Illegal Immigration Backlash: There are Reasons

 

Decrying Anti-Immigration:  Why the Left is blatantly ignorant

A friend of mine wrote quite passionately about immigration, how we’re all (except for the Native Americans) descended from immigrants.  We are, and I’m even married to a naturalized citizen immigrant.  My sons are first-generation Americans on their dad’s side and, on my side, eligible to join the Sons of the American Revolution.  Immigration is a good thing.

That is, legal immigration.  The anti-immigrant sentiment that you see is, I think, not rooted in general anti-immigration per se, but anti-illegal-immigration.  The influx of illegal immigrants over the past several years is unprecedented in history.  The damage it has done to our citizens, our cities, and our country as a whole is immeasurable.  Note that I am using “illegal immigrant” as a reference to their legal status here in the United States, not as a derogatory comment on their very existence.

 These illegal immigrants are not “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” as Emma Lazarus described in her poem on the Statue of Liberty.  Well, maybe some of them are, but many are gang members, criminals, drug and human traffickers, and weapon smugglers. 

 The sheer numbers of immigrants have overwhelmed the services – housing, medical, educational – of the sanctuary cities.  Big cities like NY, El Paso, San Diego are overwhelmed.  Smaller cities like Springfield, OH, which has been in the news of late, have seen population growth as large as 20% in the past four years.  These new populations depend on the current citizenry to fund everything they need, overwhelming the infrastructure and funding of those localities.  Some of these people came from crime-ridden, violent countries and, frankly, they continue to act accordingly. 

 Along with the illegal immigrants come an array of diseases, some of which we had almost eliminated within our borders.  The following diseases have had a sharp uptick in occurrence:  polio, TB, HIV, mumps, chicken pox, Hep A and B, measles, and – according to one health worker – every known STD.  These germs endanger everyone, even those who have been vaccinated because vaccines have “holes” in them.  Also, the recent trend of parents not immunizing their children open those children up to disastrous results from these germs. 

 These illegal immigrants are not coming only from Central and South American.  DHS identified more than 400 people smuggled over the border by an ISIS-affiliated group.  This past February, the largest number of illegal immigrants came from China.  Natives of Asia and Africa know how to play the international game of flying to visa-lax countries of Central and South America and then heading north to the gaping hole that is our southern border with Mexico.  There are reports of groups of fit, military-age men, dressed in military camouflage and carrying matching backpacks, indicating a well-funded supply network that ensures everyone is outfitted the same.  Southern ranching areas are suffering from violence and crime fueled by Mexican cartels; their land littered with trash, drug paraphernalia, and dead bodies.  Third- and fourth-generation cattle farmers are not safe on their own properties and they are getting no help from overwhelmed Homeland Security.

 Add to all that is the violence perpetrated on American citizens by illegal immigrants.  Here are just a few.

             Laken Riley, 22, attempted rape and successful murder by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela.

             Rachel Morin, 37, mother of five.  Raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant from El   Salvador.

             Kayla Hamilton, 20.  Killed by an illegal immigrant affiliated with MS-13 gang, was already a suspect in rape/murder of another woman before Kayla’s murder.

             Maria Gonzales, 11.  Beaten, raped, and strangled to death by an illegal immigrant from Guatemala.  He put her body in a plastic bag, put the bag in a laundry hamper, and stuffed the hamper under her bed.

Laken, Rachel, Kayla, Maria, and others would be alive today if our border was secure and our immigration laws enforced. 

Enough said.  Enforce our laws, secure our borders.  Refuse to bow to liberal bleeding hearts who live in their white palaces above normal society.  Arrest and permanently deport illegal immigrants who break the law.  Detain and deport illegal immigrants and make them come in the front door, not sneak in the back.