The Roman Republic, and then Empire, dominated the ancient world for more than 500 years.  In those areas under Roman control, there was no greater honor than the grant of Roman citizenship.  The US has been around less than half that time, but the prospect of American citizenship has attracted  millions of immigrants to our shores.  These were the people who built America, who turned an untamed land into a world power that became the envy of the world.  In his farewell address in 1989, President Reagan, borrowing from the New testament and Puritan pilgrim John Winthrop, described his conception of America as “the shining city upon a hill.”  “In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity.  And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.”  This was a beautiful sentiment, which perfectly described a time before our leaders had completely lost their minds.  The immigrants who came to America for those first 200 years came to pursue the American Dream, and to become Americans.  This was special.  There is no German Dream or French Dream.  You can immigrate to France, even become a French citizen, but you’ll never really be French.  Not so here.  America was the Melting Pot, taking in diverse peoples who emerged as Americans.  It wasn’t perfect.  Far from it.  Our history is replete with the good, the bad, and the ugly, but at the end of the day, no matter who you were, you were better off in America than anywhere else in the world.  But we’ve lost our way.  We’re beset by a political Party that’s intent on running down America.  They tell us we’re not “the land of the free” but the land of white oppression.  As with most things Democrat, that’s a lie which is exposed by their own hypocrisy.  They tell us we’re no good.  America’s not an exceptional nation.  Andrew Cuomo even said, “Make America great again?  It never was that great.”  Which was strange talk from someone who, had his ancestors not become Americans, would still be in Italy driving a donkey cart.  The point is that while our nation always welcomed immigrants, we had laws that regulated immigration, to ensure that those who came were capable of supporting themselves, weren’t criminal, insane, or both, and didn’t have communicable diseases.  Those laws are still on the books, but they’re being ignored and violated every day.  Leftists are trying to turn the American Dream into a globalist dream, in which the US isn’t the leader of the world, but just another nation, no different than any other.  But to do that, they have to drag us down to the level of every other nation, including those that Donald Trump once aptly described as “shitholes.”  And they’re doing their best.  Since his inauguration, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden is responsible for permitting some 10 million illegal alien invaders into the US.  Are they sick?  We don’t know.  Are they criminals or insane?  We don’t know.  Neither do we know who they really are, where they’re going to live, nor what they’ll do once they get there.  The only thing we can be reasonably sure of is they need our money, and what’s worse, both the invaders and the morons running this government are convinced it’s our responsibility to pay whatever it takes to support them.  Worse yet, Leftist politicians are falling all over one another to make the invaders comfortable, using your money.  Democrat governors and mayors have stolen at least $517 million from the federal COVID-19 stimulus package to make cash payments to individual illegal immigrants.  This was money earmarked to help American citizens weather the Wuhan Plague.  In New York City, although 23% of US born kids are living below the poverty line, they’re spending 53 million of your hard-earned tax dollars to give illegal aliens prepaid debit cards, to the tune of $15,000 a year for a family of four.  Is your business in trouble?  Are you behind on your rent or mortgage?  Screw you!  The illegal aliens are now ahead of you in line.  Are you a homeless military veteran?   Remember that chant, “We’re number one?”  Forget it.  You’re now number two, because Democrats have made America a nation of the illegals, for the illegals and by the illegals.  You just don’t count anymore.  It puts me in mind of the angel, Clarence, in It’s a Wonderful Life.  Remember, he was an angel, second class, just as you’re now a citizen, second class.  But it’s all in a good cause, right?  Wrong!  We now have millions of invaders, sucking up our tax dollars, eating our food, crowding our schools, overburdening our health care system, and using up housing resources, many of whom not only aren’t grateful, but are robbing people, assaulting police officers, and killing Americans.  No of course, not all of them are criminals.  The point is, if you fail to vet any of them, you get the evil as well as the non-violent charity cases.  But we’re not supposed to utter that truth.  Remember when Trump came down the escalator in 2015, and said, “They’re not sending us they’re best?”  He was lambasted, but he was right.  He’d seen it before.  In the 1980 Cuban Mariel boatlift, Castro sent us some 125,000 refugees by boat.  Many in what Jimmy Carter hailed the Freedom Flotillas, became productive citizens, but many were criminals and the insane.  Multiply the Cuban Marielito problem by 80 and that’s the Biden Invasion.  We’re not against immigration, we’re in favor of choosing to admit only those who will make America stronger.  Since 2014, about 25% of Venezuela’s population has fled that Social paradise.  Hundreds of thousands came here, and with no real border, and no one looking, Venezuelan criminal gangs are rampaging through America.  This is not the price we have to pay as a nation of immigrants.  It’s the insult we’ve been forced to endure for electing Joe Biden.  The notion that hard-working American taxpayers, already saddled with Biden inflation eating away at their ability to make ends meet, should be further burdened by having to support needy ingrates, who are just as likely to kill you as to trim your hedges, is hard to swallow.  We’re the jackasses who’ve been pulling the wagon up the hill all these years, and we now have an additional 10 million people riding in the back.  It’s no wonder border security is the number one political issue.  If you second class citizens want to be promoted back to first class, the Democrats have to go.