During the Cold War, there was a comedy routine where a father, who was a U.S. Army veteran that fought against Nazi Germany in World War II, tried to explain to his teenage son the difference between the ‘bad Germans’ he had fought against, and the ‘good Germans’ allied with America after the war, and the ‘Bad Germans’ in communist East German allied with our then current enemy, the Soviet Union. His explanation to his son who was as confused as Lou Costello was in trying to understand Bud Abbott’s explanation of ‘Who’s on first’ in their famous comedy routine.
Since our recent political ‘cancel culture’ busy-bullies have eliminated comedy satire from our political rhetoric, there are few acceptable outlets to address the absurdities practiced by our political practitioners. If comedy satire were still allowed, standup comedians would have a field day with three unsupportable assumptions by today’s immigration activists.
These are, first, “Unlimited immigration is good for America”. Second, “There are no bad immigrants that should be deported”. And third, “All immigrants make good American citizens”.
Prior to America’s direct involvement in the Vietnam War, while waiting for a slot in my US Air Force flight school, I volunteered to move into the Foreign Officer’s BOQ and room with a one of those in foreign nations the U.S. was training to defend their country. We were to help them with their English before joining us in our military flight schools. My assignment was with a young Vietnam officer from Saigon, Vietnam’s ‘South’, whose government was being challenged by his fellow countrymen from the communist ‘North’.
Kim and I became close friends. We communicated frequently after he received his pilot’s wings and returned to Vietnam’s Air Force, and we met occasionally when he returned to the U.S. for more training during Vietnam’s North-South civil war into which President Lyndon Johnson had inserted American military to support the Vietnam South. Soon after Saigon fell to the winning forces of communist North Vietnam, I received a call from the International Red Cross asking if I would sponsor Kim and his family’s request for immigration into the United States. Kim arrived in Dallas a few weeks later with his pregnant wife and four skinny children all under eight years of age.
Without government assistance, Kim progressed from working at a famous Dallas hamburger store to becoming a plant supervisor for Hewlett Packard. Five years and one hour after arriving in the U.S., he and his family became naturalized United States citizens. Along the way he had his name changed from “Kim” to “Kent”. Two of his sons became medical doctors, and the two daughters went into the U.S. Army and served in the Military Police, which upon becoming civilians again, they went into law enforcement. The baby of the family went into the entertainment business.
Kim’s story is a classic case of successful melting-pot American assimilation policy in action!
The more enlightened among our modern political operatives and politicians have eschewed those out-of-date policies of old. Now their new-wave immigrant policy is designed to flood our society with millions of welfare immigrants. Our government does not know who they are, where they live, why they should be legally allowed here, and whether they can effectively integrate into our society.
Without answering these questions, these newcomers were to be quickly given voting rights to help activists complete their fundamental transformation of the United States of America into a one-party state. To that end, the southern U.S. border was completely opened. Sanctuary cities and States were established to prevent any deportations for any reason – murder, rape, assault, larceny, drugs, fraud – if one is illegally here, he is allowed to infest our society. Sanctuary criminal justice systems refused to incarcerate illegals for crimes for which criminal citizens spend years in prison.
Without comic relief, without media accountability, and without honest discussion, no one will be required to defend the three false premises underlying our political disfunction on immigration: “Unlimited immigration is good for America”, “There are no bad immigrants that should be deported”, and “All immigrants make good American citizens”.
If false immigration policies help them achieve their one-party State, the perpetrators of this misjustice will justify these actions with that old falsism used conveniently by those seeking to avoid political accountability:
“The ends justify the means” which suggests that if a goal is deemed important enough, any method, even morally questionable ones, may be used to achieve it.
TW3
January 22, 2026
John Whitmore Jenkins
