Archive for May, 2010

Been reading all sorts of commentary on the DREAM Act and other proposals to legalize all or some of the vast population of illegal aliens.

The arguments are:

A. These are hard working, salt of the earth people who struggled to get here to make a better life.

Which is opposed by:

B. Illegal aliens have broken the law, and must be forced to get in line behind the people in the legitimate immigration process.

While I am sympathetic to some illegal immigrants, particularly ones I know personally, I have to come down in favor of enforcement of immigration laws.

Without even mentioning the fact that a huge portion of the crimes I see prosecuted in Dallas County, Texas are crimes committed by illegal aliens, or mentioning the destruction of my school system, I will tell you how I came to see the personal impact of illegal immigration.

I have a 1966 Mustang convertible. It is my first car, which I have owned and worked on since 1986.

A few years ago I took it for a drive.  An illegal alien in a junk car ran a red light and destroyed my Mustang.

Naturally, he had no insurance, license and the car was unregistered. A few minutes later his brother pulls up in a truck with no tags. The brother proceeds to tell me how sorry his brother is, but he is poor, and he and his family only came here to eke out a living.

Poor, poor them he told me, sad eyes and all, and then he told me how much they like it here in America. While I called the cops, they quickly grabbed a few items from his wrecked car and peeled out of the area post-haste.

You see, the problem is that when you give an inch, a mile or more is taken. Since they have no consequence for sneaking in, the message is that there is no consequence for anything at all.

Why have insurance? Just drive a disposable car and be prepared to dump it after you damage another persons car, or kill them, whatever.

We have turned our country into a Disneyland for scofflaws, where speaking out against criminal acts is called racism, and we have to learn to accept two-tiered legal system: one for legal residents and a low-impact one for illegal aliens.

This is nonsense. It has taken me 5 years to get my car back in shape, spending my own money to pay for an illegal alien to get “better life”. How is this different than if he had burgled my home to make his “better life”? What if he had killed my family in that wreck?

What costs am I expected to bear for their good times?

Their better life should not be at my expense. I am losing patience.

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