Kerby Anderson
James Lindsay knows what the next big woke trend will be because he knows how the Left thinks. He calls it Critical Immigration Theory, which is not to be confused with Critical Race Theory. He says that critical theory is so flexible that you can stick any word between critical and theory and you have a new way of seeing the world.
For example, Critical Colonial Theory argues that colonial exploitation by Europeans allowed them to get rich by taking advantage of weaker countries in other parts of the world. When critical theory is applied to mass illegal immigration, it uses a human rights perspective by talking about having compassion for the poor and oppressed people of the world. He warns that what it is really about is targeting national citizenship and national sovereignty using mass illegal immigration as a wedge.
He observes we’re already hearing some of the language from the mainstream media. The descriptions have “migrated from illegal aliens to illegal immigrants to undocumented migrants to just migrants.” He predicts what comes next will be no adjective at all. “In other words, people who enter the United States illegally are just as American as any American citizen.”
He then provides several examples illustrating his prediction. Then he concludes by explaining that the goal isn’t merely to water down the idea of national citizenship. The real goal is to eliminate it. Instead, we will be hearing about “global citizenship” that “allows migration from anywhere to anywhere as a human right. This will be a world where borders are just meaningless lines on a map.”
We need to be ready for the next political trend based upon the plight of migrants and illegal immigration. 
This post originally appeared at https://pointofview.net/viewpoints/critical-immigration-theory/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=critical-immigration-theory
