But that doesn't mean that I'm not still paying attention to the issues. This week, the one that's been frosting me is the protests being staged around the country by people opposed to the new immigration laws that congress is working on. Principally these laws will make it a felony to sneak into our country illegally or help an illegal sneak in. This legislation is finally coming because most Americans are sick to death of people flocking into our nation without being invited and sucking on our social service network like it's their birthright. Right now there are an estimated twelve million illegals here and they're taking jobs from Americans while using our hospital emergency rooms as free clinics and sending their kids to the schools that we pay to educate our kids. Many are lifestyle criminals and their gangs like MS-13 have made many of our cities very dangerous for police and law-abiding citizens. And Frankly they need to be scooped up en masse and deported but I don't see congress getting that brave. The legislation they're working on now though is a good start.
However now there are massed protests, including marches by many illegals who proudly tout their status and call the rest of us "racist" while insisting that they aren't criminals. This is over the top. Here we have people who aren't even supposed to be in our country and they have the nerve to sneak in here like thieves and then condemn us for not approving of their presence. Wosre yet, they try to redefine the issue and accuse the rest of us of being against immigration per se. That allows them to grab the moral high ground by likening us all to modern-day Archie Bunkers. That sort of smear tactic needs to be loudly condemned and corrected every time they try it. I don't think that too many people oppose immigration in general. Personally I welcome any immigrant who comes here legally after passing a criminal background check and a medical screening and who has demonstrated that he can support himself here. We all benefit from more doctors, engineers, scientists and businessmen. We even have a place here for unskilled labor in the construction and agricultural trades. But it has to be people who apply for permission to enter our country and come in through the same channels that most every other legal immigrant has come in through since America became a country. Yes, we are a nation of immigrants, as the protesters like to say, but my ancestors came in legally through Ellis Island and most people here can say the same thing. Our ancestors didn't creep in under the border fence. Those of us angry about illegal immigration are upset about the illegal part of the concept. And the nerve of these people to now demand that the rest of us treat them as equals. Well sorry there Paco, but if you're not here legally then you're not equal and you've got no business demanding anything or leeching off of us by grabbing welfare money, moving into publicly-subsidized housing units (meant for Americans) or putting your kids in our schools. But it has nothing to do with your ethnic make-up or origin and everything to do with your status here: you're illegal! Now get out and go home!
A police officer that I know well told me that he has encountered and/or arrested hundreds of illegals. They drive without licenses or insurance, often while drunk. They fish illegally without paying for licenses or observing limits and they're often involved in gang activity. And after I lock them up and they get released on bond pending their court date, they just don't bother showing up for court. Why should they? This isn't their country and they don't feel a need to respect our laws. They just get new fake ID cards with different names and go on about their business. And that business usually involves taking jobs that Americans would take.
Some of the apologists for the illegals claim that if we deported them all and employers had to pay decent wages and social security for American workers, we'd all pay for it in the form of higher prices our food and construction costs. To this, I respond that we're already paying for it in the form of government aid to hospitals, school and jails that are packed with illegals. And when an illegal gets money, all too often they send it back to the countries that they came from, and those dollars are then gone from the US economy forever. They'll never be spent in American stores or pay wages to other Americans again. That money's out of our system forever. That may be good for Mexico (Money sent home from mostly illegal workers is their number #2 source of revenue, behind oil and ahead of tourism) but it's bad for the US.
And finally, immigrants to America have traditionally come here to be Americans and integrate into the Amerucan culture. They have learned our language and tried to blend in and adopt our ways. However now we have millions of illegal hispanics who come here and insist on remaining Mexicans, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, etc. They want to keep speaking Spanish and make no effort to learn English. They demand that we cater to them in Spanish and teach their kids in Spanish. One of the reasons that I left Alexandria, Virginia was that I got sick of not being able to order food in a restaurant or get help in a store because I only speak English and everyone who works there is speaking Spanish. Even Wal-Mart had bilingual signs on every aisle so that they could pander to people who aren't even trying to learn the language of this country. I couldn't stand it.
Now it's time to shut the protests down and that includes locking up anyone who brags about being here illegally. And we need to make it clear that we're not objecting to law-abiding immigrants but only to trespassers. And anyone who sticks up for these trespassers--like Senator Hillary Clinton--needs to be deported right along with the illegals that we round up. And when I'm President, there will be a wall built along our the entire length of our southern border and it'll be built with the forced labor of all the illegals that we arrest inside our country.
And here's a perfect example of the respect that these illegals and their supporters have for our country--here's our flag thrown on the ground at one of their rallies in Tucson this past week. This picture is truly worth a thousand words:
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