My Opinion on Immigration
Consider this possibility………
Your neighbor next door decides that since food has become so expensive that he will no longer buy food for his family and leaves them on their own to gather what they may. As a result, his wife and children wait until the dark of night and break into your home to steal food. Their apparent success encourages them to hide in your basement permanently so they can feed themselves at will while you sleep. When they are finally caught and turned over to the authorities for breaking and entering and theft, they demand to be allowed to stay since they cannot be fed in their own home. Others enter into the fray, hold marches, glorify your irresponsible next door neighbor, ask for laws to be passed so that they may stay in your home, and encourage others to join the intruders into your home.
Sound ridiculous? Of course it is. But, let’s think of it on a larger scale.
That is exactly what we are facing today with illegal immigrants in the USA. Yes, we are a nation of immigrants, except for Native Americans, but a nation of legal immigrants who made this nation great. Legal immigrants, who applied to enter this country, learned our language, respected our laws, studied our history, served in our armed forces, paid taxes, swore allegiance to our country and became citizens. It didn’t matter if they were Hispanic, Europeans, Asiatics, Far Easterners, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, or Buddhists. All were welcome. That is, all that were legal.
There is no way that anyone who starts their desired residency by initially breaking our laws can claim anything. Are we a country of laws or aren’t we?
As a child of legal immigrants, who came into this country fleeing the hatred, the pogroms, and mass murder in Russia and Poland, I am proud of their accomplishments, raising their families, educating their children, observing their religion of choice, and becoming voting citizens of the country they loved. Did they forget their heritage of the “old country?” Of course not. But there was never the question of divided loyalty.
Your neighbor next door decides that since food has become so expensive that he will no longer buy food for his family and leaves them on their own to gather what they may. As a result, his wife and children wait until the dark of night and break into your home to steal food. Their apparent success encourages them to hide in your basement permanently so they can feed themselves at will while you sleep. When they are finally caught and turned over to the authorities for breaking and entering and theft, they demand to be allowed to stay since they cannot be fed in their own home. Others enter into the fray, hold marches, glorify your irresponsible next door neighbor, ask for laws to be passed so that they may stay in your home, and encourage others to join the intruders into your home.
Sound ridiculous? Of course it is. But, let’s think of it on a larger scale.
That is exactly what we are facing today with illegal immigrants in the USA. Yes, we are a nation of immigrants, except for Native Americans, but a nation of legal immigrants who made this nation great. Legal immigrants, who applied to enter this country, learned our language, respected our laws, studied our history, served in our armed forces, paid taxes, swore allegiance to our country and became citizens. It didn’t matter if they were Hispanic, Europeans, Asiatics, Far Easterners, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, or Buddhists. All were welcome. That is, all that were legal.
There is no way that anyone who starts their desired residency by initially breaking our laws can claim anything. Are we a country of laws or aren’t we?
As a child of legal immigrants, who came into this country fleeing the hatred, the pogroms, and mass murder in Russia and Poland, I am proud of their accomplishments, raising their families, educating their children, observing their religion of choice, and becoming voting citizens of the country they loved. Did they forget their heritage of the “old country?” Of course not. But there was never the question of divided loyalty.
posted by Sam Schoolsky | 7:12 PM
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