Assume you are in an American family trying to make ends meet from month to month. You are a typical two-income family with two school age children. You have a mortgage, car payments, insurance, moderate credit card debt and the normal monthly expenses that all families have (i.e., food, telephone, cloths, utilities, etc.). You’re on a fixed budget. You dutifully tithe 10% of your net income to your church and try to give a little extra to other charities each year. You can only afford to go on a family vacation every 2-3 years if you save up and only if nothing unexpected happens that takes away your vacation savings. Saving up for your children’s college education is out of the question. You simply don’t earn enough to do that but wish that you could. You worry about it. You are in every way an average “middle class” American family.
With this in mind presume that a complete stranger shows up at your door. He was never invited to your home and in fact broke the law by trespassing on your property. He is a Spanish speaker with very limited command of the English language. His wife and child speak no English at all. He tells you that he is poor. Because you have more wealth then he does, never mind the fact that you worked hard all your life to accumulate something, he insists (not asks) that you share your limited assets with him and his family. He informs you that he’ll have to demand even more later on when his extended family arrives from Mexico.
This foreign stranger may have a criminal record and may even be dangerous. He could even be a terrorist, a drug pusher, or a member of a violent gang. He imposes on you to help accommodate him and his family for far less then you pay monthly on your own mortgage. Neither he nor his family cares a lick about your property or its appearance. They make no effort to take care of your home or your other belongings. They help themselves to everything that you have and sometimes steal from you. They make no effort to assimilate with your family and instead maintain a “duel culture” in your home. They also insist on speaking Spanish in your home and demand that you print instructions for everything in your home in Spanish. They expect you to embrace their culture and tradition even as they ignore yours. They love what you and your country have to offer but their loyalties remain with Mexico. They feel no patriotism, loyalty, or generosity to your country at all. They even hoist the Mexican flag above “Old Glory” on your family flag pole.
This foreign stranger demands that you also help pay for any of his and his family’s health care needs and to educate his child, in Spanish, for as long as it takes his child to learn English (never mind that bilingual education is more expensive). If his child has special education needs you, of course, will be expected to pay more to cover this because, after all, he is poor. This stranger never says thank you and instead wants more of everything that you have. He has even attempted to undermine you with your boss by offering to do your job for much less pay and no fringe benefits. If your boss is greedy and accepts his offer you will lose your home and your way of life.
Strange as it may seem, your own government supports this foreign stranger instead of you. So does your church. You are of the Catholic faith and your priest and bishop who always accept your generous tithing still call on you to surrender even more of your assets to this stranger. They lay a terrible guilt trip on you if you don’t. Your own government, your church, and liberal “do gooders” who always want to spend your money on someone else have no reservations about calling you bigoted, immoral, and uncharitable if you fail to fall in line and happily agree to put you family in such financial harm that you can no longer maintain your “middle class” status. They insist that you still must do all and give all that this stranger asks for. Never mind that he broke the law to get here, doesn’t deserve to be here, and could care less about you and your family. You are told that this is your “morale obligation” as a Christian and as an American to do this as an act of charity and good will. Never mind that his own Mexican government doesn’t care about him, refuses to help him, and encouraged him to sneak across the border so that he could instead share his wealth, and yours, with them.
To add insult to injury this stranger implies that you actually owe him whatever he demands because centuries ago he had ancestors, that that he never knew or met, who were pushed off land in the area you now live in as a result of a war that they lost. He also informs you that a greedy American businessman has hired him, his brother, and a couple of his friends to work for him at low wages and with no fringe benefits. He says he is obligated to send a quarter of his earnings back to Mexico to help his poor extended family there, at least until they are able to sneak across the border and join him in your house. So, he says this is why you must help him with all his additional living expenses because his greedy American boss refuses to pay him a livable wage. Would you, as an act of charity, agree to all his demands? If so, at least you would be voluntarily giving away your own assets. How would you feel if your own government involuntary forced you to do this? Would you be enraged? If they called you greedy and uncharitable because you disagreed, even though you have always been a charitable person, would you be angry? Would you be disappointed when you point out that charity is only charity if it is voluntary, not involuntary, but they ignore your appeal? How would you feel? What would you do? The aforementioned analogy is precisely what is happening with illegal immigration in our country right now. It has been going on for decades and it is bankrupting the American middle class. It is a travesty! It is also dangerous. It must be stopped or America will collapse as a nation. We must close our borders to illegal immigration completely and rigidly enforced our immigration laws. Only allow immigrants to entry our country “legally” and under our terms. Amnesty or any semblance of it for illegal aliens must never be allowed. Our national security and the hopes of the American middle class depend on this.
It is an affront to justice itself to allow millions of illegal aliens who disrespected our borders and violated our laws to continue to bleed our treasury dry for medical, educational, welfare, and other social services. It is wrong to allow them to remain here and be given unearned and undeserved citizenship while denying the same to millions of others who played by the rules and never made it to our shores. It is very wrong to continue to allow greedy American businesses to exploit both the illegal alien poor and the American middle class who must supplement their pauper wages and finance the fringe benefits that these awful employers refuse to pay. The men and woman who run such businesses are selfish, greedy, unchristian, unpatriotic, and anti-American. We risk our very nation if the Bush, McCain, Kennedy "Immigration Reform Bill" ever becomes law. The United States of America may never recover from this immigration reform bill if it is passed.
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