And I think many on the Left are like Pood, whether they admit it or not. They want western societies to be overwhelmed with mass influx from the Third World.
Well, for an immigrant, you have an old school American hatred for immigration. America has hated immigrants since since the founding of our country. Whether Germans, Italians, Irish, Japanese, Chinese, then Africans and Muslims, they have been distrusted and hated. When my German ancestors immigrated to America, they were hated too, just shy of the Great War too You definitely fit in that way.
Funny it seems off to hate German immigrants these days. People the late 19th / early 20th century were pretty certain not liking or trusting the Krauts was the right call.
I'm not a historian, but I did want to add just a few points. In my view, the US has had a love/hate relationship with immigration. Most elites have loved the labor brought by immigrants. Most bigots have liked immigrants from "the right" kind of country with religion, ethnicity, or race being indicators. The unholy alliance has been bring them into the country, but keep them from upward socio-economic mobility. Slavery, indentured servitude of the Irish, Chinese railroad workers, Eastern European coal miners, under the table immigrants working for businesses seem all to have this thing in common.
As an aside, I noticed recently in the Declaration of Independence this interesting grievance among the many directed at King George:
"He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands." I don't believe they had meant any foreigner at all, such as African foreigners, and were focusing more on English migration for the most part, but not necessarily with respect to naturalization.
Now, again, I could be wrong here, not my expertise, but I'll say it anyway--I've been thinking about it a long time--one of the values of the left is equality and as such it is often about deconstructing, questioning or removing hierarchies. So Derec's vitriolic hyperbole "[t]hey want western societies to be overwhelmed with mass influx from the Third World" can be translated as "they want people seeking asylum to have a fair opportunity and due process to obtain it and following that to have a fair chance to play the game with no preferences based on religion or race."
Finally, I will add that Derec is in a bit of a bind here, not merely for being an immigrant against certain kinds of immigrants, but also the language he uses is often about the capacity to assimilate, i.e. adhere to the culture and laws of the US. BUT we also know that Derec often appeals to Europe when it comes to a certain kind of law that he refuses to follow, even if he took an oath that he would follow US laws, even if one of the main complaints on the Right is about human trafficking and how he could be indirectly participating in it without knowing it. If this were a different kind of person, like, say, a Haitian or South American, we'd be hearing all these kinds of stories about such immigrant involved in such human trafficking, a criminal, who lied on govt forms, very dangerous, should be denaturalized, and sent away to a detention camp before being sent to Greenland to work in rare earth mineral mines.
