America is a land of immigrants. We’re told that constantly,
and it’s true. Of course it’s also true that immigration of one sort of another
is a hallmark of almost all of human history.
Wherever humanity originated, at some point members of the
species immigrated everywhere else. It is of course never a simple issue. Sometimes
it’s the result of the peoples being chased from their homelands like the Vandals
who were chased by the Huns from eastern Europe into the Roman Empire,
eventually settling in Gaul then Iberia and finally North Africa. Other times
it’s the result of a people who seek to expand their territory through conquest
such as with the various Muslim caliphates that emerged from Mecca & Medina
whose desire to encircle the Mediterranean was only stopped by Charles Martel
in Tours in 732 and by John III Sobieski in Vienna in 1683.
History is full of examples of peoples immigrating from one
place to another. We often think of the earliest peoples moving into an area
that was previously uninhabited. That may possibly be true of North and South
America, but for the most part it’s not true. When the earliest humans
immigrated out of Africa and into Europe, Asia and Oceania, they encountered
our cousins, the Neanderthals, and after 100 centuries of war eventually
eradicated them.
All of this to say that immigration is nothing new in human
history. And it’s not in American history either. The United States was built
by immigrants from Europe from a land that was extraordinarily sparsely
populated when they arrived. It’s estimated that there were 4.5
million inhabitants north of the Rio Grande in 1492, or about one half a
person per square mile. That compares
to approximately 32 in Mexico at the time, 33 in Spain, 60 in France and the
103 in India, the world’s densest nation at the time. Today America stands at approximately 100 people
per square mile.
From its beginning, what became America experienced a series
waves of immigration which included approximately
86 million people through 2019, a number that has increased to
approximately 100 million over the last 5 years. Although Donald Trump stemmed
the tide somewhat, Joe Biden has opened up the floodgates with more than 10
million illegal immigrants pouring over the nonexistent border since his
installation. That’s fully 3% of the US population. As significant numbers of those people are
heading to New York, California and other blue states who roll out the red
carpet and give them free
money, the Democrats don’t fight to keep the border open because it helps
their Congressional
numbers.
This is simply not sustainable. Particularly when the overwhelming
majority of the people coming across the border are from countries that don’t share our values and
have little experience with the freedoms that helped create history’s greatest nation
& economy.
Across the country we’re seeing sanctuary states and cities
being overwhelmed by the events they supported in the first place. Citizens,
veterans, children and more are being displaced to make room for illegals, and
taxpayers are picking up the tab. Virtually every aspect of public services is
being overwhelmed, from shelters to schools to hospitals to police.
The good thing is, Donald Trump has promised that on day 1
he will start the largest
domestic deportation operation in American history. That, combined with a
wall the likes of which we’ve never seen is a great start.
But there’s a problem, and Jesse Kelly hit it right on the head on Twitter…
“70% of Americans SAY they care about the border.
Run one video of little Pedro sobbing as he and mother
Lupe get loaded into an ICE vehicle a they get deported back to Guatemala and
that 70% number will drop to around 5%.
Country is too soft for mass deportation. No chance. 0.”
Kelly is right. America is simply too soft to do what’s
necessary in order to deal with this disaster.
Americans are largely a compassionate people. The LBGTQXYZ travesty
we’re experiencing today is at its core the result of Americans reacting to gay
partners not being able to visit dying lovers in hospitals during the AIDS
epidemic because they didn’t have rights and families of the dying kept them
out of the hospital rooms.
Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of babies are aborted
annually because Americans are angered at hearing that a victim of rape or the
mother of a severely handicapped fetus are forced to give birth rather than get
an abortion.
In wide swaths of the country policing and justice have been
eviscerated because too many Americans believe that blacks are incapable of
overcoming slavery that ended a century and a half ago or discrimination that was
outlawed back in the 1960s.
Americans are indeed a compassionate people, but sometimes
compassion can get you killed. Compassion has a role to play in a moral
civilization, but when it becomes the driving force to the exclusion of
rational thought, it ceases to be a virtue. (See Europe, which since 2015 at Angela
Merkel’s direction during the war in Syria, imported tens of millions of
military aged men from Africa and the Middle East who are bringing
war to the streets, many of whom despise western culture and want
to bring Sharia.) You cannot run a country based on teary anecdotes. They
make for great media and heartfelt stories, but they make for terrible policy.
If Donald Trump is going to fix this situation, he’s going
to have to be willing to endure the unprecedented level of vitriol that will be
thrown at him. AOC crying at the side of cages will be child’s play compared to
what the media will do with images of little Pedro and his pregnant mommy being
pulled from the taxpayer provided hotel room and loaded up into a DHS van. He’s
going to have to be willing to endure stories about the heartbreaking lives
that face deportees back in Mexico, Guatemala and Venezuela and the rest of the
countries from whence they came with him playing the role of Hitler. At the end
of the day, if Donald Trump is going to lead the nation out of the morass that
Democrats and the swamp have led us into, he’s going to have to be willing to
be vilified, cursed, defamed, libeled, reviled and basically all of the other
things he has been exposed to over the last 8 years, on steroids.
He wasn’t willing to endure that abuse last time and allowed
random
judges to throw
roadblocks all along the way, and as a result his wall was never finished and
now there are 10 million new illegals here as a result. If he’s going to be the
leader Americans need right now, he’s going to have be a lot more George Patton
and a lot less Mark Milley…
