Posted by
CelesteJak on Monday, November 19, 2007 6:50:59 PM
An Interesting Analogy
Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country concerning illegal immigration. Certain people are angry that the USA 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 and can explain to you just why so many of the American people are
so opposed to providing ANY benefits for ILLEGAL aliens.
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, "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 (well...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 add me to your family's insurance plan. You are required to provide me with a Driver's License
which I can use as legal identification in America. You really should allow me to vote because after all, I am affected by the laws which are enacted in this country and I really should have a voice in who is making those laws since I AM living here.
(Of course, the Driver's License will be sufficient identification in many parts of the country to allow me to register to vote, even without your 'express' approval). You
are required to educate my children in their native language. After all, insisting that they learn the English language in school is an act of prejudice against my race and disrespectful to my national origin...surely you don't expect me to give up my
national identity just to assimilate into your "Melting Pot", do you? I must be
allowed to pay the lower tuition rates granted to 'citizens' of this state for college.
I mean, the definition of the word 'citizen' is so vague anyway. Since I managed to cross the border and sneak into your house and take up residency, it is only fair that
I be considered a 'citizen' under the NEW meaning of the word.
After all, I got here, that's all it takes to 'earn' those rights, Right? You are required to provide these and many other benefits to me and my extended family (who will be arriving shortly from my native country). After all, family is family and since I got here and have decided to stay it would be absolutely uncivilized for you to not allow me to bring every person from back home who's even remotely related to me here to live. They should be allowed to share in my newly acquired bounty. It really shouldn't matter that I haven't seen most of them since I was a little child, they are
my FAMILY and this is a country where 'family' is revered. Right? Besides, my
husband will do all of your yard work because he is also hard-working and honest, (well...except for that breaking-in part). The children won't be any trouble. You will have to educate them for free and I do expect them to be eligible for free medical
care. After all, I don't speak English so until American society becomes more enlightened and multicultural, I will probably have some trouble earning a lot of money. Until the rest of America catches up, I must be afforded a 'decent' standard
of living so I should be eligible for all Social Services...welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing and childcare at a minimum. Of course, with many schools teaching American History (among many other classes) in Spanish and using
textbooks from Mexico, it won't be too long before all legal American citizens will learn to speak Spanish, so my refusal to learn to speak English won't hold me back
in the long run. I am already seeing signs in department stores written in Spanish and many products have the Spanish language descriptions on items more prominently displayed on their packaging than the descriptions in English, so you are moving in
the right direction. If we just keep marching in the streets, carrying Mexican flags
and DEMANDING our RIGHTS, the fools in Washington will 'come along'.
After all, for them, political correctness is everything.
Now keep in mind:
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 well, you know, I did break into your house. But what a DEAL it is for me!!! I live in your house, contributing only a small 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, now don't forget....I DEMAND that you learn MY LANGUAGE so you
can communicate with me.
Why can't the people in office see how ridiculous this is?! Only in America."
I can assure you all these "expectations" would be laughed at should an American citizen attempt to move to say.. .Mexico illegally. Interesting, huh?
*From a Blog by JonJayRay (with substantial editing and revision by Celeste Allen).**
I hope this explains some of the anger that is being seen in this country right now
over the entire illegal immigration debacle. The American public is tired of being
taxed to death to provide services to a group of people who have NO right to be
in this country in the first place. We are tired of making accommodations for people who do not respect the border, laws, traditions or the language of our homeland.
We are tired of being told we are prejudiced and bigoted because we expect these people to follow the same rules our parents and grandparents followed in order to
earn American citizenship. We are tired of walking into a store or calling a service center and being unable to converse with the clerk because they haven't bothered to learn the primary (at least for the moment) language spoken in the country they have chosen to live in. We are tired of having to learn to speak a FOREIGN language in order to get a job in America. We are fed up with having our elected 'representatives' refuse to listen to our demands for secure borders and immigration enforcement.
We are tired of having some city leaders decide that the laws that govern the rest of the entire country do not apply to them, disobey those laws and still
receive our tax money from the federal government. We want sane immigration laws but we want enforcement of the existing laws first. We don't want to have to
compete with people who should not even be here for jobs and services. We are
tired of waiting fourteen hours in the hospital emergency room while illegal aliens
are receiving services for free that American citizens are expected to pay for.
We are tired of being preyed upon by criminal illegal aliens and illegal alien gangs
who then run back to Mexico (which harbors them and often will not send them
back to face criminal prosecution). We are tired of Mexico (and Latin America) exporting it's poverty to our country and then living on the funds sent back to them from America. We are tired of Mexico refusing to do anything to improve the life of it's own citizens despite having two beautiful coastlines and more oil resources than Alaska. As long as American politicians refuse to stand up for America's right to
have secure borders and a national language, this chaos will continue and Mexico
will never become a country it's citizens want to live in. Basically it boils down to fundamental unfairness, systemized inequities being forced down our throats.
We've had enough and will not stand for it any longer.
That is the message that I hope is finally being heard by our 'representatives' up in Washington.