The Hispanic Invasion (1928- ) sees the US as suffering an invasion from Latin America. President Trump underscores the idea by sending the army to the Mexican border and declaring a state of emergency to get money to wall off Mexico.
It is standard nativist fearmongering.
In 1873, for example, it was the Chinese. Henry Josiah West, in his book “Chinese Invasion”, warned:
“the Chinese in California are the advance guard of numberless legions that will, if no check is applied, one day overthrow the present Republic of the United States.”
By 1928 it was a “Mexican invasion”. On March 22nd the Star-Gazette of Elmira, New York noted:
“It has been stated in debates or speeches in Congress that at the very time when unemployment was at its highest stage during the past few months, something over 1,000 Mexican peons have been pouring into the United States every week … Now, what are we to do about this Mexican invasion?”
In the 1990s the number of people coming to the US from the Americas (mainly from Mexico) reached its height. It has been dropping ever since:
So has the number caught crossing the Mexican border illegally:
In the 2010s immigration is now more likely to come from Asia. From 2016 to 2017, foreign-born Asians increased by 446,000, while foreign-born Latin Americans by only 130,000. Nearly all the growth in Hispanic numbers (1.2 million in 2018) comes from within the US. No invasion necessary.
On June 25th 2015 Donald Trump, who had been on Twitter since 2009 and had never tweeted anything about an immigrant “invasion”, suddenly tweets this in SCREAMING CAPS:
“@sandrapatriot: @stephenfhayes WHAT U REALLY SHOULD B ANGRY ABT IS THE INVASION OF MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS TKING OVER AMERICA! NOT DonaldTrump
That came nine days after he said he was running for US president to build a wall between Mexico and the US.
Since May 2018 Trump has run 2,200 ads on Facebook that use the word “invasion”, ads like this:
That is in addition to his tweets and rallies where he has been pushing the same idea.
Fox News, meanwhile, has been pushing the Hispanic invasion trope hard since 2018, especially Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham. (In 2015 it was the Muslims who were invading.)
On October 21st 2018, Robert Bowers noted:
“I have noticed a change in people saying ‘illegals’ that now say ‘invaders’ i like this.”
Six days later he shot up a synagogue in Pittsburgh, saying it helped “to bring invaders in that kill our people.”
On August 3rd 2019 a terrorist manifesto appeared on 8chan:
“This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. They are the instigators, not me. I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion.”
Then, 27 minutes later, Patrick Crusius was gunning down Hispanics at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
On August 6th 2019, just three days later, Fox News doubled down. Brian Kilmeade:
“If you use the term ‘invasion,’ that’s not anti-Hispanic, it’s a fact.”
Wrong: it demonizes people who are mostly peaceful asylum seekers.
– Abagond, 2019.
Sources: mainly Google Images, Customs & Border Protection (CBP), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), France 24, Brookings (2018), The Atlantic (nativism), Elmira Star-Gazette (1928), “An Inconvenient Truth” (terrorist manifesto), Business Insider (Facebook ads), Vox (tweets, rallies, asylum seekers), Trump Twitter Archive, Pew (Hispanic population), Media Matters (Fox News), watching Fox News.
See also:
- The term “Hispanic”
- The Southern strategy – what this fearmongering is part of
- The Republican bubble
- Fox News
- Tucker Carlson
- Donald Trump
- “Make America safe” – yet more Trump bogosity
- Trump’s Wall
- Fox News
- White American terrorists
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Manifest Destiny
- Walmart
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When Trump was in El Paso today, I know Ted Cruz and John Cronyn didn’t say anything to Trump about his racist rhetoric. The GOP cares nothing about our democracy and they don’t care anything about gun violence, since the NRA gives tons of money to the Republican Party.
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And I am sure our Governor did not say anything to Trump either even after this horrible event. None of those cowards on the Right is going to condemn his hateful rhetoric.
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The European Invasion
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All I care about is Reparations, let the illegals and whites kill each other I don’t give a fuck!
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I don’t care about Latinos.
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This must be liberal free press, Negropeans feeling sorry for illegals.
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It’s ironic because Texas, California, Arizona etc were Mexican before they were American.
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Nope, this is America and we are getting flooded with illegals .
BUILD THE WALL with US military patrolling the border.
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I pretty much am neutral and come to respect everybody equally depending on character in my life. With that said, the statistical flaw is undocumented immigration. If at all possible to take into account, I think Hispanics easily surpass everyone in terms total immigration.
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But the illegals want American benefits. Remember white people destroyed black culture.
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@ theUntoldStory
Crusius sees Hispanics as a demographic threat to Whites. And in his racist, zero-sum view of the world they are. But at this point it has very little to do with the border. Hispanics are now the biggest “race” after Whites – they are no longer demographically dependent on immigration, illegal or otherwise. It now comes down to age structure and fertility: Hispanics are younger and have more children.
In 2018 there were more Whites who were 58 than any other age. Among Hispanics the most typical age was 11. Compared to that the border means nothing.
Trump is pretty much Pat Buchanan circa 2000 with better branding. In 2000 Buchanan’s policies made some kind of sense, but now they are, at best, too little too late.
Whites in the US have faced immigrant “invasions” before. The way they dealt with them successfully was through assimilation and broadening their identity, like from Protestant to Christian to Judeo-Christian, and from Wasp to Nordic to European American. Most Hispanics already consider themselves White so it seems to be doable in this case, but people like Trump are not helping except insofar as they cause revulsion, backlash and political opportunity for their opponents.
But at this point the US could sink into fascist White rule, where “non-Hispanic White” becomes enshrined instead of a historical curiosity like octaroon.
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@abagond
I agree with the Pay Buchanan comparison to a certain extent. But I think ‘Trump’ is more of a classic narcissist that only contemplates on how to benefit himself and his family. I think he purposely made those remarks about ‘shithole’ countries and wanting more ‘Nordic’ immigration to leak to appease his main support base. This guy befriends the Saudis and Russians as a plan for future business dealings. He proposes to turn North Korea into Country Golf Resort with exclusive vacation packages for which his youngest son will inherit and that’s why makes a play try to rewin the election to further lay out a foundation to further a Trump Corporate Empire….
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@abagond
Even back in 2016. It was mentioned that Trump would never let his average fan support base that helped him get elected to ever meet and dine with him in a private social setting. While is racist, he is not a White Nationalist to the true definition but finds it a necessary means of political power. He is and will always be about himself rather then truly sympathize with white power but wants Trump Power.
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@abagond
At the end of the day…
Trump: “Security!!! Get that filthy hillbilly mfer off my lawn.”
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@abagond
With that said, Trump’s rehtoric has made certain situations in America dangerous and or hostile for people of color. And that along with his tariffs that is failing the consumer is what I hate him for.
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The only black people that support illegals over their own people are Negropeans.
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Interesting point of view
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Donald Trump on Pat Buchanan in 1999.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/trump-praises-pat-buchanan-on-immigration-a-man-he-once-called-a-hitler-lover-1.6833609
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What I have been learning about white nationalism is that they are very anxious about fertility issues of other racial groups, it’s a part of their ideology and radicalization, that they are will be replaced.
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“In 1873, for example, it was the Chinese. Henry Josiah West, in his book “Chinese Invasion”, warned:”
The subtext is that this was a dumb worry because it didn’t happen, but this doesn’t consider that maybe the reason it didn’t happen was because Americans decided to take action and prevent it? Had Chinese been allowed free entry to America, they could have demographically swamped the Western United States. Only government action (temporarily) preserved California’s White character.
The chart claiming that Hispanic immigration is down is deceptive, comparing the ten-year periods of 1990-1999 and 2000-2009 to the six year period of 2010-2015.
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@ White Trashionalist
“Had Chinese been allowed free entry to America, they could have demographically swamped the Western United States.”
And what if they had? All you have to do to see the likely outcome is look at Hawaii: majority Asian population for more than 100 years and full of patriotic, English-speaking, proud Americans.
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Donald J. Trump is the MOST transparent president we’ve had!
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@ Cherry Boy
Agreed. Trump does out loud and in the open what other presidents were smart enough to do discretely behind closed doors. LOL!
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@ Solitaire
Or it could have wound up like Singapore or Malaya, where the Chinese immigrants had no special love for the British Empire. Local situations matter, and had the country been 20% Asian rather than 1% Asian, I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a separatist movement. Even if they were loyal, English-speaking Americans, that was still a lot of valuable beachfront property that White Americans wanted to preserve for their descendants.
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Correction:
…discreetly behind closed doors.
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@ Wh!te Tr–shionalist
“Or it could have wound up like Singapore or Malaya, where the Chinese immigrants had no special love for the British Empire.”
Big difference there. Those are Asian countries, geographically near China, and there had been an ethnic Chinese presence in both places for hundreds of years, long before any Europeans.
“Even if they were loyal, English-speaking Americans, that was still a lot of valuable beachfront property that White Americans wanted to preserve for their descendants.”
So it once again boils down to white people wanting to keep all the land they stole to themselves and not considering non-white Americans to really be part of the U.S.
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@Solitaire,
As someone who has grown up in USA and lived in Malaysia before and have ancestors part of that 19th century wave from China to USA and SE Asia, I agree with you that the situation between ethnic Chinese in the USA and Malaysia is completely different. Not only have Chinese been in SE Asia for centuries before the Europeans came, but the British left and the ruling class was replaced by the Malays, who resented the economic position of the Chinese.
There were quite a few ethnic Chinese in Malaysia who looked fondly towards the British after they left. I know some of those families.
To have a similar situation in the USA, you would have to have not only mass Chinese immigration or coolie importation in the 19th century, but also a reconsolidated ruling class of Native Americans after the Anglos left. And this new class would try to consolidate their power at the expense of the Chinese.
But the Anglos are still in the USA and still trying to exert their power.
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Anglos kicked ass. If it wasn’t for white people there would be no internet,cars, or anything else you can think of.
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@ bigbig40boy
Anglos are Johnnies-come-lately. Without Black people there would be no houses or cooking or clothes.
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Without white people there wouldn’t be any black people In America.
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Lets see how long the Illegals stay if white America took their technology with them back to Europe..
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