When a nation targets a specific group and mistakenly captures people outside that group, a quiet fear will settle in everyone’s heart.
Not because they belong to the targeted group.
But because they fear being next.
If one person is forcibly taken, simply because of how they look or sound, then anyone can and will be.
And no foreign visitors will want to visit that country, knowing that just touring the beautiful landmarks and trying incredible food is enough to be seen as a criminal in their government’s eyes.
A nation that wants no outsiders inside is a nation that will starve itself when no outsider comes to their rescue.
They build towers to keep others out, not realizing they’re trapping their own people within.
A nation like that must look within itself and remember why it became a nation in the first place, if not to welcome like-minded individuals with open arms to build a better nation.
Say what you want about the United States of America being a nation of immigrants, but you cannot deny that the United States of America would not be as powerful, as economical, and as influential were it not for the immigrants who risked arriving there to build a better nation.
In fact, there were immigrants, most notably Alexander Hamilton, who signed the U.S. Constitution and became a founding father.
The United States of America was shaped and influenced by its immigrants, and it will continue to be influenced, whether we know it or not.
It takes an outsider to make changes to the inside.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Socialist.
Martin Niemöller