Contrary to the false mythology about immigration today, America was not created to be a haven for all the people of the world. Its primary purpose, as stated in the Preamble of the Constitution, was to provide American citizens and their descendants with blessings such as unity, liberty and domestic tranquility.

Preamble: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” (Constitution of the United States)

In other words, our primary concern should be for our own — our own citizens and those legally here preparing to become citizens. As well we should exam — while we still have a chance — whether the U.S. government’s laws and policies at all levels — local, state and federal — that have been promoting and forcing massive immigration numbers, legal and illegal, on our own over the past few decades are promoting the principles of the U.S. Constitution or tearing us apart.

Mike Gordon

Albert Lea