Last year, I wrote on the “myth of magic soil,” an idea blithely trotted out by anti-American leftists — and even many on the more moderate of the political spectrum’s right wing — and hammered into the minds of citizens ad nauseam. According to the myth of magic soil, anyone can become an American just by coming to America. Doesn’t matter if you come from a high-trust Anglo-Saxon community steeped in Christian morality and born from the profound courage and towering thought of the Western tradition or if you crawled out of some impoverished, crime-ridden, backwards Third World Muslim country, the Left declares that you can be just as American as the man whose ancestors arrived on the Mayflower and whose family has served in the U.S. Armed Forces every generation since 1776. (RELATED: The Myth of Magic Soil)
Amongst those ostensibly on the political right, the only amendment to this idea would be requisite acceptance of some American “creed.” What that creed is, no one has yet been able to articulate, and questioning the particulars of the creed often ends with the inquisitor being labeled something like “intolerant,” “bigoted,” or “racist.”
Obviously, this idea of “magic soil” is patently false. Americans are a unique and specific people with a unique and specific culture, a unique and specific history, and a unique and specific set of values.
What’s equally erroneous, however, is the leftist notion of what I call “cursed soil.” In the leftist’s warped imagination, America has “magic soil,” which somehow bestows upon even the most un-American of newcomers the title of American, along with the American dream and all the benefits of American law.
The myth of magic soil is invoked when attempting to usher unwashed hordes of foreign insurgents, almost none of whom assimilate and nearly all of whom espouse and promote values and ideals antithetical and even hostile to the American people and American culture. The myth of cursed soil, on the other hand, is just the inverse, and is invoked when attempting to ensure that the refuse of the Third World — who obstinately decline to speak English and aggressively set about transforming whatever bejeweled metropolis or charming small town they’ve been dumped upon into the streets of whatever dump they escaped from — back to their places of origin. (RELATED: Munich and the Fate of the West)
Simply put, the Court clarified that the “T” in TPS means “temporary.”
Here’s a good example: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled late last week that President Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary has the legal authority to terminate temporary protected status (TPS) for a host of foreign nationals, including some quarter million Haitian nationals, some of whom have been living in the U.S. under the auspices of TPS for nearly two decades, but many of whom were ushered into the country by former president Joe Biden and his right-hyena, Kamala Harris. Simply put, the Court clarified that the “T” in TPS means “temporary.”
In response, Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) lamented that thousands of Haitians will likely be repatriated to Haiti. “This is cruelty, this is inhumane, and this is a death sentence,” the congresswoman intoned, her hysterics punctuated by the gaudy, sequined cowboy hat she wears for some reason. “In Haiti, there’s open warfare and rape, there’s ravaging violence against women and children.”
This is an example of the myth of cursed soil. Just as America’s magic soil weaves a spell or enchantment to make those who set foot here into dyed-in-the-red-white-and-blue-wool Americans, so Haiti’s cursed soil afflicts all who arrive with madness, violence, rape, and poverty. What is never acknowledged is the fact that Haiti is the way that it is because it’s full of Haitians. (Obviously, not all Haitians are murderers, rapists, pet-snatchers, etc. Some are extraordinarily lovely people. But the country is in the shape that it’s in largely due to the management of its native population, who do happen to commit violence and rape and other crimes at fairly high rates.)
Extracting Haitians from Haiti and planting them in the U.S. does not make the extracted Haitians suddenly no longer Haitian. It does not magically transform them into model American citizens. Instead, it simply takes large numbers of people accustomed to violence, rape, and other crimes and places them in an environment where such things are illegal, and where the native population is thoroughly unaccustomed to such behavior. Well, was thoroughly unaccustomed to such behavior — they’ve gotten one hell of an introduction over the past several years.
Likewise, returning Haitian nationals who have no right to be in the U.S. to Haiti is not a “death sentence,” it is not the same as rounding up law-abiding American citizens and airdropping them into a Third World war zone. It is simply returning Haitian nationals who have no right to be here to their country of origin, to their home. It is shameful and repugnant that Biden and his former boss, Barack Obama, continually extended Haiti’s TPS designation and the unnecessary sojourn of Haitian nationals in the U.S. But the imprudent (at best — at worst, malicious) decisions of two of the worst presidents in recent history should not damn the American people to suddenly living their lives alongside the same people who made Haiti the way that it is — full of “open warfare and rape” and “ravaging violence,” to quote Rep. Wilson’s description.
There is no magic soil. There is no cursed soil. There are people — with their blood, their spirit, their culture, their history, their faith, their values, their ideals — who built the greatest nation on the face of the earth, and there are other people — with their blood, their spirit, their culture, their history, their faith, their values, their ideals — who have created a country which even the multiculturalist Democrats describe as a “death sentence.” As President Trump observed in a Truth Social post, “Sadly, if you import people from Third World Countries, you quickly become a Third World Country — And there’s not a thing you can do about it.” The White House’s X account summed up the maxim more succinctly: “Import the Third World, and you become the Third World.”
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