“…Against All Enemies, Foreign AND DOMESTIC!”
Contrary to what myopic MAGA media pundits have declared (NewsMax radio), not only did at least one of our Founding Fathers anticipate and warn against the dangers of legal immigration, American Statesmen have been doing so throughout our history. (See: Annals of America, Volumes 1-22)
The Uni-Party ensconced in the hallowed halls of Congress for the last fifty years knows of the consequences and ignores them to demographically gerrymander the economic (Rs) and political (Ds) landscape; intentionally diluting the power of the American voter to profit personally economically and politically. (See: Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster by Peter Brimlow, 1995; 327 pages.)
The legal challenge to the much abused “birth right citizenship” interpretation of the Constitution would have had a much stronger legal standing if Congress had changed the law instead of standing on an obviously unconstitutional presidential executive order.
But Congress will never change immigration law if it even remotely restricts the massive influx of legal aliens it has facilitated for the last fifty years – despite the obvious devastation to America’s historical narrative, heritage and culture.
Congress and the media show their squeamish ignorance / Left leaning penchant regarding immigration by persisting in calling Illegals Illegal IMMIGRANTS. That term is an oxymoron. Nowhere in the Immigration & Nationality Act will you find the terms Illegal and Immigrant connected.
Any person entering the United States without proper documentation is an ILLEGAL ALIEN. MAGA media exposes their faux conservatism by their incorrect terminology giving illegal aliens a status they don’t possess.
The following is just one example of congressional representatives being aware of the consequences of LEGAL IMMIGRATION extracted from the Annals of America:
Samuel F. B. Morse, The Dangers of Foreign Immigration, 1835; Annals of America Volume 6; p. 160:
“The necessity of a change in the naturalization laws is so indispensable to the safety of the Nation that the attention of all Americans should now be concentrated [on it].
It bears directly on the principle of the ballot itself, that principle which decides the gravest question of policy among Americans, which can decide the very existence of the government or can change its form at any moment.
Surely this vital principle is protected from injury? To secure this principle, every means which a people in securing their liberties could devise was doubtless gathered about for its protection?
It is NOT guarded!
Be astonished at this Americans! How is it possible that so vital a point as the ballot box was not constitutionally surrounded with double, nay, treble guards? How is it that this heart of democracy was left so exposed to that of the murderous eyes of despots [Elected officials]?
How is it that none of our ‘sagacious’ statesmen foresaw this danger to the Republic through the unprotected ballot box?
It was foreseen! It did not escape the prophetic eye of Jefferson. He foresaw and from the beginning foretold the evil, and uttered his warning voice. Mr. Jefferson denounced the encouragement of immigration.
Truth and Justice are superior to all men. I advocate Jefferson’s opinions, not because they are Jefferson’s but because his opinions are in accordance with Truth and sound policy.
In our national infancy we needed the strength of numbers. Powerful nations, to whom we were accessible by fleets , and subsequently by armies, threatened us. Our land had been the theater of contests between the French and English, and Spanish armies for more than a century. Our numbers were so few and so scattered that as a people we could not unite to repel aggression. The War of Independence, too, had wasted us. We wanted numerical strength, we felt our weakness in numbers. Safety, then, national safety, was the motive which urged us to use every effort to increase our population, and to induce foreign immigration.
We benefited from the immigrants and we in return could bestow on them a gift beyond price by simply making them citizens.
Manifest as this advantage seemed in the increase of our numerical strength, Mr. Jefferson looked beyond the advantage of the moment and saw the distant evil:
“I beg leave,’ says Mr. Jefferson, ‘to propose a doubt. The present desire of [Congress] is to produce rapid population by as great importation of foreigners as possible. But is this founded in good policy? The advantage proposed is the multiplication of numbers.
Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent. Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours, perhaps, are more peculiar than those of any other in the Universe. It is s composition of the freest Principles of the English constitution with others derived from the natural rights and natural reason. To these, nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of absolute monarchies. Yet, from such, we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants.
They will bring with them the principles of government they have imbibed in their early youth, or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate Liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp, and bias its directions, and render it a heterogenous, incoherent, distracted mass.”
Circumstances have so changed entirely that instead of adding strength to the country, immigration adds weakness, weakness physical and moral. Then we few, feeble, and scattered. Now we are numerous, strong and concentrated. Then our accessions by immigration were for real accessions of strength from the ranks of the learned and the good, from the enlightened mechanic and artisan and intelligent husbandman. Now immigration is the accession of weakness, from the ignorant, and the vicious. Then immigration was natural, it was an attraction of affinities, it was an attraction of Liberty to Liberty. Immigrants were the proscribed for conscience sake, and for opinion’s sake, the real lovers of Liberty, Europe’s loss and our gain.
Mr. Jefferson: “The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold on us; it is better to keep the wolf out of the fold than to try drawing in his teeth and talons after he has entered.”
So, MAGA media, Congress has known for over 200 years the dangers of LEGAL immigration and chosen to ignore them for their own political and economic benefit.
“Government isn’t the solution to our problems. Government IS the problem!” – Ronald Reagan.
Thanks to Congress – and the Supreme Court (?), it’s too late to shut the gate – or build a wall.
