USA Immigration

Without borders, language, laws, a flag, and allegiance in your country, you have no country. --Hairpinandarrow

If you listened only to the news media, you would think we have become a nation of weaklings--

.willing to allow our Southwest to become overrun with Mexicans (including the Mexican military) who want to reclaim the part of this country that they believe is rightfully theirs,

.willing to allow terrorists to cross into our country via air, land, and sea, (in fact we'll lease it to them in good faith) in order to do us whatever harm they can dream up,

.willing to believe that our legislators are in Washington DC doing what is right for our nation above all else,

.and, willing to emulate the impotent French or Dutch by allowing the fear of public demonstrations to write our laws.

Well, you'd be wrong.

In spite of what stories reach the news media, rest assured, show us the candidate who sticks to his guns and says, "No Amnesty" in any form, and I'll show you the person 75 percent of our voters will select to lead our country.

When illegals across the country demonstrate for their "US Rights" in large public arenas, why does the INS not gather them all up and check their credentials? If they have legal status, fine. If they do not, they need to be deported. Not 11 million at once, but in busloads of 43 (or however many seats there are on school buses). If they whine that they have family members here, INS should get those addresses, check them out, and send them back also, if undocumented.

If they have legal family members, then they have a decision to make. Place them with other legals that they know, or take them home until they are old enough to come back themselves or until legal status is afforded someone in the family. I'm just not crying for the person who came here to have a baby just so the baby could attain legal status, thereby providing an "in" excuse for the illegal mother to stay, too. Bu-zit! Wrong answer! A baby is NOT a free pass to allow disobedience of US laws.

And, if you do not come here with the intent to obey our laws, you should not be allowed stay. If you are unwilling to give up allegiance to your former country and declare allegiance to the USA, you should not be allowed to stay here. If you are not a citizen, you should not be enrolled in public schools, or demand unemployment, US drivers' licenses, or health insurance coverage--including Medicaid--or any other "right" enjoyed by citizens.

When we are abroad, we are required to follow the rules of each country we visit. And so should immigrants who come to this country. When abroad legally, we still need to be polite and considerate of the people and places we visit--and vice versa. We should not entertain ridiculous excuses by terrorists to study here in our universities providing--choke--DIVERSITY on campuses. Deadly diversity, you mean! Or we should not think twice about sending people back to where they came from if we find out they have committed crimes here or in their home country. To not do so is a crock of major trouble!

What would happen if an American should go to Mexico or Iran or Russia and demand to receive benefits ahead of other countrymen already waiting on a list to receive those same benefits? Well we know the answer to that. Forget it!

We help countries around the world in every crisis they encounter and we have gone into deep debt in order to do so. Listen, we are good, kind, generous people, but there are limits to our patience if you come to our soil illegally, start demanding your "rights," and threaten those who have earned their place in our law-abiding society. If this is you, here's your invitation: "Come back soon--but not until you're legal." Bu-Bye.

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Cartoon credit: Cox and Forkum (March 28, 2006) at www.coxandforkum.com

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Related Information:
If You Don't Secure The Border, You Don't Have a Country

Title 8 CFR, Immigration and Naturalization Laws

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