The article “Liberty’s open door”, Boston Globe, May 15, 2006
This article in defense of illegal immigration asserts that
-”Virtually all of us are descendants of immigrants.”
For many of us that’s true.
The difference, which the writer blithely ignores, is that those immigrants, that he speaks of so proudly (and rightly so) came through the front door of our American home — in a sense, they came — by way of the Statue of Liberty — legally, showing respect for the laws of their newly chosen country.
The articles implication that we somehow denigrate our parents or grandparents or great grandparents, if we honor our laws and protect the integrity of our borders and “severely” restrict illegal immigration, is a false and deceptive argument.
People who come to your home or your country, openly, requesting welcome and a willingness to abide by the rules laid down for yourself and your family and your culture, are not to be equated with those who enter unbidden, in stealth, intent upon entry at any cost and by any means.
The first are immigrants, of whom many in America are descendant, the latter are illegal aliens. Their desires may be the same, but their method of achieving those desires is decidedly not the same.
Either we are an America with a culture that respects our own rules and laws or we are nothing but a large group of people living in anarchy, with each individual or group choosing the rules and laws they will honor, based only on their personal proclivities and desires.
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