Isn’t it amazing that a Man living in a walled city in Italy can go to the border of Mexico and the United States at El Paso, TX and not want the United States to have a means of accounting for those who wish to come here.

One thing Pope Francis said he did know was that “a person who thinks only of building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, isn’t Christian.” Pity the poor brick masons, next we know they will be in the unemployment line.

John Nolte, who writes for Breitbart was quoted as as saying  “And all I’m asking is that for the good of the world Pope Francis allow America the same border security the home of no less than St. Peter enjoys.”

I’m assuming Pope Francis could order such a thing tomorrow, and after the walls came down he could also choose to greet the wave of “pilgrims” with the “warmth of the love of Christ.”

Of course Pope Francis would never do such a thing because he knows what would happen: Vatican City would be no more, everyone’s security and well-being would be compromised, and the standard of living for close to a thousand residents would be destroyed.  Chaos would completely destroy the home of St. Peter.

Just as the loss of Vatican City would be detrimental to the world, so too will the loss of an America as we know it if our culture and free enterprise system is exploded into a giant welfare state by waves of immigrants embraced by mercenary, power-hungry Democrats desperate to use them to increase the power of the State.

Courtesy of mysunnylittlecorner.com

Vatican City’s walls allow the Vatican to save itself in order to hold tight to an invaluable culture that exports its generosity and charity and missionary work.  Vatican City cannot take everyone in and survive. And it must remain Vatican City or be destroyed at the expense of all the incalculable good it does.

By all means, Pope Francis should push and prod and even shame America and Americans to give and give and give and give. We should do whatever we can to help the refugees in the Middle East and do whatever we can to influence and help Mexico and its people.

But we cannot do that if we’re no longer America.

John can be followed on Twitter @NolteNC        

2013 report – And who’s #1?

This is a list of countries by immigrant population, based on the UN report Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2013 Revision.^[1]

Country	Number of immigrants	Percentage of total number of immigrants in the world	Immigrants as percentage of national population	Notes
United States	45,785,090	19.8	14.3
Russia	11,048,064	4.8	7.7
Germany	9,845,244	4.3	11.9
Saudi Arabia	9,060,433	3.9	31.4
United Arab Emirates	7,826,981	3.4	83.7
United Kingdom	7,824,131	3.4	12.4
France	7,439,086	3.2	11.6
Canada	7,284,069	3.1	20.7
Australia	6,468,640	2.8	27.7
Spain	6,466,605	2.8	13.8
Italy	5,721,457	2.5	9.4
India	5,338,486	2.3	0.4
Ukraine	5,151,378	2.2	11.4
Pakistan	4,080,766	1.8	2.2
Thailand	3,721,735	1.6	5.6
Kazakhstan	3,476,233	1.5	21.1
Kuwait	2,920,000	1.3	70
Jordan	2,925,780	1.3	40.2
Hong Kong	2,804,753	1.2	38.9
Iran	2,649,516	1.1	3.4
Malaysia	2,469,173	1.1	8.3
Ivory Coast	2,446,171	1.1	12.0
Japan	2,437,169	1.1	1.9
South Africa	2,399,238	1.0	4.6
Switzerland	2,335,059	1.0	28.9
Singapore	2,323,252	1.0	42.9
Israel	2,046,873	0.9	26.5
Netherlands	1,964,922	0.9	11.7
Argentina	1,885,678	0.8	4.6
Turkey	1,864,889	0.8	2.5
Qatar	1,600,955	0.7	73.8
South Korea	1,230,000	0.5	2.9
Sweden	1,130,025	0.7	15.9
Bangladesh	1,396,514	0.6	0.9
Syria	1,394,227	0.6	6.4
Austria	1,333,807	0.6	15.7
Uzbekistan	1,266,278	0.6	4.4
Nigeria	1,233,592	0.5	0.7
Venezuela	1,171,331	0.5	3.9
Belgium	1,159,801	0.5	10.4
New Zealand	1,132,828	0.5	25.1
Oman	1,112,032	0.5	30.6
Mexico	1,103,460	0.5	0.9
Belarus	1,085,396	0.5	11.6
Greece	988,245	0.4	8.9
Nepal	971,247	0.4	3.5
Kenya	955,452	0.4	2.2
Portugal	893,847	0.4	8.4
China	848,511	0.4	0.1
Croatia	756,980	0.3	17.6
Libya	755,974	0.3	12.2
Ireland	735,535	0.3	15.9
Bahrain	729,357	0.3	54.7
Ethiopia	718,241	0.3	0.8
Burkina Faso	696,983	0.3	4.1
Norway	694,508	0.3	13.8
Poland	663,755	0.3	0.9
South Sudan	629,577	0.3	5.6
Brazil	1,847,274	0.8	0.9
Denmark	556,825	0.3	9.9
Serbia	532,457	0.3	5.6
Uganda	531,401	0.3	1.4
Hungary	472,798	0.3	4.7
Rwanda	452,406	0.2	3.8
Democratic Republic of Congo	446,924	0.2	0.7
Sudan	446,707	0.2	1.2
Chad	331,251	0.2	3.4
Czech Republic	439,116	0.2	4.0
Republic of Congo	431,470	0.2	9.7
Costa Rica	419,572	0.2	8.7
Dominican Republic	402,506	0.2	3.9
Chile	398,251	0.2	2.2
Gabon	394,953	0.2	23.6
Moldova	391,508	0.2	11.2
Guinea	378,464	0.2	3.2
Zimbabwe	360,992	0.2	2.6
Ecuador	359,315	0.2	2.2
Ghana	358,829	0.2	1.4
Macau	333,269	0.2	58.8
Sri Lanka	324,977	0.2	1.5
Azerbaijan	323,843	0.2	3.4
Armenia	317,001	0.2	10.6
Yemen	314,683	0.2	1.3
Tanzania	312,778	0.2	0.6
Egypt	297,448	0.2	0.4
Indonesia	295,433	0.2	0.1
Finland	293,167	0.2	5.4
Cameroon	291,792	0.2	1.3
Latvia	282,887	0.2	13.8
Tajikistan	275,735	0.2	3.4
Algeria	270,407	0.2	0.7
Palestine	256,517	0.2	5.9
Burundi	254,477	0.2	2.5
Benin	234,241	0.2	2.3
Slovenia	233,293	0.2	11.3
Luxembourg	229,409	0.1	43.3
Kyrgyzstan	226,960	0.1	4.6
Turkmenistan	226,327	0.1	4.3
Liberia	225,484	0.1	5.3
Mozambique	218,881	0.1	0.8
Philippines	213,150	0.1	0.3
Estonia	209,984	0.1	16.4
Senegal	209,398	0.1	1.5
Cyprus	207,313	0.1	18.2
Malawi	206,578	0.1	1.3
Brunei	206,173	0.1	49.3
Togo	202,476	0.1	3.0
Romania	198,839	0.1	0.9
Mali	195,553	0.1	1.3
Georgia	189,893	0.1	4.4
Paraguay	185,776	0.1	2.8
The Gambia	162,919	0.1	8.8
Panama	158,417	0.1	3.8
Bolivia	154,330	0.1	1.4
Lithuania	147,781	0.1	4.9
Botswana	146,456	0.1	7.2
Republic of Macedonia	139,751	0.1	6.6
Reunion	136,493	0.1	15.6
Central African Republic	134,237	0.1	2.9
Niger	132,294	0.1	0.7
Colombia	129,632	0.1	0.3
Djibouti	123,537	0.1	14.2
Afghanistan	105,090	0.1	0.3
Peru	104,919	0.1	0.3
French Guiana	104,291	0.1	43.3
Burma	103,117	0.1	0.2
Zambia	98,907	0.1	0.7
Guadeloupe	97,081	0.1	20.8
Albania	96,798	0.1	3.1
Sierra Leone	96,368	0.1	1.6
Iraq	95,780	0.1	0.3
Mauritania	90,206	0.1	2.3
Angola	87,436	0.1	0.4
Maldives	84,230	0.1	24.4
Bulgaria	84,101	0.1	1.2
Channel Islands	82,592	0.1	51.0
Guam	80,770	0.1	49.6
Cambodia	75,556	0.1	0.5
Uruguay	73,528	0.1	2.3
Mayotte	73,107	0.2	32.9
Guatemala	72,764	0.1	0.5
Vietnam	68,290	0.1	0.1
United States Virgin Islands	63,271	0.1	59.3
New Caledonia	63,037	0.1	24.8
Bahamas	61,343	0.1	16.3
Martinique	60,653	0.1	15.0
Namibia	51,448	0.1	2.2
Bhutan	50,862	0.1	6.7
Belize	50,860	0.1	15.0
Morocco	50,771	0.1	0.2
Montenegro	50,708	0.1	8.2
North Korea	46,813	0.1	0.2
Andorra	45,086	0.1	56.9
Mauritius	44,997	0.1	3.6
Isle of Man	44,688	0.1	52.0
Suriname	41,670	0.1	7.5
El Salvador	41,615	0.1	0.6
Nicaragua	41,482	0.1	0.7
American Samoa	40,845	0.1	71.2
Haiti	38,061	0.1	0.4
Curacao	36,865	0.1	23.2
Tunisia	36,526	0.1	0.3
Aruba	35,950	0.1	34.9
Jamaica	34,907	0.1	1.3
French Polynesia	34,830	0.1	12.8
Iceland	34,377	0.1	10.7
Trinidad and Tobago	32,488	0.1	2.4
Malta	34,455	0.1	8.0
Madagascar	34,313	0.1	0.1
Barbados	32,280	0.1	11.3
Antigua and Barbuda	28,733	0.1	31.9
Honduras	27,503	0.1	0.4
Sint Maarten	27,021	0.1	59.7
Swaziland	25,524	0.1	2.0
Papua New Guinea	25,441	0.1	0.4
Somalia	24,593	0.1	0.2
Monaco	24,299	0.1	64.2
Northern Mariana Islands	24,155	0.1	49.9
Bosnia and Herzegovina	23,197	0.1	0.6
Fiji	22,828	0.1	2.5
Laos	21,801	0.1	0.3
Bermuda	19,066	0.1	29.1
Guinea-Bissau	18,024	0.1	1.1
Mongolia	17,225	0.1	0.6
Cuba	16,177	0.1	0.1
Eritrea	15,798	0.1	0.2
Cape Verde	14,874	0.1	3.0
Guyana	14,770	0.1	1.7
Caribbean Netherlands	12,613	0.1	65.9
Comoros	12,511	0.1	1.7
Liechtenstein	12,208	0.1	33.1
Saint Lucia	12,180	0.1	6.7
Seychelles	12,079	0.1	13.0
Timor-Leste	11,565	0.1	1.0
Grenada	11,367	0.1	10.7
Turks and Caicos Islands	11,356	0.1	24.8
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	10,260	0.1	9.4
Equatorial Guinea	10,141	0.1	1.3
Gibraltar	9,662	0.1	33.0
British Virgin Islands	9,144	0.1	32.3
Solomon Islands	7,870	0.1	1.4
Anguilla	6,520	0.1	45.6
Dominica	6,419	0.1	8.9
Sao Tome and Principe	6,345	0.1	3.3
Greenland	5,694	0.1	10.4
Saint Kitts and Nevis	5,673	0.1	10.5
Samoa	5,623	0.1	3.0
Palau	5,590	0.1	27.8
Tonga	5,436	0.1	4.8
Western Sahara	4,932	0.1	0.9
San Marino	4,399	0.1	15.4
Faroe Islands	3,641	0.1	7.4
Cook Islands	3,234	0.1	15.4
Vanuatu	3,108	0.1	1.3
Lesotho	3,095	0.1	0.1
Wallis and Futuna	2,885	0.1	20.5
Kiribati	2,619	0.1	2.6
Micronesia	2,600	0.1	2.6
Nauru	2,070	0.1	21.1
Falkland Islands	1,975	0.1	62.1
Marshall Islands	1,705	0.1	3.2
Montserrat	1,321	0.1	25.9
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	972	0.1	17.1
Vatican City	799	0.1	100.0
Saint Helena	590	0.1	14.3
Niue	552	0.1	37.1
Tokelau	298	0.1	25.4
Tuvalu	148	0.1