Sunday, October 29, 2006

The Last Word on...Illegal "Immigration."

Imagine that someone sneaks into your house when your not looking. They get in through the garage door when you're leaving for work. That person secretly lives in your garage for a few months before you find them. He doesn't steal anything, doesn't mess with your stuff, and he goes to work everyday. He just lives in your garage.

When you find him, naturally, you freak and call the cops. They take him away. The next day, you find some other guy in your garage. And another. And another. Turns out there are 30 guys somehow living in your garage. You realize that they're getting into your garage because you keep leaving the door open. So you close the garage door and lock it.

The next day, you find hundreds of protesters outside of your house, telling you that you're wrong for not letting these men live in your garage. You discover that they've been secretly washing your car and doing your yard work when you weren't looking. The protesters say that these men were helping with your quality of life and these things wouldn't have gotten done if they weren't there. They were doing all the menial tasks around your house that you didn't want to do. You are told that you have no right to close and lock your own garage by the protesters, who all live in the condemned house across the street. Those 30 men used to live there, but they came to your house because your ceiling doesn't leak and your tap water doesn't make them sick.

So what do you do? Should you change your mind and let the guys stay there? Should you lease the garage to them and work out some sort of agreement with them where they can come over sometimes, but they have to go back across the street to sleep? Or should you call this whole situation what it is: Breaking and entering.

No, this isn't a complex analogy. And to anyone who might disagree with the correlation, yes, it is the same thing. For illegals here, as well as the Mexican government, to believe that they have the right to be upset about the plans to build a giant fence between the two nations, well...someone done told you wrong. This is something that needs to be discussed among the people who are actually legal citizens. You all can wait outside.

The way rational people see it, a nation has the right to close its borders whenever it wants to. A nation has the right to request that its inhabitants speak the national language. A nation has the right to kick out people who snuck inside to begin with. That nation does not have to justify its actions to its less-fortunate, corrupt, crime-ridden neighbor to the south. That nation also isn't required to treat its neighbors to the north in the same manner, because Canada's residents A.) speak English, and B.) GO HOME.

Illegal aliens are not entitled to anything on this side of the border, except a free ride back home. You are not called "illegal aliens" because we're trying to be mean. You are called "illegal aliens" because you snuck into the country ILLEGALLY, and you are foreign to the land you're standing on. You might say it's ALIEN to you, especially considering you can't read most of the signs along those roadsides. You knew it was wrong when you did it. If you really thought it was the okay thing to do, you wouldn't have had to stuff your kids behind the dashboard of your car first.

So, just like you have the right to try to find a better life, the people who already live there legally have a right to say, "You ain't gotta go home, but you gotta get the Hell outta here."

What am I doing? It's not like you can read this. If you could, you would have tried to come in legally.

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