Homeland Security Committee Member Says She’s Loyal To A Different Homeland
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Forty-two years ago, a pregnant Guatemalan woman illegally crossed the Rio Grande River and gave birth to a baby who now has “birthright” citizenship. Today, that child sits in Congress — proudly declaring her allegiance to the country her mother left behind. This is the predictable result of a broken immigration system — one that has allowed the mass importation of both legal and illegal aliens regardless of their capacity or willingness to assimilate into the country.
“I am a proud Guatemalan before I am American,” Illinois Democrat Rep. Delia Ramírez said in Spanish during the opening remarks of the second annual Panamerican Congress in Mexico City. Notably, she sits on the House Homeland Security Committee — a committee dedicated to protecting the homeland.Following backlash, Ramírez said in a statement that she is the “daughter of immigrants. The press release noted how she is “an American citizen by birthright.”“I am from both Guatemala and Chicago, Illinois,” she said, after claiming that “[h]onoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens my commitment to America.” But her comments should alarm anyone because they reveal a deep reality: mass immigration — legal and illegal — has produced not only millions of persons living in America with tenuous ties to the nation, but lawmakers who openly place ancestral identity above national allegiance.
The founders saw this danger coming. They knew our republic could not survive if its people — let alone leaders — were filled with foreign attachments.