Immigration has been part and parcel of American history and society from the origins of our country. But the nature of immigration has changed dramatically in recent years, and with it entirely new challenges and dangers that the United States has not confronted before.
As it has been getting easier and easier to come to our shores, more and more new arrivals have brought with them venomous political and religious doctrines with them that pose grave dangers for our nation.
Immigrants have always been an important source of strength, and a source of concern for America. As the American Industrial Revolution got under way, more and more immigrants came to the Land of Opportunity.
These immigrants seemed to be increasingly alien in philosophy and religious belief, Catholics coming from Ireland, Italy, and the Hapsburg Empire and Jews from Germany and the Russian Empire.
Assimilating these disparate peoples into the American melting pot was not always easy. It is not merely a stereotype that they were usually poorly educated, and often prone to clannish group loyalties and corruption, and even criminality.
After the Russian Revolution a very few were even committed to a Bolshevik coup in America. But they were also very often the people from their relatively backward and poor countries who had the ambition to leave behind their old village and its settled traditions and cross the Atlantic in search of a dream. And they were part of a larger European and Judeo-Christian civilization.
The next wave of immigrants have come from Mexico and further south. For the most part these new arrivals have also brought both ambition and a desire for a better life. But modern day Mexico and Central America are also failing states, engulfed by uncontrolled violence and criminal gangs that dwarf earlier undesirable immigrant elements. The task of distinguishing between modern model citizens and vicious thugs has gotten harder. (That said, my own personal impressions of Hispanic immigrants has been exceptionally positive: hard working people grateful for the chance to live in this great country.)
The even more recent wave of immigrants from the former Soviet Union has been yet even more problematic. Russia is a hopelessly corrupt society and some Russians have brought that mindset with them. Social Security and Medicare fraud are rampant among the Russian immigrant community, and among my numerous contacts in the Russian-American community, a disturbingly large percentage seethe with contempt for the United States.
But the most problematic group of immigrants, by far, are Muslims from Africa and the Middle East. Senior al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki was an American citizen of Yemeni descent. Nidal Hassan, who killed 13 people at Ft. Hood, is an American of Palestinian descent. Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who murdered five people in Chattanooga, was a naturalized American citizen of Jordanian descent. The list goes on and on, and will get longer with time.
In the 19th century, an immigrant from southern or eastern Europe would have spent a month or more to get to Ellis Island, and would have been gladdened by the sight of the Statue of Liberty. They brought no particular ideology with them, other than a devotion to the social traditions of the old country. And once they arrived, they were by and large transplanted in a new land.
Today’s immigrants from the Middle East and Africa are only a ten-hour flight from what many may naturally consider their true homeland. If Italian Catholic peasants came from a very different culture from America, these immigrants come from very nearly a different world.
I have spent a lot of time in the Middle East and can have some respect for its cultural traditions, but far too many in this benighted corner of the planet have no respect for the United States, but rather bitter hatred.
This most recent wave of immigrants are often more resistant to easy assimilation and more reluctant to accept this country as truly their own. It is a ridiculous and dangerous myth that possession of American citizenship automatically means loyalty to America.
And in our modern internet connected world, not only is communication a hundred fold easier, so is command, control and even more dangerous, exhortation to jihadist terrorism.
I do not mean to suggest that a majority of Muslim immigrants are disloyal to America or a threat to our national security. I do wish to suggest that the nature of immigration today is very different from past times, and that we carefully consider those differences as we debate who should be allowed to come to our country and to whom we should confer the benefit of American citizenship.
"You guys understand how significant this is?" Luntz asked the press breathlessly when he came back into the room behind the glass. "This is real. I'm having trouble processing it. Like, my legs are shaking."
"I want to put the Republican leadership behind this mirror and let them see. They need to wake up. They don’t realize how the grassroots have abandoned them," Luntz continued.
"Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasn't listening to their grassroots."
The group said Trump has their best interests in mind, while other Republicans are looking out for themselves.
"We've got to show the Republicans that we've had it with them, that we will not be there every single time. They treat us like crap and they lie to us and promise us things and then they expect us to vote again," said a Republican woman....
Much of Trump’s support in the room seemed to stem from a weakness in the Republican party. The 2014 midterms did not usher in the conservative renaissance Republicans expected. Obamacare has still not been repealed, Congress is looking less likely to override a veto on the Iran deal, and there are still 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
The group of 29 went around the room, each supplying a single adjective for the legislative body that let them down after the 2014 elections. Congress "does nothing." It's "too old." "Useless." "Lame." "Inept." "Wrong party." "Cocktail party." "Gridlock." "Costly. "Sold out." "Sucks." "Douchebags."
Islamic State (ISIS) militants have destroyed a temple at Syria's ancient ruins of Palmyra, activists said Sunday, realizing the worst fears archaeologists had for the 2,000-year-old Roman-era city after the extremists seized it and beheaded a local scholar.
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End birthright citizenship. This remains the biggest magnet for illegal immigration. By a 2:1 margin, voters say it’s the wrong policy, including Harry Reid who said “no sane country” would give automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.Read Trump's entire statement HERE.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.What does jurisdiction entail? According to this (emphases mine):
...It should be noted that the condition of the father is what determines whether someone is born an alien or not because under U.S. law citizenship of wives and children always followed that of the father. And of course the status of the father was what determined the citizenship of a child born under law of nature.Read the rest HERE at my blog, where discussion of this topic is ongoing.
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...[C]itizenship by birth is established by the sovereign jurisdiction the United States already has over the parents of the child, and that required that they owe allegiance exclusively to the United States – just as is required to become a naturalized citizen. It does not require a leap of faith to understand what persons, other than citizens themselves, under the Fourteenth Amendment are citizens of the United States by birth: Those aliens who have come with the intent to become U.S. citizens, who had first complied with the laws of naturalization in declaring their intent and renounce all prior allegiances....
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...There is no way in the world anyone can claim “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” affirms the feudal common law doctrine of birth citizenship to aliens because such doctrine by operation creates a “double allegiance” between separate nations.
If there is one inescapable truth to the text and debates, it is this: When Congress decided to require potential citizens to first be subject to the complete jurisdiction of the United States they by default excluded all citizens of other nations temporarily residing in the U.S. who had no intention of becoming citizens themselves or, disqualified of doing so under naturalization laws. This was no oversight...
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Lois Lerner had yet another personal email account used to conduct some IRS business, the tax agency confirmed in a new court filing late Monday that further complicates the administration’s efforts to be transparent about Ms. Lerner’s actions during the tea party targeting scandal.
The admission came in an open-records lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest law firm that has sued to get a look at emails Ms. Lerner sent during the targeting.
“In addition to emails to or from an email account denominated ‘Lois G. Lerner‘ or ‘Lois Home,’ some emails responsive to Judicial Watch’s request may have been sent to or received from a personal email account denominated ‘Toby Miles,’” Mr. Klimas told Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who is hearing the case.
The Democratic mayors of two Michigan cities plan to celebrate September 11th this year by honoring Sharia and hosting their “9th Annual Ramadan Unity Dinner.”
Ramadan ended in July, but the Islamic Society of Greater Lansing has scheduled its dinner at the city-owned convention center on the very day when 19 Muslim terrorists killed 2,977 innocent victims at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and three crashed airliners, 14 years ago.
In an almost unbelievable act of callousness and dishonor of those victims, Mayors Virg Bernero and Nathan Triplett of Lansing and East Lansing, respectively, will host a dinner themed “Hope, Not Hunger.”
The event’s poster features an Islamic crescent and a skyline of mosque-styled buildings.
Excerpted from The Washington Times: President Obama and his administration continue to support the global Islamist militant group known as the Muslim Brotherhood. A White House strategy document regards the group as a moderate alternative to more violent Islamist groups like al Qaeda and the Islamic State.The policy of backing the Muslim Brotherhood is outlined in a secret directive called Presidential Study Directive-11, or PSD-11. The directive was produced in 2011 and outlines administration support for political reform in the Middle East and North Africa, according to officials familiar with the classified study.
Britain’s vandalised embassy in Iran reopened on Sunday – with graffiti stiill daubed above a portrait of the Queen saying “Death to England”.
The graffiti, one of numerous slogans sprayed across the embassy in Tehran when it was ransacked by a mob four years ago, had not been removed for the grand-reopening of the embassy, despite the attendance of VIPs including the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond.England doesn't even have enough pride to paint over this abominable insult?!?
All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same unalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.
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