Jay Tea over at Wiz Bang Blog has an excellent article today entitled “A nation of immigrants?“. It offers a rebuttal to those who favor the illegal immigrants rights to be here with the catch all phrase pro immigration groups like to use “This country was founded by immigrants”

A couple of days ago, I heard a caller on a talk show make a really interesting point:

“If the United States had been founded by immigrants, we’d all be speaking Indian today.”

That crystallized matters for me. People who move from one nation to another come in two forms: colonists and immigrants.

Colonists bring their own culture, their own language, their own ways to the new land and attempt to adapt it to the new area. In our specific example, the earliest Americans saw themselves as British and tried to expand the British way of life in the New World. Those already living here were displaced, killed, or assimilated. (Right or wrong, it’s historical fact.) There was no attempt to assimilate by the colonists, no efforts made at fitting in and becoming part of the existing structures — they were overwritten with an adaptation of the European model. It wasn’t until after we won our independence and established ourselves as America that we started welcoming immigrants.

Immigrants are different. They are not looking to expand their home culture, but become a part of a new one. They might keep some of their old ways, but for the most part they have chosen to set it aside in favor of a new way of life. The Irish, for example, focus on one day a year to return to their roots.

The recent mass protests in favor of illegal aliens showed their true colors — red, white, and green. Mexican flags were highly prominent, in some cases even being flown over United States flags (and in one stunning display of contempt, flying over an inverted American flag).

These are not the actions of immigrants. This is a declaration of intent by would-be colonists.

People are called racists when they express resentment for having to press 1 to speak English when calling their bank, or for sitting on a subway train and seeing an advertisement for a product in Spanish instead of English. But as this author points out, what many of the recent “immigrants”, specifically the illegal ones, have been doing is not immigrating at all, but colonizing.

When millions of people from one country cross the border into another country, uninvited, and unwelcomed, and plant their flag it is not called immigration it is called an invasion. Immigrants of previous generations took great pride in becoming Americans, learning the countrys language and culture while at the same time teaching it to their children. They may have flown the flag of their homeland at times, but they pledged allegiance to the flag of the United States of America!

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