Immigration Part II

While fairness is essential for all persons, when it comes to immigrants, their status, treatment, and contribution to the country, law breakers put the notion of equality in peril by their own hand.

Many of our citizens belong to an immigrant ancestry that was treated badly but the leadership of their culture never called for repayment regarding being discriminated against. They were led through a tough work ethic by individuals who achieved more for their children than they ever were rewarded themselves.

As far as the problem of illegal immigration, no people from any culture on the globe should be allowed to enter this country by breaking the immigration laws! Your color, creed, and religion should play no part in determining if you get in or are rejected.

As far as economic examples, according to the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR) for instance “analysis of the latest Census data indicates Florida’s illegal immigrant population is costing the state’s taxpayers nearly two billion dollars per year for education, medical care and incarceration. Even if the estimated taxes collected from illegal immigrant workers are subtracted, net outlays still amount to nearly one billion dollars per year. The annual fiscal burden amounts to about $315 per Florida household headed by a native-born resident.”

People should open their eyes. Illegal aliens do collect medical care through hospital emergency room visits and we pay! The money they collect under the table from unscrupulous employers is not taxed and the government wants more from us. We pay! Illegals may want to remain invisible but their shadow is seen in every hospital emergency room. They are on the transparent welfare roll when they take money from companies willing to pay them next to nothing or when they live together 16 in a one bedroom home fit for four individuals.

Championing such an illegal immigrant subculture of welfare off the books is another insidious form of slavery itself which many refuse to see. Certainly immigrants work hard. They always have. That is not the issue. Can a nation of laws exist without adherence to those laws?

Addressing the illegal alien issue by slamming the border shut and only allowing immigrants to apply for legal status is the first step. Because good intentioned organizations side with illegal immigrants does not give them the right to break the law. Civil disobedience is a cherished American tradition. However, being wrong and breaking the law only compounds the problem. Many people desire to change history and have the forefather’s sins visited upon their sons.

We are American’s! That was eloquently stated over 85 years ago years ago through Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an American. Excerpted from a letter written shortly before his death in January 1919, just a few months after the armistice that ended the fighting in World War I he wrote "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American ... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag ... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Is that view still valid today? Though debate opinions vary I will fight side by side with an opposing debater to preserve their right to differ from me. That is what is uniquely American, and worth dying for. Illegals who want to share in that glory should do so legally!