*il•le•gal adj: not according to or authorized by law. See also : unlawful, illicit
*un•law•ful adj: 1 : not lawful 2 : not morally right or conventional
*il•lic•it adj: not permittedGood, I needed that sanity check to make sure I understood the definition of “illegal”. Unfortunately, there are people out there who do not understand this word’s meaning.
What would these people say if I were to walk into their house, uninvited and started reading their books, using their medical supplies, eating their food, etc. Chances are they wouldn’t be too happy with this illegal activity. This is exactly what they are trying to justify though. There is no justification for illegal activity, no matter how minor the offense. Immigration activists claim that illegal immigrants have a “right” to cross the border illegally. Not only that, they claim that it is their “right” to demand free education, free healthcare and employment.
Yet when asked about what country they pledge their allegiance to, or what flag they fly, you’ll never hear them say the “United States of America” or the “Red, White and Blue”. Instead you’ll probably hear them say “Viva Mexico”. It’s funny though how they want to be here so much, but won’t give the common courtesy of obeying our laws and pledging allegiance to the U.S.
So why are we allowing illegal immigrants to enter in large numbers and remain in the U.S.? Charges of racism and the feared economic impacts are why politicians are hesitant to tread these waters. It is not racist, however to say that we don’t want criminals entering our country, especially if their first action in our country is illegal because there is no race involved.
In the May 1, 2006 edition of “The New American” there is a picture with a protestor of immigration reform holding a sign that reads “ALL EUROPEANS ARE ILLEGAL ON THIS CONTINENT SINCE 1492.” I guess that person is too racist to realize that there never was and never will be a law saying that Europeans can’t migrate to the United States. The Indians certainly didn’t have a law in 1492 prohibiting European immigration, because they didn’t even know Europe existed until Columbus landed. After Europeans began settling the East Coast I’m confident that they never passed a law prohibiting European immigration. These arguments in favor of illegal immigration are absurd, plagued with false information and lies, doing nothing but damaging our national sovereignty.
I’ll leave you with some quotes on the subject:
“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.” – Ronald Reagan
“But the simple truth is that we’ve lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.” – Ronald Reagan
* – definitions from http://www.m-w.com/
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