California’s Immigration Crisis Is A Warning To The Rest Of The Country
The anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles are not an anomaly; they are a forecast.
The saying “as goes California, so goes the nation” helps to illustrate California’s outsized political and cultural influence on the overall trajectory of the United States. From environmental regulations to the civil rights revolution, California has long served as a proving ground for national trends.
If this pattern continues, the recent anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles featuring protestors burning cars, attacking police and ICE agents, and proudly waving Mexican flags represent more than just “local disturbances;” they serve as a stark warning to the rest of the country signaling that the United States is at both an immigration breaking point and a demographic tipping point.
In his book, “The Stakes,” author Michael Anton details how “California was the greatest middle-class paradise in the history of mankind. Yet, in barely one generation, that California was swept away and transformed into a left-liberal one-party state.”
How did this happen? The change was primarily driven by demographic shifts.
In 1960, approximately 92% of Californians identified as white; today, that number has dropped to just 34%. At the same time, 27% of the state’s population is now foreign-born.
At the city level, the transformation is even more pronounced: in Los Angeles, the site of today’s ongoing riots, more than 35% of the city’s population is foreign-born, and nearly 47% identify as Hispanic or Latino.
In the 1980s, California was a state that Ronald Reagan swept in consecutive elections. Today, it is a permanently blue state due to illegal and legal immigration, which, ironically, exploded after Reagan passed an immigration bill in 1986 that granted amnesty to nearly 3 million illegal immigrants.
This is why Democrats are fighting for “a pathway to citizenship” for the often cited “11 million” (but really 22+ million) illegal immigrants in the United States. While “legal” Latino immigrant voters shifted slightly more to Trump in 2024, Democrats understand that if they can add 22 million (or more) new voters who would primarily vote for the Democratic Party, then they could effectively establish a one-party United States as they have cemented in the state of California.
While Reagan’s amnesty was devastating, America’s dramatic demographic shift was also driven by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Hart-Celler Act.
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