Can we talk? I love a
good joke/meme/prank just as much as the next person, and usually have no
problem just passing on by things that don’t make sense (to me), are offensive
or whatever. But every once in a great
while I have to say something… and it’s usually when someone is trying to
compare apples to oranges.
With the recent hub-bub about President Trump and “his”
actions on the already immigration laws I’m seeing more and more people comment
about how we’re all descendants of immigrants, that so and so came to America
illegally and look at their great contributions and how President Trump's grandparents and own
mother came to America illegally. Except
they came here before it was actually illegal to do so… and then became
American citizens, worked hard, paid their dues, and lived a good life – the reason
most came to America in those days. They played by the rules. Yes,
I understand that we are a “Nation of Immigrants”.
There’s a BIG difference between the “old” immigrants and
the “new” immigrants… most of the older immigrants were literate and skilled,
came over as a family, assimilated with their new “homeland”, and usually had at
least “some” money. The newer immigrants
that come over illegally (in the more recent years) are generally not educated or skilled… they come over
as “birds of passage” as it were, are reluctant to assimilate and often
demanding that “we” as a country conform to their ways, they rarely become citizens
and more often than not they arrive penniless.
I’m not against immigration. But I can’t and won’t stand behind those that
come illegally and make no effort to become a positive force in society, that
make no attempt to become a citizen or try to stay here legally. If you’re doing ANYTHING illegally, it should
raise red flags. We have rules and
regulations for a reason.
