What could a nation of illegal immigrants become?
And what could be the consequences?
Most recently there was a short-lived nation created by illegal and violent immigrants,
the now deposed ISIS caliphate. There have been other larger influxes of refugees/immigrants
in the world, mostly in eastern Europe, that joined in separationist groups also based on
religious grounds and again religious warfare was the result. Similarly Communism, almost
as a state mandated religion, spread across borders, and in most cases has failed in the long run.
In my 70+ years I don't remember a nation founded by illegal immigrants that did not have a religious
basis or a country overrun by groups other than religious or communist advocates. It would seem
that immigrants who were non-Communist and not intent on spreading their faith, have not proven
to be a threat to their host country.
In those 70+ years, the most important and influential nation of illegal immigrants has to be Israel.
I grew up with the children of Holocaust survivors. The parents had their concentration camp tattoos
on their arms. Survivors who didn't move to the US went to Palestine, kicked out the British and created
a new nation of Israel. I read the fictionalized novel Exodus by Leon Uris and had simply accepted
the right of Jews to re-occupy Palestine after the Holocaust. For years I never considered the Palestinians,
formerly ruled by the British who now had Israeli governors. They had been the ones living in Palestine for 2000 years, but subject to others.
When I was at Cal a Palestinian family moved in next door. They didn't assimilate easily and the oldest boy got into confrontations with the sons of a Jewish neighbor. My mother called the woman of the house,
Mrs. Ayatollah; these new neighbors were shunned as much as an Al-Qaeda family would be today. We had been neighbors for 15 years before I learned they were Palestinian Christians; but as Palestinians they were shunned by American Christians and Jews, the same as if they had been Muslim. They were at the bottom of the social order in Israel and emigrating to the US hadn't changed things in the short term. Over the years I have met and worked with other Middle Eastern Christians, emigrant victims of the ongoing Islam/Israel
conflict. When it comes to refugees, we don't seem to welcome Christian refugees, strange for a nominally Christian country.
And what could be the consequences?
Most recently there was a short-lived nation created by illegal and violent immigrants,
the now deposed ISIS caliphate. There have been other larger influxes of refugees/immigrants
in the world, mostly in eastern Europe, that joined in separationist groups also based on
religious grounds and again religious warfare was the result. Similarly Communism, almost
as a state mandated religion, spread across borders, and in most cases has failed in the long run.
In my 70+ years I don't remember a nation founded by illegal immigrants that did not have a religious
basis or a country overrun by groups other than religious or communist advocates. It would seem
that immigrants who were non-Communist and not intent on spreading their faith, have not proven
to be a threat to their host country.
In those 70+ years, the most important and influential nation of illegal immigrants has to be Israel.
I grew up with the children of Holocaust survivors. The parents had their concentration camp tattoos
on their arms. Survivors who didn't move to the US went to Palestine, kicked out the British and created
a new nation of Israel. I read the fictionalized novel Exodus by Leon Uris and had simply accepted
the right of Jews to re-occupy Palestine after the Holocaust. For years I never considered the Palestinians,
formerly ruled by the British who now had Israeli governors. They had been the ones living in Palestine for 2000 years, but subject to others.
When I was at Cal a Palestinian family moved in next door. They didn't assimilate easily and the oldest boy got into confrontations with the sons of a Jewish neighbor. My mother called the woman of the house,
Mrs. Ayatollah; these new neighbors were shunned as much as an Al-Qaeda family would be today. We had been neighbors for 15 years before I learned they were Palestinian Christians; but as Palestinians they were shunned by American Christians and Jews, the same as if they had been Muslim. They were at the bottom of the social order in Israel and emigrating to the US hadn't changed things in the short term. Over the years I have met and worked with other Middle Eastern Christians, emigrant victims of the ongoing Islam/Israel
conflict. When it comes to refugees, we don't seem to welcome Christian refugees, strange for a nominally Christian country.