The official cause of death for legendary songwriter and Beach Boys founding member Brian Wilson was revealed on Thursday.

Wilson, who passed away weeks ago at the age of 82, died of respiratory arrest, according to a death certificate obtained by entertainment website TMZ. Respiratory arrest, the site explained, occurs when the heart is still beating, but the lungs cease to function, thus failing to deliver oxygen to the body.

Several other conditions were listed as contributing factors in the musician’s death, including sepsis, cystitis, neurodegenerative disorder, chronic kidney disease and respiratory failure, and obstructive sleep apnea.

Wilson was just 19 when he founded the iconic band alongside brothers Dennis and Carl Wilson, cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine — and the group made the laid-back surfing vibe into a musical movement. They solidified themselves as rock stars with 1966’s Pet Sounds album, which included standouts like “Good Vibrations” and “God Only Knows.”

Wilson struggled publicly with his mental health in his later years, once telling People Magazine, “I’ve been through a great deal of mental anguish. I felt like a fat slob. It was very embarrassing. I used to go onstage and it was scary. Now I’m getting used to it. I feel a little more confidence in myself.”

He was placed under a conservatorship just over a year before he died — and following the death of his wife, Melinda — due to a “major neurocognitive disorder.”

“This decision was made to ensure that there will be no extreme changes to the household and Brian and the children living at home will be taken care of and remain in the home where they are cared for by Gloria Ramos and the wonderful team at the house who have been in place for many years helping take care of the family,” a statement from his family read. “Brian will be able to enjoy all of his family and friends and continue to work on current projects as well as participate in any activities he chooses.”

Now that a critical mass of voters in our largest city have decided to support a socialist Muslim rapper from Uganda who openly despises every founding principle of this country, you’re hearing a lot of predictions about what New York might look like in a few years. They all aim to answer the question: What happens when you eliminate the police department, nationalize the grocery stores, prevent law-abiding citizens from owning firearms, shield millions of illegal aliens from deportation, force taxpayers to fund sex-changes for children, and prevent landlords from raising rents?

Nothing like it has ever been attempted before. You could show this platform to even the most dedicated commissar in the Soviet Union, and he’d tell you to go easy on the Karl Marx and touch some grass. There’s no doubt that New York will be rendered completely uninhabitable if any significant portion of this platform is ever implemented.

But all of the discussion about Zohran Mamdani and his platform, as deranged as it is, ultimately misses the point. Everyone knows that implementing communism is going to be a disaster. There’s no need to belabor that fact.

What’s a little less obvious is that everything that’s about to happen to New York is the inevitable result of large-scale demographic change caused by legal migration. Yes, legal migration.

For all of the time we spend discussing the disastrous consequences of allowing illegal aliens to flood into this country, the fact remains that most foreign nationals don’t need to sneak across the border. Instead, over the past several generations, our government has let them in.

That’s not to say that all legal migration always has the same effects everywhere, in every case. More than half of the residents of Miami were born outside this country, for example. Most of them came from Cuba. And no one would confuse Miami for a dysfunctional socialist dystopia. Miami just overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump in the last election. After years of supporting Democrats like Hillary Clinton as recently as 2016, Miami is now a reliably conservative place. And there’s an obvious reason for that: People fleeing Cuba have no desire to see the same socialist policies implemented in their new country. They see exactly what Democrats are trying to do, and they reject it.

But New York City, where nearly half of the residents are now foreign-born, is a very different story. That’s because the vast majority of “lawful” migrants to New York are not coming from Cuba. Instead, they’re coming from places like Guinea, Venezuela, Ecuador, Haiti, Senegal, and Colombia. Migration from these countries has been a disaster for the United States. Several of these countries are in Africa, with populations that are around 98% Muslim, which is why the Muslim population in this country has exploded since the 1990s.

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You can see the data there. It’s a very sudden and sharp increase in the Muslim population in just a generation or so. And as a result of this increase, as of the latest count a few years ago, New York currently has well over a million Muslims, or roughly 15% of the electorate. And for the most part, these Muslim migrants are fleeing their countries for economic reasons, not ideological ones. They have no desire to assimilate here. They don’t want to suddenly embrace any of our values. They simply want to take advantage of our economy.

But we shouldn’t be surprised by what we’re seeing in New York — or what we’re about to see. That’s because this same exact story has played out in several other major cities in the West already. Here’s what London looked like in 1961:

Wikimedia Commons. London ethnic demographics from 1961 to 2021.

It was more than 97% white. And it stayed that way for a while. By the 1970s, whites still made up more than 90% of the population in London. As of 1991, whites were down to 80%. Then, very rapidly, demographics began to change. By 2001, whites were only 59% of London’s population. The numbers continued to drop through 2021, as you can see here. This is the 2021 pie graph:

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Now white people make up well under 40% of London’s population. It’s a staggering decline, and it’s a very close parallel to what’s happened in New York City. In 1950, New York was something like 90% white. Then, from 1970 to 1980, New York’s white population dropped by more than 20%. Now it’s down to around 30%. London’s transformation was a little more gradual, but it’s been just as stark.

And keep in mind, as this is happening, white people aren’t flooding into African countries and taking them over. There aren’t millions of British citizens storming into Senegal and winning pivotal elections over there. This is a one-way surge of migration. Most of it’s been lawful. And the effects on London have been catastrophic.

Here’s just one of many indicators. In London, they don’t have “housing projects.” Instead, they have “council houses.” That’s the name for government housing for poor people. If you had to guess, what percentage of these “council houses” are occupied by foreign nationals who aren’t paying any taxes whatsoever? As it turns out, according to a recent estimate, the number is 48%. Here’s what that looks like:

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Yes, one-half of the government housing in London — which British citizens pay for, and which is intended for British citizens in a time of emergency — is currently occupied by foreigners. In the borough of Brent, which is in northwest London, the number is 61%.

The government won’t do anything about this because it’s been captured as well.  The vast majority of the parliament wants to see more migration, not less. At the moment only nine of the 75 members of parliament from London are conservatives. London of course also has a Muslim mayor. Within the past few years, a lot of other British towns and cities have followed suit. Oldham, Oxford, Sheffield, Brighton, Rotherham, and Blackburn have all had Muslim mayors in recent years. Here’s what some of them look like:

The Mayor of Rotherham for 2025-2026 is Councillor Rukhsana Ismail. Rotherham.gov.uk

Safiya Saeed has been inaugurated as the new Right Worshipful Lord Mayor of Sheffield at Sheffield City Council’s Annual General Meeting. sheffield.gov.uk

Mohammed Asaduzzaman was the first Bangladeshi Muslim mayor of Brighton and Hove, a city in the United Kingdom. 2023 to 2024. Brighton-hove.gov.uk

It’s not exactly a very diverse group. But if you question the wisdom of importing so many foreign nationals that your government becomes unrecognizable, then in London, you’ll be thrown in prison. Two years ago, in East London,  a man was arrested for complaining about the number of Palestinian flags in his neighborhood. He said:  “Look at this cr*p here. ..You let them into the country and this the s**** they come up with.”

Within hours, the police announced that they had arrested the man for committing a, “racially aggravated Section 5 public order offence.” They’ve also imprisoned several other British citizens for the Orwellian crimes of “publishing written material to stir up racial hatred” and “false communication.” As we discussed recently, one of those citizens was a mother who was just sentenced to several years in prison for a mean tweet about migrant hotels.

If you complain about any of this — or demonstrate publicly in favor of these political prisoners — then huge numbers of Muslims will gather in the city center in London in a show of force. That’s what happened recently in London following anti-immigrant demonstrations, as documented by Andy Ngo. Watch:

Welcome to Islamic England: Just weeks after hundreds were arrested and prosecuted over riots against mass migration in the UK, large crowds of Muslims gathered in London for an Islamic procession through the city center.

Watch my full video: https://t.co/RfqyShQQqD pic.twitter.com/a6muiOpbMp

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) September 3, 2024

Credit: Andy Ngo

You can pretty much pick any major European city, and you’ll see similar footage. It’s getting more and more common, as the foreigners keep coming. Take Paris, for example. More than 40% of the residents of Paris under the age of 20 currently report having at least one parent who wasn’t born in France. And to put it mildly, these foreign nationals aren’t doing great things for Paris’ tourism industry. Foreigners commit something like 70% of all violent robberies in Paris. They commit more than 90% of thefts and 60% of sexual assaults on public transit. And they’re responsible for nearly 80% of solved rape cases in Paris.

As Nate Hochmann has pointed out, you’ll find similar statistics in Switzerland. Roughly 30% of Switzerland’s population is foreign born. And yet, they’re responsible for vastly more crime than their demographics would suggest. Foreigners are responsible for 45% of homicides and 47% of rapes. Migrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan are three times more likely to be convicted of a crime, compared to the native population. Africans are more than 5 times more likely.

It’s the same story in Austria. Let’s put that data on the screen. This has been compiled from various official sources:

Reddit.com. r/dataisbeautiful/briansteel420. Data Sources: https://www.oesterreich.gv.at/, https://bundeskriminalamt.at/, Created with Python

As you can see, Afghanistan is very highly represented in the murder category. They really punch above their weight there. Meanwhile the Polish are pretty well behaved. But then you have places like Serbia and Slovenia who are statistically overrepresented in total crimes. All in all, foreigners account for roughly 40% of all crime in Austria. The same is true in Spain, where foreign nationals make up less than 15% of the population, but are responsible for half the armed robberies and 40% of the rapes.

And again, many of these so-called “migrants” are perfectly legal. Here’s a story from just the other day, in The Washington Post: “As Trump shuts out migrants, Spain opens its doors and fuels economic growth. … … A landmark bill now being negotiated in the Congress of Deputies could grant legal amnesty to hundreds of thousands [of migrants] — most of them Spanish-speakers from predominantly Catholic countries in Latin America. Those newcomers often enjoy visa-free travel to Spain, even as Madrid controversially works with Morocco, Mauritania and other countries to block irregular arrivals from the African coast, though prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has also called for tolerance toward migrants fleeing poverty and violence in Africa.”

Yes, they’re calling for “tolerance” towards “irregular arrivals from the African coast,” which has to be one of the better euphemisms for “foreign invader” that you’ll ever hear. But it’s a useful illustration of the broader point, which is that all of this violence and social decay is intentional. It takes different forms in all of these countries. They all have their own version of “Zohran Mamdani.” But the end result is the same, in every case.

As native populations are replaced by foreign nationals from Africa and Central America, countries become unrecognizable and ultimately uninhabitable. The process by which these migrants arrive isn’t particularly important. Illegal immigration isn’t the only problem, or even the main problem. Many of the vandals who are destroying Western civilization are walking in through the front door. That’s why, before more American cities start looking like New York and Los Angeles, we need an immediate ban on virtually all foreign migration — including “legal” migration — into this country. Countries like France, Britain, Switzerland and Austria have sent very clear signals that we shouldn’t follow in their path. We can either pay attention to those signals, or one decaying metropolis at a time, we can suffer the same fate.