America is our home.
Since this is our home, we get to pick who comes in. We can open our doors to anyone we choose.
We should act in our own self-interest when choosing whom we invite inside. If we’re smart, we’ll invite people we get along with.
But, we are under no obligation to let anyone in. This is our home. We can do what we think is best.
America has a long history of welcoming immigrants. That is a beautiful thing. And we have benefited from immigration in past years for one important reason: We were picky about who we allowed in.
In years past, our immigration laws were strictly enforced. When immigrants arrived here, we knew who they were, where they came from, and why they wanted to immigrate. They had to follow a legal process.
They weren't put on welfare. They were given no special consideration. But they were granted the same gift that every native-born American gets: OPPORTUNITY.
If you are willing to work, you will make it here. Millions of immigrants have proven by their success that America truly is a land of opportunity.
And of course, since we are a generous people, we have also invited many refugees into our home over the years, and made special accommodations for them. Millions of people from all over the world have found a safe haven here.
So I think we can safely ignore the shrieking accusations of racism from the political Left. They claim that Conservatives are racist and paranoid because we want to reinstate an orderly process of immigration and assimilation.
But the only reason so many Americans are upset about immigration today is the fact that it is totally out of control.
Why is it considered unreasonable for the average working-class citizen to insist that his government enforce the immigration laws that are already on the books?
President Obama has consistently failed to enforce our immigration laws. As a result, the chaos on our southern border has gone from pitiful to pathetic to dangerous. If our government had simply done its job, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
For some years now, our government has known that Jihadist training camps are operating in Venezuela. Once trained, these terrorists travel north through Central America and enter the United States via our porous southern border. But no one in the White House seems concerned.
How many Al-Qaeda and ISIS sleeper cells are there in the United States at this moment? Nobody really knows. But we certainly make it easy for them to invade.
Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson posted a story on 11/18/2015 that Border Patrol agents had detained 8 Syrians, 5 Pakistanis and 1 Afghan in one day.
One day.
How many made it through that day without being caught? How many make it past the border every week, every month? Again, nobody knows.
But FBI and Border Patrol agents are concerned. Shouldn’t we be also?
And in addition to terrorists, we are also threatened by well-armed criminal enterprises.
There has been an ongoing infiltration of powerful and violent Mexican crime syndicates across our southern border for decades now. They grow stronger and penetrate further into our territory every year.
These brutal organizations systematically victimize thousands of innocent Mexicans crossing the border every year through kidnapping, extortion, sex-slavery and other cruel tactics.
The lives of American citizens living near the Mexican border are increasingly jeopardized by this crime wave surging from the south.
Millions of Americans are upset about this, and rightly so.
"We the people" have demanded that our government fix this problem, but up to now "they the elected" have ignored us.
The situation has become so distressing that frustrated voters are flocking to an untested political rookie like Donald Trump simply because he is the only candidate who makes border security a top priority.
There is a simple solution to this: We need (figuratively speaking) a tall fence and a wide gate. We need to invest whatever resources are necessary to secure our borders.
We need to strictly enforce our immigration laws so we can screen out the criminal element that is currently taking advantage of our lax security standards.
I don't think most Americans care if a reasonable number of LEGAL Mexican immigrants move up here to join us every year, but we do have the right to control who comes in, and in what numbers. We can only effectively assimilate so many people at a time.
Most of the Mexicans coming to the United States are simply people who want jobs and a better life for themselves and their families. They are just the kind of folks we need here.
But we also need to know who they are, where they come from, and how they plan to support themselves once they move in. Is that too much to ask of a guest requesting entry into our home?
We must stop this out-of-control invasion that makes it so easy for terrorists, drug-smugglers, human sex-traffickers and other sordid criminals to wander into our home at will.
The present chaotic situation at our border is like a humongous neon sign flashing to terrorists all over the world: ENTER HERE! THE INFIDELS ARE CLUELESS!
I believe we absolutely have the right to protect this nation that we call our home. It is a legacy passed down to us from our parents.
Our children and grandchildren live here, and they are depending on us.
We have a right, and a duty, to keep them safe.
