Yeah...May Day is not only a commie holiday here in Chiner, it is also a commie holiday across the USA for countless illegals that are demonstrating for their 'rights' as citizens that have entered the country illegally. Hmmm...does that make sense? The Captain states is beautifully...
Border security has to come first, if for no other reason than any reform program has to rely on enforcement to attract people to register rather than opt out. After the border gets secured, then we can negotiate the status of those still left.
I've said it many times...you don't sold a leaky faucet by cleaning up the mess first. You need to stop the leak, THEN you can address the mess left behind.
I grew up in an area dominated by illegal/migrant workers. As a kid, we worked in the summer picking berries in the fields. I can remember when the schools closed early in June, because the berries were ripe and needed picking. Those opporunities all went away in just a couple years, as those jobs were being replaced by workers from Mexico. The broken down cars loaded with workers driving dangerously down country roads. The expansion of Mexican restaurants and grocery stores. Those initial illegals are now second generation, who are bringing value to their communities...but the faucet continues to leak more as more souls cross the border.
There are too damn many of them, but, how can you kick out 20 million people? Well, we can't really go there right now...until we stop the leaky faucet. I have never been a fan of building a wall/fence. I grew up with the Gipper's 'shining city on a hill' analogy. I grew up with the Berlin Wall...where countries built walls to keep their people IN...not to keep them from coming in. The thought of the Israeli's building a wall made me cringe. I grew up with images of the Statue of Liberty greeting and welcoming those that would come to our shore...'give us your tired...' But, those demonstrations this past weekend have changed that.
The people that stayed home from work, that took to the streets, didn't grow up with those same ideals that I did. They don't understand about the Romanian family that planned their escape from communist rule, only to leave their young son behind. They don't understand the countless Vietnamese refugees that were shunned by this country...but who waited in line to come through the front door. These people don't understand that Americans are the most compassionate people on earth...helping neighbors in times of disaster. But...they also don't understand that it is also an American value that when you visit your neighbor, you knock on the door and ask permission to come inside. What our neighbors to the south have found is...there is no door, window, lock, or doorbell. Nothing. They just come inside. Like the Israeli's...America has come to its wits end...It's time to put up a door to the house.
Once the door is up, its up to us to stop the flow. Then, we can talk about those that have been left inside the house without permission. It will then be time for them to become American. Just as the Vietnamese, Germans, Jews, Irish, Swedish, British had done in previous centuries...they all adapted to a new way of life that incorporated their own customs with those of their new country. They learned to speak English. They learned the history of this country. They learned the Constitution. And, they paid the fees, filled out the paperwork, and took the test to ultimately hold aloft their right hand a swear allegiance to their new adopted land.
As the Captain explains...those demonstrations took a lot of people that were on the 'fence' (no pun intended) about the issue and firmly pushed them over the edge. The organizers of these demonstrations expected action...but I don't think they expected this sort of action...its time to build a wall and deal with this issue now.
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