Immigration and values — then and now
Eric Utter | January 2, 2026 www.americanthinker.com
The current immigrants differ in many ways from the previous immigrants.
Nearly all early immigrants to the United States of America came from Europe.
More to the point, earlier immigrants came to America to become Americans.
They came because they wanted opportunity and they shared America's founding values.
It appears the majority of latter-day immigrants, particularly from North Africa and the Middle East, do not wish to become Americans, do not wish to assimilate, and do not share our values. In fact, in many cases, they detest them.
They do not want just an opportunity. They want cash. They want to live off the American taxpayer. Perhaps permanently. In the case of Somalis in Minnesota, statistics prove this to be the case, as 81% are on one or more forms of American taxpayer-funded welfare. Similar dependency (or fraud) is likely taking place in numerous other states.
In fact, many -- if not most -- Muslim immigrants want to change our values to suit theirs. Several surveys show that the majority of Muslims, not just “radical Islamists,” prefer sharia law to the American Constitution and other founding documents, protections, and principles.
Make no mistake, sharia law is utterly, inarguably, and irrevocably incompatible with a free society and a free market capitalist system, not to mention the Bill of Rights.
Do we really want to change our values to those of a society that encourages or tolerates clitoridectomies for girls as young as 4 -- and allows men to treat their women as property, marry pre-pubescent girls, rape infidels, and stone homosexuals?
Only mad men, a society hell-bent on its own destruction, would allow this to happen. (And it is certain that such a society will be hell-bent.) Memo to karens: all cultures are not the same. All beliefs are not equally valid.
We are on the proverbial highway to hell, pedal to the metal. And no one seems in a particular hurry to find an exit ramp.
If we do not soon find one, it will be lights out for America.
At which point, all a rational person could say to those possessed by a bizarrely suicidal empathy would be, “Enjoy your sharia law.” “And say ‘hi’ to China.”
