by Christopher Stone

Created on: August 03, 2010

Recently my wife and I were given a gift of a cruise, and on this cruise we visited 3 different countries and would you believe we both had to show our passports at least two times in each of these countries, and each time there were locals there with us who did not have to prove their status. Now should we have been offended? Should we have gotten angry and protested because we were victims of racial profiling?

We did not feel offended because we were in a foreign country and in being there, we needed to be respectful of their laws and furthermore were impressed with the fact that officials in these countries were trying to keep their country safe. I ask you now how is this any different than the situation with our own illegal immigrant problem?

I worked several years for a meat packing company that was sold to a larger meat packing company and the very day the papers were signed, the new parent company sent word that everyone working in our company had to prove we were legal citizens because of a previous fine to our new parent company. We each had to get either social security cards or birth certificates or a few other forms of identification and I was not insulted at all. Of course we lost about sixty illegal immigrants, as we should have.

There are many in this country who seem to think that asking someone to prove he or she is a citizen is just the worst thing a person could do, and if you try to explain that it is for their safety, they simply try to ignore there is a problem. Or when you try to show them what the rest of the world does in a similar situation, such as the very way Mexico handles illegal immigrants from Guatemala, they refuse to listen. Asking a person for their proof of status is nothing compared to what the rest of the world does, so why is it that asking for proof is such a terrible thing?

If the police in this country were told that a bank had just been robbed by a blond-haired, bowlegged guy and they stopped me and asked me to prove who I was, I do not think I would be insulted because I am a blond-haired bowlegged guy.

I recently met people from Romania and Bulgaria who were here on legal work Visas and after talking with them for some time, they started asking questions about our immigration policy and attempted to explain how we handled it. I found that there is a huge amount of people in this world who think we, as a country are stupid for placing such emphasis on a simple question instead of the real problem which is why our border is so porous.

It looks to most Americans that the mighty Hispanic vote trumps national security and the welfare of her people

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