We the People Never Voted for Mass Islamic Immigration

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“Islam is largely alien to American history—it certainly didn’t come into the United States on the Mayflower,” freshman Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Tex.) observed last month. Gill continued: “It’s something that we deliberately imported as a matter of immigration policy into our country.”

Quite right. But who, exactly, is the “we” who implemented such a reckless—indeed, suicidal—act of mass cultural importation? It’s a frustratingly difficult question—and one we ought to be asking, especially in light of recent events.

For two years after the Hamas pogrom of Oct. 7, 2023, keffiyeh-clad Muslim students did their best Hitler Youth impressions on American university campuses, clamoring to eliminate the State of Israel and “globalize the intifada” more broadly. A lone wolf ISIS jihadist mowed down 15 and injured 30 others in the Bourbon Street New Year’s Day massacre of 2025. Somalis in Minnesota bilked federal taxpayers to the tune of billions of dollars’ worth of welfare fraud, culminating in a lethal recent bout of neo-Confederate immigration anarchism and the premature political demise of Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.). In Dearborn, Mich., the Muslim mayor told a Christian minister he “was not welcome here” because he objected to renaming a local street after a Hezbollah supporter. Outside the nation’s capital, a local mosque held a vigil for “our leader,” the deceased “shaheed” (martyr), Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. And most recently, the Muslim mayor of the nation’s largest city—a man who for years struggled mightily to condemn Hamas and intifada itself—not only refused to condemn an ISIS-inspired IED attack by two radicalized young Mohammedans, but proceeded to then host Hamas apologist Mahmoud Khalil at Gracie Mansion for an iftar diner. Most recently, on Thursday a radicalized Muslim opened fire at Virginia’s Old Dominion University.

There is endless more where that came from. Suffice it to say that America’s grand, decades-long experiment in welcoming in all peoples and all cultures is not going well. And it is going particularly poorly when it comes to those followers of the Religion of Peaceä. It turns out that Islam and Americanism go together about as well as the Hatfields and the McCoys—or Bill Clinton and chastity.

Which brings us back to our earlier questions: Who voted for this? Who did this? And how did this happen? And make no mistake: Islamic immigration and the insidious Islamization of American society, more generally, is happening. We do not merely know that from the myriad anecdotal stories about the adhan (call to prayer) being blasted from minarets at obnoxiously early times in cities like Minneapolis and Brooklyn. We have some numbers to back it up too.

At the time of the landmark Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, there were an estimated 100,000 to 150,000 Muslims living in the United States. At the time of the 2020 United States Religion Census, there were an estimated 4.5 million Muslims in the country. By the year 2050, that number is estimated to nearly double to 8.1 million. Huge swaths of the American Muslim community, unsurprisingly, are immigrants—those, in theory (!), who We the People through our duly elected representatives chose to bring here because we believed they would have a positive impact on the common good. Instead, we got D.C.-area mosque vigils for a despotic monster who sought “Death to America,” a staggering 54% food stamp rate and 73% Medicaid rate for Minnesota Somalis, campus activism on behalf of numerous U.S. State Department-recognized Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Ivy League calls for the “total eradication” of Western civilization, and more.

Not exactly a smashing success, it it?

In the early decades of the republic, Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison waged the First and Second Barbary Wars against radical Muslim pirates—the Houthis of their day—off the northern African coast. To this day, The Marines’ Hymn famously makes reference to “fight[ing] our country’s battles” off “the shores of Tripoli.” In fact, those wars were highly instrumental in the initial building up of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps into the world-renowned fighting forces they are today. Now, Americans seem to be letting Muslims—millions of them—into the country through a very wide front door. Far from fighting them or recognizing their comprehensive religio-political worldview as antithetical to the American way life, we are rolling out the red carpet (and doling out fraudulent welfare benefits).

But still: Who is doing this? And why are they doing so?

The convoluted and deeply unsatisfying as to “who” is an unholy amalgamation of bipartisan “legal immigration good, illegal immigration bad”-besotted lawmakers, ideologically inclined Deep State immigration bureaucrats, and well-connected leftist and Islamic NGOs, all of whom work in disastrous tandem to disburse visas to millions of people who hate us and want our nation and civilization to die. The answer as to “why” is a bit more straightforward: A zealous belief in multiculturalism and unwavering adherence to the lie that “all cultures are equal,” on the one hand, and a desire to dilute and distort America’s ecumenical Judeo-Christian biblical inheritance, on the other hand. And for the Islamic NGOs, they get their hijra—soft jihad by means of mass migration.

There’s just one problem—well, one problem other than that whole thorny Islamization thing. And that problem is this: We the People never actually voted for any of this. The massive spike in the Muslim population in America has virtually all been effectuated by shadowy immigration bureaucrats, who control the keys to America’s esoteric visa disbursement regime, as well as distasteful and America-hating NGOs. There has never been a single instance where the American people, or even a statistically significant subgroup of the American people, have directly weighed in on the wisdom of large-scale importation of Mohammedans into the centuries-old Judeo-Christian biblical tapestry that is the United States of America.

The patriots of 1776 fought a long and bloody war, among other reasons, because of the soft tyranny of Mother Britain’s taxation of the colonists without representation. But in the post-1965 Immigration and Nationality Act paradigm of mass Muslim immigration to America, we are dealing with something considerably more serious: societal transformation without representation. This particular problem is, of course, in accord with decades of unlawful accumulation and solidification of power in the administrative state, and away from our duly elected representatives in Congress, more generally. But in this case, the problem is even worse because it directly implicates the most foundational question in all of politics, going back at least as far as Aristotle two-plus millennia ago: Who are we as a polity, as a nation?

To deprive the American people of any meaningful say in this matter is a scandal of historic proportions. And it’s a scandal, as we’ve already seen, with positively disastrous results. Even worse, we are now only at the very beginning of this grand experiment in Islamization. Who knows what things might look like a few decades from now? (I’ll hazard a guess: not great!)

The good news, from a jurisprudential perspective, is that the current U.S. Supreme Court views administrative power quite skeptically and is now in the midst of a years-long effort to restore something resembling the original tripartite separation of powers construct. The bad news is America is now stuck with a gargantuan subversive fifth column Islamist problem from sea to shining sea. All policy options, such as sweeping immigration bans, mass deportations, and denaturalizations of wrongly naturalized citizens, must be on the table to help remedy—or at least assuage—the problem the best we possibly can.

And ultimately, we must reclaim the power to dictate who we are, as a people, and what our collective national destiny will be. In this, the 250^th anniversary of our nation’s Founding, it’s certainly what our Founders would have wanted us to do.