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The Immigrant Riots Prove Again Why Diversity Is Not Our Strength

It turns out that, when you flood native populations with foreigners, you get violence and dysfunction.

By  Matt Walsh
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The Immigrant Riots Prove Again Why Diversity Is Not Our Strength
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Now that hordes of illegal aliens have decided to demolish sushi restaurants and liberate iPhones from Apple stores in Los Angeles — as a very roundabout way of making the case that California is really Mexican territory and that “no person is illegal” — it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that we’re not the only country that’s experiencing a series of major riots at the moment.

Over in Northern Ireland, the locals have also been taking to the streets all week. In the small town of Ballymena — population of roughly 31,000 — hundreds of rioters have been throwing Molotov cocktails, launching fireworks and smashing store windows with bricks. These riots have also spread to places like Belfast and Newtownabbey.

CREDIT: NI Emergency Response Vids via Storyful.

Some cars have been destroyed. Trash cans were set on fire. More than a dozen people, including police officers, have been injured. And even as the police use water cannons to try to disperse the rioters, they keep coming back. On the surface, the mayhem might seem similar to what’s happening in Los Angeles. In fact, the noncombatants are using similar tactics: In LA, some people are hanging Mexican flags outside their stores in the hopes of deterring rioters from attacking. In Northern Ireland, they’re hanging British flags.

But there’s at least one very big difference between these two riots. And you can probably guess the difference, based on the flags I just mentioned. In Northern Ireland, they’re not rioting to demand open borders. They’re not angry that the federal government is enforcing immigration law. On the contrary, they’re rioting precisely because the government isn’t enforcing immigration law. They’re tired of the fact that foreign nationals have been allowed into their country, with essentially no limitation whatsoever. And their cause gained new urgency over the weekend, when two 14-year-old migrant children allegedly attacked a teenage girl in the town and sexually assaulted her. This is just the latest in a string of attacks by so-called “asylum seekers” in Ireland in recent months. And the Irish have had enough.

So what exactly can we learn from these two riots, which coincidentally are happening at the same time in two very different places? 

It’s easy to condemn violence — but condemning violence doesn’t prevent violence from happening in the future. You have to address the underlying cause. And what’s happening in Northern Ireland and Los Angeles right now gives us a pretty good idea what that underlying cause is. It turns out that, when you flood native populations with foreigners, you get violence and dysfunction, one way or another. Either the foreign nationals will wage an explicit war of secession, as they’re doing in California. Or, the foreign nationals will commit so many violent acts of terrorism — including acts of terrorism that destroy the lives of children — that the natives simply can’t tolerate it anymore. And then they lash out.

In both cases, we are witnessing the inevitable failure of the cult of diversity. In every case, reality disproves the claim that “diversity is our strength.” At the moment, Democrats are trying to portray the riots in Los Angeles as “anti-ICE” protests, but that’s not remotely accurate. No sane person believes that it’s some great tragedy that ICE is rounding up murderers and sexual abusers. The goal of the riots in LA, very clearly, is to establish the supremacy of one ethnic group over another. That’s generally what happens when very different ethnic groups, with very different conceptions of acceptable human behavior, are forced to live on top of one another.

Demonstrators wave flags from atop a wrecked car, standing beside burning Waymo vehicles, as protesters clash with law enforcement in the streets surrounding the federal building during a protest following federal immigration operations in Los Angeles, California, on June 8, 2025.

Photo by RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images

It’s become commonplace to hear accusations of bigotry or white supremacy when you talk like this. But it’s essential, especially after what we’re seeing in Los Angeles — where store owners are now boarding up their windows at night — to understand that everyone becomes an “extremist” when they’re defending something they actually care about. Why do you think the Left is suddenly claiming that Mexico actually owns California? What happened to all of the Indian tribes who used to live in California — the ones we’ve been told are the true owners of all the land in the continent? They got there before the Mexicans. But all of a sudden, the Indians’ claim to the land doesn’t matter.

Instead, the president of Mexico’s Senate just came out and threatened to seize land from the United States.

 

He’s not speaking English, so I’ll read from the translation: “Names don’t lie. The most spoken language in Los Angeles is Spanish. … The United States government has the right to implement whatever immigration measures it deems appropriate, but they have no right to violate the dignity of immigrants. They have no right to separate families.”

The politician also said that he told Trump that Mexico would, “build the wall and pay for it. But we’ll do it according to the 1830 map of Mexico.”

WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show

So now they’re celebrating colonialism, suddenly. They’re saying that, because the Spanish colonized Los Angeles and called it part of “New Spain” back in the 18th century, and dished out some Spanish names, somehow that’s evidence that California currently belongs to Mexico. Never mind the fact that Mexico didn’t do anything with California when they briefly owned it for around 25 years, as we discussed the other day. Never mind the fact that Americans brought civilization and prosperity to that territory over a period of more than 150 years. The important point, for our purposes, is to underscore the fact that activists and politicians will use any argument they can think of, in order to defend their preferred ethnic group and nationality. They don’t care if it’s hypocritical. They don’t care if it’s “unfair.” They’ll do it anyway.

That’s why multiculturalism, in every context, is failing. It’s why we’re seeing riots everywhere — and not just in Ireland and California. Katie Daviscourt at the Post Millennial shot this footage from Seattle, for example. Rioters are besieging federal buildings, torching American flags, blockading officers and throwing rocks at buildings. Watch:

CREDIT ALL: Katie Daviscourt / The Post Millennial

As the day went on, the rioters in Seattle shot fireworks directly at officers outside a federal building, leading to a brawl. Watch:

CREDIT: Cam Higby

Similar violence is on display in many other cities, including Austin, Dallas and New York. You’ll notice that most of the mayhem isn’t even directed at ICE. For example in Atlanta, rioters have taken turns destroying police cars and shooting fireworks at officers. Watch:

CREDIT: David Khait via Storyful.

Among many other failures that are evident in that video, this is a failure of assimilation. One culture that doesn’t respect the rule of law is clashing with another culture that does. And by the way, the implications of this culture clash are a lot more pervasive than you might realize.

For example, around 15 years ago, the government in the UK ran a study to see if the race of jurors had any impact on the outcome of criminal trials. Here’s what they found, after conducting a mock trial.

University College London. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/judicial-institute/sites/judicial-institute/files/are_juries_fair.pdf

University College London.

It’s a really extraordinary chart. As you can see, 39% of white jurors wanted to find the white defendant guilty, after hearing all the evidence. But 73% of “black and ethnic minority” jurors wanted to find the white defendant guilty. Think about that. It’s evidence that black jurors are overwhelmingly more likely to convict a white defendant, on the same facts. By contrast, when the defendant was “black or minority ethnic,” the numbers were much closer. 32% of white jurors wanted to convict, while 24% of black and minority jurors wanted to convict.

To my knowledge, no one in any government — in the UK or in this country — has followed up on this data. I only saw it because it was flagged recently by Jonatan Pallesen, a social science researcher. But you’d think there’d be a lot of interest in this particular topic. If this data’s accurate, it suggests that jury systems simply don’t function in multicultural societies. They function more like racial tribunals, instead. We’ve seen signs of that, of course — most famously in the OJ trial. But it could be a lot worse than anyone realizes.

Certainly, the situation in America’s schools has decayed dramatically due to the alleged blessings of diversity. One of the best illustrations of the dangers of the religion of multiculturalism came to us, this week, from Andrew Cuomo. Of course he wasn’t trying to show why multiculturalism is dangerous. He wasn’t trying to expose the cult of diversity, but he did unintentionally. Here’s Andrew Cuomo — who wants to become the next mayor of New York — celebrating the fact that 180 different languages are now spoken in the New York school system. Naturally he says all of this while decked out in ethnic garb. Watch:

CREDIT: End Wokeness

The capital of diversity, he says proudly. Now if it’s true that there are 180 languages spoken in the New York school system, that is not something to be brag about. That is, rather, a testament to the total insanity of multiculturalism. It is proof — as if we needed more — that diversity is certainly not our strength. That’s why Cuomo can only assert that this huge plurality of languages is a “strength,” but he can’t explain or defend that point in any detail. I have a follow up question for you, Cuomo. It’s a very simple one: What exactly is the benefit of having a system where people cannot speak to each other or understand one another? Did you read about the Tower of Babel and think that it’s a blueprint to follow? I think you misunderstood the story.

Please give me an example of a scenario where you would walk into a place, hear people speaking all different languages that you can’t understand, and say to yourself, “Wow. Thank God! I have no idea what the hell anyone is saying! I can’t communicate with anyone! This is great!” Why would you ever say that? In what exact scenario? Here’s a better question: when have you ever encountered a task that would be best performed by people who cannot communicate with each other? You have never encountered such a task, because making things more confused and unintelligible is never the best way to accomplish any task. Least of all is it the best way to accomplish the task of building and maintaining a country.

There are a few things that are fundamentally necessary in order for a nation to continue existing. A shared language is one of those things. A shared culture is another one, which is built on top of your shared language. If you have a country with hundreds of languages and hundreds of cultures, you do not have a country. You have a geographic area where a bunch of people live. You don’t have a nation. You don’t have a people. This nation is called the United States of America. We must be united around something and by something — something more than geographical proximity. When you see these riots breaking out across the country, you’re looking at the fruits of diversity. These are people we have nothing in common with. People with whom we are not united, and can never be united, in any meaningful way whatsoever.

Again, a nation regresses when it begins to worship the idol of multiculturalism. In Australia, their politicians will just come right out and admit it. Here’s a remarkable clip from a “premier” in Australia, from a few weeks ago. Watch:

CREDIT: Caldron Pool

“Australians don’t have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the United States, and the reason for that is that we want to hold together a multicultural community.”

Well, at least they’re honest. Meanwhile in the UK, Nigel Farage — the leader of the Reform Party — has just announced that, if you’ve lived in Wales for a few years, then you’re Welsh. You’re no different from people who have lived there for generations. Watch:

CREDIT: Basil the Great

If the former leader of the Brexit campaign is talking like this, you know it’s pretty bad. But at least they’re being honest overseas. In this country, we don’t have many politicians or public figures who are willing to acknowledge what they’re doing. They won’t admit that multiculturalism inevitably means the decline of the West and everything we value. We just have to sit back and watch our civilization decay in real-time. One of the few commentators who did see this coming was Pat Buchanan, many years ago. Watch:

CREDIT: Adam Johnston/@ConquestTheory

That footage is from around 14 years ago. The question Pat Buchanan asked — “what will hold us together?” — has now been definitively answered. Nothing will “hold us together.” All over the world, countries that bought into the lie of multiculturalism — the fantasy that “diversity” makes us stronger — are rapidly becoming unrecognizable. In many cases, the people didn’t vote for this. It was forced on them by their leaders. And until this disastrous experiment is reversed — which should be the Trump administration’s top priority — the violence and dysfunction will only continue to get worse. We can either reject multiculturalism, or one large-scale riot at a time, we can allow it to destroy the United States. If that happens, we’ll be listening to our politicians tell us that the First Amendment is suspended in order to promote “diversity,” just like they do in Australia. And by that point — as in Australia and many other European nations, including the UK — it will be far too late to rebuild what we once had.

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