New York is the greatest city in the world. I’m sure I would find more than a few people in Boston who would passionately argue that point with me, especially on a sunny summer afternoon at the ball yard. In fact, I would probably take serious heat on that topic in any major American City.
The thing that our cities all have in common is they were settled by people from many nations. Immigrants. Immigrants from around the world created America and it’s their great diversity that allows our unique experiment with democracy to continue working. Just as you can’t find a native New Yorker, you can’t find a native American. Oh, I know in the name of progress, we mercilessly shoved aside a group of people we call Native Americans but I have to wonder who they ran over to get here. Is someone going to tell me the Indians we savaged just sprang up out of nowhere? By the way, excuse my lack of political correctness but, when I was a kid, I never saw a movie about cowboys and Native Americans. Ask George Armstrong Custer.
My grandparents were immigrants. The people who made America great were legal immigrants. The difference between them and today’s hotly debated illegal intruder is one of attitude and intention. When you start out playing by the rules, chances are you keep playing by them, assimilate into society and contribute to it. Our ancestors wanted, first and foremost, to be Americans. On the other hand, those who start out by breaking our laws demonstrate immediate disrespect and rarely learn our customs or language. Usually, illegals bring with them all the elements that made their existence unbearable in the first place. They dare to make demands, tell us how to run our country and come, not to build, but to destroy. Their aim is not to become an American but to suck the system dry.
Dry is what would have happened to Social Security, Medicare and Medicade if the immigration amnesty bill had passed. Even the Republican Party, eventually, would all but disappear. If it’s his legacy he’s worried about, why does George W. Bush fail to see that? Radical Socialist Democrats see it. They know America will be changed forever. Their only objective is power and those changes will provide it for them. That is why they continue to push for this bill, even though it is obviously not in the best interests of America or what the overwhelming majority of people want. Why Mr. Bush keeps pushing for it makes me wonder when, where and how hard he bumped his head. The ground swell against it is of historic proportions!
Where is it written that we must have comprehensive legislation…or any legislation for that matter? Close the boarders first, then worry about the rest. If your boat is sinking first plug the hole, then start bailing. Most of the time, you can’t bail fast enough because the hole keeps getting larger. Gee, kind of like our immigration problem! We had money allocated for seven hundred miles of fence of which only two miles are built. If the bureaucrats haven’t followed through on this, why should we believe they would follow through on anything else they want to pass?
Close the boarders, enforce existing laws, apply the minimum wage to everyone, cut out the freebees, and these law breaking thugs will go home. We’ll also diminish the likelihood of terrorist nukes crossing into the country, if it’s not already too late [but that's a topic for another time]. As for our economy, there are plenty of Americans willing to do the jobs illegals perform, just not at slave wages. Let’s not forget the dollars draining out of the country, either, as hordes of illegals send increasing amounts of money home.
It’s more than just a matter of our economy or shortcutting law-abiding immigrants who respect our sovereignty. It is, as I’ve said frequently, a matter of national security and the one place Mr. Bush has fallen down in that area. By the way, Senator McCain keeps talking about the terrific job twelve to twenty million low-paid lettuce pickers are doing; have you noticed a drop in the price of lettuce lately? I haven’t. We need to call, email, write and use every means at our disposal to demand our alleged representatives in Washington make certain this disasterous, insulting amnesty bill remains dead!
R.S.F.
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