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It Should Be Obvious By Now That Not Everyone Can Become An American
The Federalist ^ | July 11, 2025 | John Daniel Davidson

Posted on 07/11/2025 7:31:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

We have to reject the toxic multicultural ideology, popular for many decades, that degrades citizenship to mere process neutralism.

There is perhaps no greater issue in American life today than the debate over citizenship and national identity. I don’t just mean the debate over illegal immigration, which often serves as a kind of proxy for the underlying debate over what it means to be an American and preserve a distinctly American nation.

Yes, we have to secure our border and put a stop to illegal immigration. But that’s just part — and arguably a small part — of a much larger and more difficult problem, which concerns American identity, national sovereignty, and cultural cohesion.

I wrote last week that in America today not everyone with citizenship is actually an American. To some, this might sound incendiary or extreme. Certainly it violates the tenets of multiculturalism that have been ascendent in America for decades now. But it’s actually just a straightforward observation of reality — so long as we understand that being an American means something more than merely securing legal documents or going through a neutral administrative process. Doing so might confer citizenship, but it will not make someone an American.

Vice President J.D. Vance hit on this in a speech for the Claremont Institute over the weekend. “You cannot swap 10 million people from anywhere in the world and expect America to remain unchanged,” he said. “You cannot export the Constitution to some random country and expect the same kind of government. Our citizens are not interchangeable cogs in the global economy.”

Vance is exactly right, and his point gets at the heart of what we’re really debating when we argue about border security, or mass deportations, or immigration visas. The reason...

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1 posted on 07/11/2025 7:31:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Import Third World
Become Third World


2 posted on 07/11/2025 7:32:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Import the Good
Reject the Bad
Become Better


3 posted on 07/11/2025 7:37:24 AM PDT by frogjerk
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A sizable chunk of Americans shouldn’t be Americans.


4 posted on 07/11/2025 7:39:35 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Anyone else getting ads on youtube from an upstart muslim tv station out of Dallas, TX?

Time to change my location, again.


5 posted on 07/11/2025 7:41:24 AM PDT by bgill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Duel citizenship has got to go. You are an American or you are not an American. And the DemonRATS decision that any foreigner who comes here and drops a “deuce” on U.S. soil in automatically a shitizen is sick.


6 posted on 07/11/2025 7:45:22 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you have asylum in the U.S. and you go home to visit family, is it like violating a Protect Order)
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To: BenLurkin

If I can’t build a Christian in a Muslim country, why should I believe bringing Muslims in is going to make “them” more tolerable?


7 posted on 07/11/2025 7:52:05 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: Mean Daddy

If I can’t build a Christian church in a Muslim country, why should I believe bringing Muslims in is going to make “them” more tolerable?


8 posted on 07/11/2025 7:52:42 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: Mean Daddy
If I can’t build a Christian in a Muslim country, why should I believe bringing Muslims in is going to make “them” more tolerable?

Years back, my Catholic Church allowed the muzzies to use the church basement for their Friday prayer services, as they had not yet established a local mosque. It really burned me up as I know for certain such an act of charity would never be reciprocated by the muzzles and in fact was probably seen as a sign of weakness.

9 posted on 07/11/2025 7:55:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Earlier this week I came across a report from the UK where a Pakistani immigrant was being tried for the rape of a thirteen year old girl. The defendant's wife - his wife! - came to his defense, claiming he didn't know it was ILLEGAL

ILLEGAL?! How about knowing it was just flat-out f***ing wrong?!

10 posted on 07/11/2025 7:57:38 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We really need to get rid of the commie poem from the statue of Liberty.


11 posted on 07/11/2025 8:04:01 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: frogjerk

That appears to be what our president is trying to do, but some seem to be resisting his best efforts. You can’t just let people into our country & expect them to become real American citizens,but this seems to be what many Democrats are trying to do. It won’t work. Besides, many are not even expecting that much; they just want cheap labor & someone who will vote Democrat every election, without stopping to realize that these illegal aliens are not even authorized to vote.


12 posted on 07/11/2025 8:18:14 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“I’m afraid of Americans”
https://youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo


13 posted on 07/11/2025 8:31:24 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !)
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To: Rummyfan

Maybe the wife was in on it.


14 posted on 07/11/2025 8:34:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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True, not just any US citizen can be an American. Exhibit A is Ilhan Omar. She is an anti-American who was put in the US House by a hoard of invaders from her native country.


15 posted on 07/11/2025 8:37:04 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

All citizenship interviews and forms should be in English ONLY. No apps, no cheat sheets. English or exit.


16 posted on 07/11/2025 8:44:17 AM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (Peace - through superior firepower.)
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To: Dan in Wichita

Immigrants who don’t adapt to American culture should be returned to sender.


17 posted on 07/11/2025 8:46:24 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; TheDon; BenLurkin; HYPOCRACY; FlingWingFlyer; Mean Daddy; oldtech
Classical Christianity led to philosophies of individual liberty as a condition precedent for effective government and was compelling to Deists, Christians, and Agnostics alike. After discussing in a long essay, John Winthrop, Roger Williams. Nathanial Ward, William Penn, David Hume, William Blackstone, and Montesquieu. John Locke, and James Madison, and our Declaration of Independence and Constitution I came up with a definition of an American.

Since the emergence of independent colonies and for all time Americans would be defined as sovereign individuals finding their identity in exercising pre-existing intangible liberties within bounds of voluntary self-restraint and accompanied by the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedoms. Their ethnicity, gender, class, and race would always be secondary expressions of humanity.

Quang Nguyen who escaped from Vietnam and founded Caddis Branding Agency speaking before a veterans group said, “In 1982, I stood with a thousand new immigrants, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, and listening to the National Anthem for the first time as an American. To this day, I can't remember anything sweeter and more patriotic than that moment in my life…..You see, America is not just a place on the map, it isn't just a physical location. It is an ideal, a concept. And if you are an American, you must understand the concept, you must accept this concept, and most importantly, you have to fight and defend this concept.”

Notice that for him becoming an American was his whole identity. I wonder if there is a meaningful cohort of such people left. I saw my oath of office as a Navy officer as the most serious commitment of my life. I wonder if now it is just a limerick people recite before getting on with their lives.

18 posted on 07/11/2025 9:02:08 AM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

not everyone should be an American. it’s too easy to naturalize, bring something to the table first. Not all your cousins, either.


19 posted on 07/11/2025 9:10:19 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( so is it okay that I said that??? GO TRUMP GO!!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Born American, but in the Wrong Place
20 posted on 07/11/2025 9:28:42 AM PDT by jdege
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