Thread by @ConceptualJames

I keep saying Critical Immigration Theory is coming. What's that going to look like? What's it going to do? When will it really drop? Let's think it through.

Critical Immigration Theory is going to be a global-reach extension of Critical Race Theory, which is very American. The idea is simple. Illegal immigrants are "oppressed," and national citizens are "oppressors" through the system of national citizenship.

Communist Manifesto:

So specifically *illegal* immigrants and national citizens will be framed in an intrinsic conflict where the illegal immigrants are help up as unjustly excluded from the benefits of national citizenship by the system of national citizenship itself.

In that it will be a *Critical* Immigration Theory, the goal will be to find any pretext whatsoever to denounce the target, which is the system that it wants to change (cf. Horkheimer, below). Anything that can stoke conflict to fuel that denunciation will be fed.

The goal of a Critical Theory is to "imagine" a different system to replace the target system under denunciation. In this case, that new "ideal" system is clearly "global citizenship," which is embedded in SDG-4.
un.org/en/academic-im…

The United Nations is extremely invested in this "global citizenship" agenda (and SDG-4), as even a casual investigation will show you. They have gobs of material on it including comprehensive plans to remake education around teaching it *everywhere*.
un.org/en/chronicle/a…

What is a "global citizen"? It's a dangerous fabrication. It doesn't exist, but it sounds like someone who is part of "humanity" on the "globe." A citizen is a person in a political relationship with a sovereign, including rights and duties. There's no global sovereign, yet.

The idea behind "global citizenship" is to promote it like an even better kind of citizenship than local or national citizenship (where there are actual governments) to lure people into believing it's a "thing." They might one day ask to make good on the relationship, in fact.

Additionally, global citizenship is a psyops to be put up against the naturally inferior "national citizenship," in particular, which will be framed as antiquated, limited, problematic, and harmful. Just look at the "migrant crisis" it has created, for example!

Critical Immigration Theory will therefore attack the idea of (bourgeois) national citizenship, thus national sovereignty, through the concept of comparing it (liberated) global citizenship, which avoids all these crises and is more humane (or just "human").

The United Nations again pops up at the heart of Critical Immigration Theory's narratives, then, because the whole program will be framed in terms of "human rights," which are allegedly declared by the UN. In fact, the UN has a whole campaign for this.
standup4humanrights.org/migration/en/i…

This UN campaign "Stand Up for Human Rights" has a bunch of Woke crap on it, but it has a whole toolbox for dealing with "migrants," their euphemism for "illegal aliens," who are the oppressed class in CIT. It outlines what CIT will look like in detail.
standup4humanrights.org/migration/en/t…

Here's a sample of what Critical Immigration Theory will be built around: same as CRT, almost. Imaginary vision, narratives, storytelling, unification campaigns on the CIT standard only, and all the positive lies Communists can tell to sell their evil. This is just a glimpse.

What all this means is that the Critical Immigration Theory narratives and critiques will attack national citizenship and sovereignty as selfish, harmful, outdated, exclusionary (instead of inclusive), racist, xenophobic, and all the usual vectors we're familiar with.

It will claim that the outdated model of national citizenship and sovereignty (nations themselves, then) challenge the very concept of human rights, demanding global citizenship under a more unified global governance that is more inclusive and sustainable.

Every possible crisis or problem or sad story that arises from allowing huge numbers of illegal aliens into target countries (Europe, North American countries, Australia, New Zealand) will be exploited to create narratives of harms caused by exclusive (bourgeois) citizenship.

"Migrants rights" will be asserted to be every bit as equal and important as the rights of national citizens because of these harms and because "no human is illegal," which is hard to deal with. Migrants' Lives Matter! Blah, blah, blah.

Anyone who refuses to go along with this new "unifying" narrative that can solve the "crisis" will be framed as some kind of hateful bigot, selfish, etc. Xenophobic. Racist. Migrantphobic. Nationalistic. Something. Many things. Straight Maoist hatecraft: criticism and struggle.

The contours of Critical Immigration Theory will be very Woke and will combine FOUR current leverages: CRT, Postcolonialism (as with Gaza Floyd), "Third Worldism" (aka, Liberationism), and Climate Change, with this last bit being another strategic goal of the whole program.

Americans will find Critical Immigration Theory feels very much like Critical Race Theory but oriented toward illegals instead of "POC." They will blend intersectionally, but American racial minorities will lose to this new intersectional category of greater oppression.

The elements of Third World Liberationism will be less familiar to Americans, though the "Palestinian" thing is a taste. You'll find claims that the Global North and West have been dominant exploiters for far too long and owe Other people a place at their table.

Every manner of international strife, exploitation, and just sob story will be levied against the North and West and tied to "Eurocentrism" and "American Imperialism." Grumpy MAGAs and libertarians will say they have a point but aren't doing it quite right.

Behind this Liberationism, just like with Che, there will be the kind of violence advocated for by Frantz Fanon, that is, the decolonization project. This will feel even more like the "Intifada" stuff we're dealing with now, still not clear on its role in the bigger picture.

The dialectic between national and global citizenship will rage, keeping the door open to even more "immigration," typically under the name of "asylum," which is owed because of the devastation the West and North caused to the rest of the world through colonialism and imperialism

People on the "nationalist" side of this will be framed as racists and xenophobes and whatever other deplorable terms they come up with who just want to deny people human rights after being complicit in their exploitation, alienation, estrangement, and misery.

Concepts of national sovereignty will be portrayed as outdated relics of a pre-global world we can't go back to, one that creates innumerable "harms" like we see with the crises around "migrants." Global citizenship with global responsibilities could solve the problem.

We can't move into that new global unity on a new globalist basis, however, because the racist, deplorable nationalists refuse to let the old world die, no matter how harmful their old, selfish ideas are. They are the problem. HATE them. And struggle sessions will come.

One of the key ways the Global North and West have exploited and destroyed the rest of the world, necessitating and entitling them to asylum, is through ecological imperialism. They got rich by destroying the climate, and "Climate Change" is driving "migrants" to find relief.

The North and West OWE the "Third World" reparations of various kinds for these harms, mostly caused by fossil fuels and wars, so borders must be open, asylum must be free, rights and privileges must be granted without citizenship, wealth must be redistributed, etc.

Even more importantly, Critical Immigration Theory therefore becomes a bridge between Western Maoist Identity Politics and the Climate Change narratives they need to take global control. CIT will make Climate Change "personal" and "empathetic," rather than abstract.

So, when will this huge active measure be dropped? They're already building out not just the conditions but the narrative arcs for it now, but it won't take off without a reflexive movement following a crisis, perhaps a Jorge Floyd story, which they're already looking for now.

Eventually, something truly awful and tragic, or disgustingly opportune, is going to happen in this unfolding disaster that keeps growing. When one such story has the reflexive potential of George Floyd and goes viral, Critical Immigration Theory will mainstream.

If I had the time, it wouldn't be hard to write a book outlining what this will look like, even without consulting the sources on their side that already have attempted it (they exist). This thread should suffice, though, and may well look prophetic before the year is out.

PS: When I say Critical Immigration Theory "is coming," I know they've already developed all of the theory. I mean it will be deployed as the new popular mass line, like BLM Summer 2020. The threads of the theory itself are basically 50 years old.

PPS: I don't think it will be nearly as successful as the 2020 precursor. I also don't think that will stop them or that it won't be modestly effective and cause a protracted messy circumstance that drives people apart and creates myriad problems.