The Barbarians Never Take a City Until Someone Holds the Gates Open For Them

Africa is calling.

Miller is presidential material. Clear thinking must take priority over leftist machinations:

There’s a comforting idea behind a lot of immigration policy: that crossing a border is basically a reset button. New country, new rules, new identity, the slate wipes clean.
It doesn’t work that way, and pretending it does isn’t compassion, it’s wishful thinking. People bring their whole selves with them, their trust in institutions, their attitudes toward law and violence, their expectations about how society should work.
Sometimes that changes over a generation of real integration. Sometimes, at large enough numbers with no real assimilation, it doesn’t change much at all, and the same patterns just take root somewhere new.
That’s why assimilation can’t be optional. Welcoming people in without asking anything of them in return isn’t generosity, it’s abdication. A country has every right to say: you’re welcome here, and in exchange, you learn the language, you respect the laws, you adopt the basic values that hold this place together.

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