Illegal Immigration Redux

How about a little perspective on the subject beyond rhetoric and typical talking points. Why not look at this from a different angle so every (open minded) person can agree.

Let's pretend that you live in Mexico. You decided you wanted to work in the United States, so you applied for a Green Card. You are a law abiding citizen who just wants to make a better life for your family, your children. The issue is there are no jobs open here in the United States. Why? Because someone jumped the border and is working illegally in the position you were going to take.

As the days go by, money gets tighter, and there are still no jobs here. You are now faced with some hard choices and may have to take drastic measure to feed and house your family. You beg for work in the US, try anything you can to get pushed the front of the line because you can't stand listening to your child talking about how hungry they are or the meals they have missed.

More time passes. You have no home now, and you beg in the streets for food scraps and pocket change. People kick dirt on you and spit at you. What did you do wrong? Why has your life turned out so bleak? You did the right thing, applied for a green card, tried to live a morally sound life, and are a genuinely good person.

What did you do wrong? You followed the rules; that's what you did wrong. Why would doing the right thing be bad? Because your neighbor ran the border and stole into the United States while you stood in line and applied for a Green Card. Your neighbor is living comfortably, though hiding from ICE, and stealing YOUR job.

So here is the question for my liberal friends; How can you talk to me about illegals coming here to save their families and how much it would hurt them to be deported? That illegal is harming every other person who is doing the right thing. Do you care about the people they are hurting? Is the criminal your defending worth MORE that the morally sound person who followed the rules and has real skills to offer to our country?

Read my fictitious account of a Mexican's struggle again. Do you feel good about that story? Can you sleep better knowing the criminal you protect has destroyed the life of a good person? Do you enjoy screwing good people by allowing the illegals? Does it make you feel warm inside to know that your defense of the corrupt is at the expense of good, honest people?

Don't claim that an illegal is needed to work jobs that Americans won't. If you take that shallow opinion, keep in mind that is what Green cards are for. Let them come here the correct way. If you CLAIM the process is too hard, then get rid of the illegals so it will be EASIER for those who want to come here the RIGHT way. Remove those who have PROVEN they can not follow the rules and invite those who have proven they CAN follow the rules.

Every argument, my liberal friends, for illegals is invalid. Everything you CLAIM in your ignorance is disproved BY everything you say. Think about the legal immigrant who can not be here because you protect the law breaking trespasser.