FNC's Tucker Carlson delivered a monologue on assimilation and imparting patriotism on U.S. immigrants of the past and how the immigration system of today is a "joke."



"What about America’s ideals? Democrats are always talk about values when the subject of immigrations comes up. They quote from the poem on the Statue of Liberty and tell you about their grandparents. Previous waves of immigrants were asked to buy into this country’s most basic ideals: religious pluralism, free speech, political freedom, equality under the law. Our schools made them learn English, and tried to instill patriotism. We called it 'assimilation,'" the FOX News host said Thursday.





"We thought it was critical to our social cohesion," Carlson said. "Are we still for that? Do we still believe that we have values to impart? Or do we imagine that huge groups of people with nothing in common can share the same country without fighting each other? It’s an important question, maybe the most important question of all. You never hear anyone ask it. Anyone who dares to is banned from Twitter."



Carlson said immigrants are coming to "exploit our weakness."



"Our immigration system is a joke. All of Central America understands that," he siad. "Show up with a minor in tow, and you’re in. We can never make you leave. Thousands arrive every day to exploit our weakness. Millions more are coming. It turns out the average Honduran migrant knows a lot more about our immigration system than the entire prime time lineup on CNN."



Carlson said opponents of President Trump's border security measures like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) must answer the following questions:



"First and most obvious, how many immigrants should we admit a year? What’s the ideal number? We currently take over a million a year legally. Should we double it, to over two? How about ten million immigrants a year? How about twenty million? Is there any number that’s too many, and if so, why? While we’re at it, what’s the ideal population of the United States? Immigration affects population size more than any other factor. We’re at about 325 million people in the US today. It’s a lot. Our highways are crumbling. Many of our cities are painfully overcrowded. How big should we get? Four hundred million? Six hundred? A billion? And if you’re pushing to increase the size of our population, what’s your plan for keeping our natural environment pristine? Crowded countries are polluted, every single one of them. Tell us why we should want that here. What sort of skills and education should we look for in immigrants? Not all immigrants are the same. Some start wildly successful companies. Many others go on food stamps. They’re not interchangeable widgets. They’re human beings. Who should we prefer? What’s the ideal education level of an immigrant to this country?"



From 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' on FOX News:





TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS:For months, all the little Democratic Party mouthpieces on TV lectured you about how there was absolutely no crisis on the Mexican border, and you’d have to be some sort of white nationalist freak to think otherwise. Those caravans, they told you, were a racist mirage. “Everything’s fine. Shut up and obey or we’ll kick you off YouTube.” Now, suddenly, you’re not hearing many people say that anymore. It’s too obviously untrue. It’s a lie too implausible even for cable news. Our immigration system is a joke. All of Central America understands that. Show up with a minor in tow, and you’re in. We can never make you leave. Thousands arrive every day to exploit our weakness. Millions more are coming. It turns out the average Honduran migrant knows a lot more about our immigration system than the entire prime time lineup on CNN.



Yet there’s at least one person who knows even less than your average cable news anchor. She’s a new member of congress, the loudest one. She still thinks the whole immigration question boils down to racism. If you’re for borders, you’re a racist. Period:



AOC: Guess what!? I’m 29! I’m the youngest woman to ever be elected to the United States Congress. I have plenty of time to learn. And I’m not afraid to make mistakes and iterate in public either. And frankly, if the mistakes that I’m making are just a one-off, like, rhetorical thing, you correct it, acknowledge it, and move on. At least I’m not trying to cage children at the border and inject them with drugs. That’s not a mistake. That is a deliberate policy to attack people based on their national origin. That’s not a mistake, that’s just hatred. That’s just cruelty. That’s just wrong!”



Like a lot of narcissistic children, Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t believe in honest disagreement. Everything’s a moral question. If you agree with her, you’re virtuous. If you don’t, you’re a monster. There can be no compromise. Policy debates are pointless. There is only the battle between good and evil. If you’re on the side of good, Ocasio-Cortez’s side, you have endless leeway. You don’t have to know what you’re talking about. You can wade half-cocked into the country’s most important debates, prove yourself an idiot and, as she put it, just “move on.” No problem. But if you’re on the side of evil, watch out. There is no mercy for you. There’s no forgiveness. Nothing about you is good. None of your motives are pure. You exist only to hurt and destroy. You are like a demon in a horror film:



AOC: The reason Republicans hate me so much is because I confront them directly on their moral — their lack of moral grounding on so many issues and, not just that, but they're so upset and they act like that girl in 'The Exorcist’ that's like vomiting pea soup, that’s like them and negativity.



“Negativity.” That’s what the activist left now calls “disagreement.” They’re not interested in what anyone outside their tiny little world has to say. Every day, you see Democratic presidential candidates endorsing some new policy that has pretty much zero public support, but that sounds like something woke baristas in Brooklyn would be excited about: banning ICE. Ignoring federal immigration law. Giving amnesty to millions. Decriminalizing illegal border crossings — which is to say, totally open borders: Anyone can come. When they get here, we give them free stuff.



Nobody really wants any of this. Even most of the people saying it know it wouldn’t work. The public would revolt. If half of Guatemala moved here tomorrow, which is exactly what would happen, it wouldn’t help anyone. This is all fantasy. Countries have borders. That’s what makes them countries. Some day, the AOC moment will pass. It’s too stupid to continue. At that point, sober Democrats will wake up and rejoin the adult conversation in progress. What do we want from our immigration system? Here are some of the questions they should have to answer:



First and most obvious, how many immigrants should we admit a year? What’s the ideal number? We currently take over a million a year legally. Should we double it, to over two? How about ten million immigrants a year? How about twenty million? Is there any number that’s too many, and if so, why?



While we’re at it, what’s the ideal population of the United States? Immigration affects population size more than any other factor. We’re at about 325 million people in the US today. It’s a lot. Our highways are crumbling. Many of our cities are painfully overcrowded. How big should we get? Four hundred million? Six hundred? A billion? And if you’re pushing to increase the size of our population, what’s your plan for keeping our natural environment pristine? Crowded countries are polluted, every single one of them. Tell us why we should want that here.



What sort of skills and education should we look for in immigrants? Not all immigrants are the same. Some start wildly successful companies. Many others go on food stamps. They’re not interchangeable widgets. They’re human beings. Who should we prefer? What’s the ideal education level of an immigrant to this country?



Big business doesn’t want you to ask this question. They like their immigrants low-skilled and cheap. Ocasio-Cortez does too. But what happens when technology kills their jobs? All the major Democrats take money from technology barons. Many of them support self-driving cars. What do you do with hundreds of thousands of unemployed immigrant cab drivers? Do they all go on welfare? And speaking of, what sort of government services are immigrants entitled to? Democrats promise universal healthcare. Do immigrants get that too? Who pays for it? How many new immigrants can our system support? Do we have enough doctors and nurses and hospitals to treat the number of immigrants we want to admit? Same question for schools.



The real answer is, no one knows, because as of today we have no clue how many immigrants are living illegally in the United States. Shouldn’t we find out before we make any more plans? And once we do know, what do we do with them? Who gets deported? Anyone? Or do all of them get to stay? What if the real number is north of 25 million people, which is entirely possible. That’s bigger than the population of 48 of the 50 states. It’s enough to change the country completely and forever. Do all of them get citizenship and voting rights? What about gun rights? Do they immediately start paying into the reparations-for-slavery fund that Democrats are now promoting? How will you explain that to them? Can we watch that conversation?



And finally, what about America’s ideals? Democrats are always talk about values when the subject of immigrations comes up. They quote from the poem on the Statue of Liberty and tell you about their grandparents. Previous waves of immigrants were asked to buy into this country’s most basic ideals: religious pluralism, free speech, political freedom, equality under the law. Our schools made them learn English, and tried to instill patriotism. We called it “assimilation.” We thought it was critical to our social cohesion. Are we still for that? Do we still believe that we have values to impart? Or do we imagine that huge groups of people with nothing in common can share the same country without fighting each other? It’s an important question, maybe the most important question of all. You never hear anyone ask it. Anyone who dares to is banned from Twitter. Instead, you hear the endless drone of self-righteous children barking about racism. That’s not enough. The decisions we make today are irreversible. They will determine the health of the country we leave our grandchildren. We should be more serious than this.