What irks me about the illegal immigration debate is the historical hypocrisy of it all. Whether these tea partying, flag waving patriots want to recognize it or not THEY are not by any means legal immigrants and neither were their ancestors. None of us are in a sense "legal."
I mean Africans were stolen from their homeland and brought to America then had to fight and die (and in most cases still fight and die) for equal civil and legal liberties.
We all learned in second grade -- and through various viewings of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving -- the American land and wealth was stolen from the Native American people. If anyone should complain or pass ridiculous ordinances and laws regarding illegal immigration it should be them! We should have to speak nothing but their languages and adhere to their customs.
The crazy thing about American culture is that we can justify anything. I mean Manifest Destiny is here for anyone who wants a self-righteous excuse to steal from others.
As a matter of fact, I'm going to do one better than Manifest Destiny! I'm going to pull a 'Christopher Columbus' and 'discover 'someone's 52" flat screen television set and on top of that give them a blanket with germs from a cold I have hoping they die since their immune system might not be used to my more advanced germs. Now that is living the American Dream!
I guess what bugs me about this issue is the fact the entitled American electorate try so hard to keep to themselves what they take for granted anyway.
Give people the opportunity to become 'legal' or at the very least make it easier and more affordable for them so as not to drive someone to so desperate and act as to break a law that shouldn't be here in the first place.
I mean Africans were stolen from their homeland and brought to America then had to fight and die (and in most cases still fight and die) for equal civil and legal liberties.
We all learned in second grade -- and through various viewings of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving -- the American land and wealth was stolen from the Native American people. If anyone should complain or pass ridiculous ordinances and laws regarding illegal immigration it should be them! We should have to speak nothing but their languages and adhere to their customs.
The crazy thing about American culture is that we can justify anything. I mean Manifest Destiny is here for anyone who wants a self-righteous excuse to steal from others.
As a matter of fact, I'm going to do one better than Manifest Destiny! I'm going to pull a 'Christopher Columbus' and 'discover 'someone's 52" flat screen television set and on top of that give them a blanket with germs from a cold I have hoping they die since their immune system might not be used to my more advanced germs. Now that is living the American Dream!
I guess what bugs me about this issue is the fact the entitled American electorate try so hard to keep to themselves what they take for granted anyway.
Give people the opportunity to become 'legal' or at the very least make it easier and more affordable for them so as not to drive someone to so desperate and act as to break a law that shouldn't be here in the first place.
But they have been given the opportunity to become "legal"...they just dont respect our country to go thru the process in a "legal" manner: all immigrants goes thru a process to come into the US legally (go thru paperwork to apply for a visa and wait to come into the US or marry an American Citizen, whatever) but they elect to illegally cross the border into the US, therefore severely limiting their chances of "legally" surviving/thriving in this country.
ReplyDeleteIf all other immigrants have to go thru a process of applying for a visa, waiting their turn to get into our country...should they not have to do the same? arent they the ones with the sense of entitlement...just because they are bordering our country, they feel that they have the right to just intrude into our country?
Not to mention...same law that shouldnt be here in the first place..applies to ALL immigrants, right? why do we not hear about all these crimes made in desperation from other ethnic immigrants? How come we dont hear about these same border problems and crimes committed from our northern border neighboring country? hmmm?
And, desperation!! driving a person to break a law??? You know that folks like you and I..were not raised to break a law...NO MATTER how you think you can justify it!! It isnt the way our mothers raised us...no amount of desperation or excuses that help you sleep at night can drive us to kidnap, do/sell/harbor drugs!!
See that's the thing, I don't have to justify my thinking
ReplyDeleteif you turn your thinking around and apply it to our 'forefathers' then you could say the same thing about their sense of entitlement and taking a country away from those who were settled there first
our forefathers were 'illegal aliens'
they had NO RIGHT to a land that was not there's in the first place
some people cannot afford the fees associated with legally becoming a citizen and also let's face it illegal immigrants might be the reason for some of the crime but a lot of legal citizens wreak havoc on our nation
I do respect what you're saying, I just don't agree at all
how about this
you grow up in a country where the poverty level is over 40%; jobs are scarce; there aren't many opportunities for education outside of poorly funded state schools (that make our inner city schools look like ivy league universities); it's crowded and dirty and just over a river there is a place where you can find a job and a home and perhaps a sense of peace
then tell me you wouldn't do whatever you can to reach that place
then i'd believe you
see this isn't our country. we shouldn't have borders because they didn't exist in the first place
i guess we forgot about the message of give me your tired, your poor and hungry masses yearning to be free
now our message says: NO VACANCIES
I love this post. I wonder why people just don't get it. My guess is they're white. Kidding. Not really, though. :)
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