O' the day - 5.16.07
This may be a rehash of a previous post, but so be it -- the nightly news often doesn't contain what I would consider "news," but only a retelling of the same stories as brought to you earlier that week or month or year.
The current spotlight on immigration laws, and the subsequent changing of the same, is an issue on which I still haven't quite made up my mind. While new blood is what made America such a diverse and multicultural place to live, and I wouldn't change that, the idea that sudden amnesty for illegals should be granted doesn't sit quite well with me. If a group of confirmed (but not yet arrested) pedophiles marched in Washington, would the police sit by and watch? Demanding forgiveness, and better yet, the rights of citizenship, for breaking the law doesn't seem to be something illegals have earned. I know they perform jobs that Americans don't want to do (or don't want to do for the salary paid), but wherefore springs the right to demand anything of a country that was entered under false and law-breaking pretenses?
The current spotlight on immigration laws, and the subsequent changing of the same, is an issue on which I still haven't quite made up my mind. While new blood is what made America such a diverse and multicultural place to live, and I wouldn't change that, the idea that sudden amnesty for illegals should be granted doesn't sit quite well with me. If a group of confirmed (but not yet arrested) pedophiles marched in Washington, would the police sit by and watch? Demanding forgiveness, and better yet, the rights of citizenship, for breaking the law doesn't seem to be something illegals have earned. I know they perform jobs that Americans don't want to do (or don't want to do for the salary paid), but wherefore springs the right to demand anything of a country that was entered under false and law-breaking pretenses?
posted by Michelle Murphey Porter @ 7:53 AM
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