by Allan Wall, Border Hawk, ©2026
(May 13, 2026) — We often hear that mass immigration is good because we are “a nation of immigrants.”
The implication is that anybody has a right to move here and make the United States into anything.
Should immigrants assimilate? If so, what culture should they assimilate into?
Does our nation even have a core culture? Is it just a hodgepodge of ethnicities?
These are appropriate questions to ask this year, as we approach the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. That’s a quarter of a millennium, making the U.S. the 23rd oldest nation-state in the world.
President Donald Trump, hosting a state visit by King Charles III of the United Kingdom, delivered two short addresses in Washington, D.C. on April 28th, one outside the White House and the other inside at the state dinner.
In these speeches, Trump set forth clearly — as no recent president has — the origins and roots of the United States and its core culture, the one which made America great.
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