When I say "open door", I don't mean "open turnstile" where everyone coming in is documented. I mean open the door and anybody that wants to, can wander in without restriction or documentation. I will always be against that.
There are a million reasons to control our borders. Control doesn't mean closed, it means we know who is coming and going, we know who's here and in some cases, such as students, what they are doing here. This is one of the things we have a federal government for....one of the few legitimate duties of the feds ......who seem to be too busy messing with things they shouldn't, to do what they should.
I have no fear of foreigners that come here legally, have a desire to be Americans.....loyal Americans. They've been coming for two hundred years and making the country stronger and better, often more loyal and contributing more, than native borns.
I do fear and resent, however, invaders that come to pillage without regard for our laws....without regard for U.S./us.
The people in Los Angeles know real fear, up close and personal fear, from a criminal element that's come north to prey on illegals and branched out.... using the illegals as their power base/revenue source.
We're seeing much more of this in PA, also.... a hispanic criminal element that regularly preys on illegals for the money to expand their horizons. The victims can't get help from the law because they themselves are criminals of a different stripe.
Yes, I feel sorry for them, it sucks to live that way.....But I maintain their problems don't supersede the problem they are creating for/contributing to, the rest of us.
The Mexicans taking down the American flag at the CA Post Office and running up the Mexican flag....twice, with impunity....turns my stomach. Not because that piece of cloth is so important, but because it shows an attitude, shows they feel they are above our laws, shows they feel they can do whatever the hell they want and we can't stop them.
What do you think would happen to me if I ran the Scottish flag up at the Philadelphia Post Office. I guarantee I would at least be arrested. Why do they deserve more tolerance than I do? We both know what would happen to me in Mexico or most other countries.
We're different? We're better? We're more tolerant? Yes, but it's only in recent years that kind of crap would be tolerated. I contend it's not a good direction for the country when Political Correctness/embracing diversity, erodes the one thing Americans have in common.
Anecdotes abound, north vs south, east vs west, sailors vs Marines, city slickers vs country bumpkins, even men vs women..... but the one thing that kept us from really serious conflict was our differences were not as important as what we had in common. We would come together like family to defend our commonality....our Flag & Country.
If we lose that, we all become pink monkeys.
