There’s an old principle in salesmanship that says if you want to sell something, create a need for it. Think of a member of the Pied Piper Guild seeding a town with rats before marching in to offer their extermination services. If you want to sell chewing gum that cools your mouth, then convince your customers a 98.6-degree mouth is disgusting.

Demagogues who spread racist lies about immigrants are trying to do the same thing. Elect me, and I’ll save you from the Mexican rapists and Haitian kitty cat munchers.

So here’s a radical idea for you to chew on: immigrants are a good thing.

Immigrants Shore Up Declining Populations

Across the world, countries such as China and both Koreas are suffering from birth rate crises. It’s so bad that totalitarian North Korea is punishing doctors who provide contraceptives. When a total fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman ensures a broadly stable population, China’s is 1.16, North Korea’s is 1.81, and the United States’s is 1.66.

The consequences of low birth rates are mainly economic. Without workers to fill jobs, essential services aren’t provided, tax revenue isn’t generated, and Social Security-like systems aren’t funded. The solution? Allow more immigration.

“But immigrants are taking Black jobs,” I hear you protesting—or, more broadly, they’re snatching up jobs that would/should have gone to natural-born American citizens. As if the job market is a zero-sum game. Baloney. Let’s be frank here: the truth is that immigrants take the menial jobs that you don’t want anyway. Think of the stereotypically worst, menial jobs you can imagine or invent—the ditch digger, the gutter sweeper. Those are the jobs most likely to be first occupied by a new immigrant.

To understand why, imagine yourself—an American-born citizen who only knows one language, English—as a refugee in Namibia. Sure, English is their official language, but only three percent speak it at home. Do you know Afrikaans or Oshiwambo? No? Then good luck transplanting your white collar career there. Nope, your first job in Namibia will be something menial. If you’re lucky, you’ll work a 16-hour day in a restaurant, washing dishes. Gratefully.

So ease up that clutch on your pearl necklace, and relax the next time you spot a Haitian immigrant nailing new shingles onto your neighbor’s roof. They’re happy to be here, no matter how hard the job. In time, as they learn your language and their children attend school, their families will shore up your dwindling pension funds.

Immigrant Mudbloods Might be Genetically Superior

Holy shit, did I just piss you off with that sentence. Hear me out.

Have you ever noticed that people of mixed heritage are—well, they’re just physically beautiful people? Think of people like the actress Nathalie Emmanuel the late Brandon Lee. There’s a reason for that.

If you accept the hypothesis that “beauty” correlates with desirable evolutionary traits in prospective mates, then you must identify what is a desirable evolutionary trait. One is resistance to disease. A distinct advantage of racial blending is that beneficial traits present in one population can make their way into the other. In other words, the more beautiful someone is, the higher the likelihood that they possess genes that could benefit your bloodline’s survivability.

If you don’t buy this hypothesis, consider the opposite extreme of interbreeding: incest. The very reason incest is instinctually repugnant, which of course has influenced our laws, is that inbred children have almost no genetic variation. Their physical and mental defects can be extreme.

Genetic homogeny benefits no one over the long term except maybe career racial demographers.

So Let Them In

Don’t fall for the racist cons being propagated in this election cycle. Don’t fall for them outside of this election cycle.

The United States, believe it or not, is a nation of immigrants. Our grandparents came here to escape political and religious oppression. I guarantee they didn’t want to leave their homes, to endanger themselves in a foreign land where they didn’t know the language, only to be spat upon as they performed menial labor. They didn’t want to, but they had to. And yet they stuck it out, and they died in our wars so that you would have the privilege of waking up in a warm house and eating breakfast.

Do you like being comfortable in your life? So do I. Then you better start opening your mind, opening your heart, and opening our borders to immigrants. We’re stronger together.

For more information, read The Effects of Immigration on the United States’ Economy by the U.S. Congress.