Imagine for a moment that people you didn’t know, people who
didn’t speak your language, just broke in and moved into your house.
They then proceeded to eat your food, take your money, remove
the locks on your doors and move more of their friends and family in. They didn’t
ask your permission. They demanded you make space for them, provide them
with an income, pay for their healthcare, and pay for their education. They
also wanted a voice in how you ran your house and defied you to kick them
out.
Every day you find more and more of them in your house. The
more there are, the more brazen they become.
Their demands continue to escalate. They tell you that you don’t have a
choice – it’s your responsibility as the homeowner to make them
comfortable.
You contact the local police and they say there’s nothing
they can do. So you contact the media, and they tell you you’re a heartless
monster. You contact your representatives in Congress and they tell you their
hands are tied; some even call you a bigot. The courts are no help, either.
Welcome to America. And yes, this is your home.
This is where we are today.
Illegal immigrants from Central America and elsewhere are
flooding across our southern border. There are an estimated 11-12 million of
them here illegally already.
They’ve broken into our collective home and have absolutely
no intention of ever leaving. Instead,
they are demanding that we give them citizenship, full benefits from our social
welfare system – which they’ve paid nothing into, scholarships to public
universities, and soon the right to vote.
If they succeed in getting the right to vote, you can be assured they
will push to eliminate any immigration restrictions in the future.
Despite liberal talking points, they haven’t come here
to escape oppression or persecution, but for the money. That’s the real reason.
Many send the lion’s share of whatever they earn off the books, or by
using fraudulent Social Security numbers to claim benefits, back to their
native country. And they figure there are so many of them we can’t do anything
to kick them all out.
Recently, we’ve learned that as many as a
thousand more mostly from Honduras are planning to crash our southern border any
day now to prove we are powerless to stop them. The leaders of this group have
instructed those on the march to claim asylum when they hit our border, knowing
this will cause a massive surge in our already backlogged immigration court
system.
Their leaders have also promised “mass violence” if they are
turned back at our border.
The problem with the asylum pitch is that they’re crossing
through Mexico to get here. Mexico is waving them through. If you really are pleading
for asylum on humanitarian grounds, you have to request that in whatever
country you get to first. Which, in this case, is Mexico.
Which, of course, none of them have. Nor does Mexico want
them. I suspect Mexico is all in favor of this attack on our border, if for no
other reason than to thumb their nose at Trump.
This is a stupid decision on the part of Mexican leaders. It’s
also a stupid decision on the part of the leaders of this onslaught.
This just gives more credence to Trump’s claim that we need
an impenetrable wall on our southern border, and more border agents and
resources to prevent illegal crossings. His opponents are misreading how
Americans generally feel about illegal immigration; the majority of Americans
are in favor of immigration – that’s how most of us over the generations got
here – but overwhelmingly opposed to illegal immigration.
Stunts like this only serve to harden the position of
illegal immigration opponents. If immigrant-rights advocates want to see public
support swing toward building the wall, deporting illegals, and cracking down
on immigration in general, this will do it.
Somehow, I don’t that’s what they expect. I think they’ll be
unpleasantly surprised.
As a nation, we’ve always welcomed immigrants seeking a
better life. We’ve opened our doors and
our hearts, and often our purses as well.
But if you break down our door to get in, that’s a different
matter altogether.
This will not end well.
For Mexico. For the thousand would-be invaders planning to breech our
southern border. Or for proponents of relaxing
our immigration policy.
They have no idea of the consequences.
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