Barbarians At The Gate

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

It is estimated that 20 million illegal aliens are in the United States today; and most have arrived since Joe Biden assumed the presidency.[2]  With them have come hardened criminals; sex traffickers who have preyed on the innocent; killer drugs such as Fentanyl from China; and those who have fled their own countries for a better life in America.[3]

As the Middle East was torn asunder because of wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, refugees fled through Greece and other countries for what they perceived as better lives in Europe.  Similarly, as war-torn Israel implodes[4], it can be expected that many Palestinians and other refugees will seek the safety first of neighboring Egypt and Jordan, and then more distant shores that they perceive as safer and more-inviting havens.

This is a tale that has been told down through the centuries, as the Great Alexander and his Macedonians changed the history of the known world.[5]  Then came the Romans; and while many would scoff at the parallels, so did Adolf Hitler and his Nazis, who ushered in the freeways of today, as well as the colonization of the Moon, Mars and beyond.

No one should forget that Wernher von Braun and other Germans gave impetus to our space efforts.[6]  Will there be "illegal aliens" who reshape our history for the better?  There are no indigenous Americans.  All of our ancestors came from somewhere else, including the "native Americans" whose ancestors crossed the "Bering Land Bridge" from Siberia.[7]

 

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© 2023-2024, Timothy D. Naegele

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[1]  Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/  He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University.  He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at The Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service).  Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in Finance and Business.  He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at [email protected]

[2]  See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undocumented_immigrant_population_of_the_United_States ("Undocumented immigrant population of the United States") and https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/u-s-terrorist-list-database/2023/12/14/id/1145933/ ("US Terror List Swells to 2 Million") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12868819/Chicago-migrant-camps-buses-impounded.html ("Chicago spent nearly $1 million on failed camp before pulling the plug"); see also https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2021/01/13/the-day-america-died/ ("The Day America Died?")

[3]  But see, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/is-free-speech-dead-and-buried-at-berkeley-and-elsewhere/ ("Is Free Speech Dead And Buried At Berkeley, And Elsewhere?")

[4]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/12/11/why-j-street-deserves-support/#comment-40267 ("17,000 Killed, Half Of Them Children, Which Is Genocide") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/is-israel-doomed/ ("Is Israel Doomed?")

[5] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/alexander-the-great/ ("Alexander the Great")

[6]  See, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun ("Wernher von Braun")

[7]  See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia ("Beringia")