It started with illegal immigration and it will end with it.

It is the campaign of 2016. Tragically, it is also the United States of America.

The steady invasion of millions upon millions of destitute, diseased and illiterate third worlders orchestrated by the Obama administration during its interminable terms in office has come precariously close to destroying this country, and the election of Hillary Clinton in November would seal the deal.

And that would seal the deal in granite, as she has already promised to increase the rate of those entering the US illegally by 550%. She will happily ignore and/or break all existing immigration laws, as did Obama, and rule by executive fiat, as did Obama, all to insure a Democrat majority in perpetuity for our formerly great nation.

There actually were quite significant and sensible immigration laws in the United States before the 1965 immigration law forced through Congress by Senator Teddy Kennedy which changed the US forever. Before this 1965 law, our immigration policy was basically a quota system, organized so that no one nation would outnumber any other in coming into our country. This was done to insure fairness in immigration numbers and in countries of origin. There was no favorability toward any one nationality in coming into the country, as there is now with Hispanics and Muslims. Before 1965, immigration policy insured that no one nation was favored over another in coming to America.

It was also the case that individuals coming into this country had to provide proof that they could support themselves, and/or they had a skill or an occupation that would enable them to work in the U.S. If they had already been provided with a job or a job offer in the U.S., they had to provide proof of this and the company or entity doing the hiring would have to prove why it was necessary for them to hire a non-American over an American. Potential immigrants also had to pass literacy tests, and there was always a lengthy waiting period was involved in this process, to insure that proper and vetting and confirmation procedures were followed.

Having these laws adhered to also allowed the United States to absorb the large numbers of immigrants who were coming into the country, though the numbers before the 1965 law pale in comparison to the numbers invading us today, and for the past seven and a half years. The former immigration policy also allowed the arriving immigrants to become assimilated into their new country, which, and is seems like a quaint notion now, they all wanted to do because it was such a joyous thing to become an American.

In this sensible, and successful, method of controlling immigration in our country, the greatest of compassion was demonstrated. That is, the compassion for one’s country.

The open borders’ policy being implemented by the left in charge right now demonstrates the opposite for our poor beleaguered nation; on the contrary, it clearly manifests a complete contempt for America, its people and its future.

America cannot support either the numbers of people who are coming into the country unchecked, unvetted, and unregulated, nor can it absorb the kinds of people who are entering the country with no restrictions, regulations, or rules.

The only rule that seems to be adhered to or paid attention to by those currently in charge of this enforced chaos is that the newcomers have to vote Democrat. Whether or not they are citizens of the country they are being made to vote for in this particular Democrat get-out-the-vote organizational effort is of no significance whatsoever to the elites.

And yet, everything that matters in America is being affected, ferociously negatively, by this massive illegal influx of humanity.

Our neighborhoods, both urban and rural, are being destroyed, our increasingly pathetic schools are now completely out of control, our hospitals are overcrowded and their staff overworked to the point of being nonfunctioning, American citizens are being denied and/or thrown out of jobs as wave after wave of illegal aliens swarm into the country, there is no attempt at assimilation of these individuals, much less their being made to assimilate, i.e., to become American, our single national language is disappearing, our national security is threatened in so many ways it is impossible to adequately describe them here, there are no records of those entering and eventually staying in our country; i.e., there is a complete lack of knowledge of the millions who now live among us, local and national crime rates are skyrocketing while respect and regard for our police forces is disintegrating, our courts and their staff are overrun and increasingly ineffective, and our voting laws have become a national joke.

As a matter of fact, under Obama and Clinton most laws have become a joke. The American people have caught on that in this new banana republic we have become under the left, the only people who have to pay attention to the laws that exist in our country, are those who pay the taxes and are being forced to financially support all this flotsam and jetsom the left is importing, those who are normally law-abiding, and those who basically powerless in their ability to stop this travesty.

The only thing the American people can do to stop, and possibly reverse, this invasion, is to vote. We have all learned in 2016 that the laws are for the little people, but the little people still have the power of that vote.

And it looks increasingly like we are going to use that power in this critical election year.

We better do exactly that, because this very well may be our last chance to use that power. What the left has worked so hard and so long for in insuring the importation of millions and millions of illegal aliens into America is resulting, in 2016, in the end of America as we know and love it.

In 2016, the permanent underclass that the Democrats have orchestrated is coming into its own, and with their numbers and their leaders’ efforts, they will determine the future of the United States, with those who want to preserve the America we know and love, will never be able to again win a national election.

Susan Smith brings an international perspective to her writing by having lived primarily in western Europe, mainly in Paris, France, and the U.S., primarily in Washington, D.C. She authored a weekly column for Human Events on politics with historical aspects.. She also served as the Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism, and Special Assistant to the first Ambassador of Afghanistan following the initial fall of the Taliban. Ms. Smith is a graduate of Wheeling Jesuit University and Georgetown University, as well as the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, France, where she obtained her French language certification. Ms. Smith now makes her home in McLean, Va.