My citizenship and official residence are US, but I live outside the country. According to the rules of my host nation, I must have my passport with me at all times. That passport contains full information on my status here: my visa, when I must report my address to the police again (every 90 days), how long I may stay here, my reason for being here. It is all in my passport. The local equivalent of a US “green card” is unavailable to me.
Nothing like this is imposed on aliens in the USA. Their passports do not contain full information that allows anyone to determine whether they are legal visitors or immigrants.
IMHO the USA does not need and should not admit more Muslims. Yes, that’s islamophobic of me; I remind everyone that “phobia” means fear, and our fear is fully justified. Entire neighborhoods participate in a culture of silence that allows violent fanatics to hide and operate; if Muslims were the good citizens they claim to be, this would not be possible. Mass murder is on the agenda for a minority of Muslims, and the USA would be fully justified to shut the door on all because of that minority. Fair? Decent? That can be disputed, but the threat cannot. Peaceful Muslims immigrate and their children, born in the host nation, become jihadis; that’s the British experience. The risk is too great.
Further, the ultimate weapon of Islam is demographic. As Libya’s dictator Khaddafi noted, Europe is surrendering to Islam bit by bit, and will eventually — perhaps in three or four generations — no longer be part of Western Civilization. That disaster should not be trivialized simply because it seems slow; in fact, it’s a seismic event, and is taking place rapidly. Accordingly, we should ponder the consequences of harboring a large Muslim community in the USA. Assimilation is not likely, as Islamic values are in many specifics antithetical to the cultural roots of the USA.
Change the policy: no Islamic immigrants. Then change the rules: all visitors must carry full identification at all times (as I have to); those overstaying their visas, which can be determined by looking at the required passport, are deported immediately, no exceptions. No passport? Out you go, now; after all, US citizens have to have a passport simply to shop for an afternoon in a Mexican border town, so why shouldn’t all aliens in the USA have to have one, as well?
As things stand, we make it hard on no one but ourselves. It’s time to stop being silly.
