The post-Reagan era triumphantly promised a unified sense of national purpose, self-confidence, and moral clarity. Yet, what successive presidential administrations and congressional formations have delivered instead has been a gradual increase of the corrosion of the democratically spirited and trust-based American political culture. As a result, domestic politics has hardened into poisonous clannish cum tribal identities, all kinds of disagreements into hidden cum open hostilities, and fellow American citizens into caricatures to be feared or despised. Today, the United States of America as a nation is caught in the most vicious circles of mutual hatred, in which concocted outrage is feeding more outlandish hostility, conspiracy theories breeding more suspicions that lead to ever more ruthless retaliations. Simultaneously, compromise is treated as betrayal and empathy as weakness. What began in the 1980s as a celebration of the reestablishment of individual freedom and national renewal has curdled into collective isolation, leaving a nation more divided than at any point in its history.
In this national convulsion, the beginning of global migration and the resulting enormous illegal immigration are best understood not as an isolated chain of events, but as the convergence of political, economic, and cultural forces that intensified in the late 20th century. Globalization has disrupted national as well as regional economies in the so-called Third World, while integrating markets unevenly, creating sharp disparities between labor supply and opportunity. At the same time, progress in transportation and communication lessened the psychological and physical barriers to movement, transforming migration from an exceptional act into an elementary individual survival strategy. Moreover, the multiplying occurrences of bloody armed conflicts, frequent collapses of non-functioning states, and existential stress further accelerated flights from failed countries, while the corresponding demand for low-wage labor in developed countries often illegally absorbed migrants because the slow-reacting national legislations could not adapt to the new legal challenges.
The resulting mass illegal immigration has become a global political and economic challenge. In the United States of America, the duplicitous dishonesty of the Obama administration, the Biden administration's uneven enforcement rhetoric, and the lack of a clear-cut legal strategy have created a legislative gap that incentivized illegal entry, the emergence of informal labor markets, and an unsolvable chaos of the undocumented population from all over the world. With time running out, what has begun a temporary or cyclical migration, has become permanent settlements that only entrenched social, legal and political tensions. Thus, in the United States of America, such as in other parts of the world, mass migration and illegal immigration have not been primarily failures of border control, but causes of global inequality, domestic labor dependence, and political and legal inability to regulate the brand new phenomenon of sustained human mobility.
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However, what appears to be unprecedented today had, in reality, already been confronted by the Western Roman Empire at the beginning of the third century. This millennium-old civilization's central pillar of law and order had crashed in ruins. As today, the migration challenge was an unsolvable problem because of the near paralysis of the institutions meant to govern and the increasingly complex, interconnected world. More substantially, what became known as the "Gothic Crisis" between 370 and 376 CE turned into a devastating rebellion between 377 and 378 CE, which at the Battle of Adrianople destroyed the Roman army, killed Emperor Valens, and proved that the Roman legions were no longer unbeatable. Finally, the loss of border integrity resulted in internal fragmentation, psychological climax, and the formal collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE.
The politically motivated, mendacious crusade against the truth by small marauding elements of American society started on August 9, 2014, with the killing of Michael Brown Jr. by Officer Darren Wilson and the almost identical case of George Perry Floyd Jr. of Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. Although both persons were hardened criminals caught in unlawful acts, the just-organized Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation rapidly elevated them to the corrupt pedestal of minority "Sainthood." The mass protests, riots, arson, and the ubiquitous breakdown of public order were quickly sanctified by former President Barack Hussein Obama and the great majority of the Democratic Party. The mantra of "Systematic and Institutionalized Racism" of the standardbearers of the existing constitutional order has become a rallying cry of these same elements, fortified by the various criminal groups of the illegal immigrants. Moreover, the overpoliticization of these criminal cases already foreshadowed the start of an illegitimate drive of these criminal cum extremely radical organizations to seize power through unconstitutional political cum judicial tyranny across the United States of America. Adding more lawless fire to the already burning hatred among the illegal masses in the state of Minnesota, the two shooting incidents in the capital city of Minneapolis on January 26, 2026, have sparked large-scale protests, political outcry, and the obligatory demands for accountability and reforms. The uncompromising position by both sides – the Trump administration and the state officeholders in Minnesota – has demonstrated serious gaps in managing these situations legitimately, coupled with the lack of obligatory transparency on both sides. Therefore, grossly exaggerated and even fully opposite narratives only further deepened the hatred between the state's communities and the federal political, as well as law enforcement agencies.
In this conundrum, President Trump must assume the role of the leader to reestablish the Reaganite order. First, he is successfully solving the main problem of "Open Borders." Second, he must break up the existing large geographic settlements that encourage separatism as opposed to integration of the different legal as well as illegal foreign ethnic groups. Third, President Trump and his administration must focus on the main objective of integration and reintegration of these presently foreign elements in American society. Fourth, he must move to initiate dialogues with the opposition. The reason being that, to make peace, he must identify credible partners. Then, trust must be built by eliminating contradictions in political strategy, tactics, and legislation. Only then can President Trump be successful. Finally, with the support of the greater part of the nation – if not the whole of it – he can regain the lost respect for the most fundamental of all the laws pertaining to a civilized society that the United states of America has been for 250 years, namely the restoration of the humanization of the entire American nation, in which individual freedom is intertwined with respect of law and order, and trust of the federal and state governments is restored to its past significance.
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