I am confused by something. I was watching Hannity and Colmes earlier. Sean Hannity was in El Paso, Texas with the border patrol and the Minutemen. The topic of the show was, obviously, border security. My confusion is in the different terms used to describe people who sneak across the border. Sean Hannity calls them illegal aliens. Alan Colmes calls them undocumented immigrants.
Let's stop with the euphemisms, OK? There are no undocumented immigrants. An immigrant is someone who comes here by applying for the right. As such, they are documented throughout the immigration process. The people caught by the infrared cameras bypassing the rules and breaking our laws may very well be undocumented, but they are NOT immigrants. They are illegal aliens.
Mr. Colmes, my ancestors came to the United States from Germany in the 1870's and from Italy in 1906. They followed the rules and obeyed the laws. They learned the language, contributed to society, paid taxes, and fought in our wars with distinction. THEY, sir, were immigrants. Do not insult their memory or their honor by grouping them with people who show blatant disrespect for our country. Do not slander them by elevating criminals to their level just because you find the truth too distasteful to speak.
Get a backbone, sir. You would call the Minutemen criminals before you would call the illegal aliens the same. What is wrong with you?
I agree completely. My mothers entire side of the family were immigrants. My Grandparents were both from England, and my mother and her older sister were born in england as well, but her younger sister was born in Mexico city. You would not beleive the beaurocratic backflips they had to perform in order to become legal immigrants. At one point they even had to fly out of the country to Bermuda, just to fly back in so they could get their youngest into the country legally (at their expense of course).
ReplyDeleteI have no respect of desire to help those who circumvent our immigration laws. It is an insult to the millions who put in the work to come here legally.