The Bible warns us that people perish for a lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). Everyday in America the ignorant are indifferent to a plethora of perilous things. For instance, this past week a Biden-appointed judge, in deep blue Manhattan, Jeannette Vargas, usurped the power of the presidency and singled-handedly dictated immigration policy by striking down the Trump Administration’s 75-country freeze on visas as “Orwellian.” Yet, hardly an eyebrow was raised among average Americans, who are either oblivious to this ominous act of judicial despotism or so accustomed to activist judges overstepping their authority that they no longer think anything about it.

Controlling the issue of visas, as well as the number of immigrants allowed to legally come into our country, has always been within the purview of our executive and legislative branches of government, not our judicial branch of government. Furthermore, strictly controlling legal immigration, as well as strictly enforcing our immigration laws against illegal immigration, was once generally accepted by all Americans as essential to our national sovereignty and security, as well as to the preservation of our culture, which was deemed, without apology, to be superior to all others. Today, however, all of this has changed, thanks to uninformed Americans being easily misinformed rather than rightly informed about the necessity of limiting legal immigration and ending illegal immigration.

Any attempt to bridle either legal or illegal immigration today, for the sake of national security or our nation’s financial solvency, is condemned as inhumane and uncaring toward the hordes of impoverished foreign immigrants wanting to flood into our nation so that they can live on government relief and off the government dole. Likewise, any attempt to preserve our American culture, in this day of multiculturalism, by demanding assimilation as a prerequisite to our strictly enforced immigration, is readily and roundly condemned as xenophobic and racist. Therefore, any sane person today, who still believes what almost all Americans did yesterday, is stereotyped as inhumane, uncaring, xenophobic, and racist.    

In an attempt to inform the ill-informed or misinformed, as to how we got into our present precarious predicament, with millions of illegal immigrants draining our government coffers and changing our country’s culture, by transforming its demographics, permit me to point back to two landmark pieces of legislation. The first is the National Origins Act, which was passed by Congress in 1924 and signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge. This legislation, which was passed at a time when almost all Americans understood that the number of immigrants annually allowed into our country had to be limited and controlled, mandated that immigrant groups be allowed into our country according to the percentage of the general U.S. population they represented. In other words, if Somalians only made up one percent of the U.S. population, then, the percentage of annual immigrants made up by Somalians could never exceed one percent.   

In 1924, unlike in 2026, our immigration laws were strictly enforced, legal immigration was strenuously limited, and all immigrants were expected to assimilate themselves into our culture. Today, however, any attempt to safeguard American culture by limiting the annual influx of other nationalities into our country or demanding that the limited number of those allowed into country assimilate themselves into our culture is resoundingly renounced as sheer bigotry. Instead of immigrants being expected to assimilate themselves into our culture, today our country is expected to prove its tolerance by changing its culture to accommodate each immigrant. As a result, America has ceased to be a "melting pot"—a land in which different nationalities are dissolved into a united people forming a single nation—and become a "salad bowl"—a land in which different nationalities are tossed together to vie for themselves against one another.

The second landmark piece of legislation that helps explain how we got into our current immigration crisis is the Immigration Reform Act, which was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. This watershed piece of legislation resulted in a couple of earthshaking changes to American immigration. First, despite the promises of both President Lyndon Johnson and Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy that the level of immigration would remain substantially the same, it actually quadrupled after the passage of the Immigration Reform Act. Second, despite the promise of Senator Kennedy that the Immigration Reform Act would not upset the ethnic mix of our country, it actually resulted in eighty-five percent of all U.S. immigrants coming from Third World countries and more than fifty percent of them from Spanish-speaking countries. Needless to say, Ted Kennedy was as sorry a prophet as he was a politician.  

When you add to all of the above the fact that the Biden Administration deliberately and completely ignored and refused to enforce our immigration laws, so as to implement Democrats’ open border policy, in hopes of changing our country’s demographics, red states into blue states, and securing for themselves perpetual political power over our representative republic, you begin to understand how we got to where we are, when it comes to the infiltration and inundation of our country with millions and millions of illegal immigrants. 

Although I apologize for the length of this article, which is necessitated by the fact that informing the ill-informed or correcting the misinformed cannot normally be done in a few words, I want to add one final word of warning, primarily for my fellow Christians, many of whom I fear are being snookered into falsely believing that the Scripture admonishes us to be advocates of Democrats’ open border policy. Many a contemporary Christian believes it is unchristian to oppose illegal immigration, despite the nightmarish scenario it paints for the future of our country, as well as for our children. They believe the Bible would have us throw open our arms to every illegal immigrant crossing our border and to provide them with free room and board, as well as additional benefits assuring them of perpetual prosperity. However, a serious study of Scripture on this subject will lead one to a startling conclusion.

To begin with, it is true that the Bible has much to say about the humane treatment of strangers in our land. Yet, these Scriptural admonitions, like all others, can only be properly interpreted in the light of context and other Scripture. As it is often said, “The best commentary on the Bible is the Bible.” When particular verses are pulled out of context and severed from all other Scripture the inevitable result is heresy. Cults are good examples of the inescapable consequences of such poor exegesis. Though they claim the Bible as their spiritual authority, they are guilty of twisting the Scripture “unto their own destruction” (2 Peter 3:16).

Many Christians make a blanket-application of every Scriptural admonition concerning the treatment of strangers to every foreigner in our land. By doing so, they paint themselves into many precarious corners. For instance, should Exodus 22:21—“But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you”—be applied to Islamic terrorists who have snuck into our country to carry out terrorist attacks? Obviously, such an application of this admonition is not only unscriptural, but absurd; something made abundantly clear elsewhere in Scripture. For example, Nahum 3:13 warns us that our nation will be devoured by fire if “the gates of [our] land shall be set wide open unto [our] enemies.”

The strangers Scripture admonishes us to treat as our fellow citizens are those willing to be assimilated into our culture, not those antagonistic to it and determined to supplant it with their own (Leviticus 17:8-9; 24:16; Deuteronomy 5:14; Ezekiel 44:9). Contrary to the opinion of today’s multiculturalists, America is not obligated to change its culture, become multilingual, and renounce its Christian heritage in order to accommodate each and every immigrant crossing our borders or coming to our shores. Instead, it is the obligation of all immigrants to assimilate themselves to our culture, learn our language and respect our Christian heritage. Any who refuse to do so should be denied entrance into our land, especially those who enter our land in disobedience to our laws.

No president of the United States ever articulated the Christian position on immigration better than Theodore Roosevelt. On January 3, 1919, Roosevelt said the following about immigration: “In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. 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."