When one flees from ones homeland to escape persecution and danger, a refugee is born.  So apropos to the Christmas story is this scenario where, with no room in the inn, a child was born in a manger.

Now it seems that a religion of Moses’ descendants from his first-born son, Ishmael, has spawned generations which have become vagabonds from their own homeland now wandering the world looking for shelter. Unlike in the Christmas story, a new religion was born, and rather than continue running away from their beginnings Mary, Joseph and Jesus would originally return to their homeland and preach a different kind of gospel.

The mass exodus of citizens overflowing the USA border with Mexico and European boundaries from the Middle East has unleashed a xenophobia which has seen no equal.  Many would make the target Islam, but the culprit of such concern involves other differences and ethnic integrity.  When a new population reproduces at a rate which exceeds those already there or when the culture being brought in has customs and religious laws so different from those of the existing communities, collisions will occur and extinction is possible for those being infiltrated.

Unfortunately, when there are nations in Europe and some pockets in the USA where population growth hasn’t kept up with the need for lower level workers — or where the advancements of the destination nation exceed those from where refugees come — everybody seems to want in. The will of those seemingly being stampeded gets lost in a sense of political and misplaced global correctness.  Such can cause civilization to flounder and unleash mass chaos.

Lost in the refugee conversation is the right of sovereignty for nations, the need for choice among people in a free society and the need to preserve one’s culture within the bounds of the established government.  The Obama Administration is wrong in taking in Syrian refugees in numbers proposed when thousands have stood and continue standing in line following existing laws on entry. Until we allow Haitians into this nation with the impunity granted others, resolve the issue of the 100,000 Bantus approved by President George W. Bush a right of entry to this nation and others such as Somalian women who often have been forcibly circumcised in a painful and possibly life threatening ritual, others should not be allowed to cut in line. We must also quit the preferences given for technological skills, family reunification and other subjective reasons not involving persecutions. We should encourage folks to return home when their communities are settled to prevent their brain drain and allow rebuilding from those who share their values.

Flying over this nation, with a view from on high, it must not be lost that our uninhabited land is massive. As a biologist, one also knows you cannot put people on every square foot of land without destroying our trees for oxygen generation, fresh water filtration and food stuff production. As a constitutionalist, one appreciates that when people come in they have to be willing to give up their old ways of governance if our society is to survive.

When I was hungry you fed me. When I was naked you clothed me. But that can easily be lost if we allow others to impose their will on our constitutional form of government and go for the feel-good okey-doke instead of the tried and reasoned existence which we currently have.

Dr. Ada M. Fisher is  the NC Republican National Committee Woman. Email: DrFisher@getadoctorinthehouse.com