Towards A Theology of Immigration Control

Unrestricted immigration destroys the jobs, and drives down the proper wages and decent working conditions, required by Catholic Social Teaching and often secured by Methodist or Evangelical action. The poverty involved contributes considerably to offences against the sanctity of life, against sexual morality, and against honesty.

But be warned. There are already mutterings against Polish Catholics, African Pentecostals and so on, precisely because they bring their traditional Christian views with them. The reasons why we are opposed to the Islamisation of the West (by no means only Europe, whatever smug Americans may think) are not the reasons why a lot of other people are so opposed.

We are no more acceptable than any Muslim to the tendency best exemplified by the Dutch Pim Fortuyn and Geert Wilders movements, but also existing elsewhere, including here. Such is the split between the True West that is Biblical and Classical in Christ and His Church, and the debt-based, stupefied, promiscuous pseudo-West that we, just like Muslims, are excoriated by the neocons for hating.

The neocons love mass immigration for a number of reasons. One is that it enables them to depict as foreign such things as structured daily prayer, the setting aside one day in seven, fasting, almsgiving, pilgrimage, the global community of faith as the primary focus of personal allegiance and locus of personal identity, the lesser outward and greater inward struggle, the need for a comprehensive and coherent critique both of capitalism and of Marxism, the coherence between faith and reason, a consequent integrated view of art and science, and an abomination of usury, promiscuity and stupefaction.

But these features are integral to the True West. Any economy, society, culture or polity which is not organised around them is not really the West at all. That is what our present economic, social, cultural and political masters do not want anyone to realise. So its serves their purposes perfectly to have one or more large and visibly, unassimilably alien economic, social, cultural and political blocs in which these things are taken seriously.

That way, taking them seriously can be depicted as visibly and unassimilably alien, and can be stigmatised as characteristic of those whose arrival in such numbers has destroyed jobs, driven down wages and working conditions, and made it logistically difficult or impossible to maintain welfare provisions and other public services.

Those jobs, wages, conditions, provisions and other services can then be depicted as what attracted those blocs in the first place, so that even support for those hard-won fruits of explictly Christian action can be portrayed as foreign and invasive. As, therefore, can and must be those principles themselves.