Biden, 'Illegals Built This Country'
(Click video to play| MSNBC)
A clip of a recent exchange between President Biden and an MSNBC reporter has outraged middle America.
(Biden brandished Laken Riley pin given to him by Majorie Taylor Greene while referring to the “illegal” who allegedly murdered the young girl| SOTU Address)
In the clip, Biden is asked why he used the term “illegal” in reference to the illegal alien who allegedly murdered Laken Riley, during the president’s response to Georgia Representative Majorie Taylor Greene at the State of The Union.
(MTG heckles Biden at SOTU over killing of Laken Riley)
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The president apologized for the term, saying he should have said “undocumented.”
The MSNBC reporter does not ask and Biden does not volunteer whether he is apologetic for the border policy that made Riley’s murder possible.
Later, in the same exchange on illegal aliens, Biden says “They built this country.”
Biden does not qualify this belief by saying “only legal immigrants built this country” and he makes no attempt to bathe the discussion in relevant history.
Whether this is his true belief or a gaffe, native-born Americans should find this statement intolerable.
The United States was built by pioneers, not immigrants–– and certainly not illegal immigrants.
Reducing the founding of the United States to immigration is like reducing the creation of the Renaissance to humans. While the great craftsmen of the Renaissance were certainly humans, they were more than that; they were the greatest artists of all time.
The Puritans who landed in New England and the Cavaliers who landed in Virginia are far more than immigrants, indeed their migration is the least interesting and important thing about them.
(American pioneer cabin, painted by AI)
These brave men (and they were mostly men at first) carved from the wilderness totally functional and self-sufficient societies.
(Conversion of the Indians, as painted by AI)
They brought Christianity to the new world and ended the practice of human sacrifice amongst the Indians.
They created new forms of government that— for the first time— simultaneously emphasized property rights, individual rights, and local control.
In just a few generations, the North went on to capture the economies of Europe through its manufacturing base, while the South captured them through its massive agricultural base.
(Pioneers head westward in covered wagons, as painted by AI)
Together these pioneers pushed the frontiers westward and survived wars, plagues, and droughts. They did this without the modern welfare state or handouts.
In contrast, 63% of the modern “non-citizen” households (including legal and illegal immigrants) are on some form of welfare.
Rather than establish new infrastructure and systems, reports show that each new illegal immigrant puts a $68,000 burden on social services.
Numerous illegal immigrants have been implicated in heinous crimes in recent days, including an alleged planned Islamic terror attack in Houston.
Public schools in the United States have been closed to house illegal immigrants, while illegal alien labor suppresses the wages of native-born Americans.
To recall the words of Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan when she chaired the bipartisan Commission On Immigration Reform, “Immigration is not a right… immigration is a privilege, granted by the people of the United States to those we choose to admit.”
One must wonder why the president and the corporate press feel the need to apologize to those whose first act in the country is not to tame the wilds and build a better place to live for all but to violate our laws and hurt the livelihoods of the native-born.
Further, one must wonder what the pioneers of generations past could have in common with those who enter the country today and demand welfare tomorrow.
Obviously there are no similarities between these groups.
Americans must remember their history and reject the conflation of our pioneers with those who allegedly murdered Laken Riley in cold blood.
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