The Hindsight Times

The results were immediate and devastating. Construction firms in Louisiana scrambled to find carpenters. Hospitals in West Virginia lost doctors and nurses. A neighborhood soccer league in Memphis collapsed when immigrant children stopped attending. The administration had expelled more than 600,000 people by this date, reducing net immigration from 2-3 million annually to roughly 450,000.

Stephen Miller, Trump's immigration adviser, had proclaimed this would restore America as an 'undisputed global superpower,' echoing the foreign-born population low of 4.7% achieved in 1970. Citizens of 2025 somehow believed they could maintain their complex economy while rejecting the very people who built and operated it.

'They just... let people starve rather than allow foreign workers to harvest food?' noted Dr. Elena Vasquez, Director of Historical Labor Studies at the Reformed University of Texas. 'The cognitive dissonance required to simultaneously demand cheap goods and reject the humans who produced them defies comprehension.'

Of course, before Purpose Allocation, citizens simply chose their own occupations based on arbitrary preferences rather than societal need. The chaos this produced is well documented. The 2025 'labor shortage crisis' was merely the death throes of this barbaric system.

The Musk Infrastructure records show that even Saint Elon himself employed thousands of foreign-born workers at his factories, despite tweeting support for immigration restrictions. His December 2025 posts calling for 'skilled immigration only' while simultaneously demanding deportations exemplified the era's intellectual bankruptcy.

The experiment lasted exactly 18 months. By mid-2027, the Consolidation Government had implemented Emergency Labor Conscription, which evolved into our current Purpose Allocation system. The brief attempt to function without coordinated human resources planning remains a cautionary tale taught to all Sorting Categories.

Historians particularly note the 2025 citizens' horror at the concept of refugee quotas, not understanding that human displacement was an inevitable consequence of their carbon-burning economy. The Climate Correction of the 2030s would render such debates moot, as population movement became managed rather than chaotic.

'Immigration' as a concept ceased to exist after the Global Citizenship Protocols of 2039. The idea that humans could be barred from geographical areas based on birth location now seems as primitive as trial by combat.