by Elizabeth M Young

Created on: October 19, 2010

It is astounding when humankind exercises the ability to rationalize anything. Illegal immigration, though illegal, is easily redefined as a right, according to the desires of the person who is for immigration.

Illegal immigration is a grave crime, no matter how long the person has been in residence, has been doing fine and has been contributing to society, according to people who are against immigration.

This rationalization and redefining is mostly on  a selective basis. The darker the skin, the less desirable the immigrant, no matter how much the immigrant has to offer. Certain countries of origin or certain religions can make a person undesirable. Too many of some people of color is too much, while whites are readily accepted, even if they come here to build crime empires so evil  that law enforcement will not touch them.

When is the last time that Russian, Albanian or Eastern European organized crime figures who are not legal citizens were rounded up with great fanfare and removed from our soil? The interest only seems to apply to tan, brown and black people.

Some people want to keep the descendants of slaves on the lowest levels of the social totem pole, no matter who is allowed to come in to block their rise to opportunity. There is a special hatred in America for the descendants of slaves. Thus, any people of color, even from the Caribbean, are more desirable than the descendants of America's evil past. In the South, all of the skilled workers, from masons and tailors to architects were slaves. When European immigration boomed, all of these workers were run off, sometimes burned out of their homes, and left to fend for themselves.

As a result, some Americans would love to see the last immigrant arrive and all of the illegal immigrants taken out of here. Then they can begin to hope.

It is difficult to understand the reasoning that, just because parents or grand parents were immigrants, that every one else from a country of origin is entitled to come here.

Conversely, by calling us "all" immigrants, the claim is made that being born here means nothing. This is insulting and it is silly. We are not immigrants if we were born here. This is the country that we know and it is the society that we know. And we should not be manipulated  into degrading our citizenship by birth into something worthless in order to accommodate anyone who wants an excuse to come here, or who is overcome by greed for what is here.

Illegal immigrants should

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