We Were Right About Immigration, by Peter Brimelow

By Peter Brimelow, Chronicles Magazine, January 2025

Paleoconservatives have been warning for decades about the problem of unchecked immigration and have been slandered, cancelled, blacklisted for daring to tell the truth.

“There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run…”

As a repeat-offender immigrant (from Britain to Canada and then to the U.S.), I naturally feel the need to respect host nations’ traditions. Thus, while I’ve always thought folk singer Gordon Lightfoot’s much-touted Canadian Railroad Trilogy was magniloquent twaddle, still it does come to mind when I contemplate the prolonged period when the immigration issue emphatically “did not run.” From the 1960s through the 1990s and arguably as late as Donald J. Trump’s celebrated 2015 campaign announcement declaration that “when Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” it was forbidden to discuss immigration critically, and specifically to mention the unexpected and disastrous surge unleashed by the epochal 1965 Immigration Act and the simultaneous collapse of enforcement at America’s southern border.

Discussion of the invasion and destruction of America from within was forbidden everywhere during this time except, it must be said, for paleoconservative publications like Chronicles and VDare. …

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