I read this and think of that young beautiful woman Kate Steinle standing on a San Francisco pier with her father enjoying the view and being shot randomly without reason by an illegal alien who had been deported 5 times but had found refuge in the sanctuary city policy of San Francisco.
And it becomes clear that borders, walls, fortifications, rule of law, armies, patrols, law enforcement, jails and prisons and so on are all human constructs of exclusion. They are developed to give a chance that people might live in peace. Abandon all these constructs and Satan’s minions rule by default.
We have had in our history a rational immigration system, before 1965. We included many who were sincere and who sought a better life and who we as Americans were able at times to take in. But such a system was based on criteria for assimilation and points for skills and education. So we were inclusive and exclusive simultaneously.
We as Americans have been throughout our history an extremely charitable people who have had groups of missionaries and peace groups travel the world to help the poor and needy. So we make the effort to meet and greet the poor and advocate for their immigration to America if that is appropriate and available.
In the last several decades, our performance as Americans in immigration has become politicized. Immigrant groups are viewed as voters for the establishment party(s) recruiting them or as constituents that serve to provide power for certain districts.
America was good and can be good again.
Well said.