Only Americans can save America

by Dennis Hicks, Hamilton

The idea that people are helped by separating them from their extended family, and relocating them to where they don’t know the language, are in a foreign culture, and do not share the same values, is insane. When people are uprooted from their history, their culture, and their values, they lose their identity — it is forced homelessness. The various NGO’s that are currently working to “help” illegal immigrants are actually doing great harm, paid for by U.S. tax dollars.

It has been understood from antiquity that forcing people groups together that do not share core values (it’s called tribalism) has predictable consequences. At first, they just don’t trust one another; over time they begin to hate one another; and finally, they will war with one another. Consider the great increase in crime in Europe, especially Germany, since they have received large numbers of “refugees.” The manufactured tribes are beginning to war with one another; even kill one another.

Consider the predictable consequences of forcing together a civilized (Western) culture and a culture that believes any unaccompanied female is fair game for rape. What if the values of one tribe include killing anybody who does not believe the way they believe? Tribalism always results in chaos, and forcing together people who do not share core values always produces tribalism. No humane person would do that on purpose.

America is a unified culture, E Pluribus Unum, because, from the beginning, immigrants wanted to become Americans. They received nothing from the government, but they learned the language, they adopted American values and work-ethics, and they worked hard to pursue happiness in their new home. Those are the legal immigrants that formed the great melting-pot that comprised American culture.

There have always been differences in American culture: different nationalities, different religions, different races, but these never divided us, because of the commonly held values rooted in the God-given rights of every individual.