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Republicans make huge shift on immigration, target 1965 law

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

Radical Islamic terrorists have launched multiple attacks against Americans on United States soil since President Donald Trump launched a joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran.

While the Left apologizes for the terrorists, Republicans have introduced a bill to stop jihadists from moving into our country and end one of the most destructive immigration policies in U.S. history.

The Islamic terror attacks began on March 1, when Ndiaga Diagne — a 53-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Senegal — opened fire outside a bar in Austin, Texas. Diagne, who wore an Iranian flag and a hoodie that read “Property of Allah,” shot 17 people before being shot and killed himself.

Then, on March 7, Islamic terrorism returned to the Big Apple. During “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City” protests outside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home, two Islamic terrorist teenagers threw bombs into the conservative crowd.

The liberal media initially implied the attack came from the mayor’s political foes, then portrayed the perpetrators — 18-year-old Emir Balat and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi — as just an average pair of teenagers from Pennsylvania. Balat’s family emigrated from Turkey; Kayumi’s came from Afghanistan. Their terror attack was inspired by ISIS.

On March 12, Mohamed Jalloh shouted the Islamic terrorist attack phrase “Allahu akhbar!” before killing one person and injuring two during an ROTC-targeted attack at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. ODU cadets killed Jalloh, who was born in Sierra Leone and convicted in the U.S. for supporting ISIS in 2015, in self-defense.

The same day, 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Lebanon, drove a truck loaded with explosives into a Detroit-area synagogue, Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township. Two of his brothers, Ibrahim and Kassim, were members of the terror group Hezbollah and killed by an Israeli strike on Lebanon March 5, together with Ibrahim’s children.

This anti-American killing spree could continue indefinitely, since President Trump announced Iran may have embedded more than 1,700 sleeper cells inside the United States.

“A lot of people came in through Biden with his stupid open border, but we know where most of them are. We’ve got our eye on all of them, I think,” said the president.

Instead of trying to find them, the Fake News media made excuses for the terrorists.

The media blamed the Austin shooting on Diagne’s low intelligence, the New York attack on the victims, and Jalloh’s attack on the “pro-gun lobby.”

But all of these anti-American jihadists have one thing in common: They’re all first-generation immigrants or the children of immigrants from Muslim countries.

“Two Muslim terrorist attacks yesterday! Name? Mohammed,” said Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., in a social media post on March 13.

Now, the GOP has a plan to dry up the pool of potential terrorists living in the homeland. “REPEAL HART CELLAR – SAVE AMERICA,” said Ogles.

The Hart-Cellar Act, better known as the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (INA), radically changed legal immigration to the United States.

Before that time, immigrants had to come to the U.S. from a compatible culture. But then liberals started to feel guilty.

The INA changed the system, establishing new categories of visas for immigrants and establishing something called “chain migration.” Instead of bringing in the “best and brightest,” chain migration lets newly naturalized immigrants sponsor their family members. Those family members can then sponsor their family members, who can sponsor their family members.

Immigration started to spiral out of control fast. An average of 330,000 immigrants came to the United States in the 1960s. But the numbers have snowballed since President Lyndon Johnson signed this Great Society legislation. Now, a million or more immigrants enter the U.S. legally every year—not including tens of millions of illegal aliens living in our country.

More than 76 million immigrants have come to the U.S. since 1965—27 percent of them illegally, according to the Pew Research Center.

That means 55.5 million immigrants have come to the U.S. legally over the last 60 years, and about three-quarters of them hailed from the Third World.

Ogles, a Tennessee conservative who is a member of the House Freedom Caucus, announced last week that he plans to introduce a bill repealing the 1965 immigration law.

Ogles says his “Halt Immigration from Countries with Inadequate Verification Capabilities Act,” which he has not yet introduced, would rip the system up, root and branch.

“All immigration to the United States shall serve the economic, cultural, and security interests of the United States as determined by Congress,” states the draft legislation.

Everyone applying to take up residence in the United States must show “good moral character” by passing thorough criminal background checks. They must be arrest-free, have no gang affiliation, and not post concerning items about terrorism on social media.

Vetting would be enhanced by in-person interviews.

His bill would ban all immigration from the Muslim or Communist nations of Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen, where the failed states or hateful governments can’t be trusted to run adequate background checks.

It would repeal corporate loopholes like the H-1B visa and the diversity lottery, as well. Congress should “stop all visas and redo the visa program,” Ogles told influencer Benny Johnson.

The bill has stirred up the conservative status quo, which has long said, “Legal immigration, good; illegal immigration, bad.”

“We have a legal immigration problem,” said The Heritage Foundation.

The terrorist attacks helped focus the public mind to close the door to certain would-be immigrants, even if they apply legally.

“Immigration is a national security threat,” said Ogles.

“Individuals from Afghanistan, parts of Africa” are “committing crimes,” Ogles told Newsmax. “It’s our country. We get to decide who comes in. That also means we get to decide who leaves.”

“We’ve got to acknowledge there are certain religions, certain cultures that don’t work here. They’re incompatible with the West, with the United States of America,” said Ogles. “Look at London. Look at Paris. Look at Rome.”

Immigrants “from Third World countries…bring nothing to our nation except a drain on our resources.”

“Mass Islamic immigration, legal or illegal, has transformed America and brought destructive consequences,” said the Tennessee Republican. “America’s moral exemplar is a meek carpenter who rose from the dead, not a warmonger with 12 wives and countless slaves,” a reference to Islam’s “prophet” Mohammad.

None of this works for the Democratic Party. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., insulted Ogles, calling him a “disgusting Islamophobe,” a “malignant clown,” and a “pathological liar.”

But Ogles’ words resonate with a lot of Americans.

Too many Americans have seen good tech jobs go to H-1B visa holders, good jobs of all kinds go to well-connected immigrant communities, their tax dollars go to clannish Somali “learing” centers, their schools go bilingual due to the massive number of welfare-sponsored children immigrants have while they are unable to buy their own home.

Andy Ogles’ immigration bill is a solution that’s long overdue.

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”