i’m opposed to illegal immigration. how’s that for analysis? maybe i should elaborate just a bit on that. i don’t think that anyone who is here illegally, whether they are mexican or any other nationality, should be allowed to stay in the country. i’m not sure that there is a simple way to address that problem. it’s clear that we need to make the attempt to enforce current laws as they exist today. however, we have seen that the current system is broken and needs to be fixed. that should be something that both sides should agree on. the disagreement is about what we do to fix the problem.

i find it annoying that people who sneak into our country, break our laws, and continue to flaunt those laws by staying in the country, have the audacity to complain about having no rights. citizens have rights. non-citizens do not. employers in this country are breaking our laws to give those people jobs, and for this concession, they get people walking out to join a protest. yeah…that makes sense to me. if the mexican people should protest about anything, it’s their ineffectual socialist government that keeps them in poverty. if we really want to help mexican citizens, we should start introducing a different economic model for them, not a brand-new guest worker program.

there are laws in place ALREADY that address many of the current problems we are having with illegal immigration, as california conservative points out. we need to start enforcing the laws we already have. making it easier for someone who sneaks into the country to become a citizen seems kind of backward to me. we shouldn’t reward people who break our laws by giving them a shortcut to citizenship, especially because there are people here already who are trying to go through a legal citizenship process.

what message does that send to those who actually want to be citizens of this country? let’s be clear on this. many of these illegals don’t really want to be US citizens. so giving them the option doesn’t really make sense. our priorities are screwed up when talking about this issue. border security should be the top priority as well as enforcing current immigration laws. even if we will never see terrorists cross the border through mexico, it is still important that we know who is coming into our country. then maybe we can entertain all these other suggestions.

related:

we don’t need no stinkin’ reform –california conservative
the intellectual dishonesty of the open borders crowd — right wing nut house

tags: illegal immigration