When ICE agents swept into Los Angeles to arrest criminal illegal immigrants, all of whom had received due process and final removal orders from the U.S., and some of whom had been convicted of other serious crimes, such as murder, rape, armed robbery, and child molestation, violent riots broke out in the so-called City of Angels against ICE agents, as well as local law enforcement called to the rescue of ICE agents. Numerous rioters have now been arrested and at least five officers with the Los Angeles Police Department injured, as well as one ICE agent and six officers of the California Highway Patrol. In response to the escalating violence, which also includes the destruction of private and public property, the looting of businesses, and the burning of vehicles, President Trump, in an attempt to quell the violence and destruction, has deployed 2,000 national guardsmen and 700 Marines, over the vehement opposition of California Governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and practically every Democrat in both the House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Governor Newsom, having failed to prevent Trump from deploying the National Guard and the U.S. Marines to quash the growing unrest on the streets of Los Angeles, is now threatening, as any good Democrat would, to take Trump to court over his deployment of federal troops. As we all know by now, the courts are the last bastion of Democrats to override the voices and votes of the American people, to overthrow our representative republic, and to force their globalist socialist agenda down our throats with judges' gavels.
In addition to all of the above absurdities, the rioters in Los Angeles are burning American flags and waving Mexican flags, which I believe necessitates a refresher course in American history for today's average American, who is, for the most part, totally ignorant about the history of immigration in America.
For most of our history America understood the necessity of laws regulating immigration. The number of immigrants annually coming to our shores or crossing our borders had to be limited and controlled, lest our nation jeopardize its economy and compromise its security. Furthermore, to safeguard our country’s culture, which was deemed without apology to be superior to all others, Congress passed the "National Origins Act" of 1925. This legislation mandated that immigrant groups be allowed into the country according to the percentage of the general U.S. population they represented. In other words, if Norwegians only made up 1% of the U.S. population, then the percentage of annual legal immigrants made up by Norwegians could never exceed 1%.
Today, thanks to the myth of multiculturalism, any attempt to safeguard American culture by limiting the annual influx of other nationalities into our country, regardless of whether they come into our country legally or illegally, is strictly condemned as racism. Moreover, what was once taken for granted in the immigration debate; namely, the expectation of all immigrants to assimilate themselves into our culture, is now resoundingly renounced as sheer bigotry. Thus, immigrants are no longer expected to assimilate themselves into our culture, but our country is expected to prove its tolerance by changing its culture to accommodate each immigrant. As a result of this politically correct nonsense, America has been transformed from a "melting pot"—a land in which different nationalities are dissolved into a united people forming a single nation—to a "salad bowl"—a land in which different nationalities are tossed together to vie for themselves against one another.
Although it is taboo to point out and extremely risky to one’s reputation to mention, sometimes it’s the immigrants, not the countries to which they immigrate, that are bigoted and intolerant. Many immigrants today despise and disdain the culture of their host country. As a result, they want nothing to do with their host country’s culture and have no intention of ever being assimilated into it. Instead, these intolerant immigrants insist upon forcing their culture, not to mention their language, religion, etc., down the throat of their new country. Any country that refuses to bend over backward to accommodate this fifth column in its midst does so at its own peril, as the riots in Los Angeles are now proving.
Speaking on the subject of immigration, President Theodore Roosevelt once said, "America is not a polyglot boarding house." Although Roosevelt insisted that any immigrant coming here legally and "in good faith" to become an American and to be assimilated into our culture should be welcomed and "treated on an exact equality with everyone else," he went on to add: "But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
I suppose Teddy Roosevelt is turning over in his grave today, as hundreds of rioters take to the streets in Los Angeles waving Mexican flags and chanting "F*ck America." While it may not be enough to raise old Teddy’s stone eyebrows on Mount Rushmore, the sight of hundreds of violent rioters in Los Angeles protesting against America and pledging their allegiance to a foreign country, ought to be more than enough to raise the eyebrows of more than a few Americans. I mean it’s one thing for illegal immigrants to get into our country, but another thing all together when they start getting in our face.