What makes a nation? Nations are not simply political communities contained within geographical borders. They are expressions of a shared culture, language, and political principle, that unite citizens in a common bond.

The de facto obliteration of our southern border, facilitated largely by cheap-labor advocates, global elites, and vote-seeking politicians, raises many questions about the concept of nationhood. Americans are waking up to the unpleasant fact that a massive and seemingly perpetual influx of millions of foreign nationals into this country might change our traditional concept of nationhood, slowly shifting it from a time-honored model based upon shared ideals to a new supranational paradigm in which national identity is considered passe, or even dangerous. The unprecedented movement back and forth between national borders of millions of illegal immigrants, coupled with the ...