Mass Immigration, Legal Or Illegal, Is Incompatible With National Survival: Mass Deportation of Illegal Immigrants is Not Enough to Save America. We Have to Recover an Insistence On Assimilation; Immigration Without Assimilation is Invasion

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Mass Immigration, Legal Or Illegal, Is Incompatible With National Survival:

Mass deportation of illegal immigrants is not enough to save America. We have to recover an insistence on assimilation.

There’s a bit more to say about Democrat Illinois Rep. Delia Ramírez, who in her recent opening remarks at the second annual Panamerican Congress in Mexico City declared (in Spanish), “I am a proud Guatemalan before I am American.”

You might think, as I initially did, that Ramírez is an immigrant from Guatemala. But she was actually born in Chicago. Her mother illegally entered the United States by crossing the Rio Grande while she was pregnant, which gave Ramírez birthright citizenship. In common parlance, she’s an “anchor baby.”

That Ramírez, a natural-born American citizen, sees herself as a Guatemalan first is telling, and it gives us a window into the mindset of the political left, which believes it’s problematic, even shameful, to identify as simply an American — that there is something wrong with being an American as such, and something uniquely noble or praiseworthy about being an unassimilated immigrant and a foreigner.

Telling, too, was Ramírez’s reaction after negative coverage of her remarks by conservative outlets and social media. She issued a statement that almost perfectly distills her animating ideology. “Let’s call it what it is: today’s attacks are a weak attempt to silence my dissent and invalidate my patriotic criticism of the nativist, white supremacist, authoritarians in government.”

She went on: “No one questions when my white colleagues identify as Irish-American, Italian-American, or Ukrainian-American to honor their ancestry. I’ve consistently expressed pride in my heritage and history — a pride also often reflected in the origin stories of my colleagues. Only those who believe America should not include the children of immigrants or be diverse would attack me — and Americans like me — for honoring my roots. Honoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens my commitment to America.”

Ramírez is here attempting a clumsy bit of legerdemain, claiming to honor her ancestry when in fact she was placing it above her national allegiance and identity as an American. And of course her comparison to her white colleagues is totally dishonest. No American with Irish or Italian ancestry goes around proclaiming they’re an Irishman or an Italian before they’re an American. It’s like pretending, as many on the left have done, that waving a Mexican flag during an anti-ICE riot is the same as waving an Irish flag at a Saint Patrick’s Day parade. At the parade, you’re actually paying homage to your ancestry. At the riot, you’re staking a claim against the nation to which you have emigrated, essentially declaring war against it.

That Ramírez frames her defense in racialist terms is also telling. As it is for so many issues on the left, the animus Ramírez displays for America is framed in terms of race. America is bad because it is “nativist” and “white supremacist.” The only way to redeem the country, according to this way of thinking, is to destroy its whiteness and its distinctly European and Christian culture. Indeed, this is at the heart of the multiculturalism that Ramírez and the entire political left champion.

For these people, nothing less than a cultural, political, and demographic revolution will suffice to redeem America. Their creed is a kind of anti-nationalism.

That’s why, for example, the administrative bureaucracy, long captured by the left, has slowly eroded the oath of allegiance to the United States that naturalized citizens must take. The oath begins with this: “I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.” It goes on to require that naturalized citizens “support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” bear arms in defense of the nation when required, and so on. --->READ MORE HERE

Immigration Without Assimilation is Invasion:

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