The International Day of the Workers

Yesterday was the day of the… oops, hold on, let me check my records, …. ok right, the day of the “International Worker”. So, around the nation, many of the workers who built this country, and who have proven themselves to be our most dedicated and hardest workers, took the day off. See, undocumented aliens have now made this their own holiday to express their dislike of our slow legislative process.
Our legislative process is slow, because it hasn’t given them the amnesty that they tried to blackmail us into providing them last year on May 1st. Here in Topeka, a group of about fifty people met outside the South Steps of the State Capitol Building to show their unity in demanding comprehensive immigration reform.
This gathering was very peaceful, and I must admit that I was moved by the speeches some of the speakers gave, however, I then thought to myself that the goal of this rally is to ‘forgive’ those who have knowingly and willingly violated our laws. They are asking us to show compassion and sympathy for their plight, and to help us reunite their families.
I also started considering the fact that our country currently provides legal immigration to our country to over 1.3 million people every year, more than the combined total of every single other country on this planet.
Then I considered the fact that these people pleading for amnesty have not submitted themselves to any type of check, whether a criminal check or a physical check, and we have absolutely no idea who we are actually dealing with.
I heard Dr. Jim McCullough quote the “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses..” as engraved at the base of the Statue of Liberty, and realized that at the least, those tired, and poor people who passed through Ellis Island at least had the courtesy and respect to ask permission first, and to let us know they were here.
These same legal immigrants who passed through Ellis Island also came with the idea that they were coming to America to be Americans! They didn’t show up and insist on being called Irish-Americans, French-Americans, and no, they didn’t even insist on being called European-Americans. They showed up to be Americans.
Ronald Reagan once said: “You can go to live in Turkey, but you can’t become a Turk. You can go to live in Japan, but you cannot become Japanese – or Germany or France – but anyone from any corner of the world can come to America and become an American.”
Though the majority of these undocumented resident aliens are simply people looking to better their life and to support their family, they are also people who have shown their backs to the law, and have decided to do whatever it takes to force their way into a country that is not theirs.
They have decided that they will not be Americans, but rather, they will be a hyphenated American. They say that they want to learn English, yet not even half of the people at the rally yesterday would admit they spoke English.
They ask for our sympathy, but then call us racist for insisting on following the law.
We are all in agreement, both those that are want an amnesty and those who don’t, that we do need a comprehensive immigration reform, however, the desire to forgive and forget that these people have committed criminal acts simply to be here, is simply a slap in the face to those who patiently wait years to come here the legal way.
But let’s address the real problems. Let’s address those employers that actively promote the act of illegal immigration. Let’s address those employers that use and abuse the human rights of these illegal immigrants. Let’s take away the incentive for employers to break the law, placing over a million people each year in danger of their own life, attempting to enter a country where they will only face hardship and discrimination (for their illegal acts).
Our government needs to act, and it needs to act now. They need to be fair, and they need to place the blame where it is deserved. The future of not just America is at stake, but also the future of our neighbors to the South.