“Your new home is an invasion.”
“We shouldn’t feel like foreigners in our own land.”
If you didn’t know any better, you’d think those were two messages being shared by Republicans in America.
But those were actually the messages painted on signs at a protest in Mexico City, Mexico, where hundreds of Mexicans turned out to protest a bunch of foreigners who have been moving into the city, causing prices to skyrocket and turning “old neighborhoods … into swanky developments,” as The New York Times (NYT) described it.
According to a video shared on X, one local said: “Mexico City is going through a transformation. There are a lot of foreigners, namely Americans, coming to live here.”
Another local also pointed out that foreigners wanted to “impose their culture, their prices” on locals.
Ironically, perhaps, is that Mexico City’s government secretary, César Cravioto, urged in an interview with a Mexican news outlet (as reported by The Times) that the demonstrations, which turned violent, needed to end, calling the messages “xenophobic” and saying Mexico City “is a city of migrants.”
Carla Brugada, governor of Mexico City, said in a statement that locals concerned about being pushed out of neighborhoods by white migrants should never use gentrification as an excuse for “xenophobic expression against migrants.”
But the protesters aren’t wrong on the messaging — they’re entirely justified in wanting to defend their neighborhoods, cultures and way of life from uninvited outsiders who are fundamentally reshaping the city they migrated to. Wanting to protect your community from becoming unrecognizable isn’t bigotry, it’s patriotism.
Like Mexicans in Mexico City, Americans shouldn’t “feel like foreigners” in their own land. It’s not “xenophobic,” despite insistence from the left in America or Mexican politicians. It’s patriotic. Mexico only remains Mexico when it’s inhabited by Mexicans with a distinct Mexican culture and way of life.
America is no different. America only remains America when it is inhabited by Americans with a distinct American culture and language and way of life. The millions of illegal aliens residing in the states don’t make America better, nor do they make America, America. In fact, they do the opposite. They try to change America to be more like wherever they came from.
This type of mass migration is not only a cultural wrecking ball but a grave threat to the safety of our republic. Alexander Hamilton warned in 1802, “The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common National sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias, and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.”
As I previously wrote, mass migration destroys that “common National sentiment” and disrupts the “uniformity of principles.” Mass migration “severs the deep-rooted ties of tradition and shared identity that bind a republic together.”
It doesn’t make Americans any more xenophobic to want America to stay America than it makes Mexicans xenophobic to want Mexico to stay Mexico.
But the reason the left in America — and these politicians in Mexico City — condemn ordinary people for standing up like this is simple: They are globalists at heart. Once distinct cultures, peoples, nations and ways of life are broken down, everything becomes borderless and everyone is interchangeable.
If there is any lessons here, it’s that the people — whether in Mexico City or America — must defend the character of their communities, culture and land because if they don’t, no one will.