Dereliction of Duty

Why Doing So Gets Americans Killed

Our leaders have told us we are a nation of immigrants.

Reagan, 1984, at Fudan University: “We call ourselves a nation of immigrants, and that’s truly what we are.”

Bush, 2006: “We’re a nation of laws, and we must enforce our laws. We’re also a nation of immigrants.”

Obama, 2014: “My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants.”

Hillary Clinton, 2016: “I think we are both a nation of immigrants and we are a nation of laws.”

Well, I’m in that count. Legally.

The illegals I’m going to talk about here started on the wrong foot and deliberately stayed out of step.

The first duty.

A government’s first duty is the security of its citizens.

They were here illegally. They were caught for another crime. And instead of removing them and keeping citizens safe, cities like New York, and people like Zohran Mamdani, chose the criminals’ side over Americans.

The names everyone knows.

Kate Steinle, 32. Shot dead on a San Francisco pier, 2015, by Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an illegal alien San Francisco had released months earlier. Acquitted of murder. [1][2]

Mollie Tibbetts, 20. Abducted and murdered in Iowa, 2018, by Cristhian Bahena Rivera, an illegal alien. Life without parole. [3]

Kayla Hamilton, 20. Murdered in Aberdeen, Maryland, 2022, by Walter Javier Martinez, an illegal alien and MS-13 member. 70 years. [4][5]

Rachel Morin, 37, mother of five. Raped and murdered on a Maryland trail, 2023, by Victor Martinez-Hernandez, an illegal alien. Life without parole. [6][7]

Laken Riley, 22. Murdered in Athens, Georgia, 2024, by Jose Ibarra, an illegal alien the NYPD had arrested and released. Life without parole. [8][9]

Jocelyn Nungaray, 12. Strangled in Houston, 2024. Two illegal aliens, released at the border months earlier, are charged. [10]

Debrina Kawam, 57. Burned to death on a Brooklyn subway train, 2024. A deported illegal alien who came back is charged. [11][12]

Oscar Belgal. Illegal alien. Arrested by the NYPD in 2023, convicted of grand larceny, arrested again in 2025, and left on the street until ICE came for him in Marble Hill. [13][14]

Caught for another crime and let go, or let in and never removed. It’s a distinction without a difference.

The system had them or let them in. It didn’t remove them. Seven women and girls are dead. The eighth man was still on the street.

March 4, 2025.

President Trump stood before Congress and honored Laken Riley with her mother and sister in the gallery. [15]

I watched that speech. Every Republican stood and applauded. By my count, more than nine out of ten Democrats stayed in their seats. That’s what I saw. If you saw something different, the video is public. Show me.

They choose not to.

The city says cooperation scares people away from reporting crime. A man robbing and dealing isn’t calling 911 anyway.

The city says it needs a judge’s warrant. Its own law already allows a hold with one. [16] And the Supreme Court says Washington can’t force a city to help. It never said a city can’t. [17][18]

They’re allowed to hold them. They choose not to.

14,916 ICE detainers not honored in New York since January 2025. [13]

They know these names.

City Hall knows these names. It still hides behind “lawbreakers won’t report lawbreaking.”

Mamdani: “I am in support of abolishing ICE.” [19] “When it comes to our city, we are proud of our sanctuary city policies.” [20]

Here’s what I see.

They are not on America’s side. Not on Americans’ side. No matter how tightly they wrap themselves in the flag, no matter how they work the Constitution.

At the very least on this, they’re on the intruders’ side.

Intent doesn’t change the damage.

Nobody in City Hall swore an oath to weaken this country. I don’t need them to.

If you knowingly release a man you have in custody on a new crime, the result on the street is the same as if you had sworn that oath.

Same victims. Same funerals.

That’s dereliction of the first duty. Immigration doesn’t shrink that duty. It makes it bigger.

Coddling is as pernicious as laziness.

Releasing a man with a record because enforcing the law is uncomfortable is not compassion. It’s coddling. And coddling rots a city the same way laziness does.

Gratitude is spine. Agency. It says: this country is worth protecting, and I’ll do the hard part.

The Three A’s.

Accountability. A crime gets consequences. For everyone.

Assimilation. Come legally. Live by the law. That’s the deal I took.

Allegiance. A government’s allegiance runs to its citizens first.

That’s stewardship. You don’t get to give away the safety of the house you were trusted to guard.

Grateful, or Ungrateful?

Spine, not knees.

LIVE GRATEFUL.

Sources

Ninth Circuit, Steinle v. City and County of San Francisco (2019) (detainer sent March 27, 2015; released April 15, 2015). https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/03/25/17-16283.pdf
AP, “Jury acquits Mexican man in San Francisco pier killing,” Nov. 30, 2017. https://apnews.com/article/e586a1a9688d4287a3412b756a6b225d (Garcia Zarate was acquitted of murder and manslaughter.)
AP, “Man gets life sentence in 2018 killing of Mollie Tibbetts,” 2021. https://apnews.com/article/business-immigration-mollie-tibbetts-61b4beb398a50c20ec0f5cc29ffc0d2e
Harford County State’s Attorney, “Illegal immigrant & MS-13 gang member pleads guilty in brutal 2022 murder.” https://www.harfordcountystatesattorney.org/illegal-immigrant-ms-13-gang-member-pleads-guilty-in-brutal-2022-murder/
Fox Baltimore, “19-year-old illegal immigrant sentenced to 70 years for the murder of Kayla Hamilton.” https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/19-year-old-illegal-immigrant-sentenced-to-70-years-for-the-murder-of-kayla-hamilton (Sentence: life with all but 70 years suspended.)
Harford County State’s Attorney, “Maximum penalty imposed for brutal 2023 Ma-Pa Trail murder,” Aug. 11, 2025. https://www.harfordcountystatesattorney.org/maximum-penalty-imposed-for-brutal-2023-ma-pa-trail-murder/
AP, “Fugitive from El Salvador gets life in prison in woman’s killing on a Maryland hiking trail,” Aug. 2025. https://apnews.com/article/rachel-morin-killer-life-sentence-maryland-salvador-1fdadf5b38201d54ee7da75de1b823fe
CBS News, “Suspect in murder of Georgia nursing student entered U.S. illegally, ICE says,” Feb. 2024. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jose-ibarra-suspect-murder-georgia-nursing-student-illegal-entry-venezuela/ (Ibarra’s NYPD arrest and release before a detainer are per ICE; NYPD said it had no record, later reported sealed.)
AP, “Man convicted of killing Laken Riley sentenced to life in prison,” Nov. 20, 2024. https://apnews.com/article/georgia-nursing-student-laken-riley-immigrant-d8d75ccc6d81e7a88eb7890829d9fc9c
CNN, June 26, 2024. https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/26/us/jocelyn-nungaray-killing-houston ; FOX 26 Houston (ICE detainers, release at El Paso). https://www.fox26houston.com/news/venezuelan-nationals-face-capital-murder-charges-houston-girls-death-ice-confirms
NBC News, “Man charged in woman’s burning death on NYC subway was deported from U.S. in 2018.” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-charged-womans-burning-death-nyc-subway-was-previously-deported-us-rcna185276 (Zapeta-Calil: entered illegally June 2018, deported June 7, 2018, re-entry date and place unknown, per ICE.)
Reuters, Jan. 7, 2025. https://www.reuters.com/legal/man-accused-killing-woman-new-york-subway-fire-pleads-not-guilty-2025-01-07/ (Charged; pleaded not guilty.)
DHS press release, Oct. 9, 2026. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/10/09/dhs-debunks-new-york-sanctuary-politicians-lies-about-ice-shooting-illegal-alien (DHS claims: in the country illegally, entry “at an unknown date and location,” released days after the Dec. 7, 2023 arrest; 14,916 detainers figure is DHS data.)
Mayor’s Office transcript, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on the Marble Hill shooting, Oct. 8, 2026. https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/10/transcript–mayor-mamdani-holds-press-conference-on-ice-shooting ; AP via PBS, Oct. 9, 2026. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ice-officer-shoots-a-man-while-making-an-arrest-in-new-york-officials-say (Belgal record per NYPD Commissioner Tisch; 2025 drug-sale charge pending, not guilty plea. A detainer for Belgal is claimed only by unnamed federal sources in the New York Post and is not confirmed.)
ABC11, joint address live coverage, March 4, 2025 (“received applause from Republicans in the chamber”). https://abc11.com/live-updates/trump-joint-session-of-congress-live-updates/15977198/entry/15978677
NYC Administrative Code §§ 9-131, 14-154 (detainer laws). https://www.nyc.gov/assets/immigrants/downloads/pdf/nyc-detainer-laws.pdf
Printz v. United States, 521 U.S. 898 (1997). https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/521/898/
Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., 584 U.S. 453 (2018). https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/584/16-476/
ABC News, “Mayor Mamdani says he supports abolishing ICE.” https://abcnews.com/Politics/mayor-mamdani-supports-abolishing-ice-calls-humanity-dealing/story?id=129385475
MEAWW, June 2026 (Mamdani on MS NOW; February executive order). https://news.meaww.com/ice-should-be-abolished-zohran-mamdani-rejects-democratic-concerns-on-immigration

The Ballot Is Not a Souvenir

Weathered ballot box labeled BALLOT BOX beside a voting document

Not the polite kind of gratitude.

Not the kind that treats the franchise like a free tote bag at the door.

The stewardship kind.

Yesterday the Department of Justice charged five people in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and New Jersey with crimes tied to noncitizen voting in the 2022 and 2024 elections. Four are alleged to have cast ballots without citizenship. One U.S. citizen is charged with helping his noncitizen wife register and vote. Names, places, years. Carlisle. Harrisburg. Beloit. Union County. A B-2 visa holder who allegedly certified she was a citizen and voted in a presidential primary. These are charges, not convictions. Treat them that way. Also treat them as what they are: a bright line someone is accused of crossing.

The line is simple. Citizenship first. Then the vote.

That is not cruelty. That is the republic remembering that the ballot is the house key, not a souvenir for guests who never took the oath.

Election officials will tell you noncitizen voting is rare. Fine. Rarity is not the standard of a serious country. Locks are not for the nights you expect a break-in. They are for the nights you do not. New Jersey already admitted a software failure that improperly registered thousands of noncitizens. A system that cannot keep the key out of the wrong hands is a system that cheapens the key for everyone who waited to earn it.

Now look at the opposite — and look carefully.

In Chicago last month, ninety-seven people from thirty-four countries stood in a federal courthouse and took the Oath of Allegiance. Harder civics exam. More history. More Constitution. Contribution counted as moral character, not just a clean sheet. That is tougher vetting. That is the legal path. Necessary. Not sufficient.

Because here is the part soft gratitude never says out loud: some people will swear allegiance because they are being handed the keys. Belonging as a prize. The passport as a product. The oath as paperwork between them and benefits. They pass the test. They raise the right hand. They still live like claimants.

Josue Carranza from Honduras drives for FedEx and studies masonry because he walked the brick streets and decided to build. Maria de Los Angeles Marrufo waited three decades, raised three adults, and said she feels blessed to vote. Blessed. Not owed. That is assimilation with work attached. That is agency that turns into stewardship. The oath on their lips matches the weight on their backs.

Marines naturalized overseas. Soldiers taking the oath with their units present. Service first. Allegiance first. Then the franchise. That is grit gratitude. That is how immigration works when it works.

Ungratefulness has more than one face.

One face never takes the oath and still reaches for the ballot — false citizenship on a form, a vote that was never theirs.

The other face takes the oath, clears the legal gate, and treats America as a hotel with better amenities. Allegiance as a transaction. Gratitude as manners. No agency. No stewardship of self or culture. Just the keys.

Both cheapen the house. One breaks the lock. The other wears the costume inside.

I came here empty-handed. I did not build the courts, the language, the habit of showing up and keeping your word. I received them. The honest response is not to demand the country remake the ballot around my feelings. The honest response is to carry weight. Learn. Work. Wait. Swear. Then vote — as a steward, not a claimant who finally got paperwork.

Accountability is agency with a spine: I own the outcome. I do not outsource my duties.

Assimilation is gratitude with work attached: I join what works instead of setting up a rival camp inside it.

Allegiance is stewardship at scale: I will not cheapen the dead who paid for the order I now enjoy, and I will not hand the keys to people who will not keep the house — whether they stormed the door or smiled through the ceremony.

The midterms are weeks away. Some of those new citizens in Chicago will vote for the first time. Good — if the oath was a vow, not a costume. A country that will not enforce who may enter will not stay serious about who may vote. A country that shrugs at false citizenship statements will not stay serious about allegiance. And a country that confuses a raised right hand with a transformed spine will not stay serious about gratitude.

I am not asking whether you feel thankful. Feelings come and go.

I am asking whether you live like a steward.

When someone takes the ballot without the oath, do you call it access — or theft from every citizen who waited?

When someone takes the oath only for the keys, do you call it belonging — or a quieter kind of ungratefulness?

If you received this republic, are you carrying its weight — or treating its keys like a souvenir?

Those are not branding questions. They are stewardship questions.

The ballot is not a souvenir. The oath is not a costume.

It starts in the spine, not on your knees.

LIVE GRATEFUL 🇺🇸

– A Grateful Immigrant

Stewardship Analysis: Which Ideology Supports and Defends Agency

The Real Contest Between the Two Dominant Ideologies in America

Agency is not a soft word.
It is the hard core of human dignity.

Agency means:
I am responsible for my choices.
I can fail and still rise.
I am not first a member of a group; I am first a free individual.
My future is not primarily determined by systems, history, or other people’s sins. It is determined by what I do with the hand I am dealt.

That single idea — individual agency — is the load-bearing wall of a free republic. Remove it, and everything else eventually collapses into dependence, resentment, and control.

The stewardship question is therefore sharp:

Which of the two main ideologies in America today supports and defends agency — and which systematically weakens and replaces it?

And the second question flows directly from the first:

Which ideology protects the individual from the group’s moral superiority police — the ones who cancel you when you refuse to surrender your agency to their narrative?

Because times have changed.
Earlier generations warned us about people imposing their morality on the free individual. Tocqueville saw the soft despotism of majority opinion. Mill warned against the “moral coercion of public opinion.” The Founders feared factions that would crush liberty under the banner of virtue.

Those warnings were not wrong.
They were incomplete for our age.

Today the coercion rarely arrives first with a badge. It arrives with a hashtag, a workplace DEI tribunal, a campus mob, a corporate blacklist, a social media pile-on. If the individual refuses to bow to the group’s latest sacred morality — on race, sex, borders, climate, history, or speech — the group cancels. Careers end. Reputations burn. Friends vanish. The message is clear: surrender your independent judgment or be destroyed.

This is not liberation.
This is a new Puritanism with rainbow flags and equity spreadsheets.

So let’s do the stewardship analysis without hedging.

The Two Ideologies

Ideology A: The Ideology of Agency
(Founding American tradition, classical liberalism, conservative realism, meritocracy, free-market individualism)

Core claim: The individual is sovereign. Character is forged under pressure. Success is earned through voluntary effort, delayed gratification, and resilience. The nation thrives when free people keep what they earn and are free to fail and rise again. Equality before the law. Freedom of conscience and speech. Group identities are secondary to individual rights and personal responsibility. Agency is not optional — it is the engine of everything good.

Ideology B: The Ideology of Equity
(Progressive collectivism, identity politics, neo-Marxist-inflected “social justice,” woke managerialism)

Core claim: Outcomes must be equalized by group. “Systems” and historical “oppression” explain most disparity. Individual failure is often evidence of structural injustice rather than personal shortfall. Speech and thought that challenge the group narrative are violence. Safety (emotional, identity-based) overrides open inquiry. The enlightened group has the moral right — indeed the duty — to police language, hiring, curriculum, and culture until equity is achieved. Agency that produces unequal outcomes is treated as a problem to be managed.

Test 1: Which ideology supports and defends agency as the source of long-term success for the individual and the nation?

Ideology A: Fully. Without apology.

It treats agency as sacred.
Falling is information. Struggle is the forge. Rising is expected.
When a man owns his failures, he owns his future. When a nation rewards those who exercise agency rather than those who demand the obstacle be removed by force, it produces inventors, builders, soldiers, entrepreneurs, and parents who raise the entire floor for everyone else.

Long-term success for the individual: competence, self-respect, wealth creation, family stability, and the quiet pride of having earned one’s place.
Long-term success for the nation: economic dynamism, cultural confidence, military strength, and the only cohesion that lasts — voluntary allegiance built on shared achievement, not enforced guilt or group preference.

This is why certain groups — Asian Americans, Nigerian immigrants, West Indian Blacks, Jews after centuries of persecution, and every wave of grateful immigrants who arrived ready to work — have repeatedly outperformed the prevailing narratives. Patterns of agency beat patterns of grievance. Every single time.

Ideology B: It weakens agency and then pretends to protect the weak.

It reframes personal struggle as proof the system is rigged.
It labels resilience “internalized oppression” or “respectability politics.”
It teaches that real power comes from extracting concessions rather than producing value.
Safe spaces, trigger warnings, grade inflation, DEI set-asides, and the endless hunt for external villains all send the same message: your agency is secondary to your group status. If your group is deemed oppressed, your lack of results is someone else’s fault. If your group is deemed privileged, your success is suspect.

The result is predictable and measurable:
Fragile individuals. Declining competence. Rising resentment. A nation that cannot compete with cultures that still treat agency as non-negotiable.
China does not teach its students that the exam is rigged because of historical grievances. They teach them to work harder. We used to know this.

Stewardship score on this test:
Ideology A: 10/10
Ideology B: 2/10

Test 2: Which ideology protects the individual from the group tyranny of the moral superiority police?

Ideology A: Yes — by design.

It built the classical liberal firewall: free speech is not free speech only for the approved. The individual has rights against the majority, against the state, and against the mob. Conscience is not subject to a vote. You may be wrong. You may be unpopular. You may be called every name in the book. But the state and the culture (at its best) are not supposed to destroy you for thinking heretical thoughts.

It remembers Tocqueville and Mill. It remembers that yesterday’s moral majority became today’s minority, and that the only reliable protection is principle, not which tribe currently holds the microphone.

This is why the same people who defend free speech for the Christian baker also defend it for the atheist, the immigrant who criticizes open borders, and the professor who questions the latest orthodoxy. The principle is the protection of agency itself.

Ideology B: No. It is the current face of the moral superiority police.

It has inverted the old warning.
The group that claims the highest moral status now claims the right to define truth, punish heresy, and demand ritual confessions. Disagreement is not debate; it is “harm.” Dissent is not protected speech; it is “violence.” Refusal to use preferred language or affirm preferred history is a firing offense in universities, corporations, media, and government.

The historical pattern is ancient: every revolutionary moral elite eventually becomes the new Inquisition. The only difference today is the language of compassion and the tools of HR departments and algorithmic amplification.

This is why you can lose your job for noticing crime statistics, for defending women’s sports, for saying a man cannot become a woman, for criticizing DEI, or for simply refusing to kneel. The group decides what is moral. The individual who will not surrender his independent judgment is cancelled.

Stewardship score on this test:
Ideology A: 9/10
Ideology B: 1/10

The Stewardship Verdict

Only one ideology can steward a free republic for the long haul.

The Ideology of Agency supports and defends the free individual as the basic unit of moral and political life. It treats people as capable of rising. It protects the smallest minority — the individual — from the group that claims the right to cancel him for non-compliance.

The Ideology of Equity softens the individual until he cannot stand on his own, then replaces the old moral police with a new one that is more efficient, more total, and more self-righteous.

Gratitude demands we choose clearly.

I did not come to this country in 1987 to trade one set of imposed group moralities for another. I came for the chance to exercise agency — to work, to fail, to rise, to speak freely, and to be left free to do it without a committee of the enlightened deciding whether my thoughts were allowed.

That is the American deal.
That is the only deal that produces both free people and a strong nation.

Accountability. Assimilation. Allegiance.
Practiced permanently, prudently, pragmatically.

Defend agency.
Protect the individual from the group that claims the right to cancel him for non-compliance.

Anything less is not stewardship.
It is surrender.

LIVE GRATEFUL 🇺🇸
(It starts in The Spine NOT on your Knees.)

– A Grateful Immigrant
Cottage Grove, Minnesota

This Is the Greatest Republic the World Has Ever Seen — A Grateful Immigrant’s Reflection on America’s 250th

Friends,

Last night at Mount Rushmore, President Trump said it plain: This is the Greatest Republic the world has ever seen. Nothing even comes close.

He was right. And on this 250th anniversary of our Independence, I say the same thing without hesitation or false humility — as a Proud American who chose this country with my eyes wide open.

I arrived to permanently live in the United States in 1987. It came after a 15-year wait for our family’s immigration petition to be approved. Fifteen years of paperwork, patience, and hope. When the approval finally came, I didn’t step off the plane with demands or grievances. I came with nothing but grit and a willingness to become American — fully.

That gratitude has only grown deeper over the decades. I’ve traveled every state in this Union, raised a family, paid my taxes, sworn the oath of citizenship in 1992 with full conviction, and built a life I could never have imagined in the place I left behind. This nation gave me opportunity, order, and a future worth fighting for.

But my concern for her — for us — has grown right alongside that gratitude.

This republic was not an accident. It was forged from the best of Western civilization — the principles that flowed from Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome, through the British tradition, and into a new American character on this continent. A nation where rights come from the Creator, not from government. Where the people are sovereign. Where voluntary exchange and relentless agency produced more human flourishing than any system in history.

I didn’t come here to remake America in the image of the place I left. I came to join the American political family — to assimilate into its language, its culture, its values, and to give it my full allegiance. That is how immigration works when it strengthens a nation instead of straining it. Accountability. Assimilation. Allegiance. Practiced permanently, prudently, and pragmatically.

Too many today want the benefits without the burden of belonging. They want the fruits of this republic while refusing to plant their loyalty in its soil. We see it in the cheapening of citizenship, in the refusal to enforce the borders that define a sovereign people, and in the quiet (and sometimes loud) rejection of the very culture that made this the greatest republic on earth.

On this 250th birthday, we celebrate what was built — but we must also look honestly at what is required to keep it.

This republic does not run on autopilot. It demands a spine. It starts in the spine, not on our knees. It demands that those who come here do what I was prepared to do in 1987: wait if necessary, respect the process, learn the language, embrace the culture, and swear allegiance without reservation or divided loyalty.

It demands that those of us already here — native-born and naturalized alike — teach our children the real story of this nation, not the guilt-soaked caricature being pushed in too many classrooms. It demands leaders who lead from strength, not from the appearance of begging. And it demands that every one of us who loves this country act like we intend to keep it.

I am not here by accident. None of us who chose America deliberately are. We are the living proof that this republic still works — when we do our part.

So on this July 4th, 2026, I celebrate without apology. I celebrate the 56 men who signed their names to a declaration that shook the world. I celebrate the generations who defended it, expanded it, and corrected its flaws without tearing down its foundation. And I celebrate every legal immigrant who arrived the right way, did the hard work of assimilation, and became a grateful, contributing American.

This is still the Greatest Republic the world has ever seen.

But she will only remain so if we — all of us — live like we believe it.

LIVE GRATEFUL 🇺🇸

– A Grateful American

The True Genesis of American Immigration: No Jus Soli, No Unilateral Claims, and Why the Host Always Sets the Terms

Antique balance scale weighing a sealed scroll against gold coins, with stormy sea and old sailing ship in background.

Let’s walk this down honestly, from the very birth of this country.

The first English settlers in the colonies were not “immigrants” in the modern sense. They were subjects of the King, moving within the British realm. They lived under the concept of jus soli — birth on the soil made one a natural-born subject owing perpetual allegiance to the Crown. But even then, allegiance mattered.

After the Revolutionary War, the colonies became states. The Articles of Confederation gave way to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and ratification in 1788. This Constitution became the supreme governing document of the United States — our very first official framework. Notably, it said nothing about how citizenship was defined or granted. It used the word “citizen” but left the details to Congress.

In 1790, the very first Congress passed the Naturalization Act of 1790. It allowed free white males of good character, at least 21 years old, to apply for citizenship after two years of residence and an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. Women and minor children derived citizenship through the husband or father. That was the law.

People today scream “racist and sexist” at this. They are wrong.

This made complete sense at the time. The young republic had just fought a revolution to secure a nation rooted in English common law, Judeo-Christian values, individual liberty, and self-government. The “original stock” — those who declared independence, wrote the Constitution, and won the war — shared the same language, legal traditions, culture, and allegiance. Congress was acting as prudent stewards of a fragile new experiment. They restricted naturalization to those who could be trusted to assimilate quickly and uphold the system without importing divided loyalties or incompatible customs.

Adult males would vote, serve in the militia, own property, and bear the full responsibilities of citizenship. That was the universal norm across every sovereign nation on earth. Women and children followed the head of household — not some American invention. “Free white persons” reflected the civilizational reality: Europe was the source of the ideas that made America possible. Large-scale immigration from vastly different civilizations at that moment would have risked permanent enclaves and destroyed the mutual trust a constitutional republic requires.

It was never about hate. It was about preservation. It was about the three pillars: Accountability, Assimilation, and Allegiance.

Importantly, there has never been one single author of any word in the Constitution, any federal statute, any amendment, or any treaty who EVER justified pure jus soli — birth on the soil alone automatically granting citizenship — or bastardized the meaning of “domiciled” and “full jurisdiction.” None. The revolutionaries explicitly rejected the old British common-law version.

The exclusion of slaves proved the point beyond doubt. If pure jus soli had been the rule, children of slaves born on American soil would have been citizens. They were not. They were considered property. Birth alone was never enough. Full jurisdiction — owing no allegiance to any foreign power — was required.

The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, did not change this framework for immigrants. It was written for one clear purpose: to grant citizenship to the freed slaves and their children who were born in the United States and owed no allegiance elsewhere. The Naturalization Acts remained limited to free whites for decades afterward, preserving the original intent that only the “original stock” and the specifically wronged freed slaves were to enjoy the full rights of citizenship by birth or naturalization.

Even when Congress later opened naturalization to non-whites — Chinese in 1943 (Magnuson Act), Filipinos and Indians in 1946 (Luce-Celler Act), and all races in 1952 (McCarran-Walter Act / Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952) — the host nation still set every term: quotas, good moral character, self-sufficiency, residency, and the oath of allegiance. It remained a two-party act: the host sets the rules, the immigrant follows them.

One could not simply show up, declare domicile on their own terms, claim full jurisdiction, and demand citizenship for themselves or their children. That has never been the law or the intent.

Yet today, we are told that illegal entrants can do exactly that. They cross without the host’s consent, claim sovereignty and allegiance, demand all the rights and benefits earned by those who followed the rules, and then pass those rights to their children. This directly contradicts everything in our founding history.

Following the logic of our actual genesis — colonial practice, the Founding, the Naturalization Acts, the 14th Amendment’s original intent, and every statute up to 1952 — such a claim has no constitutional or historical backing. None.

In 2024, Donald Trump won both the popular and electoral vote largely on the issue of immigration. He campaigned on this. The people have spoken. Enforce the law and the intent of the people on who can come in and who becomes one of them. The stemming of the tide has been long overdue. This is the will of the people through the free electoral process. Potential immigrants and illegals do not “trump” that will. Pardon the pun.

Immigration is not for the immigrant. Immigration exists for the benefit of the American citizen. The unchecked practice of illegal immigration has eroded our pillars of Accountability (net burdens instead of contributors), Assimilation (parallel societies and refusal to embrace our culture), and Allegiance (divided loyalties and rejection of American sovereignty). This is of existential importance to the future of this country and the sovereignty of its citizens.

We must right this wrong. The host — the American people — must once again set the terms without apology. Strength first. Freedom follows.

LIVE GRATEFUL. It’s Spine, NOT Knees. 🇺🇸

April 11, 2026

THE STRAIT OF CYRUS Secured by U.S. Power. Managed by Japanese Efficiency. A New Coalition of Free Nations Ensures the Free Flow of Energy for Generations.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR COALITION PARTNERS

The Iranian regime forfeited sovereignty the moment it choked the Strait of Hormuz — the world’s energy artery — while still exporting its own oil. Traffic has collapsed ~90%. Global flows are crippled.

No more endless UN debates from unfree nations. No more freeloading on American muscle. Strength and clarity end the hostage-taking now.

Coalition (NATO naval powers + OPEC Gulf states + Japan only)

United States (lead)
Japan (operational manager)
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar
Rotating NATO naval powers and close partners (UK, France, Australia, etc.)

Zero UN. Zero Russia. Zero China. China keeps Russian crude; the Strait of Cyrus belongs to free nations.

U.S. Control Locked In Voting shares (100% total):

United States: Opens at 55%, settles at no less than 50% — veto on every decision.
Japan: 20%
OPEC Gulf core: 15%
Other NATO naval powers and close partners: 10%

Revenue — 100% Self-Funding (March 2026 numbers) Production ramps to 3.2–3.6 million bpd under Japanese management. Exports: 2.8–3.0 million bpd at market prices. Gross revenue: $87–95 billion/year. Security + ops costs: ~$700–900 million/year. Net to Persian Reconstruction Fund: 98%+ = $86–94 billion/year — transparent, audited, direct to the Iranian people.

The oil pays for its own freedom.

Outcome Immediate: Kharg Island and Strait of Cyrus lanes secured → traffic resumes → prices stabilize. Long-term: 5–10 year phase-out to a free, non-theocratic Persia. For the West and Israel: Permanent end to energy blackmail and proxy funding. For the Persian people: Real rebuilding money and a civilizational restart — reclaiming the tolerant legacy of Cyrus the Great.

Strength first. Freedom follows. This is the post-WWII Japan/Germany model, updated for 2026. Ready for immediate treaty signing.

FULL PROPOSAL

Preamble The regime already lost every legal and moral claim when it weaponized the global commons. The United States and its free partners now act decisively — honoring the ancient Persian spirit of liberation embodied by Cyrus the Great.

Official Name and Mission The Strait of Cyrus. Where a new coalition of free nations ensures the free flow of energy for generations. Secured by U.S. Power. Managed by Japanese Efficiency.

Governance U.S. 50%+ controlling stake guarantees no leaching. Japan runs the fields and terminals with proven efficiency. OPEC Gulf partners provide regional legitimacy and capital. NATO naval powers and close partners (including Australia) rotate security.

Revenue Rule All proceeds first cover security and operations. The rest flows straight to the Persian Reconstruction Fund for the Iranian people — regime-proof and audited.

Safeguard Provision If the future Persian government funds hostile proxies or grants favored pricing to China or any belligerent nations (as defined by coalition vote under existing weighted stakes — U.S. opening at 55%, floor 50%), control of operations and revenue allocation automatically defaults to joint U.S. and Japan authority until full compliance is verified and restored.

Timeline

Immediate: Secure the lanes and Kharg Island.
Years 1–2: Production ramps, revenues flow.
Years 5–10: Phased handover to a free Persian government (U.S. veto retained until democracy is locked in).

Why This Works Messy peace is the necessary cost of ending 47 years of theocracy and global blackmail. The Persian people — heirs of Cyrus, not Arabs — finally get to rebuild with their own oil money and revive their proud, tolerant heritage. The West and Israel get real, lasting peace.

The challenge is met. Strength secures the strait. Freedom — and Persian pride — delivers the future.

Your oil. Your future. Finally.

Ready for coalition treaty signing. Strength first.

– The Grateful Immigrant from St. Paul, Minnesota

March 22, 2026

LIVE GRATEFUL 🇺🇸 (It starts in The Spine NOT on your Knees)

Stewardship by Party

Stewardship Showdown: Conservative vs. Liberal Ideology – Who’s Been the Better Steward?

Another angle on stewardship, straight from the About page on this blog. America is a nation built by grateful immigrants and settlers who lived the three pillars: Accountability, Assimilation, and Allegiance. Today we grade the two dominant ideologies—conservative (limited government, self-reliance, America-first) vs. liberal (big government, equity focus, multiculturalism) — on how they’ve performed as stewards over the past 40+ years (1980–2026). No victimhood excuses, no Marxist spin. Just outcomes. Data from Pew, Gallup, CIS proxies, Treasury/US Debt Clock, and nonpartisan trackers.

Pillars Recap (No Excuses):

Accountability: Low welfare dependency, fiscal restraint, net contribution—not saddling future generations with debt or creating government doles.
Assimilation: Pushing English, blending into Judeo-Christian Western culture— no permanent parallel societies or grievance divisions.
Allegiance: Unwavering patriotism, loyalty to the flag/Constitution/America first—high national pride, strong defense.

Sources (Current as of March 2026):

Debt/welfare trends: US Debt Clock, Investopedia, Pew Research (2025 debt facts).
English/assimilation: Pew 2025 language survey + Trump 2025 English official EO.
Patriotism: Gallup June 2025 poll + Pew Feb 2026 national pride report.

Accountability (Fiscal Responsibility)

Night-and-day difference — and liberals lose badly.

Liberals (Dem administrations): Explosive debt and welfare expansion. Obama added ~$8.3T (post-recession stimulus/entitlements). Biden added ~$7–8.4T (COVID relief + spending bills). Consistent push for bigger government, more entitlements, higher dependency. Social spending often rises faster under Dem House control.
Conservatives (GOP): Also added debt (Reagan ~$1.6T for military/tax cuts; Trump terms ~$7.8T+ combined, including pandemic). But philosophy favors tax cuts, welfare reform (e.g., 1990s Clinton-era deals with GOP Congress), and restraint on new doles. Recent DOGE efforts under Trump 2.0 aim at cuts.

Verdict: Conservatives better stewards here. Liberal ideology created the entitlement trap and debt spiral; conservative push for self-reliance pulls weight. Liberals treat government as the solution — creating more takers. Conservatives treat it as the problem.

Assimilation (Blending into American Culture)

Night-and-day difference — conservatives win decisively.

Conservatives: Demand English as official language (73% of Republicans say “extremely/very important” per Pew 2025). Trump’s March 2025 EO designated English official. Push “English First,” oppose divisive bilingual programs that slow blending. Focus on one American culture rooted in Judeo-Christian values.
Liberals: Promote multiculturalism, diversity-over-unity, and resistance to English mandates (only 32% of Democrats see it as important). Support policies that enable enclaves, heritage-language priority, and grievance-based identity over full assimilation.

Verdict: Clear conservative superiority. Liberal ideology fragments the nation with parallel societies; conservative ideology unites through shared language and culture — the exact stewardship that built America.

Allegiance (Patriotism and Loyalty)

Night-and-day difference — conservatives dominate.

Conservatives/Republicans: Sky-high pride — 92% extremely/very proud to be American (Gallup June 2025). Emphasize freedom, military, Constitution, and national greatness. Steady defense spending priority; flag-first mindset.
Liberals/Democrats: Plummeted to 36% proud (sharp drop from 62% in 2024). Focus on diversity critiques, systemic complaints, and globalism over America-first. Lower emphasis on military patriotism or flag allegiance.

Verdict: Conservatives are the true stewards of allegiance. Liberal ideology has eroded national pride, turning grievance into a feature. The gap is massive and growing.

Where Are They Closer or Similar?

Military/defense spending: Both parties ramp it up in crises (Reagan/Bush GOP highs; Obama/Biden also increased post-9/11 and in recent years). Not a clean ideological divide — pragmatic overlap on strength.
Overall fiscal outcomes: Both have exploded debt in practice (wars, recessions, pandemics). Conservatives talk restraint better but don’t always deliver perfectly.

Overall Winner as Stewards: Conservative Ideology

Conservatives align far more with gratitude-driven stewardship: self-reliance (Accountability), cultural unity (Assimilation), and unapologetic patriotism (Allegiance). Liberals fail hard on two of three pillars and only overlap on defense pragmatism. Their big-government, grievance, multiculturalism approach has burdened taxpayers, divided the culture, and weakened national loyalty.

This isn’t close. America thrives when conservative principles guide policy —limited government, assimilation demands, and America-first allegiance. Liberal ideology has been a net drag on the pillars that made us exceptional.

Gratitude isn’t optional. Time to choose the ideology that actually stewards the nation instead of dismantling it.

What say you? Grades fair? Drop thoughts below. Gratitude first.

— The Grateful Immigrant from St. Paul, Minnesota

March 22, 2026

LIVE GRATEFUL 🇺🇸 (It starts in The Spine NOT on your Knees)

Grading Immigrants: A Stewardship Analysis

Grading America’s Immigrants and Settlers as Stewards: Accountability, Assimilation, and Allegiance

In the About page of this blog, I make it clear: America is a nation of immigrants and settlers. We built this country through gratitude, not grievance. Today we grade the major groups—founding settlers and every significant immigrant ethnicity and region—on how they’ve performed as stewards of the nation.

We use the three pillars straight from the site, no victim lens, no endless excuses, no Marxist claptrap about “oppression” that ignores outcomes. Facts only. Patterns matter for policy. Data drawn from Pew Research (English proficiency, education, demographics) and detailed Census analyses via the Center for Immigration Studies (welfare use by origin and region—2024-2026 updates).

The Pillars, defined bluntly:

Accountability: Pulling your own weight—low welfare/food stamps/Medicaid use, high employment, net fiscal contribution. Not living on the American taxpayer.
Assimilation: Learning English and blending into the Judeo-Christian, Western culture that shaped this country. No permanent enclaves or parallel societies.
Allegiance: Honoring the American flag first, showing real patriotism, military service, loyalty to the Constitution over the old country. No foreign flags at rallies, no divided loyalties.

We rank from best stewards to worst. Every major group and ethnicity is covered through these categories (listing 150+ ancestries would be pointless; patterns are clear).

Sources (Current as of March 2026):

Welfare data: Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report “Non-Citizen Use of Welfare by Region and Country of Birth” (March 18, 2026, using CPS ASEC data averaged 2023-2025). Focuses on non-citizen households (primarily lawful permanent residents and illegal immigrants). Percentages reflect use of traditional welfare programs or low income qualifying for EITC/ACTC. Full report: https://cis.org/Report/NonCitizen-Use-Welfare-Region-and-Country-Birth
English proficiency: Pew Research Center analysis (updated August 21, 2025, based on recent ACS data) for immigrants ages 5+. Proficient = speak only English at home or speak English “very well.” Full details: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/21/key-findings-about-us-immigrants
Allegiance notes: Pattern-based from observed behaviors (e.g., military service historical data, flag displays at events), not quantified in these sources but consistent with long-term trends.

Best Stewards

1. Founding European Settlers & Their Descendants (British/Anglo, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, etc.) Gold standard. They settled the land, wrote the Constitution, built the institutions, and created the culture. Near-zero welfare dependency historically and today. Full assimilation by definition. Ultimate allegiance—they are America’s founding stock. They set the bar. Excellent across all three pillars.

2. South Asian Immigrants (especially Indian) Modern superstars. Lowest welfare usage (~16% of households per Census breakdowns). Highest median household incomes (~$157k+), top education and entrepreneurship rates. Strong English proficiency (70%+). Families intact, low crime, economic dynamos. Allegiance solid—they came for the American Dream and deliver. Outstanding stewards.

3. East Asian Immigrants (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese) Same tier. Low welfare (~30-38%), sky-high achievement in school and business, rapid English adoption. Strong work ethic, family values aligned with the West. Minimal grievance culture. Allegiance focused on success here, not back home. Model stewards.

4. Filipino Immigrants Standouts. High English proficiency from day one (colonial history + Catholic culture). Top rates of military service among immigrants. Hard-working, family-oriented, entrepreneurial. Assimilate fast, low welfare compared to other groups. Strong patriotic allegiance. Excellent modern example.

5. Select Sub-Saharan African Immigrants (Nigerians, Ghanaians, Kenyans—skilled waves) Often highly educated, entrepreneurial standouts. Strong English in many cases, high labor participation. Lower welfare than refugee cohorts. Assimilate when they choose the path of gratitude. Good contribution when selective.

6. Later European Immigrants (Irish, Italian, Polish, Jewish, etc.) & Early Cuban Waves Took a generation or two historically, but fully assimilated into the Judeo-Christian mainstream. Built neighborhoods, businesses, fought in wars. Cubans fled communism, created economic miracles in Florida, low welfare relative to other Hispanics, fierce American patriotism. Solid stewards overall.

Middle to Lower Stewards

7. Mexican Immigrants (largest single group) Largest wave, mixed-to-poor report card. High welfare usage (Western Hemisphere averages 67%+ household participation). First-generation English proficiency lags (around 50-60% for Mexicans per Pew proxies). Persistent Spanish enclaves slow full blending. Frequent Mexican flag displays at protests signal allegiance isn’t always America-first. Second generation improves somewhat, but overall fiscal drain and cultural drag in high-volume areas. Not stewards at the level America needs.

8. Central American Immigrants (Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran, etc.) Worse on the metrics. Highest welfare rates in many studies (67-77%). Lowest English proficiency (~31% for Central America per Pew Research). Slower assimilation, larger remittances sent home, similar flag issues. Mass low-skilled inflow burdens schools, hospitals, and taxpayers. Weak stewards.

9. African American Descendants of Enslaved People (long-term “settlers” in the American story) Centuries here, native English speakers, notable military service history. But current patterns show persistently high welfare dependency, family breakdown, and cultural issues that strain national resources. Grievance-focused movements often undermine unity and patriotism. Serious accountability and cultural assimilation challenges remain. Not pulling their weight at the level required for strong stewardship.

10. Other Caribbean (Haitian, Dominican) and Broader African Refugee Groups High welfare, slower English and cultural blending in many communities. Variable allegiance.

Worst Stewards

11. Certain Middle Eastern, North African, and Muslim-Origin Groups (especially Somali, Afghan, Yemeni, Pakistani, Bangladeshi) Bottom of the barrel on current data. Extremely high welfare (Somalis in Minnesota often 70-80%+ household use; similar for Afghans/Yemenis). Very slow English assimilation in enclaves, resistance to Judeo-Christian norms, demands for separate rules (Sharia accommodations, polygamy, honor issues reported). Allegiance problems clear: foreign flags, sympathy for anti-American causes, higher terrorism risks. In large numbers, incompatible with American stewardship. Fail the pillars hard.

12. Native Americans (American Indians – original indigenous “settlers”) Pre-Columbian stewards of the land for millennia. In the modern republic: highest poverty and welfare dependency on reservations, limited economic integration, tribal sovereignty often trumps national unity. English is native but cultural separation persists. Mixed allegiance at best. Not strong stewards in today’s fiscal and cultural reality.

The Bottom Line

America succeeds when her people—settlers and immigrants—act as grateful stewards. The founding Europeans and high-quality groups from India, East Asia, the Philippines, and select others prove it every day. They assimilate, contribute, and pledge allegiance without apology.

Mass low-skilled, non-assimilating, high-welfare immigration from Mexico, Central America, and incompatible cultural regions does the opposite: burdens taxpayers, erodes cohesion, and weakens the nation. Grievance culture makes it worse.

True gratitude isn’t optional. It’s time for blunt honesty: secure the border, end the free ride, demand full assimilation and allegiance, and select only immigrants who will strengthen the pillars—not collapse them. Prioritize the best stewards. That’s how America stays exceptional.

What do you think, readers? Agree with the grades? Drop your thoughts below. Gratitude first—always.

— The Grateful Immigrant from St. Paul, Minnesota

March 21, 2026

LIVE GRATEFUL 🇺🇸 (It starts in The Spine NOT on your Knees)

The detractors’ favorite word right now:

IMMINENT

Japan—oil embargo, warships massing, code-breaking chatter. We saw it. nothing imminent.

Iran hostage crisis—students marching, embassy wires buzzing. We felt it. nothing imminent.

Beirut barracks—truck bombs tested, marines warned. We knew. nothing imminent.

‘93 World Trade Center—bombers renting vans, fertilizer bought. We had tips. nothing imminent.

USS Cole—Yemen harbor, small boats circling, al-Qaeda chatter. We watched. nothing imminent.

Iraq—Saddam gassing Kurds, invading neighbors, funding terror. We hit him. No WMDs? True. But his regime—his sons, his torture chambers, his terror network—gone. That stopped the next horror. The real failure? Thinking we could rebuild it into America. We couldn’t.

We ended Saddam. That mattered. Tried to build Iraq in our image. That didn’t.

But here’s the lesson: threaten us, hurt us—then we come back. Hard. And we do it again.

And for fifty years: Iran funds the hits, arms the proxies, chants “Death to America,” builds centrifuges—while we shrug.

Still: nothing imminent. Until the next body drops. Then it’s “urgent.”

WE WON’T FORGET. WE WON’T WAIT.

This Is What Betrayed Looks Like.

America welcomed me 40 years ago. I learned the language, assimilated, saluted the flag, built a life here. Grateful every day. But what we’re seeing now? Not immigration. Invasion. Unvetted millions pouring in on false pretenses—lies of asylum, fake papers, “refugee” status—then breaking every rule while we follow them. Democrats chose their side: not America’s. On purpose. Not “too mean,” not “inconvenient” — deliberate sabotage for votes, power, chaos.

The Sins of Illegals: Every Offense, Every Drain, Every Betrayal

All illegals start as criminals—illegal entry is trespassing on sovereign soil. Then the rest piles on:

Illegal entry: Forging docs, jumping fences, overstaying visas—first crime.
Staying illegally: Squatting, hiding from ICE, fake IDs—fugitives laughing at our laws.
Freeloading on welfare: Food stamps, Medicaid, housing, schools—$150B+ annual net cost (FAIR estimates; higher now). Billions drained while citizens wait.
Stealing jobs: Off-books work, no taxes, undercutting wages in construction, farms, services. Remittances send $200B+ out yearly.
Draining resources: Overloading ERs (free care), schools (spots stolen), hospitals, roads. Vets sleep on streets while invaders get handouts.
Non-assimilation: No English forced, no culture learned. Enclaves dominate—Spanish/Arabic rules, Sharia whispers. No flag salute, no Constitution respect.
Lack of allegiance: Waving foreign flags, remitting billions home. Loyalty to anywhere but America.
Cultural erosion: Demanding halal, burqas, no-go zones. Trampling Judeo-Christian roots.
Criminal networks: Shielding MS-13, Tren de Aragua, cartels—even “non-criminal” ones enable silence.
Voting fraud: Fake IDs diluting citizen votes.
Debt burden: Adding to $34T+ debt—our kids pay for today’s invasion.
Security risks: Unvetted hordes hide sleepers and threats.

We follow rules: taxes, laws, English, assimilation. They? Exempt. “Vulnerable.” We bleed; they take.

Fentanyl Plague: Cartel Poison from Open Borders

Cartels use open borders to flood fentanyl—smuggled by illegals/gangs. Overdose deaths: 74,702 from synthetic opioids in 2023; provisional ~84,000 in 12 months to Oct 2024 (CDC). Declines in 2025 (~24% drop overall), but still tens of thousands dead yearly—kids, families ruined. Cartels profit; our streets pay in graves.

Every Jihad Attack: From ’79 to Today—False Pretenses, Then Blood

They’ve waged war for 47 years—false refugees, “students,” “allies” lying to get in, then striking. Every stab, bomb, hijack, kidnapping. No “minor” when it’s jihad. Chronological, exhaustive—from tool pulls like Wikipedia, Fondapol, CSIS, FDD. Even foiled plots count: intent to kill.

1979 Iran Hostage Crisis (Nov 4, Tehran): Radical Islamists storm US Embassy—66 Americans held 444 days. Humiliation, no deaths but terror. Iran-backed.
1980 Bologna Train Station Bombing (Aug 2, Italy): Neo-fascist with Islamist ties bomb station—85 dead, 200+ hurt. Early Western hit.
1983 Beirut Embassy Bombing (Apr 18, Lebanon): Hezbollah/Iran truck bomb—63 dead (17 Americans). Embassy leveled.
1983 Beirut Marine Barracks (Oct 23, Lebanon): Hezbollah suicide truck—241 US Marines dead. Worst Marine loss since WWII.
1983 Kuwait Embassy Bombings (Dec 12): Islamic Jihad bombs US/Kuwaiti sites—6 dead, 80 hurt.
1984 Beirut Embassy Annex (Sep 20, Lebanon): Hezbollah truck bomb—24 dead (2 Americans).
1984 Kuwait Airways Hijacking (Dec 3): Hezbollah hijacks flight—2 Americans killed.
1985 TWA Flight 847 Hijacking (Jun 14): Hezbollah hijacks plane—1 US Navy diver beaten, shot, dumped on tarmac.
1985 Achille Lauro Hijacking (Oct 7, Mediterranean): PLF terrorists seize ship—1 American Jew killed, thrown overboard.
1985 Rome/Vienna Airport Attacks (Dec 27): Abu Nidal gunmen—19 dead (5 Americans), 120 hurt.
1985–86 Paris Bombings: Hezbollah-linked—13 dead, 225 hurt in multiple blasts.
1986 Berlin Discotheque (Apr 5, Germany): Libyan-backed bomb—3 dead (2 Americans), 229 hurt.
1986 Pan Am Flight 73 Hijacking (Sep 5, Pakistan): Abu Nidal—20 dead (2 Americans), 120 hurt.
1987 Barcelona Bar Attack (Jun 25, Spain): Islamic Jihad bomb—1 dead, 10 hurt (US sailors targeted).
1988 Pan Am Flight 103 (Dec 21, Lockerbie): Libyan-backed bomb—270 dead (189 Americans).
1989 Tel Aviv Bus Attack (Jul 7, Israel): Islamic Jihad suicide—16 dead, 27 hurt.
1992 Israeli Embassy Buenos Aires (Mar 17, Argentina): Hezbollah bomb—29 dead, 242 hurt.
1993 World Trade Center Bombing (Feb 26, NYC): Al-Qaeda precursors truck bomb—6 dead, 1,000+ hurt.
1993 CIA Headquarters Shooting (Jan 25, Virginia): Pakistani gunman—2 dead, 3 hurt.
1994 AMIA Bombing Buenos Aires (Jul 18, Argentina): Hezbollah—85 dead, 300 hurt.
1994 London Israeli Embassy (Jul 26, UK): Hezbollah car bomb—26 hurt.
1995 Oklahoma City (Apr 19): Not Islamist, but Islamist probes followed.
1995 Riyadh US Military HQ (Nov 13, Saudi): Al-Qaeda-linked bomb—5 dead (Americans), 60 hurt.
1996 Khobar Towers (Jun 25, Saudi): Hezbollah bomb—19 US airmen dead, 372 hurt.
1998 US Embassies Kenya/Tanzania (Aug 7): Al-Qaeda bombs—224 dead (12 Americans), 4,000+ hurt.
2000 USS Cole (Oct 12, Yemen): Al-Qaeda boat bomb—17 US sailors dead, 39 hurt.
2001 9/11 Attacks (Sep 11, US): Al-Qaeda hijacks—2,977 dead, 25,000+ hurt.
2002 Bali Bombings (Oct 12, Indonesia): Jemaah Islamiyah—202 dead (7 Americans).
2002 Los Angeles Airport Shooting (Jul 4): Egyptian gunman—2 dead.
2003 Riyadh Compounds (May 12, Saudi): Al-Qaeda—35 dead (9 Americans).
2003 Casablanca (May 16, Morocco): Al-Qaeda-linked—45 dead.
2003 Marriott Jakarta (Aug 5, Indonesia): Jemaah Islamiyah—12 dead.
2004 Madrid Trains (Mar 11, Spain): Al-Qaeda-inspired—193 dead, 2,000 hurt.
2004 Beslan School (Sep 1, Russia): Chechen Islamists—334 dead (186 kids).
2005 London 7/7 (Jul 7, UK): Al-Qaeda-linked—52 dead, 700+ hurt.
2005 Sharm El Sheikh (Jul 23, Egypt): Islamist bombs—88 dead.
2005 Amman Hotels (Nov 9, Jordan): Al-Qaeda—60 dead.
2006 Mumbai Trains (Jul 11, India): Lashkar-e-Taiba—209 dead.
2008 Mumbai Attacks (Nov 26, India): Lashkar-e-Taiba—166 dead (6 Americans).
2009 Fort Hood Shooting (Nov 5, Texas): Nidal Hasan—13 dead, 32 hurt.
2009 Little Rock Recruiting Center (Jun 1, Arkansas): Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad—1 dead, 1 hurt.
2009 Christmas Day Bomber (Dec 25, Flight 253): AQAP underwear bomb—foiled, 0 dead.
2010 Times Square (May 1, NYC): Tehrik-i-Taliban car bomb—foiled.
2010 Portland Tree Lighting (Nov 26, Oregon): Mohamed Osman Mohamud fake bomb—foiled.
2011 Frankfurt Airport (Mar 2, Germany): Arid Uka shoots US airmen—2 dead.
2012 Benghazi Consulate (Sep 11, Libya): Ansar al-Sharia—4 Americans dead.
2012 Toulouse Shootings (Mar, France): Mohammed Merah—7 dead.
2013 Boston Marathon (Apr 15): Tsarnaev brothers—3 dead, 183 hurt.
2013 Westgate Mall (Sep 21, Kenya): Al-Shabaab—67 dead.
2013 Lee Rigby Murder (May 22, UK): Islamist beheading—1 dead.
2014 Ottawa Parliament (Oct 22, Canada): Lone wolf—1 dead, 3 hurt.
2014 NYC Hatchet Attack (Oct 23): Zale Thompson—0 dead, 5 hurt.
2014 Sydney Siege (Dec 15, Australia): Lone Islamist—3 dead (incl. perp).
2014 Tours Stabbing (Dec 20, France): “Allahu Akbar” attack—1 dead, 3 hurt.
2015 Charlie Hebdo (Jan 7, Paris): AQAP—12 dead, 11 hurt.
2015 Garland Muhammad Contest (May 3, Texas): ISIS-inspired—0 dead, 1 hurt.
2015 Chattanooga (Jul 16, Tennessee): Mohammad Abdulazeez—5 dead.
2015 Paris Attacks (Nov 13): ISIS—130 dead, 400+ hurt.
2015 San Bernardino (Dec 2, California): ISIS-inspired couple—14 dead.
2016 Orlando Pulse (Jun 12, Florida): Omar Mateen—49 dead, 53 hurt.
2016 Nice Truck (Jul 14, France): ISIS-inspired—86 dead, 434 hurt.
2016 Ohio State (Nov 28): Abdul Razak Ali Artan car/knife—0 dead, 11 hurt.
2016 Berlin Christmas Market (Dec 19, Germany): ISIS truck—12 dead, 56 hurt.
2017 London Bridge (Jun 3, UK): ISIS—8 dead, 48 hurt.
2017 NYC Truck (Oct 31): ISIS-inspired—8 dead, 12 hurt.
2017 Barcelona Van (Aug 17, Spain): ISIS—16 dead, 152 hurt.
2019 Sri Lanka Easter (Apr 21): ISIS-linked—259 dead.
2019 London Bridge Stabbing (Nov 29, UK): Usman Khan—2 dead, 3 hurt.
2020 Waldkraiburg Arson (Apr, Germany): Muharrem D. targets Turks/mosque—0 dead, 6 hurt (smoke).
2020 Berlin Highway Ramming (Aug 18, Germany): Sarmad A.—0 dead, 6 hurt.
2020 Dresden Stabbing (Oct 4, Germany): Abdullah Al H. H.—1 dead (targeted gays).
2020 Nice Church Beheading (Oct 29, France): Brahim Aoussaoui—3 dead.
2020 Vienna Shooting (Nov 2, Austria): Kujtim Fejzulai—4 dead, 23 hurt.
2021 Capitol Plot (foiled): Afghan refugee plots—foiled.
2022 Castrop-Rauxel Chem Plot (Jan, Germany): Iranian brothers—foiled ricin/cyanide.
2023 Limburg Stabbing (Jun, Germany): Syrian asylum seeker—1 dead, 5 hurt.
2023 Annecy Playground Stabbing (Jun, France): Syrian refugee—0 dead, 6 hurt (kids targeted).
2023 Brussels Shooting (Oct 16, Belgium): Abdesalem Lassoued—2 dead (Swedes).
2024 Mannheim Knife (May 31, Germany): Afghan—1 dead (cop), 5 hurt.
2024 Solingen Festival Stabbing (Aug 23, Germany): Syrian ISIS—3 dead, 8 hurt.
2024 Munich Rifle (Sep 5, Germany): Emrah I.—foiled, 0 dead.
2024 Linz Police Station (Sep 6, Austria): Albanian machete—foiled, 0 dead.
2024 Hof Soldiers Plot (Sep 12, Germany): Syrian—foiled.
2024 Israeli Embassy Plot (Oct 19, Germany): Libyan—foiled.
2024 Augsburg Christmas Market Plot (Dec 4, Germany): Iraqi—foiled.
2025 New Orleans Truck (Jan 1): Shamsud-Din Jabbar ISIS—14 dead, 57 hurt.
2025 Boulder Firebomb (Jun 1, Colorado): Mohamed Sabry Soliman—1 dead, 14 hurt (Jewish rally).
2025 DC Guard Shooting (Nov): Afghan asylum—1 dead, 1 hurt.
2026 NYC IEDs (Mar 7): ISIS-inspired—minor injuries.
2026 Michigan Synagogue Ram (Mar 12, today, West Bloomfield): Car bomb attempt—0 dead, security kills perp.

And thousands more—stabs in Europe, foiled US plots, kidnaps abroad. All under “asylum” lies.

Democrats chose this side—not America’s. Traitors. If you’re not funding security and the military, then let it all burn. Let them all loose their jobs all our aid ALL OF IT! Without security and our military nothing else is worth it! We voted for that in 2024. If you think we will lose the elections in 2026 then we’ve lost the country anyway. Just make it a free for all!

Plus Europe/West scars: Charlie Hebdo, Nice truck, London Tube, etc.—same playbook.

TSA Reminder: 9/11 forced it — Al-Qaeda’s 19 Islamist hijackers killed 2,977. Pre-9/11: walk to gates, knives OK. Now: shoes off, scanners, lines. We didn’t choose this — jihad forced it.

Democrats chose their side—not America’s. On purpose. They block border/deportation/military funding. Fund TSA theater to make us feel pain — “Trump’s fault!” While invaders stay.

Let every TSA agent lose their job. Let airports shut. Let flights cancel. Let gas skyrocket. Let bombs drop. Let streets bleed.You chose non-Americans — the invaders, the killers, the rule-breakers—over us. Fine. Stay with them. We’ll see who survives.

Because without real security — none of this matters. TSA doesn’t matter. Travel doesn’t matter. We’re already dead —waiting for the next one.

– Pissed-off Immigrant from St. Paul, Minnesota

March 12, 2026

TRYING TO LIVE GRATEFUL AMIDST THE BETRAYAL 🇺🇸 (Spine Hurts! being Dragged to my Knees by America’s Haters)