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The idea that immigration is an invasion - part of a race war to replace whites with nonwhites - is incredibly common in rightist circles.
The idea that Democrats are importing immigrants in order to import votes - which the El Paso killer repeated in his manifesto - is pretty similar to fears of Irish immigration in the 1800s:
And the idea that (mostly Irish and German) Catholic immigrants were going to launch a surprise genocide of Protestants was surprisingly widespread even in the late 19th century!

Meanwhile, the idea that immigration is itself a form of racial genocide was somewhat common in the early 20th century. The idea was called "race suicide":

So, none of this is new. Instead of pogroms and rampages through Catholic neighborhoods and mass lynchings of immigrants, we have stochastic terrorism and 8chan killers.

The more things change...
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