Let Me In, Immigration Man

Today all over this great country, rallies are being held to protect the rights of criminals. Wow, how's that for an incendiary opening? I think I may have to get all political today. The rallies I'm talking about are being called a "campaign for immigrants dignity" What they really need to be called is a"campaign to ignore the law and let anybody come into this country who wants to."

I don't want to jump on the Rush Limbaugh or "Larry the Cable Guy" band wagon, but this is insane. What ever happened to having to do things the right way? I'm the product of immigration. My grandparents emigrated to this country, and worked to become citizens. Yeah, I said worked, not hid out for years and then cried that they should be allowed to stay. Millions of people have come to this country to seek a better life for themselves and their families, followed all the right steps and became citizens. To me it seems like an insult to all the people who did things by the book to just toss out the law and say that anybody can stay.

Supporters of a change in the law say that these "undocumented workers" are doing jobs that Americans don't want to do. First off, they're not "undocumented", they're illegal. You can label things whatever you want, but fat is still fat, dumb is still dumb, and illegal is still illegal. At this point I should be on some AM radio station in Oklahoma shouldn't I? Perhaps, but the point is valid. Sure, most people wouldn't want to be migrant farm workers, or clean up after your sloppy kids at McDonald's, but I'm sure that if the minimum wage was raised a little we could find some actual citizens to do the work. If we used that logic, Ronald McDonald would have to allow the Hamburgler to keep his ill gotten gains because he's the one who has to clean up after Grimmace when he's on a bender.

There is talk of building a wall along the Texas and U.S. border. I think that's OK. I have a fence to keep my neighbors out of my yard, and I kind of like them. Rarely do my neighbors drain the economy by using services that they haven't contributed tax money to. Why does the U.S. have to be the only country with open borders? Can you really be a country if you don't have borders? Even strip clubs have ropes to keep you out of the "Champaign Room" if you're not getting a lap dance. We've all seen the old movies where the border guards, wearing heavy wool coats and toting machine guns ask some shady traveler to see their "papers." Hell, I got strip searched coming back in from Canada after going to Niagara Falls for Chinese food.

Call me an isolationist if you want. I call myself a guy who obeys the law and expects others to do the same. While we were living in Los Angeles, a radio station put up a billboard touting "Los Angeles, Mexico." That stuff wouldn't fly anywhere else. I say it's time to stop being so damn PC, and start knowing that it's OK to protect yourself and your country. The welcome mat is out, but you need to come in through the front door to use it. Later...Brian