TY, Gentlemen.
"Tacit permission" and "aqcuired rights"...exactly.
They've been here for some period of time (all as a law-breaking criminal) so they must be "entitled". If you ask me, the victim mentality and 'entitlements' will crush us all.
I'm afraid that it's not the votes of the illegals that our ever-lovin' "leaders" are after. They want the bleeding-heart vote.
I'm not suggesting the liberal/conservative thing...I refer to those persons who simply don't think there should be limits at all. Those who feel better about themselves for never saying 'No' to anybody. Or those blissful souls who, without meaning harm, simply do not see how complex and intertwined these things are, and how unregulated, unenforced immigration WILL drain this country's resources. I'm afraid that there are a LOT of uninformed voters like this.
You can't take out unless you put your full measure in, and stand to be accounted for. Playing only part of the game don't count.
I only need to look as far as my own neighborhood: The legal immigrants, Mexican, down the block from me are great people. Two of the elders of the family have just been able to get their citizenship (after the requisite, what, 7 years?), and we threw a party. OTOH, I was robbed by an illegal immigrant.
It's about a kind of person, not nationalities. Those who will ante up, square off, and kick in should be considered a national treasure. We are a nation of leftovers, outcasts and mutts...and it makes us powerful.
Those who rationalize, lie, cheat, falsify, and take...can go back home with my boot in the...right direction.
If there is a reason that a man can't raise a family in safety, and with a decent job, in his own homeland, then I say they need to go back and get the job done, not come here and demand what they have not earned.
I say it again....if you insist on breaking in the back window, when the front door is open...How in THE hell do you justify yourself?
It's like offering to shake a man's hand, and getting mugged for your trouble.
