You live in a beautiful house with a beautiful garden in a beautiful and peaceful neighborhood in a beautiful city. You and your partner have been living in this beautiful house for nearly a decade and you have done several renovations - inside and out - to maintain the beauty and charm of the house. Not too long ago, you had a beautiful new wooden fence put up.
Since you and your partner have been living in this beautiful house in this beautiful and peaceful neighborhood, you have hosted many beautiful gatherings with friends and family. So far, you have nothing but beautiful memories, and these memories bring you a sense of peace and inspire you to create even more beautiful memories.
You and your partner value your house not because of its beauty, but because it is your home. You have invested a lot of time, money and energy in converting your house into a true, beautiful, peaceful and inviting home.
But alas, the beauty and the peace and security of your home has been threatened by illegal aliens who are trespassing your property, leaving trash all over the place, and even urinating and defecating on your freshly mowed lawn. You are not alone. You are among the hundreds and thousands of law-abiding U.S. citizens (native-born or naturalized) whose very existence and whose way of life are constantly being threatened by hundreds and thousands of illegal aliens who have no respect for law. Some of these aliens have strong criminal backgrounds...
... and some are men who have abandoned their wives and children!
If you value your property, if you value your home, if you value your way of life, if you value America, say no to illegal immigration and say yes to building the fence!
And can you imagine America encouraging its poor legal residents to move up to Canada? My God! Would our Canadian friends still remain our friends?
I understand the point as you make it....one question, how do we handle the many thousands of US born and bred ignoramuses who pee on your lawn, litter the streets, and abandon their children?
"I understand the point as you make it....one question, how do we handle the many thousands of US born and bred ignoramuses who pee on your lawn, litter the streets, and abandon their children?"
I believe there are laws that already exist in some places that prohibit the above transgressions. The problem is, these laws are not reinforced.
AHHH...Yes Grasshopper, you have voiced the problem at the base of this issue. The lax enforcement of laws by our own officials. The laws address the violations...i.e. trashing the property of another etc...so, if you live along the route of the Boston Marathon, would it more likely be "illegals" peeing on your lawn, or the all American race enthusiasts from other towns?
The immigration problem, in total, stems from the lack of law enforcement, from the local level all the way to the White House.
There will NEVER be border control as imagined by the right wing....big business thrives on the cheap labor and the pols will continue to pander to Big Business.
All it is right now is a "shit stir" by a President who cannot seem to get anything right, and is desperate to get something passed...anything....so as not to be seen as responsible if the GOP loses control of the House/Senate etc...
Nothing is going to change along the border.
Great piece. I agree with all your statements. I'd like to add that we also need to build a fence between the U.S. and Canada. Canada is quite lax with their immigration policies, and it is so easy to cross the U.S. frontier from Canada.