Am i the only one who happens to agree with this?

Question

Let's Say I Break into Your House

A lady wrote the best letter in the Editorials in ages!! It explains things better than all the baloney you hear on TV.

Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration. Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely. Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests.

Let's say, I break into your house.. Let's say, that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave. But I say, "I've made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors; I've done all the things you don't like to do. I'm hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house).

According to the protesters, not only must you let me stay, you must add me to your family's insurance plan, educate my kids, and provide other benefits to me and to my family (my husband will do your yard work because he too is hard-working and honest, except for that breaking in part). If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my right to be there.

It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I'm just trying to better myself. I'm hard working and honest, um, except for, well, you know.

And what a deal it is for me!! I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of selfishness, prejudice, and being an anti-housebreaker. Oh yeah, and I want you to learn my language so you can communicate with me.

Why can't people see how ridiculous this is?! Only in America....if you agree, pass it on (in English). Share it if you see the value of it as a good simile. If not, blow it off along with your future Social Security funds.

Answer 1

I live in the Czech Republic. If a person is found to be here illegally, even just by overstaying a visa, he or she is held by the police and served a deportation notice - usually the same day. And a person who is deported will not be allowed across the border again for at least three years. This does not mean that this country does not allow immigrants, of course. But there is a process and there are laws to be obeyed. I cannot understand why a person who breaks the law should be given precedence over those who have respect for it.

Of course, where a person enters this country and seeks asylum, that is different. Again, there is a legal process and where the person's case is genuine they can stay and even become citizens after a time, and while their case is being considered they are provided with accommodation and all amenities. But they are not illegal immigrants.

There used to be walls and fences around much of this country, designed to keep people in as well as keep them out. Those walls are gone now, and as a result the number of 'illegals' here is obviously higher than what it was in the past. But here, this freedom to move that all Czechs now enjoy is considered so valuable that the people of this nation are willing to pay the price of having to deal with these illegals. Nobody here wants to see those walls and fences go up again, but that does NOT mean that people of this nation will just allow anyone to walk in without any regard or respect for their laws.

The fact is that those walls and fences never stopped the most determined anyway (who in the bad old days mainly wanted to get out, usually with very good reason). Walls are not really the ideal answer, and I assure you that a 700-mile-long wall will not prevent all illegal entry to your country.Granted, it may prevent much of it, but not all. The true answer, I feel lies in having good border patrols on BOTH sides which can take action to stop illegal crossings -- in much the same way that the Czech border police co-operate with their German, Austrian, Polish and Slovak colleagues these days to make sure that the illegal crossings are kept to a minimum and that the laws of these lands are obeyed.

This is not, in my opinion, even a question of racism. It is a question of sovereignity. Surely you Americans have the right to live in your own country under laws that you have decided through your democratically elected congress?? And surely you have the right to exclude people from ANY nation who seek to enter your country in breach of those laws? If I tried to enter your nation without valid documentation and your authorities refused me entry, I would not consider them racist. My race is not the issue! I simply have to obey your laws -- and that is the same situation all over the world! Every nation has the right to sovereignity and the right to defend it. And that includes the right to refuse entry to ANYONE who is not a national of that country.

Why is this so hard for people to understand?

But as I have said in answer to other questions of this nature, I am not an American. You must make your own decisions based upon what you think is best for you. I am entitled to voice an opinion and I am grateful to have that right, but this matter of deciding who may or may nor enter your country is YOUR decision and yours alone.

Answer 2

First off, what gives you the right to deny a fellow human being the chance and ability to have a better life? NOT A DAMN THING!

Second, Caucasians, Blacks, Asians are all immigrants to this Continent. The only Natives of this Continent are the Native American Indians, and the Mexicans (possible other Latin people from central and south America too).

To claim this is your home, as an America, while knowing damn well that we took this home through armed conflict from humans that were living here for thousands of years, is just moronic.

Why can't people just see that Humans are Humans and try to get along, rather than fight all the time..... you make me sick, good bye racist bigot.

Answer 3

Well, I'm not sure what you're agreeing with, that it's a good analogy, or that there is a big problem with illegal immigrants? What I don't see is you trying to form original ideas or opinions on the subject, just passing some one else's writing that is over a year old.

I do feel there is a problem with illegals in this country, but I think its going to prove to be a difficult one to solve.

Answer 4

I am in TOTAL agreement with you!!! That is the best analogy I have heard and explains the situation very clearly. People do not have to be "housebreakers" to come into this country to make a better living. But we are not allowed to go to any country illegally without being jailed or deported, so why should Mexicans come into our country illegally without consequences? Why don't they come legally? Maybe they have some underlying secret agenda, or maybe they have something to hide?

Answer 5

Illegal IS Illegal. It is breaking the law. The worst part is WHY do they enter illegal? Is it because they are wanted criminals, have diseases, convicted felons, known child molesters etc. IF they are hard working and honest as the above says, why enter illegal?????? Thre are accepted legal ways. It does no one any good to have a herd of sneaky law breakers mooching on the welfare and school system let alone our medical and other american benifits.

What am I to think of a person whose first act as guest of America is to sneak, lie, have no problem knowingly break the law, steal some honest americans identity etc. To me that is undesireable scum, not hard working honest .

Answer 6

That is what I have been telling my friend for a year now. I told her that she should no longer lock her front door because somebody less fortunate than her might wish to use her home. I told her it didn't mean that they were going to steal or hurt her, they might just want to take a shower or watch cable TV and they would probably offer to clean up the house for her in exchange.

Answer 7

That's a repeat...seen it several times before. Don't forget to write Congress to ask them to hurry up and deliver the border fence bill to the White House!

Answer 8

Dan-

That is true but the shack and the person have to be there for 20 years to claim ownership. Thats an old old law as well. I dont think it would hold up in todays courts.

Answer 9

I totally agree with you. I know they want to make a better life for their families, and I admire that. But geez. I like what the guy said in here the other day about making Mexico the 51st state. Then maybe they would stay there.

Answer 10

Sounds eerily similar to "Squatter's Rights"... when you have a piece of land that you have not visited in years but someone has put a shack of a house there and made improvements to the property. They can legally claim it as theirs.