India made its own bed. We can't save it.
Nobody forced India to have a population greater than China's on a third of the land
Folks who have followed me for some years will know that I am a big fan of using maps as an aid to understanding human dynamics. Many believe that “demographics are destiny,” but I say that demographics plus geography are.
For most of my life, it was a given that China had the largest population on earth. India was the perennial number two, and in a very distant third place came the United States. Now India has overtaken China, and millions of Indians hunger to move to the USA, lured by the promise of (comparatively) higher wages and eventual American citizenship.
Some will say the H-1B Visa is only a temporary work permit, but those people are either stupid or lying. After two periods of indentured corporate servitude, H-1B visa holders virtually automatically obtain a green card, and then they can import their entire clans from India under the current “family reunification” scam, more honestly known as “daisy-chain immigration.”
Hard experience teaches that once a new ethnic minority obtains a significant beachhead in America, the calls for “family reunification” become louder and more powerful. The new ethnic group’s political clout grows, until we see unlikely states like formerly ethnic-Scandinavian Minnesota become enclaves of, God help us, SOMALIA! Complete with Somali police and politicians, and a new Minnesota state flag mimicking Somali themes.
Let’s project a few decades ahead. Let’s say that 100 million Indians manage to move to America, leveraging H-1B work visas for green cards, and then daisy-chain “family reunification." 100 million is less than 8% of the current population of India, which is around 1.5 BILLION people. So how will this population movement affect India and America? Let’s just focus on population density as an easily visualized metric. Then extrapolate population density to social, cultural, and economic outcomes.
With the addition of 100 million Indians, the population density of the lower 48 states would rise to 445 million, or to about 150 persons per square mile. (Currently it’s at around 117 per square mile.)
The population density of India will only drop (assuming a loss of 100 million from the current 1.5 BILLION, as if there were no new births) from 1,150 to 1,070 persons per square mile. In other words, India will still be wildly overpopulated by American standards, and America will still look like a sparsely inhabited paradise to a billion Indians on the subcontinent.
America will still be ripe for mass-migration colonization, leveraging the extremely powerful Indian political lobbies in the USA for ever-increasing levels of “family reunification.” Like a tsunami once seen as a small wave on the distant horizon, there will then be no stopping the human flood. We will see “The Camp of the Saints” in real American life, but with the millions of Indians arriving on passenger jet after passenger jet, with their “family reunification” visas already in hand.
And they won’t be supposedly high-IQ computer gurus and spelling bee champions. Until now, the American perception of “the average Indian” is based on dealing with educated upper-caste Indians who have had the money, savvy and connections to make their way to the USA. This will not be the case when “family reunification” builds to tidal wave proportions. Just take a look at average national IQs, and the prevalence of first-cousin marriage by country. First-cousin inbreeding is associated with high rates of physical pathology and mental retardation.
We need to step back and take a hard look at the beginning stages of this tsunami while there is still time to blunt its force. The United States never colonized India. Americans did not create the Indian caste system, where high-caste Brahmins look down at the lower castes as subhumans, virtually like cattle to either exploit or to ignore.
Americans had nothing to do with India producing a population larger than that of China on a third of China’s land area. While feeling human sympathy, we must feel no guilt for their plight, nor responsibility to fix it. Indians made their own bed, over thousands of years, and now they have to lie down in it.
Sorry, not sorry.
It’s not up to America to save India from itself: it’s up to Indians. Importing the most capable engineers from India will do nothing to help America or India. India needs its best minds at home, solving its own enormous problems.
It’s time for tough love and frank talk. America is full. We have the highest percentage of foreign-born people inside our borders in our entire history. We need a complete immigration pause to sort out our current legal and illegal immigrants, keeping only the best and sending the rest home.
America can’t save India, only Indians can do that. And we can’t play sucker, turning American into an overpopulated hellscape, averaging our standard of living down to meet India’s. Enough is enough. Close the doors. No more millions of “refugees” or “tech workers” can fit into our American lifeboat, or we’ll be swamped and sink as a unique American nation and a culture.
Indians: you must stay in India and fix your own country.
Don’t flee to ours, bringing your unique social pathologies with you. We have more than enough of our own to deal with, without importing yours.
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Legal or illegal immigration proponents are intentionally LYING. They do not even like (forget LOVE) the USA.
H1B visa’s only benefit the billionaires who fancy themselves as job creators; the rest of us are just useless eaters.
I worked for an East Indian in government for several years. Until my position was eliminated under the guise of "budget cuts". I got "the axe" because I did not fit the mold. My style was very American, and I projected that onto my staff of fourteen employees. Our philosophy was to get the job done and create an enjoyable work environment. And we were successful.
However, the East Indian came aboard as a political appointment and immediately the worm turned. I wasn't "serious" enough; too argumentative. The Alaska style of granting employees leave time for hunting and fishing was foreign (pun intended). Little problems were magnified because major problems never occurred. My managerial successes were confiscated, and the normal minor problems were cause to place blame. (Example: the mail boy sorts thousands of pieces in a given period of time but mis-sorts a couple of letters and all hell breaks loose requiring a plethora of memoranda and meetings of explanation).
Finding fault and harassment. Never solving problems. Intelligent but unable to manage employees and solve problems. Anecdotal information tells me this is typical behavior.
As for Elon, it becomes a matter of eXpectations. We will all watch this play out carefully. It will become the Good, the Bad or very Ugly for the Trumpster.