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 …