{"id":2395678,"date":"2025-01-27T14:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T19:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-america-wasnt-founded-by-immigrants\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T14:30:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T19:30:51","slug":"no-america-wasnt-founded-by-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-america-wasnt-founded-by-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"No, America Wasn&#8217;t &#8216;Founded&#8217; By Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-america-wasnt-founded-by-immigrants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2395678&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article\u200c discusses an exchange between \u200dCBS \u200bNews&#8217; Margaret Brennan and\u200c Vice President J.D. Vance regarding the narrative that the United States was &#8220;founded by immigrants.&#8221; Vance argues that this <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">claim misrepresents historical facts<\/a>, emphasizing that the \u200dcountry was established by settlers\u200b who \u200dwere \u2063not joining an existing nation but creating new \u200bcolonies on \u200buncharted\u200b land. The \u200carticle critiques the notion that America\u2019s identity is one\u200c of an immigrant nation, asserting that such a outlook undermines the \u200cunique cultural and historical\u200d foundations laid by Anglo-Protestant settlers, and the importance\u2064 of assimilation for new\u2064 arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>It posits that perpetuating the \u200bidea that\u200d America is merely a\u2064 product \u2063of ongoing \u2064immigration dilutes the concept of what it means to be American and poses risks\u2062 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/our-country-is-slipping-pastor-whose-church-was-locked-by-police-warns-of-growing-state-tyranny\/\" title=\"\u2018Our Country Is Slipping\u2019: Pastor Whose Church Was Locked By Police Warns Of Growing State Tyranny\">national identity<\/a>. The article argues that this &#8220;immigration\u2062 narrative&#8221; is used by those on the left to justify open border policies and discourage the preservation of American cultural values, suggesting that maintaining a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-knowles-takes-stage-at-cpac-says-democrat-led-invasion-of-southern-border-worsened-americas-identity-crisis\/\" title=\"Michael Knowles speaks at CPAC, blames Democrats for exacerbating America&#039;s identity crisis through the southern border invasion\">cohesive national identity<\/a> is crucial for the country\u2019s future. it rejects the idea that America was founded by immigrants\u200c and\u2063 contends that this \u2063misconception can\u2063 hinder the country\u2019s ability to protect \u200bits sovereignty.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On Sunday, CBS News&rsquo; Margaret Brennan tried to get one over on Vice President J.D. Vance, badgering him about immigration and claiming &ldquo;this is a country founded by immigrants.&rdquo; But this narrative isn&rsquo;t just inaccurate, it&rsquo;s a calculated lie intentionally pushed to justify radical open border policies that threaten to dismantle the very country our Founders built.<\/p>\n<p>Vance held his own, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jd-vance-transcript-face-the-nation-01-26-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refuting<\/a> the baseless claim by noting the country was founded &ldquo;by some immigrants and some settlers&rdquo; and that such a founding is not a &ldquo;get-out-of-jail&rdquo; free card for having the &ldquo;dumbest immigration policy in the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  And Vance is right. <\/p>\n<p>Britain began establishing the 13 original colonies in the early 1600&rsquo;s. Over the next century or so, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2023\/12\/boston-tea-party.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CGreat%20Britain%20had%208%20million,and%20the%20American%20Civil%20War.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hundreds of thousands of<\/a> Brits moved to the British colonies that were established by settlers &mdash; not immigrants. There was no &ldquo;nation&rdquo; being immigrated to by the first settlers. The Brits didn&rsquo;t come to America to join a pre-existing country. It was just land. There were no laws, borders, maps, or written language. The British settlers came to uncharted land to establish colonies under British rule. They were entrepreneurs building this nation from scratch, not immigrants joining a pre-existing nation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But what about the Native Americans? They were nations!&rdquo; some may contend. But they were not. They were tribal clans. Clans are peoples, but not nations (and to boot, Native Americans are believed to have come from Asia before crossing the Bering land bridge and making their way to the present-day United States).<\/p>\n<p>Yet the left will repeat the claim that America was &ldquo;founded&rdquo; by immigrants to serve one purpose: to erase the country&rsquo;s unique identity and justify endless immigration. If we are truly a nation &ldquo;founded&rdquo; by immigrants, then logic would follow it would be wholly un-American to want to control mass immigration (both legal and illegal) since our inception was a result of such immigration. <\/p>\n<p>But America was never just a multicultural experiment that began with and requires an endless influx of immigrants (both legal and illegal) to sustain itself. The settlers were not a hodge-podge of random cultures and religions and languages and customs. America was founded by Anglo Protestants who pulled ideas of liberty and independence from Anglo-liberalism, which grounded itself in the idea of equality, freedom, and government controlled by the people (it was most commonly associated with thinkers like John Locke). These settlers forged a new nation, instituted customs, traditions, and a national identity.<\/p>\n<p>And our Founders understood the importance of a national identity, with Thomas Jefferson <a href=\"https:\/\/founders.archives.gov\/documents\/Jefferson\/01-01-02-0210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writing<\/a> in 1776 that while he is &ldquo;for extending the right of suffrage (or in other words the right of a citizen) to all who had a permanent intention of living in the country &hellip; Whoever intends to live in a country must wish that country well, and has a natural right of assisting in the preservation of it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In simpler terms, assimilation was a requirement of anyone coming to America.  <\/p>\n<p>But what exactly is to be preserved or assimilated into <em>if<\/em> the left is correct in that America was &ldquo;founded&rdquo; by immigrants and therefore is just a nation of immigrants? Such a premise presupposes that we are merely an ever-changing mixture of the dominant immigrant groups at any point in time.<\/p>\n<p>But as my colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/24\/birthright-citizenship-is-a-pernicious-lie-thats-destroying-america\/\">John Da<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/24\/birthright-citizenship-is-a-pernicious-lie-thats-destroying-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">niel Davidson<\/a> explains, what not only demands but deserves preservation is our &ldquo;common language and a shared history.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have a certain way of life and customs. We have a distinctly American identity. Our system of government is founded explicitly on Christian claims about God and man,&rdquo; Davidson wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Such a notion was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/sole-loyalty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shared<\/a> by Teddy Roosevelt in 1907 when he said: &ldquo;We have room for but one flag, the American flag &hellip; We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language &hellip; and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>So Why Spread The Lie?<\/h2>\n<p>Because the left has weaponized this lie to dismantle America. Forget the cultural effect of flooding our country with millions of people who don&rsquo;t speak the language or share our values. Forget about the fact that many come from cultures and religions that do not align with our Western, Christian-Judeo foundation. Who cares about customs and traditions? Because according to the left, if you <em>do<\/em> care, you&rsquo;re xenophobic, racist, and most offensively, &ldquo;anti-American&rdquo; since if America is a &ldquo;nation founded by immigrants.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But if America is really just a &ldquo;nation of immigrants,&rdquo; then what does it mean to be &ldquo;American?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Well, nothing. If simply being born here or moving here qualifies someone as &ldquo;American,&rdquo; then &ldquo;American&rdquo; ceases to be a unique identity. It&rsquo;s diluted to the point of meaninglessness. <\/p>\n<p>Alexander Hamilton <a href=\"https:\/\/founders.archives.gov\/documents\/Hamilton\/01-25-02-0282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a> us in 1802 that &ldquo;the safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common National sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exception of the citizens from foreign bias, and prejudice &hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, without a common identity, we&rsquo;re toast. And the annual importation of millions of foreigners threatens that national identity, especially when we no longer demand complete and total assimilation.<\/p>\n<p>So the short of it is: No, America was not &ldquo;founded&rdquo; by immigrants. But badgering Americans with the false claim that America was &ldquo;founded&rdquo; by immigrants (and is therefore responsible for endlessly welcoming immigrants) creates the idea that the country is prohibited from protecting its sovereignty out of fear of being &ldquo;un-American.&rdquo; The goal is simple: browbeat Americans into believing that America is merely an economic opportunity zone that is open to anyone from anywhere irrespective of the cost to our country.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, CBS News\u2019 Margaret Brennan pressed Vice President J.D. Vance on immigration, asserting America was founded by immigrants. 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