The Mexican Standoff

The Mexican Standoff

Isn’t it funny that the Dictionary has the definition of a “Mexican Standoff” as:

mexican standoff
n : a situation in which no one can emerge as a clear winner

Boy, that is an understatement! I strongly support President Bush on most issues, but on this one I think the Republican Party is out of control. I could write thousands of eloquent words here pontificating my selfish views on the “Illegal Immigration Issue” AND NOTE – this is an ILLEGAL immigration issue here NOT and IMMIGRATION issue and there is a BIG difference.

I am the son of an Immigrant. I owe my opportunities and even my ability to post this blog story to the American Immigration System working. But that is only the point of LEGAL IMMIGRATION; the way the system was designed to work. Not ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. So, instead of long words on this (because this issue WILL be drawn out and I will be publishing more) consider these simple but profound facts:

This is Legal Immigration –vs.- Illegal Immigration.
The way it is SUPPOSED to be done to ENHANCE the system –vs.- how it HURTS the system.
One way to end a Poverty Class of a nation IS NOT to send them to another country.
If we claim that Mexican Workers will do the work that American FAT AND HAPPY workers will not – then consider this:
The Illegal comes here and has children. The husband and wife do the work us fat, happy and spoiled America Workers will NOT DO, but since the Illegal Mexican Family does not send their Children to school to learn to pick Vegetables, then what do their children do?
OOPS, next round of workers gone and we need MORE ILLEGALS to do the work that Americans WON’T (that’s BS BTW, we WILL do it IF that was all there was – JUST ask my Depression Grown father)

This is about an ORGANIZED SYSTEM that benefits the NATION AS A WHOLE. This face off has to end when it’s just about Politics and NEW CROP VOTERS. We have to look at the WHOLE NATIONAL PICTURE. This is about our Nation and WHY WE MADE IT GREAT and HOW WE STAY GREAT.

It’s hard to believe the wisdom below is almost 100 years old. But READ AND HEED:

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt 1907