Let's do a fun thought experiment.
If you were the owner of a company that through much diligence and hard work was one of the best companies in the region, you would likely do a lot to keep the momentum going and begin hiring people to help the company grow. One of your hires walks into the building one day and says, "My loyalty isn't to this company, but another. I think this company is rotten in every way, and everything I do here will be for the benefit of the other company that I do like."
Would you allow that worker to continue working there? I doubt it.
That person has made it clear that internal sabotage is fully on the table, and that if ever there's an instance where your company will have issues with another company, that worker will do whatever it takes to make sure the opposing company comes out on top. The disdain for your company showed makes that apparent.
As my colleague Rusty Weiss noted in a recent article, this very situation popped up with Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez (IL) who decided to say she was "a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American,” and that the United States is just awful. The DHS fired back at her directly, quoting Teddy Roosevelt who said:
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.”
Roosevelt is right, and not just because we need to make sure to maintain a population that is actively invested and involved in the American experiment, but because not adhering to that standard puts us at risk of subversion from the inside.
According to Fox News, Ramirez wears her disdain on her sleeve, accusing America of all the classic social sins of the social justice obsessed left:
"Let’s call it what it is: today’s attacks are a weak attempt to silence my dissent and invalidate my patriotic criticism of the nativist, white supremacist, authoritarians in government. It is the definition of hypocrisy that members of Congress —who betray their oath each day they enable Trump— are attacking me for celebrating my Guatemalan-American roots," she asserted.
"No one questions when my white colleagues identify as Irish-American, Italian-American, or Ukrainian-American to honor their ancestry. I’ve consistently expressed pride in my heritage and history - a pride also often reflected in the origin stories of my colleagues. Only those who believe America should not include the children of immigrants or be diverse would attack me - and Americans like me - for honoring my roots," Ramirez continued.
To be clear, expressing pride in one's heritage is one thing. Proclaiming loyalty to another based on said heritage is another. It's okay to be proud of being of Irish or Italian descent (though the left would call this white supremacist) but I don't hear any of these people stating "Which is why I'm Irish first and American second."
Ramirez added this:
"Anyone who denies our claim on this country simply because we dare to honor our diverse heritage and immigrant roots only exposes how fragile and small-minded their own idea of America really is," Ramirez concluded.
As you can see, this is a liar's ploy. She's playing on America's foundations as a country of immigrants to make it sound like her position of being Guatemalan first is perfectly normal.
It's not. It's an admission that your status as a descendant of a country outside our own is more important to you than the country where you swore to uphold the constitution and serve the people of the United States. The people of Guatemala are not the people of the United States. There are people who immigrated here legally from Guatemala. There are people who are born from immigrants who came from Guatemala, but they are not Guatemalan by nationality. They are American.
And if America is so awful, then feel free to go back to the country you think is so much better.
But as for Ramirez, and all others who believe as she does, there can be no question as to what should happen.
Verbally acknowledging your loyalty to another country or its people, then doubling down on it, should result in your removal from office. There can't be any other choice. Having someone in the halls of power that is actively at the service of a foreign power is a danger to us all. I won't go so far as to actively advocate for her expulsion from the United States, as Ramirez was born in Chicago, but she has no business being a representative of a people she clearly loathes and a country she openly despises.
She is a security threat, plain and simple. Ramirez serves on the House Homeland Security Committee, a position that should be unflinchingly loyal to the United States. Having someone openly admitting her priorities aren't with America isn't just a concern, it's the open admission that she poses a threat should her own personal interests conflict with the interests of the United States.
I won't go so far as to say she should be deported, as Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee is. She can go back to Chicago to rage and voice her anti-American opinion all she wants, but she should be forced to do so as a citizen, not a member of Congress. I can respect her First Amendment right as a U.S. citizen to say any stupid thing she wants to, but she shouldn't have the capability to guide the course of our nation, because she has no interest in guiding it to prosperity. She has no compulsion to protect its citizens, at least if the protection of those citizens trumps the ones she says she openly favors.
Due to legal protections, we can't just oust someone from office over merely stating stupid things such as being loyal to a heritage based on a foreign country before the country she serves, but regardless, this is a major red flag and perhaps we should start thinking about regulations and laws that address this.
