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According to Rep. Jamie Raskin, Thomas Paine was an undocumented immigrant. The problem with this statement is that he arrived in 1774, a couple of years before the American Revolution. He likely said this because he believes it is a justification for leftist open border policies, when that could not be further from the truth.

I want to start by invoking Tom Paine, who was an undocumented immigrant who came to this land in 1774, two years before the revolution and wrote Common Sense, the pamphlet that ignited the American Revolution. And he said that this land, if it lives up to its ideals and its promise, would become an “asylum to humanity,” he said. Not an insane asylum, but a place of refuge for people seeking freedom from religious and political, intellectual and economic persecution from all over the world. Also in the 18th century, Thomas Jefferson, who was a descendant of a long line of undocumented immigrants both on his mother’s side and his father’s side to the country, said that education would be central to democratic self-government and to the protection of liberty in our country. He said that a nation cannot be both ignorant and free. He said it was impossible.

It takes a lot of cognitive dissonance to believe that the stories of Paine and Thomas Jefferson somehow condone illegal immigration. Just because Paine was an influential thinker who helped shape the ideas that founded this country, that does not mean we should have an unvetted immigration system that opens the doors to the third world. Paine, along with Jefferson, made this country a better place. There is far more evidence to suggest illegal immigration does the exact opposite. The reason, however, he tried to use this example to justify his asinine policy positions likely has to do with the fact that the left cannot find a present-day reality to defend their agenda if their lives depended on it.

Since Paine arrived when America was still a British colony, it is more accurate to say he was moving between land under the same government system. This is logically equivalent to moving to another state. Nonetheless, it still is not comparable to today’s modern system, and it’s naive to claim otherwise.

Some humans are illegal. Paine was not one of those humans. The left really needs to come up with better arguments as to why this country does not deserve national security, because they are fooling nobody.

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