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These are not rioters fighting to stay in the adopted nation they now call home, but foreign invaders who have claimed our nation as their own.
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"These riots pose a crucial and fundamental question for Americans: Do we have a nation? We ought to. We have a Constitution and thousands of legal documents and court rulings — not to mention hundreds of years of our ancestors’ blood, sweat, tears, and toils — that all say we have a nation. But whether or not we have a nation de jure, the response to L.A. will decide whether or not we have a nation de facto."
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The New York Times: America Is No Longer a Stable Country
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The two articles above are raising a long-standing issue. In reality, it would be correct to formulate it in the following way: "Is The U.S. actually a state?"
Find detailed research on this subject with regards to the US, as well as to many other countries of the world, in State - the first volume (soon to be available in English) of the 3-vol. series "War. State. Bolshevism."