Long ago I ran out of patience for illegal immigrants.
I’m serious – who the hell do they think they are? What makes them think we owe them one damned
thing? More to the point, since when did
it become our responsibility to make them comfortable when they illegally enter
our country?
The height of chutzpah is for illegal immigrants to complain
about how they are treated when they’re detained here. On their long journey to our border they
probably slept outdoors on the ground, crapped on the side of the road, ate
whatever they could beg or steal, and drank from streams. They probably didn’t
shower or bathe for weeks. If they got
sick on the way, there were likely few if any doctors to treat them.
However, once they get here they expect us to put them up in
a Holiday Inn-like environment with air conditioning and a cable TV? Get fed for free three times a day? Get fresh
water any time they want? Sleep in their own room with a private bath? Get expert medical treatment?
They didn’t have any of that at home, did they? Nor on their journey.
And they shouldn’t get extra-special treatment here, either.
I’m not saying we should mistreat them. But mistreatment, in this case, is a relative
term. Especially when you consider the
way they’ve been living getting here. Or
in their home country.
For people from places where women still beat their laundry
on rocks, homes have dirt floors, there’s no indoor plumbing much less air
conditioning in their homes, and where the safety of drinking water is often iffy,
you’d think they be appreciative of what we are already doing. We’re giving
them clean clothes and new shoes for them and their kids, disposable diapers
for their babies, sanitary products for the women, medical care, clean bedding,
indoor plumbing and safe drinking water, while we’re schooling their kids and
feeding everybody every day.
Granted, it’s not the Ritz. But it’s a hell of a lot better
than where they came from.
They should be grateful we even allowed them to cross our
border. We could have just cuffed them
like any other criminal – which is what they are – and frog marched them back
into Mexico. Why we didn’t escapes
me. It would have been simpler and
cheaper. And less annoying.
I’m sorry they aren’t happy with their treatment and
temporary living conditions here.
Too bad. We didn't invite them here.They didn't bother to apply in advance for the legal right to come in. They just showed up at our border, anyway. Now there’s no more room at the inn. We’re all full up. They knew that, and yet they kept coming. What did they
expect?
That they'd be welcomed with open arms? We'd magically make more room for them?
I’m sorry unaccompanied minors have to share their quarters
with other unaccompanied minors. I’m sorry
adult women and men are separated from children that aren’t theirs. I’m sorry
our facilities are overcrowded, because we never expected this many illegal
immigrants at one time. I’m sorry they feel like they aren’t being treated like guests, rather than people who broke into your house and demanded you clothe, feed, and take care of them and their families forever.
Which is, in essence, what they've done. And what they really want, I believe.
Most of all, I’m sorry they came here in the first
place.
They are in detention facilities, which is a fancy euphemism
for a jail, because they are criminals. They are criminals because they broke
our laws when they entered our country illegally. No one should be surprised
we’re housing them like criminals.
But we are still treating them better than that. Much
better.
They’re not noble or something special. I don’t care if they shed buckets of crocodile
tears while requesting asylum on false pretenses. The only reason most come here is to get our health
benefits, free education for their kids, and to make more money than they could
back home.
And the unaccompanied minors? They’re here to rejoin their
parents already here illegally. The adult males traveling alone? They just want
to make money; money they’ll send back to their native country as remittances
to support the families they left behind – at best – but more likely to pay
coyotes to bring those families across our borders illegally, too.
They’re flooding our border because they all believe they’ll
be allowed to stay, one way or another.
Which, given our stupid, pandering politicians, especially Democrats, they
probably will.
Our only hope is to deter even more would-be illegal
immigrants. We’re stuck with the ones
already detained here, barring a radical change in immigration policy.
But we don’t have to make it even more attractive for those who
haven’t gotten here yet. Dramatically
expanding and improving our detention facilities to handle more illegals sends
the wrong message. It’s like Field
of Dreams: if you build it they will come. And they will.
That would be even dumber than our politicians insisting we must.
Again, I’m not saying we mistreat them. That wouldn’t be
right.
But we’re under no obligation to make them more comfortable. Or to prevent us from sometime firing up a
no-vacancy sign at the border when we‘re out of detention space. Like now.
And for those illegal immigrants complaining about conditions
in our detention facilities, too bad. They can always find another place to
stay.
Like maybe back home in Honduras, Guatemala, or El Salvador.
Better still, demand that Democrats in Congress let them camp out at their
homes.
But haven’t they traveled all these months to get here? Haven’t
they gone through a lot to get here? Doesn’t
that count for something?
Nope. They came
without a reservation. Now there’s no
room available.
They should have thought about that grim possibility
before they left home.
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