It must be remembered that I want to explain origins, not our present day. I will get to modern day America but we must look at our beginning. The farther one peers into the past will help him perceive and provide for the future.

The USA was founded by white (gasp), Christian (gasp, gasp), gun toting, homeschooling Englishmen who, after much patient frustration, fought their own ancestors to gain independence and legally became the “People of the United States.” The newly created “People of the United States” formed a nation for “Ourselves and Our Posterity” according to the first paragraph in our Constitution.

Our founders were not interested in people in other parts of the world. They were not interested in proving to the world how broadminded they were. They were not concerned for people of other regions, religions, or races, but were concerned for “ourselves and our posterity.” That meant and still does, “ourselves and people like us.”

That meant “American first!” And that was true until recent years when it seems to be selfish and vile to practice that wholesome maxim.

Were our founding fathers unloving, unkind, un-American (!) or only unthoughtful? Should they have organized a special action of Congress to seek with missionary zeal, the “tired…poor… huddled masses yearning to breathe free”? Should this struggling nation have allocated funds to bring people unlike them to the new nation to add to the diversity?

We are told that our strength is in our diversity but the fact is our strength is in our unity. It is noteworthy that African nations, China, and the Muslim nations never speak of diversity. Wonder why?

Early Americans had similar beliefs about free enterprise, similar (but not the same) beliefs about religion, the same language, and the same general culture. While having similar backgrounds was helpful in producing mutual support, sympathy, and success, it did not mean we disliked others. It only meant that whatever decisions we made, whether economic, religious, political, domestic, or foreign, the first thought was to put America first. Only a fool says otherwise.

President Donald Trump made it clear to the world during his Inauguration speech that once again the U.S. would make decisions based on the principle of putting America first. The media mavens got their knickers in a very uncomfortable knot because of that new operating principle. How dare Trump suggest such an un-American concept! To the media, the very thought is not only annoying, audacious, and aggressive, but also abrasive!

The radical leftists believe that the U.S. should put every other nation first when making decisions that affect the U.S. Of course, they don’t expect other nations to have such a stupid policy but America must never again follow policies, practices, and programs that always put America first!

American people should help other nations in times of disaster as we have always done, but U.S. political decisions should be made asking, “Will this strengthen or weaken our nation?” Then do what is best for the U.S.

It is insane to make decisions that are not beneficial to America. Would any of these non-thinkers suggest that a family should not make decisions based on what is best for them? One media darling suggested that it was racist to put America first. But then, everything seems to be racist at this time.

The Los Angeles Times pontificated, “And what would it mean if all countries are left free to pursue their narrow self interest?” Of course, all nations should be free to pursue their own interest! Have these people lost their minds or are they so saturated with leftist ideology that this is their normal reaction to reality? A responsible public official will consider all the ramifications of a matter and then do what is best for America. It is incredible that this is even debatable.

America–first, last, and always! Liberals scream “bigotry”; but most sane, sensitive, and sincere Americans believe that we don’t have to apologize for putting our national interests first and wanting to keep America, America! It does not mean that we are by nature superior to everyone else (although we probably are), nor does it mean that we wish anyone else ill. It simply means that we like what we have here, although we would like to remove the crime, hatred, perversion, abortion, etc.; but it would be abnormal if we did not want America to continue to be America. We even like to share it with others, but we won’t have it to share if we don’t maintain it!

The signers of the U.S. Constitution were white and most were Protestant. Most of the signers were “American-born and of Anglo-Saxon origin. The eight foreign-born… were all natives of the British Isles. Except for Charles Carroll, a Roman Catholic, and a few Deists, every one subscribed to Protestantism.”

There were only about 2,000 Jews in America in 1776 and in Charleston, SC, “almost every adult Jewish male fought on the side of freedom.” Moreover, a wealthy Jew Haym Salomon lent our fledging government $200,000 and was never repaid—and died bankrupt.

With the Fourteenth Amendment, people who were not like “ourselves and our posterity” became citizens; and along with our generous admission of many others, it produced discussion, debate, division, and disruption.

One of my readers suggests a striking analogy likening the U.S. to the Ship of State “owned and operated by the Posterity of the founding generation [that] has been authorized by the 14th Amendment to pick up ‘hitchhikers’ as an act of hospitality.” Over the years, many hitchhikers have come on board and many shipwrecked have been rescued and they have been received and have often made an impressive contribution to America.

There are now many recent hitchhikers on board who have forgotten their history and consequently their humility and gratitude for what America is. They have become so loud and powerful that they have lost any early vestige of appreciation. They seem to think they were “ourselves and our posterity” when they came on board much later. Some of them, members of Congress, even want to not only take over the Ship of State but also want to change its registration, the ship’s log, destination, etc. A case can be made that it amounts to a mutiny and we are sailing in a different direction toward a hostile and foreign port.

The U.S. has opened its heart and doors to permit many others who were not like “ourselves and our posterity” to be accepted among us. This has added much to our nation but not without danger. And those who have been invited on board might smile and kindly say, “Thanks.” And the mutineers? Well, they can go back to their ancestral home on the next ship.

It is treason not to put America first.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D.; and visit his blog. Send request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)

The Mexican Republic wants to solve one of its major problems by sending its poorest of the poor to the U.S. to work plus those poor (who work) usually send money back to Mexico. Mexico can’t lose, but you can.

Mexican politicians have an affinity toward open borders that permits its citizens to work and travel wherever they desire. Wonder how many Canadians and Americans would rush to Mexico to live and work? Mexican officials and their lackeys are playing the part of the hypocrite regarding immigration. They don’t practice what they preach!

Mexico requires people who emigrate to their country to have useful skills and a pension plan from their nation of origin! They also forcefully impose border control at their southern border while they promote illegal crossing into the U.S. at their northern border! If America enforced similar laws, the Mexican authorities would scream like a stuck pig! In the event you want to know, hypocrite in Spanish is el hipocritea.

Compare a person who is caught slipping into Mexico with one doing so in America. For sure, Mexico would not give such a person a survival pack and point him in a northerly direction? Gatecrashers into Mexico get years in a stinking prison and gain freedom only after enormous bribes to the proper officials.

It is reckless and false to suggest that an enormous invasion of under educated, low-skilled, often hostile gatecrashers will not have a long term, adverse effect on America. America is being transformed as you slumber and sleep, and if you don’t mind that and your bleating heart demands that we open our borders to permit anyone access, then so be it. However, you will have no right to weep, whimper, and whine when you can’t get a job or when your taxes are doubled, and when your kids can’t be educated in an overcrowded public school. So get accustomed to seeing signs in Spanish everywhere, and workers who are supposed to serve you don’t speak clear English.

It is true that people are suffering all over the world, and many of the gatecrashers only want a better life; however, that is true but does that mean that America should be the social welfare system for the world, as well as the world’s policeman? After all, there is a limit to what one country can do and most Americans don’t know that we have been taking in over half of the immigrants of the world! Here’s a shattering thought: If immigration is good for America, then it would be good for other countries, so let’s spread it around so that all 196 countries can benefit! We should not be selfish so let every nation do its part and reap the benefits!

I recommend that U.S. officials make a rigorous attempt to detain all illegal immigrants; imprison those who are known criminals and expel all others who are simply gatecrashers? If we apprehended only one terrorist in the group, it would be advantageous. Remember that he (or she) could be planning to drop a bomb over your city or poison your water supply! I am asked, how could we remove all of them; however, we don’t need to get of all of them. We can get rid of most of them.

All Mexican and Central American illegals could be loaded in a ship off the coast of California, sail to the Mexican Coast, and dump them for Mexican officials to deal with. We could then give each of the remaining illegal aliens a one way ticket to the country of their origin or the desert if their choice.

I suggest that we:

*Pull up the ladder and permit no more immigration for at least five years with only a few exceptions.

*Close all the holes in our northern and southern borders even using the military, drones, helicopters, and any new technology to get the job done.

*Assess huge penalties to any business that hires an illegal alien. Double the fine for a second offense. Jail for the third. That won’t make me popular with the Chamber of Commerce but then I’m not in a popularity contest.

*Realize that people who are not U.S. citizens do not have the same rights that Americans have; therefore expel all who are here illegally. As a precaution, fingerprint and photograph them and imprison them if they return.

*We should fingerprint and photograph all emigrants who come to America from any nation, but especially Islamic nations, and fine them heavily if they overstay their visas. Then, send them back to the desert.

*Repudiate multiculturalism (the outrageous suggestion that all religions and cultures have equal value) as anti-American and anti-common sense. Furthermore, we will no longer feel guilty for being Americans.

*Put America first in every way since it is national suicide to do otherwise.

Good people can honestly disagree about wars in the Middle East but when it comes to protecting America’s borders, it is clear: If U. S. politicians don’t protect America from cultural suicide and terrorist activities, what good will a tax cut and deficit reduction do us? If President Trump fails to keep this promise then his legacy will be a president who failed to keep his oath to uphold the Constitution.

We don’t need any nation’s uneducated, unskilled, and unmotivated people. It is not selfish, but sane and sensible to permit only those who will contribute to our nation.

Boys’ book Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! was published by Barbwire Books; to get your copy, click here. An eBook edition is also available.