“President Trump stated his goal was to make America great again. This cannot happen with a government that does not believe in and enforce the laws as written…”
What is going on with our nation? Something is clearly not right. I just sat and listened to Attorney General Jeff Sessions actually state that he was going to enforce the laws as laid out by the Congress of the United States in regards to immigration. I am not only floored, but completely disbelieving of his speech.
For decades, we have heard the government tell us that they are going to do “something” to secure our border, but I have never (until today) actually heard someone give a clear and direct vision on the way ahead. Not just that, but he also stated directly and in no ambiguous language that he was in full support of the law enforcement officers who are risking their lives on the border every day—often without adequate support from their government in terms of personnel and backing.
Ronald Reagan once stated that “a nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.” For decades, however, we have forgotten this fact, just as we have forgotten that there is a reason for limiting immigration. Like it or not, immigration is not a solution for the poor and persecuted. Why? There are simply too many poor and persecuted throughout the world for us to have any real impact. This is a complete lie that has been fed to us through the liberal mindset. Worse yet, they attempt to convince us that having any opinion other than open borders relegates others to torture and death. Again, this is simply a way to pull upon the heartstrings of the weak and ill-informed.
Our country has an immigration policy to ensure that America takes in only the best and brightest from other countries. Additionally, we want to ensure that those who want to come into our country want to truly become an American. Theodore Roosevelt said this best when he wrote,
“We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn’t doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.”
What most people fail to realize is the true gift that America gives to those wishing to become one of us. When someone becomes an American, they are accepted by our nation as exactly that—an American. Not an immigrant, or a foreign-born national, or anything else. We take them into our society and tell these men, women, and children they are now one of us, entitled to all the freedoms that all people are born with. And that chief among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Shouldn’t we be particular about who we take into our society? Shouldn’t we want only those who help to lift up our country and truly make it exceptional? More importantly, what truly is the role of our government if it is not to protect us?
I am of the mindset that our country is truly extraordinary in the history of human existence, and as such, our incredible experiment in freedom and liberty must be protected. Without borders, drugs, gangs, and even worse can simply come into our nation and infect us like a virus, intent on spreading its putrid stench upon our nation until we fail to exist.
The thought of us having an attorney general who takes his oath seriously and intends to actually enforce the laws of our nation is, unfortunately, an absolute anomaly. Not only was he pledging his support to his oath to protect and defend the Constitution, but he also called for such things as increasing the number of judges to expedite hearings, making it a felony to cross the border illegally multiple times, and targeting and striking international gang violence (which I believe is simply another word for terrorist).
I am not always a fan of our current president. I for one believe that he needs to learn to turn off the Twitter account occasionally and definitely grow some thicker skin. I think he often speaks before he thinks, and I believe that he needs to learn to use a filter. However, I have been beyond impressed with his cabinet picks by and large. Today’s press conference not only validated my beliefs in the people he chose, but burned them into my conscience with flames of indelible fire.
President Trump stated his goal was to make America great again. This cannot happen with a government that does not believe in and enforce the laws as written. From what I am seeing, we are clearly on a path to accomplish his goal. I, for one, am looking forward to seeing how we continue from here. I think our current president can be summed up with another quote from one of our greats, Ronald Reagan. “Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.” Keep proving them wrong, Mr. President—it is the reason why we elected you.
