{"id":86,"date":"2026-05-22T12:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertytransitionmedia.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:16:25","slug":"america-is-a-nation-of-settlers-not-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertytransitionmedia.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"America Is A Nation Of Settlers, Not Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced a joint resolution to bar foreign-born U.S. citizens from serving in Congress, the federal judiciary, and as Senate-confirmed political appointees. The Constitution already prohibits foreign-born citizens from serving as president and vice president, but Mace, who is currently running to be South Carolina\u2019s next governor, wants to extend that to other high levels of government.<\/p>\n

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Her targets are Democrats like Reps. Ilhan Omar, Shri Thanedar, and Pramila Jayapal \u2014 all of whom, according to Mace, have divided loyalties. If the measure were to pass, however, it wouldn\u2019t just bar these left-wing Democrats from serving in Congress, it would also affect several sitting Republicans who are naturalized citizens.<\/p>\n

Of course, Mace\u2019s proposed amendment has almost no chance of passing. It would require a two-thirds majority vote in both chambers of Congress and ratification by three-fourths of U.S. states. But that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s a bad idea. Prohibiting foreign-born citizens from Congress and the federal judiciary would have the salutary effect of keep radicals like Omar and Jayapal away from power, as well as the cadre of radical foreign-born federal judges, many appointed under the Biden administration, who have worked ceaselessly to undermine President Trump\u2019s agenda since the day he took office.<\/p>\n

More important than the merits of the proposal, however, are the reactions to it, which serve as a timely reminder of how thoroughly we\u2019ve been propagandized into believing the false liberal narrative that the United States is a \u201cnation of immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Take for example columnist and law professor Jonathan Turley, a man of the establishment right, who said in an X post that he \u201ccannot think of anything more antithetical to our founding than barring foreign-born citizens from Congress. As a nation of immigrants, it is a reaffirmation of our heritage to have these citizens serve in government.\u201d Later, he declared \u201cthe founders themselves were immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot to unpack there, but to that last point, no they weren\u2019t. Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, only eight were not born in the American colonies \u2014 they were born in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. All of them were subjects of the British crown, and each of them came to the colonies as colonists and settlers<\/em>, not immigrants. They traveled from one part of the British Empire to another. When in 1776 they broke away from the mother country, one of their chief purposes was to \u201csecure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,\u201d as stated in the preamble to the Constitution. Indeed, the Constitution says almost nothing about immigrants \u2014 except that no foreign-born person may serve as president or vice president.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s odd, then, that Turley says he can think of \u201cnothing more antithetical to our founding than barring foreign-born citizens from Congress.\u201d Every member of the first Congress (1789-1791) was born in the British Empire, and only nine were born outside the American colonies, in Ireland, England, Canada, and Scotland. None of them were immigrants.<\/p>\n

The \u201cnation of immigrants\u201d line is not just ahistorical, though. It\u2019s an insidious attempt to redefine American identity away from the shared bonds of culture and history that have always defined a nation, and assert instead that America is \u201can idea\u201d or a \u201ccreedal nation,\u201d as Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recently said.<\/p>\n

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What terms like this really mean, what they are meant to convey, is that instead of being a distinct people descended from common ancestors, America is something far more plastic and ephemeral: a set of Enlightenment propositions about human nature and natural law that anyone can adopt. All you have to do to become an American, according to this view, is assent to those propositions and sign some documents. A recent arrival from Somalia, so long as he has all his paperwork in order and has gone through the proper bureaucratic process, is just as American as someone whose family has been here since the seventeenth century.<\/p>\n

Every knows that is absurd position, but often people are afraid to say so for fear of being called a racist or an ethno-nationalist. That\u2019s because the \u201ccreedal nation\u201d argument is often framed as a binary: America is unique among the nations of the world because we have a \u201ccivic nationalism,\u201d not \u201cblood-and-soil nationalism.\u201d Or, our American identity is based on the founding creed, not on ethnicity \u2014 as if ethnicity is the only alternative to creedalism. The implication is that anyone who rejects the creedal nation idea is an ethno-nationalist\/racist who thinks only white people can be real Americans.<\/p>\n

But of course one need not be an ethno-nationalist to reject the creedalists\u2019 claims about American identity. Indeed, those claims can be rejected on the basis of religion alone. At the very heart of American identity, after all, lies the Christian religion and the principles of government derived from its theological precepts. Put another way, if America is a \u201cpropositional nation,\u201d as they say, then the proposition is Christianity and all that it entails<\/em>. You cannot have, as the basis of nation, the assertion that \u201call men are created equal,\u201d that all men are given unalienable rights by their Creator, without Christian theological claims undergirding those assertions. That doesn\u2019t mean every American has to be Christian, as if we\u2019re some kind of theocracy. But it does mean that every American has to endorse a Christian theological cosmology.<\/p>\n

The point about religion is that America is not an Enlightenment-era parlor game. It is a people who came from a particular culture and religion, British and Christian. Its creed is universal in the same way the Christian creed is universal: it is open to everyone willing to convert, change their life, and be transformed. That\u2019s what assimilation really means. The immigrant must leave behind the cultural practices of his homeland and adopt American culture and habits as his own \u2014 above all, he must adopt the Christian idea that all men are created equal, with all the implications that flow from that. That is harder to do than it seems, and it doesn\u2019t happen at all under conditions of mass immigration.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what all this really comes down to. Not everyone who emigrates here will become an American. Ilhan Omar, for example, will probably never become an American, no matter how long she lives here. That\u2019s because being an American doesn\u2019t mean just being physically present in the United States, with all your documents in order, in hopes of making a lot of money or amassing a lot of power. It means joining, and being adopted into, an existing people \u2014 a people with a shared past and a common future and a distinct heritage and cultural patrimony.<\/p>\n

Most foreigners, if they fully understood what it meant, would not even want to assimilate. People after all tend to love their own cultures and ancestral homelands, and they generally do not want to leave them behind for another. That\u2019s why so many immigrants today fail to assimilate, or don\u2019t even try. That\u2019s also why, in 2026, it\u2019s worth asking whether we should keep allowing them to hold high federal office.<\/p>\n

As we approach the 250th<\/sup> anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we should not be afraid to say with confidence that America is not merely a creed or a proposition, but a people. And as for the founding, let\u2019s have no more of this falsehood that we were \u201cfounded by immigrants.\u201d The English colonists did not cross the Atlantic to join a new people or assimilate into a new culture. They came to plant the culture of England on these shores, and that\u2019s exactly what they did.<\/p>\n

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