The same day President Trump vowed to end the “visa lottery” and “chain migration,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the men who committed the two New York terrorist attacks last fall were in the United States “as a result of failed immigration policies.” As Sessions explained, the “20-year-old son of the sister of a U.S. citizen should not get priority to come to this country ahead of someone who is high-skilled, well educated, has learned English, and is likely to assimilate and flourish here.”
President Trump pointed out that the United States “must fix its lax immigration system, which allows far too many dangerous, inadequately vetted people” into our country. Trump was elected president in large part because Americans applauded the strength of his commitment to put Americans first and protect our borders against politically correct notions of multiculturalism and diversity.
Congressman Steve King recently echoed an observation made by the prime minister of Hungary that diversity can lead to a lower quality of life, not a higher one. What is needed is not diversity as much as assimilation, in order to remain a secure and prosperous nation.
“Assimilation has become a dirty word to the multiculturalist Left,” King wisely observed. “Assimilation, not diversity, is our American strength."
Supporters of diversity insist that recent immigrant terrorists became radicalized after they arrived in the United States. Even if true, that’s all the more reason to oppose such immigrants because they are not assimilating themselves into our society, and instead are trying to destroy it.
One of the first executive orders by President Trump was to issue his so-called travel ban to restrict immigration from certain countries associated with terrorism. Liberals then filed multiple lawsuits to block his Executive Order from going into effect.
In December the Supreme Court ruled that the President’s modified travel ban could be enforced while it is challenged in lower courts. It took nearly all of 2017 for the courts to allow the ban the President first issued back in January, but better late than never.
