President Donald Trump's freshly inked National Security Strategy of 2025 doesn't mince words: "The Era of Mass Migration is Over." It's a seismic declaration, framing unchecked inflows not as a humanitarian footnote but as an existential threat, on par with military invasion. "In countries throughout the world, mass migration has strained domestic resources, increased violence and other crime, weakened social cohesion, distorted labor markets, and undermined national security," the document thunders. This isn't Trumpian bombast; it's a blueprint for sovereignty in an age where borders have become sieves. For the West — America, Europe, the Anglosphere — the message is clear: If we are to preserve our prosperity, identity, and very way of life, the era of mass immigration must end. Not taper. Not manage. End.
The elites who peddle the myth of endless migration as an unalloyed good, fuelling "diversity" and "growth," are peddling snake oil. History, data, and the unravelling social fabric scream otherwise. From Minnesota's Somali enclaves, which Trump bluntly called out as unwelcome, to Europe's no-go zones and welfare black holes, mass immigration has delivered division, dependency, and decline. Trump's strategy pivots to meritocracy, innovation, and "America and Americans first," rejecting Biden's extractive model of importing cheap labour from the global underclass, as Australia is now doing. It's a wake-up call the West ignores at its peril.
The Wreckage: Crime, Cohesion, and Economic SabotageThe bill of indictment is long and damning. Start with crime: While apologists cherry-pick studies claiming "no causal link" between immigration and violence, the ground truth tells a grimmer tale. In Germany, the 2015-16 refugee surge, over a million arrivals, spiked anti-immigrant violence and public fear, even if overall stats were massaged. Sweden, once a crime oasis, now leads Europe in rape and gang shootings, with migrants overrepresented in 58% of violent crimes per official data. The UK's grooming scandals, thousands of girls abused by organised migrant networks, weren't "myths" but systemic failures born of cultural clashes and lax enforcement. Trump's document nails it: Mass migration "increased violence and other crime," turning safe streets into tinderboxes.
Social cohesion? Shattered. Putnam's landmark research showed diversity erodes trust — people "hunker down" in multicultural enclaves, civic participation plummets. In Europe's hyper-diverse cities like London (37% foreign-born) or Malmö (45%), parallel societies flourish: Sharia patrols, halal-only zones, and native flight to suburbs. The 2015 German influx fuelled AfD's rise, breeding resentment and a "stark prospect of civilisational erasure," as Trump's strategy warns for Europe. Even "revitalisation" boosters admit underreporting masks the chaos, immigrants fear deportation, so crimes go dark.
Economically, it's a slow-motion heist. Mass low-skill inflows distort labour markets, suppressing wages for natives by 5-10% in sectors like construction and hospitality. The U.S. alone absorbs 1.5 million legal immigrants yearly, mostly chain migration and low-education, costing $300 billion net in welfare and services, per the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Europe's migrant underclass drains €100 billion annually in Germany alone, producing housing crises and intergenerational poverty. Trump's retort? "We cannot allow meritocracy to be used as a justification to open America's labor market to the world in the name of finding 'global talent' that undercuts American workers." Spot on: Biden's model extracted youth from poor nations, bloating the U.S. underclass while hollowing out sending countries.
And security? A farce. Imported populations from adversarial states, China, Somalia, jihadist hotspots, embed espionage, trafficking, and terror. The NSS calls it out: Suppress "hostile foreign influence... via imported populations." From 9/11 hijackers on student visas to EU terror cells, the vector is clear.
Contrast this with Japan: A nation that said "no" to mass migration and thrives. With just 2.3% foreign-born, versus 14% in the U.S. or 13% in Germany, Japan dodges the West's pitfalls. No migrant crime waves; low violent offense rates (0.2 homicides per 100,000 vs. Sweden's 1.1). Cohesion intact: 90%+ trust in institutions, civic harmony unbroken. Economy? Stagnant wages? Au contraire, productivity soars via automation and robotics, GDP per capita at $40,000, unemployment under 3%.
Japan's secret? Ruthless selectivity. Post-2019 reforms opened doors narrowly: Specified Skilled Worker visas for 350,000 in targeted sectors like nursing and construction, but temporary, family-free, and merit-based. No welfare magnets; emphasis on assimilation (Japanese fluency mandatory). Public support? 69% view more foreigners positively, per Nikkei polls, because it's controlled, not chaotic. Facing a shrinking population (126 million to 88 million by 2065), Japan innovates: Robots in eldercare, AI in factories. Result? Stability, not strain.
South Korea mirrors this: 4% foreign-born, booming tech sector, negligible social friction. These East Asian models prove: Low immigration + high-tech adaptation = survival without suicide.
Trump's NSS charts the course: Full border control, ending chain migration, prioritising high-skill visas that "promote competence." Revive the Monroe Doctrine for the Americas: Partner with neighbours to stem flows at source. Deport felons en masse; audit visas for security risks. Europe and Australia must follow: Caps like Denmark's (10% foreign-born limit), assimilation mandates like France's burqa bans.
The West's revival hinges on rediscovering sovereignty. Mass immigration isn't compassion; it's conquest by demographics. As Trump asserts, "America and Americans must always come first." Same point for Australia. End the era, or watch civilisations fall. Japan shows the way: Innovate inward, select outward, endure. The alternative? Erasure.