By The Daily Caller (Opinion) | Created at 2026-06-16 17:06:42 | Updated at 2026-06-16 21:00:25
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The 2026 FIFA World Cup in the U.S. has brought millions of visitors from around the world to American stadiums, inadvertently proving the point for closed borders.
Fans in jerseys from Argentina, Germany, Japan, England, and dozens of other nations fill the stands, chant in their languages, and showcase their traditions. The Scottish fans walk around in their kilts playing bagpipes. Fans from the Netherlands show up in a sea of orange. England fans paint their faces with St. George’s Cross. For a few weeks, this creates a vibrant spectacle of global diversity. Still, despite what open border nuts will claim, this event is the perfect example of why each country should protect its homeland from mass migration.
During the World Cup, you get the joy of experiencing unique cultures precisely because they come from distinct places. If borders stayed open and people moved permanently in large numbers without limits, those differences would erode. The uniqueness that makes the World Cup interesting would disappear into a blended, uniform culture devoid of tradition and history. (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!)
The left often slams conservatives for being against mass migration and open border policies, claiming that we hate other cultures or that we are racist and xenophobic. But they are either missing an important reality or, worse, purposely misconstruing the argument. By wanting closed borders, we are saying that we actually see enough value in the differences between these countries to want them preserved where they belong. Unfettered immigration turns the world into a single slop farm where no country retains its charm.
People appreciate Italian food in Italy, Japanese efficiency in Japan, and so on. In the same way, their fans appreciate how beautiful and grand everything is here in the U.S. One of the best fan reaction clips from the Netherlands v. Japan game came from a Japanese fan being asked what he thought about Texas.
“Texas is good. Everything is big!” he said enthusiastically.
“TEXAS IS GOOD EVERYTHING IS BIG” pic.twitter.com/i6Ry8B1Gjd
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) June 14, 2026
While the left might get antsy hearing someone affirm a well-known stereotype, being a ninth-generation Texan, it makes me proud. He’s right, everything is bigger in Texas. And that’s the way I want it to stay. That doesn’t make me an extremist, just someone who is proud of where she comes from.
The World Cup is great because, for a brief time, we get to experience new cultures in our country and, in turn, they get to experience ours. But that doesn’t mean it would be a good thing for these visitors to become permanent residents. If large portions of those fans stayed and brought their entire societies, our country would change in irreversible ways. Neighborhoods shift. Schools adapt curricula. Crime patterns, work habits, and social trust erode. Texas is already seeing this reality with the mass migration of H-1B visa holders and Muslim immigrants. Entire communities that once relied on a common culture that bound them together have fractured into tribalism.
Borders allow nations to control the pace and type of change. They let countries say yes to tourists while saying no to unlimited settlement. Without that filter, the “vibrancy” of the World Cup becomes everyday friction.
Every country has unique characteristics built over centuries. Open borders erase these when immigration volumes overwhelm assimilation capacity, forcing the host culture to bend more than newcomers adapt.
I don’t blubber a lot. But I sat in the car and had a cry. Yeah, over this “little thing” that’s not little.
My country, my society, my culture, is being stolen and I can’t stand it anymore. It’s getting worse.
And it’s happening in the quaintest, whitest state.
— Disaffected (@DisaffectedPod) June 15, 2026
For decades, so-called liberals have romanticized all migrants as hard workers escaping oppression. They conveniently label them as victims, placing them into a class that is protected from the hard question: If you love what America has to offer, why are you not fighting to make this a reality in your own country?
Call it Western guilt or whatever you want, but the U.S. shouldn’t be a dumping ground for people who aren’t willing to fight to better their home countries. If they can’t do it for themselves, they surely aren’t going to do it for a nation that isn’t their home.
Nothing makes this more apparent than hosting the World Cup while the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary. Mass migration (both legal and illegal) has already overwhelmed our nation. Neighborhoods have changed beyond recognition in one generation. Preserving our uniqueness does not automatically mean we want a ban on all immigration. But it does reject the idea that nations must dissolve in order to fit the leftist false idol of a utopian society. (ROOKE: Real Estate Company Dumps Entire Indian Workforce In Favor Of Homegrown Talent)
Our country has survived despite overwhelming odds against us. Partly because we shared a culture and values that were worth the price to keep them. Flooding the country with millions who bring incompatible traditions defeats the purpose. If we continue to allow our communities to be diluted, future generations will have nothing to bind them together, and the shining city on the hill will lose its luster.
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