Angela Nagle on Tucker Carlson questioning the Left's love for open borders

Angela Nagle on Tucker Carlson questioning the Left's love for open borders

In a recent article in the conservative journal American Affairs, Angela Nagle, an Irish academic and the author of Kill All Normies, a book about the rise of the “alt-right”, questioned the increasingly common view on the Left that borders in western nations should not exist and they must allow for unlimited numbers of migrants.

In the article titled 'The Left Case against Open Borders', she writes:

--If “no human is illegal!,” as the protest chant goes, the Left is implicitly accepting the moral case for no borders or sovereign nations at all. But what implications will unlimited migration have for projects like universal public health care and education, or a federal jobs guarantee? And how will progressives convincingly explain these goals to the public?--

Nagle argues that open borders has long been a rallying cry of the business and free market Right and championed by big corporations to drive down wages

--There is no getting around the fact that the power of unions relies by definition on their ability to restrict and withdraw the supply of labor, which becomes impossible if an entire workforce can be easily and cheaply replaced. Open borders and mass immigration are a victory for the bosses....Today’s well-intentioned activists have become the useful idiots of big business. --

Nagle goes onto point out that even Karl Marx championed the idea of Irish Independence to stop Irish workers flooding into English towns and undermining the labour market for the benefit of big business. Indeed Engels wrote that the Irish had destroyed the culture of English towns due to their numbers.

--Marx went on to say that the priority for labor organizing in England was “to make the English workers realize that for them the national emancipation of Ireland is not a question of abstract justice or humanitarian sentiment but the first condition of their own social emancipation.” Here Marx pointed the way to an approach that is scarcely found today. The importation of low-paid labor is a tool of oppression that divides workers and benefits those in power. --

Nagle also writes that a brain drain will have a negative effect on third world countries as their professionals move to western nations.

--And what about the significant skilled and white-collar migrant workforce? Despite the rhetoric about “shithole countries” or nations “not sending their best,” the toll of the migration brain drain on developing economies has been enormous. According to the Census Bureau’s figures for 2017, about 45 percent of migrants who have arrived in the United States since 2010 are college educated.8 Developing countries are struggling to retain their skilled and professional citizens, often trained at great public cost, because the largest and wealthiest economies that dominate the global market have the wealth to snap them up.--

Tucker Carlson had Angela Nagle on to discuss her article followed with commentary by Mark Steyn.

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=6s8oBlHbjyg

https://www.invidio.us/channel/UCgzyycFR6PEv-B90rAiFsQg