I hope that you and yours had a wonderful Christmas. I sure did, as all the littles were home and spent several days with us. I received a few nice gifts, including three books that have been on my wish list. In no particular order, they are:
I’m a part time writer, and sentences are foundational to the written word. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle defined much of Western thought, which in our day is being corrupted by corrupt ideologies. The destructive nature of one of those ideologies, Marxism, is obvious, and I want to better understand it.
What do you read?
2023 is ending not with a bang, but with a whimper. The United States is being overrun by invading hordes of foreigners. They are not the tired, poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free that the Leftists insist they are. They are not the “exiles” of the “Mother of Exiles,” or as we better know her, the Statue of Liberty.
They are thieving, greedy third-world grifters who have no respect for the United States or for the American people. If they did have respect, they wouldn’t be breaking the law to enter the country. They see a weak country and a craven, corrupt administration that will not defend its borders or its people and have decided that if they’re going to come, now is the time, when they can get money and health insurance and housing assistance and phones and free transportation to anywhere in the country, and its citizens can do nothing about it.
And with them come the criminals.
Every year, an estimated 2,000 Americans are killed by illegal aliens. In 2023, Breitbart News reported on several cases in which illegal aliens are accused of killing American citizens, as well as legal immigrants – many including young children.
Below, Breitbart News details the cases of 14 Americans and legal immigrants who were allegedly killed by illegal aliens this year.
Not only do these freeloading hordes bring crimimal elements with them, but they bring diseases that we had essentially eliminated from our country.
Leprosy, Polio, Malaria, TB, Measles… and Massive Unscreened Illegal Immigration
Successful public health campaigns and medical advances have enabled the United States to conquer a range of disfiguring and damaging diseases. Polio, which paralyzed thousands of Americans annually, was wiped out by widespread vaccinations. In 1999 the nation’s last hospital for lepers closed its doors in Louisiana. A global campaign eradicated smallpox, while lethal tuberculosis, the “consumption” that stalked characters in decades of literature, seemed beaten by antibiotics. Measles outbreaks still occur from time to time, but they are small, local, and easily contained.
Recently, however, some of these forgotten but still formidable infectious diseases have begun to reappear in the United States. For two years running, polio has been detected in some New York water samples, and this fall, leprosy re-emerged in Florida, where cases of malaria have also been recorded.
Gosh, you guys, what could possibly be causing the reemergence of these long-defeated illnesses?
Health officials say they are not sure why these and other infectious diseases are resurfacing. One distinct possibility, which officials are loath to discuss, is that the millions of migrants who have crossed into the country in recent years could be bringing the scourges with them, since many are from countries where such rare diseases persist and vaccination programs are not robust.
“The recent polio and leprosy cases are almost certainly imports to the U.S.,” said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a physician and scientist at Stanford University, one of the most outspoken critics of official COVID-19 narratives in the last pandemic that later proved flawed.
Yes, yes, let’s make sure that US citizens are shamed and coerced into taking a “mandatory” vaccine to keep everyone safe, but don’t erect any barriers to entry for foreigners illegally storming our shores because that would be racist and xenophobic!
Neither the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) nor the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would discuss the issue with RealClearInvestigations (RCI). Legal immigrants are required to receive vaccinations for a host of diseases, but the DHS acknowledged it does not have vaccination records for the millions who have entered the United States since the Biden administration relaxed border controls upon taking office in January 2021.
LOL. What “border controls”?
The situation in the United States is further complicated by the fact that DHS officials don’t know where all of the more than 7.5 million migrants who’ve arrived since Joe Biden took office are living. Those whom Border Patrol agents have encountered and processed have immigration court dates, but those dates are years in advance. Many people with uncertain immigration status lack health insurance and stay off the grid as much as possible, meaning even if the U.S. launched some kind of vaccination program it would not know where to concentrate its efforts.
In addition, the historic flood of illegal immigration during the Biden administration has also featured a much more global population. DHS uses the term “historically atypical countries” to describe the panoply of countries outside of Mexico and Central America from which illegal immigration has soared. Between 2011 and 2022, the number of annual encounters involving immigrants from historically atypical countries soared from fewer than 8,000 to almost 1 million. The first six months of 2023 saw more than half of official encounters—these numbers do not include what Border Patrol calls “gotaways” for whom little information is available—from historically atypical countries. But infectious diseases largely forgotten in the United States remain public health issues in both hemispheres, and many of those nations have much less robust vaccination programs than most modern Western nations.
How is this not a treasonous dereliction of duty? The colonists fought the British for much, much less than the criminal Biden family and its mobs of enforcers throughout the government have done.
Herb Stein once said that, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” He said it in response to fears over America’s trade and budget deficits in the 1980s. In essence, it meant that we shouldn’t worry about things that we know can’t go on forever, because they will eventually stop of their own accord. It was also “a reminder that knowing if and when to act is never easy.“
Illegal immigration cannot go on forever. Or can it?
See you in the New Year.
Appreciate your work this year, Dave. At various times, it’s blessed, encouraged, challenged me. It’s been helpful to keep a Biblical perspective on everything going on around us.
To your question, I’m currently reading Mere Christendom and To a Thousand Generations, both by Doug Wilson.
Pray you and your family have a wonderful weekend, and a Happy New Years holiday!
Hey Ron! Thanks for reading this year. Love Doug Wilson … “Mere Christendom” is on my list too. Happy New Year!