Posted originally on Feb 3, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston does not understand US law. “Every single human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek shelter,” Wu stated back in March 2025. As of 2024, Massachusetts housed 1.3 million foreign-born residents, accounting for 18.8% of the state’s population. In the Boston-Cambridge-Newton metro area, one in five residents (19.7%) is foreign-born. Can the city or state afford these newcomers? No.

Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee summed up the Democrats’ position: “The quiet part out loud: The entire world has more right to America than Americans.”

Traditionally, immigration policy was a matter of sovereign control. The nation determines who may enter, under what conditions, and with what responsibilities. This model predates modern America and is rooted in centuries of legal, cultural, and economic practice.

Mass migration has real economic consequences. Labor markets, social services, welfare systems, and community infrastructure are affected by the scale and timing of immigration flows. Far-left advocates often frame migration in purely humanitarian terms, but policymakers must grapple with the practical economics of assimilation, public expenditure, and labor dynamics.

It’s no coincidence that cities with declining populations or struggling economies have become proponents of more permissive immigration policies. Cities do not embrace mass immigration because they are prosperous. They do so because they are desperate. When a city loses population, it loses its tax base. Property values stagnate or decline, businesses relocate, employment opportunities shrink, and municipal debt becomes harder to service. The politicians are left with a shortage of people to rob. So they import bodies to increase the welfare system to rob the federal government.

You cannot endlessly import people into a system already failing without accelerating its collapse. Social services become strained, public trust erodes, and conflict intensifies between those contributing to the system and those drawing from it. This is when politics turns hostile and polarized.

The Democrats opened the borders and told the world that they could live a taxpayer-subsidized life if they made it to America. Budgets imploded, demographics rapidly shifted, the same politicians waving a welcome flag began to panic. And now we are witnessing a social uprising over deportations as law and order is restored. The chaos is calculated and deliberate.