Threats from Foreign Nationalists: Fortify and Pray

Just last week, an Afghan national was arrested for threatening to set off a bomb at an undisclosed building in Fort Worth. Authorities discovered the man after he posted a TikTok video stating his threat, even going as far as to say, "He concluded that he was not afraid of deportation or getting killed,” according to ABC News.

Concerns for the safety of Americans are growing far and wide. Many people across the nation are asking the basic question: if we can’t even have the basic necessity of safety, then what are we paying taxes for?

We do want to recognize the valiant efforts of local and federal law enforcement who apprehended the suspect and likely saved hundreds and potentially thousands of lives. But what about the preventative measures? Why are people like this allowed in our nation in the first place?

Contrary to what is being regurgitated in mainstream media, it is not racist whatsoever to prevent or ban people from coming to America. Just about every nation around the world bans people or restricts immigration, and they all do it for the same reason: to prevent people from coming in who hate their way of life.

In America, we have our own way of life. We have customs that we live by, such as attending church on Sundays. We have traditions we celebrate every year, like Independence Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter. And we used to have a shared faith, which was Christianity. Each one of those things is being attacked by people who have immigrated to America or people who have been taught to hate America.

But not everyone who immigrates to America hates us, right?

That is true, but it is impossible to make that distinction upon application for entry or citizenship to the United States. It is a multi-layered issue. One, our education system is broken. American education does not teach students to love their country. Instead, schools teach the opposite.

They teach lessons to students that encourage them to hate their parents, without even realizing it, and to view the founding of our nation as one founded upon racism and hate “white supremacy,” which is a falsehood.

The second problem is a compound factor layered on top of our failing education system: for decades, U.S. immigration policy has operated as virtually open to anyone who wants in. This hasn’t been a bug; it’s been the feature. Weak enforcement, endless loopholes, and political reluctance to say “no” created a permanent magnet for mass migration, legal and illegal alike, that floods labor markets, strains public resources, and drives down wages for working-class Americans.

Skilled workers are far more of a spiritual issue than people may be aware.

Exodus 35:30–35 tells us that God set aside His people to be skilled in their work for His glory.

That is precisely what America needs. Bad immigration policy attracts bad talent, which does not glorify God. And that bad immigration policy has proven very harmful, with large numbers coming over our borders.

Under the Biden Administration, that long-brewing open-door policy hit overdrive. Record-shattering illegal border encounters topped 2.4 million in FY 2022 alone, with millions more in the years that followed. Border wall construction was halted on day one, catch-and-release was supercharged, and interior enforcement was gutted. Only after years of chaos did the administration suddenly claim, without a hint of irony, that it had delivered “the most secure border in American history.”1 The damage, however, was already irreversible: a humanitarian crisis, a security crisis, and a sovereignty crisis rolled into one, all paid for by American taxpayers while politicians in Washington congratulated themselves on their compassion.

Why would or should we allow the possibility of bad people coming into our nation, when we know we have foreign nationals who are already here, threatening our people?

Abuse of The H-1B Visa Program

Many of these foreign nationals have come by way of abusing the H-1B visa program. The H-1B visa program started out with noble intentions: empowering U.S. employers to snag that elusive specialized talent in fields like tech, engineering, and medicine, all while keeping American companies sharp and competitive, without tossing U.S. workers under the bus or slashing wages.

In theory, it was meant to strike a clever balance between plugging critical skills gaps and safeguarding American jobs. But let's be real, it's veered wildly off course. Mounting concerns paint a picture of a system that's now eroding domestic employment and fair pay, sparking heated debates on whether it even remotely honors its original promise to bolster the nation's workforce.

Yet, the real kicker? The program has devolved into a loophole-ridden gateway for U.S. entry, with scant oversight and zero emphasis on meaningful assimilation, hardly the blueprint for success it was sold as.

Spiritual Awareness for A Spiritual Solution

Our nation has a God-given obligation to protect the citizens already under its care, those who pledge allegiance, pay the taxes, raise families here, and defend this soil, not to subsidize and import endless waves of people who refuse to assimilate and, in a growing number of cases, openly celebrate our destruction.

This is not racism; it is responsibility. It is the most basic form of love for neighbor that Scripture demands of any shepherd, magistrate, or watchman on the wall. When the Department of Justice and FBI repeatedly warn that terror watchlist apprehensions at the border have spiked into the hundreds under open-border policies, when known Hezbollah, MS-13, and even ISIS-linked individuals have been released into the interior, and when cities like New York and Denver are now mapping “soft targets” because of credible threats, we are no longer talking about abstract policy debates. We are staring at the specter of jihadist cells already embedded, waiting for the next October 7-style massacre on American soil.

Prudence screams for fortified gates: finished walls, reinstated Remain-in-Mexico, aggressive vetting, and swift deportation of anyone on a terror watchlist, period. But steel and concrete alone will not save us. We are in a spiritual war as much as a physical one. The same God who gave Bezalel the skill to build the tabernacle also empowered David to slay Goliath and the angel armies to slaughter 185,000 Assyrians in a single night. We must work as if everything depends on us and pray as if everything depends on God, because it does.

So yes, tighten the borders with righteous resolve. But every morning, on our knees, let us also plead the blood of Jesus over this land, bind the spirit of murder and terror in the heavenlies, and ask the Lord to expose every plot before it hatches. A nation that forgets to pray while it builds its walls will still fall. A nation that prays while it builds itself stands a fighting chance.