Sep 18, 2023
In his First Annual Message of Dec. 8, 1801, President Thomas Jefferson encouraged Congress to liberalize its naturalization laws. "Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?" the president asked. Jefferson knew that the United States must welcome immigrants, but surely he did not intend the present chaos. Sunday on X, formerly Twitter, Fox News' Griff Jenkins posted a video of a migrant-filled FerroMex cargo train leaving the central Mexican city of Zacatecas and rolling northward to the U.S. border. The 1-minute clip showed more than 20 train cars carrying hundreds of migrants. Many cheered and whistled as the train passed the camera. "FOX News sources capture a FerroMex train bursting with migrants out of Zacatecas heading to our southern border right now… cheering and clearly not heeding the message: 'do not come'@FoxNews," an accompanying post read. The video illustrated the depth and nature of the current crisis along the U.S. so
