Fwd: [grendelreport] THOMAS JEFFERSON ON IMMIGRATION

Mon, 11 Apr 2016 11:16:02 -0700 



Even Thomas Jefferson who favored migration into the Country said we had  
to be careful about who we did allow in. He was not for wide open borders and 
 accept everyone who wants in....we have the right to be selective and  
Islamists who do not meld into our society and accept our values should be  
excluded as they cause division among the existing citizens. They  bring Shira 
law with them which is incompatable with Western Law.......just as  we would 
take our beliefs in Western Law to an Islamic Country who inturn do  not 
allow westerners to change their systems but the ACLU, with  CAIR Islamic 
money, is trying to change ours and introduce bits and piece  of Shira into our 
system a little at a time in an attempt to erode our  systems.
 
 
  
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You  and I are "melting pot" people; citizens, that is, of that country set 
apart  by Heav- en to receive those in search of the good life--those from 
from  every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. As such, we, of all people, 
ought  to recognize the value of a liberal [generous, not strict] 
immigration  policy.  
President Thomas Jefferson, a descendent of immigrants, presiding over a  
nation of immigrants, thought so. In his first annual message, dated,  
December 8, 1801, he asked of those who thought to impose an extremely  arduous 
course to citizenship for the im- migrant (a 14 years residency  requirement), 
a few probing questions: 
"Shall we refuse the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality  
which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in  this 
land? Shall op- pressed humanity find no asylum on this globe? The  
Constitution, indeed, has wisely provided that, for admission to certain  
offices of 
important trust, a resi- dence shall be required sufficient to  develop 
character and design. But might not the general character and  capabilities of 
a 
citizen be safely communicated to eve- ry one  manifesting a bona fide 
purpose of embarking his life and fortunes perma-  nently with us?" (1)
The advocates of today's liberal immigration policies, or of far more  
radical proposals for open borders, might feel inclined to thus quote  
Jefferson, and feel justified. 
Yet they had better do so with caution. President Jefferson also  suggested 
that America balance her open arm policy "with restrictions,  perhaps, to 
guard against the fraudulent usurpation of our flag; an abuse  which brings 
so much embarrassment and loss on the genuine citizen, and so  much danger to 
the nation of being involved in war". 
"[N]o endeavor", he said, "should be spared to detect and suppress" this  
sort of im- migrant. (2) So much for blind liberality. Not every immigrant  
is a friend of America. Jefferson was no fool. He had other concerns  too. 
In his Notes on the State of Virginia (1787), Jefferson  reflects: 
"It is for the happiness of those united in society to harmonize as  much 
as possi- ble in matters which they must of necessity transact  together. 
Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its  
administration must be conducted by common consent.
"Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps  are 
more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a  composition 
of the freest principles of the English Constitution, with  others derived 
from natural right and natural reason. To these nothing can  be more opposed 
than the maxims of abso- lute monarchies. Yet from such we  are to expect 
the greatest number of emi- grants." (3)
Jefferson warns, nearly prophetically: 
"They will bring with them the principles of the governments they  leave, 
imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it  will be in 
exchange for an un- bounded licentiousness, passing, as is  usual, from one 
extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to  stop precisely at the 
point of temperate liberty. These principles, with  their language, they 
will transmit to their children. In pro- portion to  their numbers, they will 
share with us the legislation. They will infuse  into it their spirit, warp 
and bias its directions, and render it a  heterogeneous, in- coherent, 
distracted mass." (4)

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