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| Corey Stewart, PWC Chairman Wikipedia photo |
A mob of protesters stormed the board meeting on Tuesday,
carrying signs in Spanish and English that it did not matter where or how you
came from, we are all immigrants and we are all Americans. Speakers who
advocate open borders argued that those arrested had not committed a crime and
should not have been detained. http://wjla.com/news/local/prince-william-county-residents-speak-out-against-immigration-proposal
The fact that illegal aliens crossed into our country without
visas and proper documentation is a crime. The last U.S. Census attributed the
large population increase in Prince William County mostly to the illegal alien
migration to the county.
Fredy Burgos, a Republican Party activist, posts regularly
on Facebook examples of crimes committed daily by illegal aliens in Prince
William County. Despite the protesters’ claims that illegals do not commit
crimes, reality and police records speak otherwise.
In addition to illegals, counties in Virginia have to deal
with the middle of the night surprise of forced resettlement of refugees in
small communities that are ill-prepared to handle the influx of uneducated,
illiterate, third world individuals who have no skills, do not speak our
language, are often unwilling to learn it, do not understand our culture, do
not accept it, do not share our religious values, and do not respect nor
recognize our Constitution.
Legal immigrants throughout history have made America better
by assimilating into one culture, the American culture. Back then there was no
welfare state and no welfare generosity and dependency. But today’s immigrants
are often here for economic benefits, welfare, and social security thanks to
the leftist Open Borders policy. There is no economic boom to struggling
communities who are forced to accept such refugees or close their eyes at the
massive influx of illegals. In their media-driven narrative, leftists
conveniently leave out the cost of welfare use, education of their children, and
criminal justice system costs that counties incur in dealing with illegal
aliens and refugees.
Looking at just one program, SNAP (food stamps), of the
refugees who arrived in 2015, 92.5 percent received food stamps and, of those
admitted in 2011, a whopping 60 percent are still receiving SNAP today. Take a
trip in northern Virginia to Walmart on the days that SNAP benefits are
distributed, and you will see a mass of illegal humanity, speaking languages
other than English and wearing burkas and other ethnic costumes. https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/orr/arc_15_final_508.pdf
Our great-grandfathers had arrived here for the opportunity
to make a better life for themselves and their families or future families. They
had to go through Ellis Island, weeks of quarantine for infectious diseases,
and some were even turned away because we wanted to keep the American public
safe. And those immigrants, who cleared Ellis Island, worked very hard, built
railroads, ports, tunnels, bridges, dams, roads, parks, highways, interstates, skyscrapers,
and entire cities. As my good and patriotic Virginian friend had suggested, there
should be “no immigration without
verification and assimilation.”
Repealing the Open Borders mentality is essential. Becoming
a U.S. citizen is a privilege, not a given right. Immigrants should benefit
America in some way by bringing in skills and trades that are helpful in
strengthening America. Immigrants must be an asset to our country, not a
liability. Nobody should become a burden by drawing from our welfare system and
from our social security funds built up by American workers who contributed with
every paycheck into these funds. Taking social security funds without contributing
to them is theft from the American people.
Given all the violent Islamist attacks on American citizens
in the last years, we cannot afford to trust blindly, we must verify immigrants’
ulterior motives. “Can they prove that
they are who they say they are? Can they prove that they are not criminal? What
is their intent in becoming an American?”
Even though leftists claim that the demand to assimilate is “fascistic,”
assimilation is necessary for
numerous reasons:
1.
Do the potential immigrants’ world views match
the views of our founding documents?
2.
Do potential immigrants intend to become Americans,
or are they just drawing financial benefits, taking advantage of our American compassionate
nature and generosity?
3.
Will they protect and defend the Constitution
and support American independence and sovereignty?
4.
As Dr. Savage says, will they support our “language,
borders, and culture?”
5.
Are they interested in subverting America’s
power, authority, and institutions with the intent of dividing our great
nation?
6.
Do they understand what it takes to be an
American?
7.
Do they want to be productive citizens?
We stand with legal immigrants who came before us and with
those millions who are still awaiting the disposition of their backlogged
files, immigrants who want to come to the United States legally, but live too
far away. To now skip them and instead allow law breakers, border jumpers, and
fence climbers to become American citizens is a slap in the face of every formerly
legal resident alien who became naturalized American citizens after waiting
years and years, meandering through legal hoops, learning history and civics,
passing citizenship readiness tests, proving that they have what it takes to
become an American, a privilege earned, not a right.
America welcomes legal immigrants with open arms and
generosity but, if there is ever any doubt, after proper and thorough vetting,
then, as my Virginian friend had suggested, “when in doubt, leave them out,” they don’t have what it takes to
become an American.
Wonderful article, Ileana. You articulate the issue so well. I was at that meeting and all those protestors, plus the 30 or so who lined up inside and each spent 3 mins spewing hatred at Corey, wore "No Hate" stickers. They are totally irrational.
ReplyDeleteOne of your best articles, Ileana!
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