Former President Barack Obama told an African audience that voters’ preferences for their own nation are no excuse for keeping nation-states and that all governments should welcome migrants who are “striving for a better life.”
Obama hid his radical globalist call for ending the 200-year old dominance of nation-states under his signature style of passive-aggressive rhetoric, saying:
In the West’s current debate around immigration, for example, it’s not wrong to insist that national borders matter; whether you’re a citizen or not is going to matter to a government, that laws need to be followed; that in the public realm newcomers should make an effort to adapt to the language and customs of their new home. Those are legitimate things and we have to be able to engage people who do feel as if things are not orderly.
But those public priorities “can’t be an excuse for immigration policies based on race, or ethnicity, or religion,” he said a July 17 speech in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Instead, national immigration laws should be subordinate to the claim that all humans share an “essential humanity … [of] striving for a better life,” who are to be viewed as just like “anybody in our family,” he said:
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