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Americans watching the recent Rufo & Lomez discussion featuring immigration expert Mark Krikorian should wake up to what’s already happened to Europe and what could happen here if we keep pretending open borders are innocent. The show pulled no punches about how mass migration has strained social cohesion, overwhelmed public services, and tested national identities across the continent.
Krikorian’s argument is blunt and correct: mass immigration as practiced today is not merely a matter of numbers, it’s a structural change that clashes with the institutions of a modern welfare state. He’s warned for years that unrestricted inflows, especially when paired with weak enforcement, erode sovereignty, raise fiscal burdens, and weaken assimilation. Conservatives who still treat this as a culture-war talking point instead of a national-security and policy emergency are behind the curve.
One of the core problems Krikorian and other sober analysts point to is incentives: generous welfare systems and lax employment verification create a magnet that encourages long-term dependency rather than rapid assimilation. If you want a healthy immigration system, it must reward integration, self-reliance, and respect for our laws — not reward circumventing them and then expect assimilation to magically follow. That reality is inconvenient to the elites who profit politically from open-borders fantasies.
Europe shows another ugly lesson: migration can be weaponized by hostile regimes and used to impose costs on democratic societies, a tactic already witnessed in several geopolitical flashpoints. Krikorian highlighted how states have used migration flows as leverage, proving this is not an abstract fear but a real, strategic problem that demands firm policy responses. Letting migration be a tool of coercion is something no serious government should tolerate.
The policy answers are unglamorous but effective: enforce our laws at the border, roll out mandatory work-verification systems like E-Verify, end chain-migration and visa loopholes that let employers game the system, and stop treating amnesty as a first resort. These are the measures Krikorian and other conservative thinkers consistently recommend because they rebuild trust in the system and remove the incentives that fuel mass irregular flows. Any talk of mass legalization without enforcement is a recipe for repeat disaster.
Politically, the elites keep pushing narratives that would normalize amnesty and expand guest-worker programs while simultaneously signaling weakness on enforcement, a cynical double game that risks handing away the country’s future. Even some in the center who claim to want order turn a blind eye when corporate interests demand cheap labor; conservatives must name that betrayal and oppose it fiercely. Voters who care about national identity, public safety, and economic fairness deserve leaders who will act, not placatory policy theater.
This is not a call for cruelty but for common sense patriotism: honor the rule of law, prioritize citizens first, and design an immigration system that serves the nation rather than hollowing it out. That means deportation where appropriate, honest limits on intake, and a clear pathway that rewards assimilation and contribution. The alternative — a slow surrender of civic culture and public order — is what Europe is still wrestling with, and America should refuse that fate.
If conservatives fail to make this case with moral clarity and political muscle, the next generation will inherit a country less united and less secure. Rufo & Lomez invited Krikorian to remind us that this is still solvable, but solvable only if we muster the will to act decisively, restore enforcement, and put the American people and American identity first. Hardworking patriots must demand nothing less from their leaders.
