Seemingly sitting comfortably in her mega-mansion — big enough to house a dozen illegal immigrants — Selena Gomez broke down in tears on Monday over mass deportations. Through her garbled speech, she claimed “all my people are getting attacked.” But her comments expose an uncomfortable — and dangerous — truth: After decades of mass legal immigration, America finds herself a nation in name only, a conglomeration of various ethnic groups who don’t have allegiance to our country, but rather to their ethnicities.
Gomez was born in Texas. Her mother was born in Texas. Her father was born in Texas. And yet, in a video that she posted (and shortly after deleted) on Monday, Gomez said: “All my people are getting attacked. The children. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry.”
But Gomez doesn’t “understand” because, in her eyes, she’s “American-Mexican” — not “American.” She views herself as an iteration of “American,” someone with dual allegiance and affinity to an ethnic group.
An “American,” however, understands that America is not a dumping ground nor an economic opportunity zone and that no one has a “right” to come here. But alas, Gomez’s comments epitomize the problem of a country that increasingly lacks a national identity because of mass immigration without any requirements for assimilation.
You see, Gomez’s people should, by all accounts, be the American people (you know, the ones she grew up with and the ones her parents grew up with in the country they were born in). Instead, her allegiance is based on her ethnic background. […]
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