Nothing better demonstrates the un-American character of the modern federal government (except under President Donald Trump) than its immigration policies since 1965.  In 2017, about 21% of inmates of federal prisons were criminal aliens, legal and illegal, convicted of crimes committed in the United States.  Clearly, prior to the Trump administration, screening out criminal immigrants had been a low priority within federal immigration policy.

In the years following the financial crash of September 2008, the federal government continued to admit over a million legal immigrants each year.  Clearly, protecting the interests of American workers during a period of high unemployment was a low priority for Congress at that time.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, over half of American households headed by legal or illegal immigrants receive some form of public assistance.  Clearly, Congress has failed to protect the taxpayers from the burdens indigent immigrants have placed on them.

During nation-wide pro-amnesty rallies in 2006, American citizens were treated to news photos and videos of innumerable masses of demonstrators marching the streets of American cities waving foreign flags, and burning American flags.  Clearly, those flag-wavers did not represent just another wave of immigrants wanting to be Americans, but an un-American subculture.

The US Congress should do its best to deter illegal immigration and to ensure that only well-qualified immigrants enter the country legally, as needed by American society.  If elected to the US Senate in 2028, I will do everything legally and morally in my power to continue President Trump’s pro-American immigration policies.

Paid for by John J Lyon for US Senate