Peggy Noonan Explains How Someone Becomes an American
Posted by Peter Lawler
...by making The Decision.
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Right. You don't become an American or deserve to become an American by having an economic relationship to her. If that were the case, most of the world would be Americans, whether inside our borders or no! Nor is one betrothed to her by being in her territory, as a tourist, a transitory admirer. The decision can become manifest in many ways, but it is mad manifest in the end by love.
Ultimately, it's a sacrificial love.
And the illegals haven't arrived demonstrating such a love. To the contrary, they've come with a sense of entitlement, a BITTER sense of entitlement.
And it's that sense of entitlement, it's that DEMAND they've made upon this country, upon the American people, that burns me up.