Immigration Madness
This current debate about immigration is getting completely out of control, and it's all "our" fault. At this point what is the United States government supposed to do? It obviously made a mistake but fixing it now and in such a drastic, uncompromising way is ... tyranical. Right?
The moment we made it law for any human being born on American soil to be an American citizen was the day we started this tsunami we have now. Immediately it became the dream of thousands of foreign families for their child to be born on our soil; to obtain the holy grail of American citizenship any way possible. So, they came. And are still coming. They cross our borders in the thousands every year and start families here. They work in our businesses, in our communities, and for our governments, yet they are illegals. Fortunately for them, this has never been a huge concern. But that's trying to change...
Currently there is a bill waiting to be passed that would classify every illegal alien in the United States as a felon. That's on the same level as grand theft and murder. The penalty is high and the consequence of paying that penalty are drastic. Families would inevitably be divided as parents and grandparents are deported or imprisoned leaving their citizen children behind. Of course they could take their entire family home with them, but who would want to take "everything" away from their children? No one. Instead, we have an outright uproar.
Hundreds of thousands of protestors have filled government property demanding the rights they "deserve" as illegal aliens. They play the emotional card on the grounds of family cohesion, but then again they were the ones who intentionally set up the rift between generations in the first place. I understand that gaining citizenship is difficult in the United States, especially in the post 911 era, but that doesn't matter. How can anyone demand that a country make concessions for aliens? It doesn't make sense at all. If we choose to make citizenship impossible to obtain for anyone coming from outside the States, isn't that our perogative? Is it not also our right to punish aliens who violate our rules even ex post facto? We're not even talking about those with work visas and green cards, just the undocumented aliens. But documentation takes too long, some say. Who cares? Maybe the United States isn't all it's cracked up to be, live with it or go home.
We started this mess when birth place determined citizenship. Now that we're here we can't exactly clean it up as quickly or as quietly. We just need to figure it out quick before we have a passive aggressive civil war on our hands.
The moment we made it law for any human being born on American soil to be an American citizen was the day we started this tsunami we have now. Immediately it became the dream of thousands of foreign families for their child to be born on our soil; to obtain the holy grail of American citizenship any way possible. So, they came. And are still coming. They cross our borders in the thousands every year and start families here. They work in our businesses, in our communities, and for our governments, yet they are illegals. Fortunately for them, this has never been a huge concern. But that's trying to change...
Currently there is a bill waiting to be passed that would classify every illegal alien in the United States as a felon. That's on the same level as grand theft and murder. The penalty is high and the consequence of paying that penalty are drastic. Families would inevitably be divided as parents and grandparents are deported or imprisoned leaving their citizen children behind. Of course they could take their entire family home with them, but who would want to take "everything" away from their children? No one. Instead, we have an outright uproar.
Hundreds of thousands of protestors have filled government property demanding the rights they "deserve" as illegal aliens. They play the emotional card on the grounds of family cohesion, but then again they were the ones who intentionally set up the rift between generations in the first place. I understand that gaining citizenship is difficult in the United States, especially in the post 911 era, but that doesn't matter. How can anyone demand that a country make concessions for aliens? It doesn't make sense at all. If we choose to make citizenship impossible to obtain for anyone coming from outside the States, isn't that our perogative? Is it not also our right to punish aliens who violate our rules even ex post facto? We're not even talking about those with work visas and green cards, just the undocumented aliens. But documentation takes too long, some say. Who cares? Maybe the United States isn't all it's cracked up to be, live with it or go home.
We started this mess when birth place determined citizenship. Now that we're here we can't exactly clean it up as quickly or as quietly. We just need to figure it out quick before we have a passive aggressive civil war on our hands.
posted by Toby Rockefeller at 8:17 PM
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