I still get a bit teary-eyed when I watch citizenship ceremonies filled with immigrants who came to the United States in search of freedom and a better life. You see a room filled with people who are often far more patriotic than the average American, and always more patriotic than the median Democrat.
Sure, there are always a few who are cynically exploiting the system, but they are the minority. For the most part, I find that immigrants who waited in line to come here and who worked their way into citizenship are hard-working, often more entrepreneurial than the average American. Immigrants start new businesses at 1.5 to 2 times the rate of native born Americans.
About 20% of Fortune 500 companies have at least one immigrant founder, and almost 50% have been founded by first or second-generation immigrants. Google, Nvidia, and Tesla, three of the most valuable companies in the world, were founded by immigrants, and Steve Jobs was the son of an immigrant.
With that said, I have nothing but contempt for migrants who come here and refuse to integrate into our culture, and many of the most recent immigrants live off of welfare at rates vastly greater than native-born Americans and express contempt for our country.
Vermont school district sparks outrage after raising Somali flag on campus https://t.co/1UrbLpy58m pic.twitter.com/6oXHCbcmBs
— New York Post (@nypost) December 9, 2025
For some reason, liberals will often point to the first group while defending the second group vociferously. Liberals bend over backwards to exempt illegal immigrants not just from our immigration laws, but from all our laws. They reflexively defend even the most vile criminals who kidnap and rape children, human traffickers, and gang members who terrorize innocents.
You see this in the furor over Trump's criticism of Somalis, who have been an absolute plague on my state and in our country. They have corrupted our politics, spent decades attacking America, committed the most massive welfare frauds in American history.
BREAKING: Winooski School District in VT raises the Somalian flag pic.twitter.com/njoVDo2c4i
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 8, 2025
It is true that "not all" Somalis are responsible for committing crimes, but even the most cursory examination of the Somali community and its institutions shows that the culture in which they are bound and refuse to leave is corrupt and sexually violent to the core. That is not prejudice speaking; it is simply a fact.
JUST IN: Twice-convicted rapist Abdimahat Mohamed gets ZERO prison time in Minnesota for gunpoint-rape of a 15 year-old & sex assault of another woman.
— Jenna Gloeb (@JennaReports) December 5, 2025
Hennepin County Attorney: 'Politicizing this harms our Somali community.' https://t.co/8Upg02B7SF
She let this guy, who IIRC was an African Boys gang member, go three times.
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) December 9, 2025
Rape, as usual with this sort of judge. I'm a political scientist, not a psychologist - you think all that through. https://t.co/5jGsdwi3sj pic.twitter.com/SYWDdh1pmx
When a Somali man who had lived here for two decades kidnapped and raped a 12-year-old girl, the Minnesota Islamic Center wrote a gushing letter about how great a guy he was and how he just didn't understand our culture.
And that same community united in support of one of their own who kidnapped a 12 year old from her yard and rap*d her. pic.twitter.com/IECjmcsOAH
— Amy 🇺🇸 ♀️ (@amy_likes_owls) November 24, 2025
Somalis routinely pledge their allegiance to Somalia and disdain America, even when they run for office. Ilhan Omar tells her "community" all the time that her first loyalty is to Somalia and Somalis, and Minneapolis politicians now must choose which Somali clans to bow down to and speak to them in Somali.
Ilhan Omar: “I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from within the US system.”
— aka (@akafaceUS) May 4, 2025
How is she allowed to serve?pic.twitter.com/DgsR40gXQz
Despite all the evidence that Somalis as a group have no loyalty to the United States and see their route to success as exploiting the generous welfare systems of Western countries (In European countries that keep track of such things Somalis top the list of welfare recipients and sexual crime statistics, along with Pakistanis and Afghanis), when forced to choose between Somalis and the United States, liberals keep choosing Somalis.
🚨BREAKING: Minnesota’s Somali fraud may reach $8 BILLION, not just $1 billion as first reported.
— Jack (@jackunheard) December 5, 2025
pic.twitter.com/dfiqKw4uCF
Raising the Somali flag in place of the American flag is a strong statement of where liberals' loyalties lie, and it is not with America. As Muslims keep telling us that they want to transform America into something that mirrors their own societies, American politicians of a certain stripe applaud and ask for more.
Here is:
— 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 (@Real_RobN) December 7, 2025
The Terrorist Organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, saying the quiet part out loud:
Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, as members of Congress, serve as tools to overthrow the United States government. pic.twitter.com/DFmAAw22z2
Chicago Islamic Scholar Mohammad Nusairat: Islam Is Not Meant to Coexist with Other Religions, But Rather to Remove Their Oppression; It Is the Only Way to Justice pic.twitter.com/nDiPlZMrUw
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) December 5, 2025
When they tell you who they are, believe them. pic.twitter.com/iNBsVBNG4Y
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) November 21, 2025
Many people seem to think that kindness requires that we pretend that none of this is true. Not just pretend, but to actively deny it and choose to elevate cultures that are actively hostile to our own as superior.
'Republican' Sen. John Curtis: "All of us need to wake up every morning, look in the mirror, and say 'What am I doing specifically today... to make our immigrants feel more welcome.'"
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 7, 2025
No, I don't think I will. pic.twitter.com/iDXftXZkJb
This is insanity.
Rejecting this does not mean we should engage in pogroms against people of different cultures. It doesn't require us to act like Nazis and exterminate others, as liberals claim we want to do.
ENGLAND: And yet another migrant named Muhammad attempted to rape a 14-year-old British girl.
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) December 9, 2025
He defends himself: "I am Muslim. We have our own Islamic rules. Talk to my embassy.”
Look how he says that, like it’s a normal thing in his culture. Evil! pic.twitter.com/o1Ptyc4mnQ
It just means that we need to engage in civilizational self-defense. If people come to the United States to live off our generosity while proclaiming that we are evil oppressors and should restructure our country to mirror that of the paradise they left, we should instead return them to that paradise so they can enjoy it.
Westerners shouldn't be ashamed of being who we are. We especially should not bow down to people who celebrate barbarianism.
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