I hear ya. I just don’t understand why the President keeps insisting on something that will never work, because it will never be enforced on the level that is required. We don’t even enforce the immigration laws we have now.

I don’t think I have anything to add to what Donald said. All of that makes sense to me.

If you want to guest post here occasionally, I think we could work that out. That is, as long as the post isn’t too partisan.

It’s not over yet. We still have time for this to get straightened out. (Love your blog, BTW. That’s why I keep using your posts.)

I’m a product of illegal immigration. My great-grandpa came to America from Ireland in 1922 on a work permit. It expired, he stayed illegally, raised a family, died in 1934 without ever becoming a citizen and eventually my grandpa (his son)was granted citizenship through a form of amnesty known as military service.

American immigration problems are nothing new. At one point it was the Chinese who were thought to be a threat to American whiteness. The Irish too were believed to threaten us with their dirty whiteness. Italians, with their southern European dark skin, no English language skills and their catholcism were feared. Germans with their stereotype for the love of war and their alcohol consumption were feared and their immigration to America was also viewed as a threat to our society. Over time, those threats have all subsided and the imminent threat we once felt from those ethnic migrations have largely disappeared.

Today, the immigration threat is largely from the American southern border. It’s not only Mexicans, but mainly a Spanish speaking peoples from all parts of North and South America. But this immigration is very different from those in the American past. For the first time in American history we have a migration of peoples who believe they have some claim to the land. European and Asian migrants came with no stake to American soil, but only a hope for a better tomorrow. The recent immigration of the last twenty years comes largely from a people who believe that the land is theirs stolen from their ancestors from a world power.

Not only do I disagree with those, whether they are liberal or conservative because both are arguing very similar positions today, who say that this recent wave of immigration is the same from past movements which led to the building of American foundations, but I also view those who claim the border crossed them and that the land is theirs as illegitimate at best.

Sorry to rant here, but I no longer have a blog, so I gotta write it some place