For most of our history America understood the necessity of laws regulating immigration. The number of immigrants annually coming to our shores or crossing our borders had to be limited and controlled, lest our nation jeopardize its economy and compromise its security. Furthermore, to safeguard our country’s culture, which was deemed without apology to be superior to all others, Congress passed the "National Origins Act" of 1925. This legislation mandated that immigrant groups be allowed into the country according to the percentage of the general U.S. population they represented. In other words, if Norwegians only made up 1% of the U.S. population, then the percentage of annual immigrants made up by Norwegians could never exceed 1%.
Today, thanks to the myth of multiculturalism, any attempt to safeguard American culture by limiting the annual influx of other nationalities into our country is strictly condemned as racism. Moreover, what was once taken for granted in the immigration debate; namely, the expectation of all immigrants to assimilate themselves into our culture, is now resoundingly renounced as sheer bigotry. Thus, immigrants are no longer expected to assimilate themselves into our culture, but our country is expected to prove its tolerance by changing its culture to accommodate each immigrant. As a result of this politically correct nonsense, America has been transformed from a "melting pot"—a land in which different nationalities are dissolved into a united people forming a single nation—to a "salad bowl"—a land in which different nationalities are tossed together to vie for themselves against one another.
Speaking on the subject of immigration, President Theodore Roosevelt once said, "America is not a polyglot boarding house." Although Roosevelt insisted that any immigrant coming here "in good faith" to become an American and to be assimilated into our culture should be welcomed and "treated on an exact equality with everyone else," he went on to add: "But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
I suppose Teddy Roosevelt is turning over in his grave today. The open border policy of Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas, which has resulted in millions of illegal immigrants flooding into our nation over the past four years, is more than enough to raise old Teddy’s stone eyebrows on Mount Rushmore.
To understand how something that was absolutely unimaginable in Teddy Roosevelt’s day has become a reality in ours, we must go back to the mid-1960s. Although the number of legal immigrants fluctuated from time to time, America saw an average of about 250,000 legal immigrants a year up until 1965. In 1965, everything changed, thanks to Congress’ passing of the "Immigration Reform Act." This watershed piece of legislation resulted in a couple of earthshaking changes to American immigration.
The first thing that the "Immigration Reform Act" did was to quadruple the number of immigrants coming to our shores and crossing our borders. This, despite the assurance of Senator Ted Kennedy, one of the bill’s authors, that the level of immigration would remain substantially the same. The second thing that this critical piece of legislation accomplished was to forever change the face of American immigration. Since the passage of the "Immigration Reform Act" in 1965, 85% of all U.S. immigrants come from the Third World and more than 50% come from Spanish-speaking countries. Again, Senator Kennedy, who predicted that the legislation would not upset the ethnic mix of our country, was proven to be as bad a prophet as he was a senator.
While changes in our immigration laws have played a part in our country’s current immigration crisis, the real culprit has been our government’s failure to enforce our immigration laws. By refusing to keep their oath of office, to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States," and by refusing to uphold the laws of our land, both Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas have jeopardized our national security and financial stability. In short, they've committed treason. After all, if our government officials, like our own president and Homeland Security Director, disregard their oath of office and refuse to enforce our laws, what is to prevent the outbreak of lawlessness in our land? What stands between America and anarchy?
It should come as no surprise to any of us that illegal immigrants are coming into our country today by the millions, while legal immigrants are coming into our country only by the thousands. With our immigration laws going unenforced and with illegal immigrants being given the same treatment and benefits as legal immigrants, if not better treatment and more benefits, illegal immigration has been transformed by the Biden Administration into an invasion of our country by millions of unvetted foreigners, many of whom are on our terrorist watch list or known to be convicted criminals.
The Bible warns us that any nation that opens it gates to its enemies will be devoured by fire (Nahum 3:13). In other words, according to God's Word, defective national security leads to national disaster and open borders turns one’s homeland into a foreign land. As Ronald Reagan once said, "A nation that cannot control its border is not a nation." It remains to be seen if the "borderline" insanity, pardon the pun, of the Biden Administration can be undone by the Trump Administration. One thing for sure, however, wacky Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas are hellbent on using every tick of the clock remaining in their treasonous terms in office to keep our border wide open and millions of illegal immigrants securely embedded in our country for the foreseeable future.
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