Posted on 04/30/2024 9:28:46 AM PDT by Starman417
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
“English historian Peter Heather argues that Rome was overcome by illegal immigration. The Germanic tribes did not want to destroy the empire but only to participate in its wealth and the protection it offered its citizens.”
Sound familiar?
This is what Trump has to contend with.
Mexican president Obrador was asked on talk tv, would happen if the U.S. were to refuse Mexico’s blackmail threats demanding the US at once give $20 billion to him and his greedy cohorts?
Obrador abruptly snapped:
“The flow of migrants will continue” - a stark unequivocal admission that he, Obrador himself
(in cahoots w/ vote-crazed Biden), has the power to to control illegals pouring into the U.S.
This is what’s driving the Mexican greedster. He figures its worth the risk........the more migrants they push in here means more remittances back to Mexico.How much in remittances alone does Mexico receive from the US? SAN DIEGO
(Border Report—Feb 8, 2024)
More than $63 billion in remittances were sent to Mexico in 2023,
with most of the money arriving from the US, according to
Banxico, Mexico’s central bank.
The figure is a 7% hike from the previous year.
Not to mention the billions in foreign aid the US
consistently rains down on Mexico and Central America.
Trump doesn’t have to deport them. There are other ways where they will deport themselves. /spit
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