When I was a toddler, a wave of immigrants swarmed into the United States, fleeing the devastation of World War II in Europe and the Iron Curtain that the Soviet Union was lowering across Eastern Europe. More than a half-million arrived in a short time.
I remember walking through the Midwestern factory my father supervised. He had hired Poles, Czechs, and Hungarians. The women were weathered beyond their years, wearing babushkas and the Old World dresses they came with. Their English was broken or nonexistent, but they made their appreciation clear with touching gestures of thanks.
Dad was a legal immigrant himself, though not a refugee. When one of their children married, Dad would take me to the receptions in union halls. I thought it was for the cabbage rolls and sausages. But I now know it was to witness the assimilation of good people who were here to stay and hungry to become Americans, as my parents were. There was nothing hidden about their influx.
Dad would make a few remarks about building a life and family in a new country, as he had done, and the promise of becoming an American citizen, as he had just become. That would be translated, and the crowd would cheer.
At some point, usually, my eating was interrupted when a large man would pick me up high and show me to the crowd as proof that the occasion was so important that the boss had brought his son as a witness. And Dad would present the bride with a gift envelope.
I knew something special was going on, but never fully appreciated the import until much later. These rugged people were eager to assimilate in their new land. Their children learned English, then taught the parents at home. The country was enriched by their eager presence — and by generations since.
Then, as an adult, like many of you, I suspect, I realized that while some people waited in long lines abroad for immigration visas, many others, over time, came illegally.
And during the last presidential administration of incompetents willfully undermining the country, millions upon millions more came illegally, many of them criminals. They were not looking to assimilate; they were looking to enjoy and abuse the privileges of life in this land.
President Trump is removing the criminals. Now, he's moved to eliminate the DEI policies of the past that actually discouraged assimilation.
And that's what this week's audio commentary right here is about, the vital importance of this move, which I fear may have been lost in the flurry of his other new policies.
As promised on the tape above, here is the link to the RedState coverage of President Trump's recent action.
This week's Sunday column examined President Trump's earnest effort to bring peace to the invaded land of Ukraine and the immense challenges he faces against the ruthless Russian killer, Vladimir Putin.
It's hard for any decent person to negotiate with tyrants who have no morals about human life, no scruples, and importantly, no term limits and no free voters.
The most recent audio commentary examined the spread of President Trump's effort to annihilate the cancer of Woke in Oklahoma, where they have begun testing teacher applicants from red states to detect the telltale signs to avoid infecting Sooner youngsters.
