Posted on 01/11/2019 2:21:35 AM PST by a little elbow grease
Victor Davis Hanson January 10, 2019 --- 22 minutes
(snip) -- Historically there are three elements to immigration that adjudicate whether it has failed or successful.
(snip) -- "Rome worked when foreigners crossed through its borders to become Romans. It failed when newcomers fled into the empire and adhered to their own cultures."
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Considering the illegal invasions right now, this is worth hearing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky0WONbIXAE
Comments:
Ruckyroo: “Come on now, let’s be honest. Will it be a melting pot or a moulting pet? Remember the old movie, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, where the banditos set upon Humphrey Bogart and his burro laden with gold he’d dug out of the mountain? “We don’t need no feelthy badges!!” That’s what we have to look forward to - lawlessness.”
WWS TEXAS13: “Oh come on, how many illegal aliens does it take to design and build a new Boeing airliner?
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http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/are-sanctuary-cities-the-new-confederates/#more-8723
Also, an article from October 2015
.. three years ago and quite relevant.
(snip) -— In 2013 alone, ICE released more than 36,000 undocumented immigrants with criminal convictions. One thousand of them were charged with committing subsequent crimes, according to the Center for Immigration Studies report.
Why have these sanctuary cities and an agency overseen by the Obama administration chosen to disregard federal law and risk the safety of the public?
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(snip) — Many Americans support a pathway to legal residence for undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States if the border is first closed to further illegal immigration, if legal immigration is made ethnically blind and predicated on merit such as education and skills, if undocumented immigrants pay a fine and meet residency requirements, if applicants for legal residence are neither on public assistance nor have committed crimes, and if those with criminal records and without work records are sent back to their countries of origin. In contrast, sanctuary cities refuse even to inform federal authorities about the undocumented immigrants with felony convictions who are residing in their jails.
So where do we go from here?
If immigration law were nullified, almost anyone could enter the United States. Perhaps undocumented immigrants from Asia would soon outnumber those from Mexico and Central America. And if cities can declare supposedly conservative federal immigration law invalid, then some states might do the same, deeming lots of federal statutes too liberal.
I thought the Civil War ended these dangerous ideas for good. Apparently not.
I don't need Hanson to tell me this. The Bible talks about the feet of clay mixed with iron. They were living together, but...did not get along well....
Daniel 2:41 "And in that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have in it the toughness of iron, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with common clay.
Daniel 2:43 "And in that you saw the iron mixed with common clay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery.
This is exactly what is happening to us and now we have rebellion.
Illegal immigrants = intruders, interlopers.
Sure, we need to stem the the flow to a manageable level. But manageable means able to assimilate.
We need a concerted effort to assimilate the immigrants we already have - to our language, culture, and the values of our founding. Our own kids as well.
We need a culture war - now it is just a one-sided beating.
When MY grandparents came here, they were overjoyed to be ‘AMERICANS”!
It was the highest compliment they could pay themselves or ANYONE else....’He’s an American’.
They couldn’t assimilate fast enough and did it WITHOUT any freebies!!
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Good.
Don't lose that Bible.
“Rome worked when foreigners crossed through its borders to become Romans. It failed when newcomers fled into the empire and adhered to their own cultures.”
crossed through...fled into...adhered to their own cultures...
That describes the goal of the democrat party.
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Un-thank Ronald Reagan. With friends like that...
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