The Demonstrations Showed No Appreciation of America
There’s just something so disheartening about the anti-immigration enforcement demonstrations today. One would have thought the protesters would have considered what they were doing before they protested an American process when they are merely “guests” (at the most) in this country.
Listening to the news reports gave me the impression that the illegals and others who turned out today could care less about our nation and understand nothing at all about the American Experience.
It’s almost as if a large group of car thieves showed up at a car dealership (that they knocked over) to demand that the dealership provide to them all the options that came with the cars….even though they stole the very same cars!
No Amnesty. Enforce the law. Build the fence! Why is that so hard for the Republicans in the Senate to understand? I know the democrats will just do what gets them votes because they couldn’t care less about our country.
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NY Times Grants Amnesty...
Yes, what was once the nation's premier newspaper, before it's slide into the depths of plagiarizing reporters, political bias and tanked stock prices, has done what the US Congress seemingly could not achieve - grant amnesty to millions of illegal...
April 11th, 2006 | #
On March 21, near the Iraqi port town of Umm Qasr, 28-year-old Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez was one of several U.S. soldiers who, as required by the Geneva Convention, motioned to accept the surrender of a group of Iraqi "soldiers" who had just raised a white flag. When Gutierrez and several other comrades were exposed, the Iraqis suddenly opened fire, killing him and several comrades.
On March 27, near the Iraqi city of An Nasiriyah, 21-year-old Marine Corps Cpl. Jose Angel Garibay also motioned to accept the surrender of Iraqis. But what had happened to Lance Cpl. Gutierrez now happened to Cpl. Garibay. It was no surrender, but an ambush, and Cpl. Garibay lost his life. ...
Both of these soldiers died within the very first week of the war in Iraq, but what makes their deaths all too important to the immigration debate today is this...
The sacrifice of these young men is no different than that made by any of the other young Americans who have given "the last full measure" in this or any other war, except in one, very noteworthy respect – at the time they died, neither was an American. Gutierrez was born in Guatemala and when he was 14, entered this country as an illegal immigrant. Garibay was born in Mexico and moved here as a child. Neither man was a citizen at the time of their deaths. ...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31990
These men died for us.
They died for chimpy's lies, yes, but they still died serving for our country, and they were illegal aliens.
And they weren't the only ones either...
Even though his coffin was draped with the American flag, U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant Riayan Tejeda, 26, was not a U.S.citizen. Tejeda, who was killed in combat in Iraq, was a native of the Dominican Republic. (...)
There is no law prohibiting illegal immigrants from joining in the army but the armed forces representative says anyone without proper documents is rejected, according to a report in the New York Times.
Tejeda and at least six other U.S. servicemen killed in the war in Iraq had not yet become citizens. Six of these immigrants were granted citizenship posthumously but their relatives did not receive the benefits that would normally go to the families of the citizens. (...)
More than 36,000 service members are non-citizens, making up about 5 percent of active duty service members. About a third come from Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries and the rest are from China, Vietnam, Canada, Korea, India and other countries. ...
http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/immigrants/20030501/11/368
5% of our military are not US citizens.
That ought to count for something in this debate.
April 11th, 2006 | #
But what Sans-Culotte?
These young men put their lives on the line to show how important the American dream was to them. I respect the hell out of them.
But those who come here illegally and show no interest in being Americans, and before you cluck your tongue and tell me I don't know, I do. I'm a chef who's worked with illegals for twenty years. Many see this country as an ATM, a place to earn money before they go 'home'.
Also, when they march claiming "we are Americans?" I'm offended, offended, with respect they may be hard workers, they may be lovely people, but no one strolls into my country and TELLS me they will be citizens, to that I say...adios!
So I'd like to see them get their dream, go home, and perhaps they can come back legally, it is a privilege after all.
April 11th, 2006 | #
Your post is very well taken. Thanks for putting some of my thoughts so succinctly. I realize that something needs to be done but if all the "illegals" are given citizenship, doesn't that say we think the people who spent lots of time and money to do it the legal and correct way were saps?
April 11th, 2006 | #