Given all of the talk about immigration in recent months, I thought that I would weigh in with some thoughts.\u00a0 I know that most who read this won’t agree with the content, but that’s not why I write, so feel free to disagree, just try not to be disagreeable.<\/p>\n
Last week I was reading an article on Yahoo about Senator John McCain and the head of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano taking a tour of the Arizona border along with the head of Border Security.\u00a0 After the tour Senator McCain decided to hold a town hall meeting to address some of the issues that voters in Arizona might have with his new found support of the \u201cPath to Citizenship\u201d for the eleven or twelve million people living in the country without proper documentation, or as most call them \u201cIllegal Aliens\u201d.\u00a0 Before I go any further, I should disclose that I lived in AZ for a little over three years while in college, my mother and sister currently live there and I still go there once or twice a year.\u00a0 In addition, I spent nearly six years living in Texas and New Mexico, so I am somewhat familiar with the southwest and the people who live there. \u00a0The following are some of the comments attributed to folks attending the senator McCain\u2019s town hall.<\/p>\n
One man yelled that only guns would discourage illegal immigration. <\/b><\/p>\n
Another man complained that illegal immigrants should never be able to become citizens or vote.<\/b><\/p>\n
\u00a0A third man said illegal immigrants were illiterate invaders who wanted free government benefits.<\/b><\/p>\n
I learned early in life that hatred, ignorance and fear are a really bad combination in a person or group of people and that has not changed<\/b>.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The one thing that I think we can all agree on is that America is a nation of immigrants.\u00a0 If we really believe the last statement, why then is there so much vitriol exhibited towards Hispanic people who want to stay here for a better life?\u00a0 Caucasians (white people) should be the most accepting of people who came to America illegally, since you were the original \u201cIllegal Aliens\u201d<\/b>.\u00a0 That\u2019s right you were the very first illegals in America!\u00a0 Don\u2019t take my word for it, just ask any Native American (American Indian) and they\u2019ll explain it to you.\u00a0 The fact that America became a great nation at the hands of your ancestors doesn\u2019t change the fact that they were not invited here by the American Indians, and that by <\/b>definition makes them Illegal Aliens, no if\u2019s and\u2019s or but\u2019s about it.\u00a0 The people who now call Hispanics and others illegals never give a thought to the fact that your ancestors came to this country and for lack of a better term, they stole America from the American Indians.\u00a0 Not only did they steal their land, they killed countless numbers and then turned around and confined those remaining to reservations which were in many cases hundreds of miles from their original homelands.\u00a0 In addition, many of the most aggressive supporters of closing the border and deportation live in the American Southwest, yet these folks seem to forget that the states of AZ, TX, NM and CA all belonged to Mexico.\u00a0 Many of the people that are now called illegals may just be attempting to peacefully take back the land taken from their ancestors in the Mexican American War.\u00a0 The fact that these states are now being overrun by people from Mexico and other Latin American countries, that\u2019s a \u201cHomecoming\u201d not illegal immigration<\/b>J<\/b>\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n
Just to ensure we\u2019ve got this right, you illegally take over a country, put the real owners on reservations, and then you take over part of a neighboring country and tell those people that they are the illegals when they try to return.\u00a0 By now I know that some reading this are breathing fire with smoke spewing from your heads but facts are facts.\u00a0 Poor people both black and white are opposed to immigration because their worried about Hispanics taking away jobs that oh by the way neither group is really willing to do. There is also a group of people who fear that the day is soon approaching when America won\u2019t be a predominantly Caucasian country any longer, and then there\u2019s the group who think that all Hispanics are on public assistance at their expense.\u00a0 My question to those worried about jobs, is have you seen the type of work that you claim immigrants are stealing from you?\u00a0 \u00a0Do you really want to wash dishes, dig ditches, clean toilets and yards for minimum wage? \u00a0I think not, or those jobs wouldn\u2019t have been available to be stolen in the first place.\u00a0 If you\u2019re worried about the country not being white enough, stop worrying, white people still have 90% of the wealth in America and there is not much chance of that changing in any or our lifetimes.\u00a0 In addition since we all know the real golden rule is \u201che who has the gold rules\u201d<\/b> so like I said, stop worrying, you\u2019ll be just fine.\u00a0 Finally, if your concern is about that pesky public assistance thing, it\u2019s most a myth.\u00a0 Most Hispanic people in this country work hard every day and pay taxes just like you and I and while some are on public assistance, that is a very small percentage. \u00a0If anyone is getting a raw deal, it\u2019s the Hispanics who pay taxes into Social Security and can\u2019t collect from the system because they aren\u2019t legal citizens.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After all I\u2019ve said thus far, let it be noted that I am not a fan of illegal immigration by anyone, however according to most estimates there are over 11 million people currently living in the country who came here without documents.\u00a0 Fortunately for these people, the solutions of the idiots quoted at the beginning of this article aren\u2019t viable solutions, and I hate to break it to the let\u2019s round them all up and deport them all crowd, that\u2019s not a viable option either, but at some point we have to do something so let\u2019s start by recognizing that these people are going to remain in the country one way or the other.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finally, to Senator McCain, I\u2019m happy to see your conversion back to looking for a solution to the immigration problem, especially since I remember that you were working with the late Ted Kennedy on such a solution prior to his death.\u00a0 Unfortunately once you started running for president and figured out that you couldn\u2019t get the IWV unless you reversed course on immigration, you completely walked away from that commitment.\u00a0 Now that you and the rest of the Republican Party realize that unless you kiss a little Hispanic ass your election chances will be very limited in national elections you\u2019re back on board with reform and a path to citizenship.\u00a0 Good for you John, that\u2019s great news, especially since if the tone of your town hall is any indication, it looks like you may lose the IWV in your next reelection campaign and a few thousand Hispanic votes may prove to be the difference for you.<\/p>\n
As you can see, I don\u2019t have any answers on immigration, but I couldn\u2019t help but point out the irony of the ancestors of the Original Illegals now being in a position of having to figure out what to do about illegal immigration.<\/p>\n
I\u2019M JUST SAYIN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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