Joseph
Murfin, senior music and mathematics, Robertsdale
posted
on April 20, 2006
What
can you do for brown?
I’m angry, and for good reason.
Throughout the past weeks, protests have sprung up all over the
country in response to talk of Congressional immigration reform.
The protesters are calling for rights and amnesty for illegal immigrants
and, in doing so, are asking our government to reward those who
break American law.
There used to be a point in time when the American people would
have told these crybabies how stupid they really were and thrown
them out on their faces.
Now the United States is letting itself be pushed around by a group
of people that has entered our country illegally.
You hear that?
There’s a reason why they are called “Illegal Immigrants”
and not “Freedom-Challenged Nomads.”
If you want to come to our country, do it the right way: fill out
the forms, wait, get rejected, try again, call your lobbyist to
get it fixed and eventually get your green card.
It’s the exact same process that I go through whenever I file
for a rebate from Best Buy.
Except when I call, I end up talking to someone in India who thinks
a laptop computer is just a new version of the Etch-A-Sketch.
But anyway, we’re not talking about the problems of corporate
America.
We’re talking about illegal immigrants, a group of people
that invited themselves to a country that never asked them to show
up.
That’s right.
An illegal immigrant is like that drunk guy that everyone goes through
extra effort to try not to invite to a party.
But then he shows up anyway, drinks everyone’s beer, and then
demands that he be able to control which CDs are playing on the
stereo.
Now, don’t get me wrong.
I understand that many of these people live in extreme poverty in
Mexico, and they are just trying to better the lives of themselves
and their families by coming to the United States.
And I also understand that many immigrants have a positive impact
on the American economy.
But the law is the law, and no matter how ridiculous the law is,
or how much you disagree with it, it must be followed.
I don’t agree with the price of gasoline.
In fact, I could not even afford to pay the outrageous $3 per gallon
to drive my car home for Easter.
But did I decide that it would be OK to steal fuel from a gas station?
No, I just didn’t go home.
Life isn’t always great, but sometimes we just have to suck
it up and take it like a man.
Now, we have a bunch of yahoos marching down streets, protesting
in front of
government buildings, and overall just disrupting the lives of legal,
tax-paying, God-fearing, red-blooded, heterosexual Americans who
are just trying to get to work so that
they can make enough money to buy some fried chicken from Wal-Mart
on their way
home to watch American Idol.
And what are these protesters demanding?
They’re demanding that all illegal immigrants be granted amnesty.
What?!
Did I miss something here?
So you want us to inconvenience our lives so you can be lazy and
just skip ahead of everyone else who is legally trying to enter
the country?
Give me a break.
The scary thing is that many of these protesters are not even immigrants...
they’re natural-born Americans!
Also, many protesters are claiming that new legislation proposed
by Congress is a violation of immigrants’ civil rights.
Here’s the problem: if you are in America illegally, you are
not subject to American rights!
Those rights are reserved for American citizens.
Who do these people think they are?
They’re not Americans, that’s for sure.
Either stop whining or go back home!
It’s times like this that make me wish we lived in the days
where the United States would give these hippies a Chuck Norris-style
round-house kick to the face and then put them on trial to question
them on their involvement in the Communist party.
The strange thing about this matter is that it is not necessarily
split along Republican-Democrat lines (I would include Libertarians
but they’re not really that important).
In fact, it is an issue that brought about a senate bill sponsored
by the combined forces of Senators John McCain, Ted Kennedy and
Joe Lieberman.
Wow!
I haven’t seen a group this diverse since the 2004 Democratic
Primary.
The bill, known as The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act,
was proposed in May of 2005 but has yet to be passed by the United
States Senate.
Now before anyone complains about how the American government is
acting as “the man” holding immigrants down, let’s
examine what the bill proposes:
The bill does not call for the immediate deportation of the some
11 million illegal immigrants from the country.
That would be impractical and extremely expensive.
(Besides, if we couldn’t get the residents of New Orleans
to get on a bus, how are we going to get a bunch of aliens to do
so?)
In fact, the bill recognizes that eventual citizenship is definitely
the right direction to take concerning those illegals currently
in the United States.
However, the bill does not call for immediate amnesty for all illegal
aliens.
On the contrary, Sen. McCain stated, “Make no mistake, this
is not an amnesty bill. We are not here to reward law-breakers...
We have a national interest in identifying these individuals, [providing
incentive for] them to come forward out of the shadows, go through
security background checks, pay back taxes, pay penalties for breaking
the law, learn to speak English and regularize their status.”
The bill also calls for tougher border security with Mexico, specifically
in the Arizona region.
“...I will not stand by and let southern Arizona be the doormat
for this country’s failed immigration policy,” stated
Senator McCain.
And rightly proclaimed, McCain (or as I shall call him in 2008:
President McCain). Hooray for you and (I can’t believe I’d
ever say this) Ted Kennedy... you’re doing a fine job.
Unfortunately, the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act has
been overshadowed in recent weeks by the proposal of the Sensenbrenner
Bill of 2005, which was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives
last December.
The bill addresses more controversial topics, such as a 700-mile
fence on the American-Mexican border and declaring illegal immigration
as a felony.
These proposals are more extreme, but still do not warrant the ridiculous
amount of protests over the past several weeks.
So if you’re a wacko American student protesting in front
of the White House, or some line-skipping illegal immigrant marching
down my street with an American and Mexican flag draped over your
shoulders, please stop.
You’re only making hard-working Americans hate you even more.
And the minute that some terrorist comes over the Mexican-American
border with a bomb strapped on his back, I hope they blame you.
If this article offends you, then you should probably go back to
your country.
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