American citizenship is Steve McCann’s concern at American Thinker:
From 1860 to 2000, in the largest
legal migration in human history, over 61
million immigrants arrived in the United States. They were not
only escaping poverty and oppression, but they were eager to assimilate and
attain the most sought-after national status in the world: American
citizenship. Today in the 21st century, American citizenship and its
one-of-a-kind written contract with the central government, the Constitution
with its Bill of Rights, is under relentless assault by the nation’s governing
establishment and teetering on the edge of meaninglessness.
Mr. McCann concludes:
The most meaningful day in my life
occurred in 1956 when as a boy of eleven or twelve I became a citizen of the
United States. Little did I know that in my lifetime I would see the
descent of American citizenship into near meaninglessness. A collapse
that came about internally and was not directly precipitated by the nation’s
foreign adversaries.
Unfortunately, the bulk of
Americans obliviously believe that American citizenship remains what it has
always been; in reality, it is rapidly disappearing.
The column is here.
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