Deport them all …

I’ve lost my tolerance for illegal immigrants.

I’m fed up with the crap about immigrant rights – if you’re here illegally you’ve broken the law and should be prosecuted just like any other criminal.

I’m up to here with the fairy tale that somehow illegals who avoid detection for a number of years should be allowed to stay. If someone robs your house and doesn’t get caught for a few years, does whatever they stole then become theirs?    

I’m tired of all the sob stories about how deportation would break up families. Do we worry about that when we incarcerate any other criminals? Do we say – well, he or she has a couple of kids so we can’t put them away for several years? 

Hey, here’s an answer: if you’re so concerned about breaking up a family, then deport the entire family.  That way they can all stay together in whatever country they left.   

Honestly, I don’t care why they came here illegally. I don’t care what race they are, what religion they profess to practice, what country they came from or anything else. They came here illegally and are still here illegally; that makes them criminals and we should kick them out.  

A criminal is a criminal is a criminal. And enough is enough.

I’m particularly offended by illegal immigrants who openly taunt us with their illegality. If any other group of criminals held rallies in our streets, complete with signs defying us to arrest them, we’d round them up and toss their asses in jail.  Yet hardly a day goes by that illegal immigrants don’t openly proclaim their illegality with signs in their native tongue as well as in butchered English, all defying us to arrest and deport them and we do absolutely nothing.

Sometimes they even wave the flags of the countries they fled, as if to say they are more proud of where they came from than our country where they now live, go to our schools, use our healthcare system, and enjoy our freedoms. That’s chutzpah.       

Ah, but don’t we need immigrants?  Why yes we do.  But we don’t need immigrants who start by breaking our laws. In short, we don’t need illegal immigrants any more than we need more burglars, more thieves, more gang bangers or drug dealers – who are also criminals. We can grow our own criminals, thank you; we don’t need to facilitate importing them. 

Especially when there are millions who want to come here legally. 

Now, of course not everyone here illegally is a really bad person. They’re not all murderers and rapists.  But they are criminals – there’s no way to get around that fact. And if you tried to illegally enter the countries these people left you would go to prison in most cases. At best. 

Those countries would see you as a criminal. Which you would be.  Same as here. 

What about compassion? Don’t I have compassion for poor people who come here illegally for a safer environment and better job opportunities? 

Not really, anymore. Why didn't they make the effort to fix where they came from instead of simply running away? If there are millions – perhaps up to 11-12 million – of people here illegally that’s a big number that could force change in the places they left. How did it become our collective responsibility to help those who won’t work to fix their own countries? 

If living in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Syria, Albania, Afghanistan or other crap hole sucks then the people there should do something to fix it. If their governments are corrupt and oppressive, it’s up to the people there to fix that, too. Cutting and running here isn’t the answer. 

The big problem is what to do with the millions of illegals already here, who’ve build a life here, who’ve raised their families here, and haven’t broken any other laws. 

The key there is “other laws.” They’ve all broken at least one of our laws already – they are here illegally, whether they snuck across our border or overstayed their visa, whether they hiked through the desert or flew here first-class on a 747.

And the argument that they’ve been here for years already so they should be forgiven and given a path to citizenship is ludicrous. If they wanted citizenship they had those same years to apply and become a citizen by following our laws. As to the children brought here by illegal immigrants? Their parents knew they were breaking the law and putting their children at risk; it’s harsh, but that shouldn’t give them a pass. 

So spare me.  Find all of the illegals.  Deport them. And be done with it.