An Email on Immigration

I received this email today from a friend and thought I'd share it with you. It's a little inflammatory, but it's a good summation.

A lady wrote the best letter in the Editorials in ages!!!  It explains things better than all the baloney you hear on TV.

Her point:

Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Arizona is addressing the issue of illegal immigration.

Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely. Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests...

Let's say I break into your house.
Let's say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave.
But I say, 'No! I like it here.

 It's better than my house. I've made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors. I've done all the things you don't like to do. I'm hard-working and honest
(except for when I broke into your house).

According to the protesters:

You are Required to let me stay in your house
You are Required to feed me
You are Required to add me to your family's insurance plan
You are Required to Educate my kids
You are Required to Provide other benefits to me & to my family
My husband will do all of your yard work because he is also hard-working and honest
(except for that breaking in part).

If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my RIGHT to be there.


It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I'm just trying to better myself.  I'm a hard-working and honest, person, except for well, you know, I did break into your house and what a deal it is for me!!!


I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of cold, uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and bigoted behavior.

Oh yeah, I DEMAND that you learn MY LANGUAGE!!! So you can communicate with me.

 I think a lot of the problems I see with the angry illegal immigrants are the ones that feel entitled or carry their country's flag over Old Glory. If you want to call me a bigot or prejudice, I'm ok with that. Those accusations are based on emotion and not on reason, so it's nothing more to me than my child in tantrum mode. My mother was an immigrant, my brother-in-law and wife are immigrants. They all followed the laws for becoming Americans. They are proud of their heritage, but they are more proud of being/becoming Americans that if they do attend a rally or voice their opinion, they do so in English and while holding an American flag. To hold your native country's flag and demand amnesty is disingenuous, dishonest, and disrespectful and reflects upon other immigrants from your homeland that are trying to enter legally. Shame on you!