by Buddy Miller

Created on: July 03, 2008

That our nation has allowed through legislative neglect up to 12 million illegal immigrants to invade our country is a disgrace. Tom Tancredo is not a hero of mine, but he definitely has the right idea when he lobbies not to reward these lawbreakers. The very presence of people that initially entered our nation through a disregard for US law is an embarrassment to us all. We have elected public servants that have turned a blind eye toward this problem and, even now, obstruct the enforcement of our immigration laws.

There are no America communities that are not infected by illegal immigrants and all bear the additional expense of the public-paid educational, medical and social services required to accomodate these people. The small communities that have no grand tax revenues are most crippled by the illegals.

Tom Tancredo has not railed against legal immigration. He has not attacked those legal immigrants, over a million strong each year, that have made application and waited patiently while they were processed for legal status into the U.S. Why then should anyone say he is going too far when he wants to round up and move illegal immigrants out of the U.S.?

These illegal immigrants are breakling our laws by merely being inside our borders, but many are violating even more laws by stealing identities of american citizens, making application for driver's licenses under false identities, and not paying taxes. They are straining the budgets of already overburdened jail systems. The number of felonies committed by these illegals who sometimes have already earned convictions in their countries of origin is impressive. Without screening, there is no way we can ever know what kind of people cross our borders. The prospect of terrorists crossing into the U.S. has already been proven by federal agencies successfully smuggling radioactive materials across both the Mexican and Canadian borders and into Washington, D.C.

This is a serious threat to American worker's jobs, American sovereignty and American national security. We are a country of laws and anyone that breaks those laws, without the benefit of citizenship, should be jailed for the crime, serve time and be immediately deported. The right of citizenship by birth should not extend to illegal immigrants. In addition, I believe that any Mexicans wanting to immigrate into the U.S. should, at the very least, be held to the same standards set forth by Mexican Immigration Law for those American citizens wishing to move into Mexico.

Tancredo is a lightning rod for the sentiments held by most Americans. He is not a hero, but certainly has, at very least, a great respect for the enforcement of immigration law and a superior understanding of the problems presented by porous borders and the cost to the citizen taxpayers. The sooner we move to enforce existing laws the better America will be able to address this worsening and costly problem. The courage to act is sadly lacking in Washington, D.C. and within all state governments where blanket amnesty looms darkly in the future of America. Se Habla Espanol?

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