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Illegal Alien  

Those promoting mass, taxpayer-subsidized immigration like to criticize the use of the term “illegal alien,” the term used in the United States Code for those present in America contrary to American immigration law.  “There’s no such thing as an illegal human being,” they like to say.

Nonsense.  The evil-doer is referred to by his evil deed in the English language.  Someone who steals is a thief.  A man who kills another contrary to the law is called a murderer.  Those who bear false witness are called liars.  Likewise, foreigners who are present in a country contrary to a nation’s immigration laws are illegal aliens. 

The “alien” in U.S. Code (USC) 8 “means any person not a citizen or national of the United States.[5] There are different types of aliens.  For example, a “resident alien” “is a foreign-born, non-U.S. citizen…who has been legally and lawfully recorded as a resident of the country. A resident alien must have a green card or pass a substantial presence test.”[6]  A green card allows the resident alien to legally work in the United States.

Likewise, there is another category of legal aliens known as “non-resident aliens.” “A nonresident alien is a noncitizen who ‘has not passed the Green Card test or the substantial presence test,’ according to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)…Typical examples of nonresident aliens are teachers, people seeking medical treatment, and students.”[7]

Unlike resident and non-resident aliens, illegal aliens are present in the U.S. contrary to U.S. law.  One definition of “illegal alien” is, “a foreigner who has entered or resides in a country unlawfully or without the country’s authorization.”[8] The Cambridge Dictionary gives the following definition, “someone who lives or works in another country when they do not have the legal right to do so.”[9]

A 1999 report by the U.S. Department of Justice used the term “illegal alien” “to refer to foreign-born persons who entered the United States without inspection by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or who entered legally as non-immigrants but remained after their authorized period of stay had expired.”[10]

Assault

“Assault” is a common English word meaning, “to attack or fall upon by violence, or with a hostile intention.”[11] By this definition, America has been under continuous assault by the papal Antichrist from before the nation formally declared its independence.[12]   

It would likely come as a surprise to many 21st-century American Protestants that there was a large body of literature written by American Protestants throughout the 19th-century warning of the rise of Roman Catholicism in the United States and the threat it posed to American liberty.  The warnings of these writers went largely unheeded and today are mostly forgotten.  It is one of the great tragedies, perhaps the greatest tragedy, in American history that a Protestant republic tracing its roots back to the Puritans allowed itself to be usurped by the system of Antichrist, but this is what the historical record shows.  The millions and millions of illegal aliens pouring across our southwest border in 2023 are a testament to the failure of American Protestants to resist the assault of Antichrist on the nation.

To give you a small flavor of the kind of warnings that were being sounded throughout the 19^th century by Christian writers solicitous of the liberties threatened by the rise of Antichrist on American soil, here are a few examples.

In his book Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States, Samuel F. B. Morse – yes, that Samuel F. B. Morse, the one famous for the telegraph and Morse code – wrote, “That a vigorous and unexampled effort is making (sic) by the despotic governments of Europe to cause Popery to overspread this country, is a fact too palpable to be contradicted.”[13]

R. W. Thompson, formerly Secretary of the U.S. Navy, wrote two books on the threat Romanism posed to the United States, The Footprints of the Jesuits and The Papacy and the Civil Power.  In the latter, Thompson wrote, “It has seemed to me, for a long time, that it was the duty of the people of the United States to make themselves familiar with the history of the papacy, its relations to the civil power, and its attempted encroachments upon the rights of existing governments.”[14]

Rum, Romanism, and rebellion.  That’s a turn of phrase familiar to many Americans.  But as was the case with this author for many years, it’s likely that many, if not most, people familiar with this saying have no idea what it refers to.  It’s from a speech given by Presbyterian minister and Union Civil War veteran Dr. Samuel D. Burchard in 1884 in support of Republican presidential candidate James G. Blaine.  And what was Burchard referring to in his speech?  The Democrats.  Here’s the relevant quote in full.  “We are Republicans, and don’t propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism, and rebellion.  We are loyal to our flag.”[15]  While there are Roman Catholic influences in the Republican party, the Democrat party has been the principal channel Rome has used to infuse its destructive and unconstitutional political and economic philosophy into the mainstream of American thought and practice.  It is no accident that both of America’s Roman Catholic Presidents, John F. Kennedy and Joseph R. Biden have been Democrats.[16] That the current immigration disaster on our southwest border has been brought about by a Roman Catholic president is unsurprising.  As we shall see later in this paper, the current administration’s immigration policy is simply the practice of the immigration theory of the Roman Church-State. 

As further proof of Rome’s longstanding association with the Democrat party and the endemic corruption that has for so long been the hallmark of that institution, consider what Protestant minister Joseph Hartwell had to say in his 1887 book Romanism and Politics.  Tammany Hall, the Stronghold of Rome.  Wrote Hartwell,

TAMMANY HALL is simply the political organization of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, with a Bishop Hughes or a Cardinal McCloskey or Archbishop Corrigan at its head and a Fernando Wood, a William Tweed, or a John Kelly for his fugleman [mouthpiece].  The proper name for it is JESUIT HALL.  By this name it should be called, and by none other; for name and nature should correspond, so that when the one is called the other should be understood, and that would help to guide both the mind and the action of the American people.[17]

During the American Civil War, Rome sided with the South.  As John Robbins noted,

During the American Civil War, the pope favored the Confederate government, for they both favored slavery; they both opposed capitalism; and they both favored feudalism; that is, they were both medieval.  The pope saw the war as a way to end the threat that America, a large, free, Protestant nation, posed to the political ambitions of Rome for world domination: divide and conquer.[18]

My final quote, and the one most apropos to this discussion comes from Charles Chiniquy, the French-Canadian Roman Catholic priest turned Presbyterian minister.  Chiniquy wrote what is perhaps the best-known 19th-century book of all warning people about the dangers Rome posed to the religious, economic, and political liberties of the American people, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome.   

In this book, there is a quote from an 1852 letter written by the Bishop of Chicago to Chiniquy while he was still a Catholic priest. Wrote Bishop Vandeveld, “Before you [Chiniquy] began your great work of directing the flood of Roman Catholic immigration towards this country [the United States] to secure it to our holy church, he [a priest named Courjeault] was in favour of that glorious scheme, but his jealousy against you has suddenly changed his mind” (emphasis mine).[19]

The practice of “directing the flood of Roman Catholic immigration towards this country to secure it for our holy church” is a Jesuit form of immigration warfare called irredentism.[20]  From Chinquy’s book, we know that Jesuit irredentism has been going on for at least 171 years, and most likely for much longer.

America 

By the term “America” I mean the United States of America.  As noted above, the papal Antichrist has had this nation in its crosshairs from very early in its existence, if not before it formally declared independence from Great Britain in 1776.  When I refer to “Americans,” I am speaking about the citizens of the United States of America.   

Now that we have established definitions of the key terms in this paper. Let us now turn to the principal theme of this talk, a discussion of Roman Catholic immigration theory as set forth in two major works, the 1952 apostolic constitution Exsul Familia Nazarethana and the 2003 pastoral letter Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope issued jointly by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Mexican Conference of Catholic Bishops. 

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[1] The Presbyterian Church of America would later change its name to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

[2] (J. Gresham Machen, “The Second General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of America,” Presbyterian Guardian, November 28, 1936, Volume 3, Number 4)  https://www.opc.org/cfh/guardian/Volume_3/1936-11-28.pdf, accessed 10/1/2023.

[3] B.B. Warfield, “The Confession of Faith as Revised in 1903,” The Union Seminary Magazine, Volume XVI, 1904-1905, Richmond, 21),  https://luxlucet.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ef27e-warfield252cbenjaminbreckinridge252ctheconfessionoffaithasrevisedin1903.pdf,

accessed 10/1/2023.

[4] See the October, November, December Trinity Review “Antichrist” edited by John W. Robbins for a comparison of Protestant historicism with Jesuit preterism and futurism.  https://www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=181, accessed 10/1/2023.

[5] “Alien” https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=8-USC-92903111-1485256781&term_occur=999&term_src=title:8:chapter:12:subchapter:II:part:V:section:1252c, accessed 10/1/2023.

[6] “What is a Resident Alien,” Investopedia, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/residentalien.asp, accessed 10/1/2023.

[7] “Nonresident Alien: What it Means, How it Works,” Investopedia, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nonresidentalien.asp, accessed 10/1/2023.

[8] “Illegal alien,” Dictionary.com

[9] “Illegal alien,” Cambridge Dictionary, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/illegal-alien, accessed 10/1/2023.

[10] “Illegal Aliens in Federal, State, and Local Criminal Justice Systems,” https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/illegal-aliens-federal-state-and-local-criminal-justice-systems, accessed 10/1/2023.  According to a 2019 article, the biggest source of illegal immigration was not illegal border crossings, but visa overstays.  As a result of the current presidential administration’s policy of encouraging mass, illegal immigration across America’s southern border, this may be changing. “Border wall debate ignores biggest source of illegal immigration: visa overstays,” Roll Call, February 1, 2019, https://rollcall.com/2019/02/01/border-wall-debate-ignores-biggest-source-of-illegal-immigration-visa-overstays/, accessed 10/1/2023.

[11] American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.

[12] The Quebec Act was seen by American colonists as an attempt by the British Crown to impose Roman Catholic rule on the colonies.  In the Declaration of Independence, one of the complaints Jefferson brought against the King of England was his, “abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province [Quebec], establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these Colonies.”   Though he did not say it directly, Jefferson’s concern was that the Roman Catholic laws of Quebec would threaten the liberty of the colonists.  John Adams wrote that the Quebec Act, “was dangerous to the Interest of the Protestant Religion and of these Colonies.”    

[13] Morse, Samuel F. B.. Foreign conspiracy against the liberties of the United States: the numbers of Brutus, originally publ. in the New-York Observer. United States: Leavitt, 1835, 30.  See Google Books edition, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Foreign_conspiracy_against_the_liberties/IrJJAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0, accessed 10/1/2023.

[14] Thompson, R.W., The Papacy and the Civil Power. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1876, Preface.  Google Play Books, https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=DwMQAAAAIAAJ, accessed 10/1/2023.

[15] https://www.krabarchive.com/ralphmag/rum-romanismZM.html, accessed 10/1/2023.

[16] Al Smith, the first major party Roman Catholic presidential candidate in 1928 was a Roman Catholic as was John Kerry in 2004.  No Roman Catholic has yet headed a Republican presidential ticket.    

[17] Hartwell, Joseph. Romanism and Politics.  Tammany Hall the Stronghold of Rome, New York, James A. O’Connor, 1887, pp. 9-10.  Download a free copy of the book at this link https://app.box.com/s/wsfefmgxb3oh6ac7bheqeh0fzuc9cf3d

[18] Robbins, John W., Slavery & Christianity, The Trinity Foundation, Unicoi, 2007, p.11.

[19] Chiniquy, Charles, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, London: The Protestant Literature Depository, 1886, p.391.

[20] According to a recent Chris Noise of Thunder Radio podcast by Chris Pinto, the Islamic version of immigration warfare is known as hijra, while the Jesuit version of this same practice is called irredentism.  As Pinto notes in his 9/27/20923 podcast titled Immigration Warfare, Dr. Ronald Cooke has stated that irredentism has been used by the Jesuits to infiltrate Protestant Northern Ireland.  Cooke’s full comments are not yet available but will be released with Adullam Film’s upcoming documentary American Jesuits. Here’s a link to the “Immigration Warfare” podcast https://soundcloud.com/user-54104055/immigration-warfare-9272023?si=a95d583816fd4517927129fe55eb1617&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing.  Pinto’s comments on hijra and irredentism begin at the 2:06 mark.   

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