households are getting taxpayer-funded handouts, as are 89 percent of Somali-headed families with children.
There’s also, of course, the Somali government-fraud scandal, through which up to $9 billion was bilked from American taxpayers. And while self-confessed “knucklehead” Governor Tim Walz (D-Minn.) was busy deflecting with talk about imaginary crimes by white men, the North Star State transgressions reflect typical Somali behavior. Corruption is endemic in such Third World lands.
Oh, this doesn’t mean these newcomers haven’t adjusted to American life. They have — they know they can now scam at an infinitely higher level.
A Substack writer named Kari Stark explained well how the Somali mentality transforms Minnesota nice into Minnesota vice (all enabled by Minnesota stupid). Relating that she made Somali friends while residing in that state, she recounted an eye-opening conversation — one that moved her “to the right.”
After mentioning to one Somali acquaintance that lying for political gain is short-sighted, the person replied, “Why would I care about that? They’re not my tribe. Those are your rules, not ours.”
To those on the fence: Do you get it yet? Not all groups share anything even remotely approaching a Western mentality. (For more info, read the phenomenal 2009 piece, “Taliban From Outer Space.”)
Suffice it to say, too, there’s a reason our second president, John Adams, composed his famous 1798 line, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Oh, and pro tip: When Adams said “moral and religious,” he wasn’t thinking of Sharia-oriented and Islamic.
Really, though, the above realities are intuitive. It takes some steroid-engorged “woke” conditioning to twist people’s minds into believing that “all groups are fundamentally the same.” To anyone not thus brainwashed, it’s obvious that balkanizing your own land, and allowing mini-nations within your nation to metastasize, is a disastrously bad idea. This is why both the Romans and Soviets would sometimes scatter groups throughout their realms; the goal was to forestall rebellion by diluting ethnic, cultural or regional cohesion.
Of course, the Romans’ and Soviets’ balkanization troubles resulted from importing themselves to foreigners (empire-building); ours result from importing foreigners to ourselves. Moreover, Caesar and Stalin didn’t have to worry about their “diversifiers” voting them from office. (Representative government wasn’t their bag.) In our case, we now have a stone-cold communist as our largest municipality’s mayor, a man who has essentially said that the Big Apple is a city of, by and for immigrants — and now led by an immigrant.
How stupid are we?
Anytime you have to speak of the “Somali community” or any _______ community (where the blank isn’t “American”), there’s a problem. It means you’ve imported too many people from one or more cultures too fast, have failed in assimilation efforts, have invited in the unassimilable, or some combination thereof. It also means that some politicians will pander to them. And you have created a destabilizing situation.
This brings us to Democrats’ lust affair with immigration. Though an odd species for sure, there’s nothing in leftists’ genome preventing them from grasping balkanization’s perils (and, again, “left-wing” Stalin sure understood them). Rather, Democrats well know it’s perilous— currently to their mortal enemy: traditional America.
Democrats, first, use (im)migrants for apportionment purposes (i.e., greater populations give a state more congressional seats — and illegals are included in the count).
Second, leftists know that most newcomers will vote for them upon naturalization, and sometimes before. But then there’s another factor, an old communist strategy: “active measures” — or subversion.
Late Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov explained this well close to a half century ago. Subversion has four stages: demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization. He remarked that the “demoralization” process — whereby Americans are propagandized to the point where they distrust their traditional institutions — was “over-fulfilled” in the mid-’80s already. And today?
It’s so bad that Americanism is as foreign to many citizens as it is to the foreigners their provisionally xenophilic selves embrace. This helps explain, too, why they hate their more traditional fellow citizens and subordinate them to migrants: Patriotic Americans are more alien to them than any alien could ever be.
Subversion’s third stage, crisis, is when a revolution occurs. As for “normalization,” it’s a euphemism referencing the process of stamping out all dissent after a successful revolution wins power.
And this brings us to when Democrats’ immigration lust affair would end. Disruptive immigration intensifies “destabilization,” that second subversion stage. This is fine when someone else runs the country and you want his power; it’s not so appealing when you seize that power and aim to maintain it. You then want to stabilize the apple cart — it’s yours now. (Why do you think the Chinese have Uighurs in concentration camps?)
So the Democrats would continue loving (im)migration till the moment they achieved the unassailable power they crave. After that, its utility would be gone.
So don’t think leftists actually have compassion for migrants or would truly die on Diversity Hill. They are philanderers of ideas. Oh, they may say, “Immigration, submit to my designs; I’ll respect you in the morning.” But they won’t — not when that morning will be the dawn of their everlasting new day.
Addendum: For those interested, a Bezmenov interview in which he discusses left-wing subversion is below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1EA2ohrt5Q
