Mass Immigration Eats Through the Melting Pot by Sam Francis

In his 2004 syndicated column "Mass Immigration Eats Through the Melting Pot," paleoconservative writer Sam Francis delivered a sharp critique of post-1965 U.S. immigration policies, arguing that the unprecedented scale and cultural distance of Third World inflows were not enriching America through assimilation but actively eroding its historic Anglo-Protestant core.

Drawing on Samuel Huntington's warnings about the fragmentation of national identity, Francis contended that earlier European immigrants had blended into a shared civilization precisely because their differences were minor—similar languages, religions, and values allowing the "melting pot" to function.

In contrast, he saw contemporary mass immigration as corrosive: newcomers, empowered by multiculturalism and open-borders advocacy, no longer melted into the common culture but rejected it as exclusionary, ultimately threatening to "eat through" the vessel itself and replace the nation's foundational identity with a fractured, balkanized society.

https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/mass-immigration-eats-through-the-melting-pot/