Well my Patriot Friends, all good things must come to an end...... PAO has had an incredible run and we've built a solid Patriot community. Unfortunately, due to health and financial considerations, PAO will cease on 6/30/2024. There are many more platforms today than there were when I created PAO, so I'm sure we will come across one another on them. I can always be reached at proamericaonly@gmail.com so don't hesitate to reach out and keep in touch. Together, we're going to take our country back, and it's going to be historic! It's always a good idea to stay stocked up, be prepared, keep your eyes open and have a team to watch the neighborhood. And one last word of caution - do NOT take any more shots!!! I will miss each and every one of you and I wish you all the best as we prepare for our final battle for control. Here's to President Trump's Inauguration and to Making America Great Again!
UPDATE: After much discussion with tech support, we are going to convert over to a blog, including all of the articles I've written through the years. This way, I can invite each of you to be a participant/contributor so we can continue to discuss important matters of the day! In order to accomplish this, we will be up and running until we convert over which will be approximately July 15th. So let's continue to enjoy the site until it is converted over, and then we'll figure out how to best use it from there. I am ecstatic to have a path for continuing to communicate with each of you!
Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders
For too long, liberals have suggested that only cruel, racist, or nativist bigots would want to restrict immigration. Anyone motivated by compassion and egalitarianism would choose open, or nearly-open, borders—or so the argument goes. Now, Reihan Salam, the son of Bangladeshi immigrants, turns this argument on its head.
In this deeply researched but also deeply personal book, Salam shows why uncontrolled immigration is bad for everyone, including people like his family. Our current system has intensified the isolation of our native poor, and risks ghettoizing the children of poor immigrants. It ignores the challenges posed by the declining demand for less-skilled labor, even as it exacerbates ethnic inequality and deepens our political divides.
If we continue on our current course, in which immigration policy serves wealthy insiders who profit from cheap labor, and cosmopolitan extremists attack the legitimacy of borders, the rise of a new ethnic underclass is inevitable. Even more so than now, class politics will be ethnic politics, and national unity will be impossible.
Salam offers a solution, if we have the courage to break with the past and craft an immigration policy that serves our long-term national interests. Rejecting both militant multiculturalism and white identity politics, he argues that limiting total immigration and favoring skilled immigrants will combat rising inequality, balance diversity with assimilation, and foster a new nationalism that puts the interests of all Americans—native-born and foreign-born—first.
Have you read this book? Post your thoughts and reviews in the comments below!