Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Let me tell you about a house.
Not a metaphor about hope or healing or some poem you’d find tacked to a kindergarten bulletin board. No. This one is about immigration, borders, assimilation, and the spectacular self-inflicted chaos of a nation that forgot why it has walls. Grab a seat. There will be a quiz at the end, and yes, I grade on a curve, but not that generous a curve.
Assimilation of new arrivals to the U.S. is an ongoing problem. Persistent failure of large immigrant groups to assimilate linguistically, civically, and economically can produce enduring ethnic enclaves, lower social trust, weaker shared civic norms, and political and cultural polarization that strain public institutions and social cohesion. This can lead to a direct threat to the American constitutional republic over time as respect for the U.S. rule of law fractures in favor of other ideological frameworks like Sharia law.
One of the biggest long-term demographic challenges faced by the US. Is lack of an enforcement mechanism for the assimilation of new arrivals (i.e., legal immigrants who have been “naturalized” as U.S. citizens). There are some groups who refuse to assimilate, including Islamists and some racial groups (e.g., Somalis recruited into the al-Shabaab terrorist network).
We have millions of people living in the United States today who are not American citizens. They come from countless other nations, most of which do not share our morals or values. Many worship false — and violent — gods. Many follow false religions, and cults with radical ideologies. What’s even worse is that today, we have many government officials, leaders, and people in powerful positions of control that have no business being there, because they’ve never met the requirements for US Citizenship, they have contempt for our US Constitution and have no intention of ever assimilating to our culture.
In the Clash Over Immigration, Part 4, we examined the collision of the 1) Hart-Celler Act, 2) cancellation of the Bracero program, 3) birthright citizenship, and 4) powerful factions driven by competing, narrow self-interests. This was the turning point for both legal and illegal immigration that is essentially in place today. As such, it is important to stop and record observations before moving on to the next chapter. While others may connect the dots differently, these are my observations.
America at 250
America is the oldest, continuous modern Republic on Earth.
And Uber Super Power America has imperial power and responsibilities without imperial ambitions.
Above all, America is absolutely unique.
This is Part II of a two-part series that is analyzing the La Reconquista movement. It calls for the cultural, demographic, or political “reclamation” of the U.S. Southwest, which Mexico lost after the Mexican-American War.
Over the last two decades, that melting pot has been turned down to a simmer and replaced with a salad bowl, where every group keeps its own flavor and dressing. What used to fuse us together is now being sorted into separate piles of identity — and our biggest cities are leading the way.
Wait, how can assimilation be a Founding Principle? Did the earliest British subjects assimilate in the Colonies? They did indeed. Immigrants came to this country for the promise of self-determination, freedom and property. The Colonies pulled together for over 150-years before becoming an independent Nation, solving issues that could not wait for the King or his ministers. This Nation …