“The stars and the red, white and blue colors have a significance of their own, but when combined and arranged into the flag of our nation they take on a new significance which no other form or color can convey. We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth. It represents our peace and security, our civil and political liberty, our freedom of religious worship, our family, our friends, our home. We see in it the great multitude of blessings, of rights and privileges, that make up our country.

But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done. A yearly contemplation of the meaning of our flag strengthens and purifies the national conscience.”

Words from former President Calvin Coolidge in June of 1931, reminding Americans to remember their banners.

In June we give particular appreciation to Texas, the state whose journey to join took years of fighting. After the 1845 resolution had passed, America pushed to rightfully take over the large territory. When you see the American flag, see its 28th star, remember that as the symbol of patriots who beat Mexicans.

Immigrant Gino Speranza says Americans are right to be wary of immigration — ‘The issue today is, Shall the American spirit be of your fathers, or will you let it all be compromised for different people?’

The U.S. at this time held over 30 million unassimilated immigrants, written 1925. The tide had recently been stemmed, but the invaders were still in the gates. We today have a similar conflict, and must similarly ask: will we let perpetuate and prosper the good our nation's fathers had, or will we consent to unwanted change?

Lothrop Stoddard: Alienism is the enemy of Americanism. The alien-minded see America as mere land; the instant any person sets foot on it they can now be as 'American' as the rest of us.

Why, then, bother about citizenship if the whole world has a right to come here and develop a separate life?

‘The most important factor in my Administration was my insistence that the executive power was limited only by specific restrictions and prohibitions appearing in the Constitution or imposed by the Congress under its Constitutional powers. My view was that every executive officer was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people. I declined to adopt the view that what was imperatively necessary for the Nation could not be done by the President unless he could find some specific authorization to do it. My belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the Nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws. Under this interpretation of executive power I did and caused to be done many things not previously done by the President and the heads of the departments. I did not usurp power, but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power.’

The principles of administration under Teddy Roosevelt.

Being weak on crime was a problem before our time too, and so was the misuse of welfare for the worth-less:

‘The inefficients, the wastrels, the various cripples are preserved at public expense. The criminal is turned out on parole after a few years, the insane is discharged as "cured".’ — Popenoe & Johnson. It is imperative we involve ourselves to enforce the philosophies we support, or the soft hand of sympathy will guide everyone toward failure.

Stoddard affirms: Our entire history testifies to the truth that America is a nation, with roots deep in the past.

"You can be a Communist or you can be a Patriot. You cannot be both. As for those who peddle marxist lies about our heritage, who tell our children we live on 'stolen land' or say our heroes were oppressors, they're doing something much worse than slandering our past—they are attacking our future.

They are trying to tear down the great American character, to destroy the people who declared independence, who crossed the Delaware, who settled the West and conquered the skies. Our ancestors did not shed blood so that a band of lunatics could loot and pillage our nation. Our heroes died to build the greatest country ever in the world."

President Trump says, for America's 250th year of Independence.

Lothrop Stoddard warns about the alien spirit that tries to deconstruct America: ‘They describe America not as a nation, but as an area inhabited by many people. They slander the colonists, portray the pioneers as destroyers and thieves, only to envision a 'pluralistic America'.’

‘We Americans are apt to be impatient and want quick solutions. We must realize that alienism cannot be quickly solved. To deal with millions of aliens will take two or three generations at best. We must be frank and firm to effectively combat the problem of aliens.’

Immigration was a defining issue of the American Centennial, too. Before the worst mass migration wave yet, California fought to repel cheap labor, especially from China.

The Supreme Court blocked Cali in 1876, forcing Congress to act, which led up to the Chinese Exclusion Acts. Lawmakers lobbied to stem the tide, official government study found that "The Chinese deprive Whites, live in filth and can never assimilate", it was of dire important to end their importation.

Patriot spotlight: The man who popularized and designed the Playground in America, Joseph Lee, financed the Immigration Restriction League.

Lee promoted the strictest immigration laws in U.S. history, and believed if a people did not make a good playmate, they were not fit to assimilate. Take time today to learn your history and love those who tried to make it better.

Likewise, the man responsible for growing the National Park System was Madison Grant — an immigration restrictionist who conserved several American species. Both men advised Teddy Roosevelt, contributed to his administration, and were lions for the American Eugenics movement.

Immigration restriction is an American tradition, and this channel is dedicated to the work they led.

In the early 1900s, immigrants and their advocates, their descendants and the people who felt for them put sob stories, cries of cruelty in the news to hinder our immigration laws and halt deportations.

William Roscoe Thayer in 1922 wrote, ’In dealing with immigrants, blood often determines their actions without respect to justice or even common sense.’

'Do we need more immigrants? Today there are 3,000,000 out of work in the United States. Does any one pretend that we can go on being regarded as a sane people, if we add by immigration a million a year to the number of un-employed?'

"While there are plenty of useful idiots who may believe the ideology, the leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy and hatred against what is beautiful, natural and good. They turn their emotions into a desire to inflict pain. Notice they're all deformed in some way, their appearance or dress or mannerisms."

Trump advisor Stephen Miller is directly channeling Nordau, Stoddard and the philosophy of this channel, telling an audience of diplomats from 67 nations that inferiority and insanity is the cause of leftism — a threat to superior life.

From Lothrop Stoddard's Revolt of the Under-Man: 'We must recognize that there exists an irreconcilable minority of congenital revolutionists — born rebels against civilization. Their philosophy may entice the impatient who want short cuts, and the emotional liberals who are used as catspaws for the revolutionists.'

President Trump's Department of Justice has taken down a major marriage fraud scheme involving Chinese nationals and naturalized citizens, executing one of the largest prosecutions against such fraud.

Widespread immigration scamming has been a problem for our nation for longer than we have had the tools to stop it.

Shortly after the Immigration Act of 1924, 50 Poles were caught using fake visas and mock uniforms to pose as skilled migrants. Another involved an Italian Opera company smuggling peasants into the country as essential workers.