More Fuel for the Illegal Immigrant Fire

One of the problems with having flashes of enlightenment is that nagging feeling that associates with the light-- namely, "why didn't I think of this sooner?"

With the current US vs Arizona court case (re: AZ SB1070) working at a breakneck pace to come to a decision before July 29th, of course the major news media are publishing every possible angle on the story.

One angle is, as always, "Why break up families?" And I have to admit, as staunchly anti-illegal immigration as I am, I have always twinged a bit at the thought that the mother or father of a bona-fide US Citizen might be deported BACK to where they are legal residents of.

Man do I not like the idea of breaking up families. Of course, the illegals (they are illegally here) could always take the anchor baby home with them. That is one solution that certainly adheres to the "personal responsibility" I respect so much.

But you can't force a citizen to leave. (BTW, if you don't like that the anchor babies are citizens, tough. It's in the Constitution. Amend it.)

But it just hit me: I have heard more stories for decades along the lines of "they come here to work and they work really hard and they send money back to their family back in Mexico or El Salvador, etc."

Exactly.

Coming here, illegally or otherwise, is for the most part, an act of breaking up your family. Yes, the intentions are good. So what? Breaking the law and breaking a family are bad, no matter what the intentions are.

But, and this is a big but, I hold myself and America to a higher standard than just "well they did it so we can, too." I hold myself and America to the standard of "do what is RIGHT."

And what I believe is right is to allow the parents to take their US Citizen child home with them to their legal country of residence. Once there, the whole family can work to make their legal home better. A place that we would want our citizens to live. A place where they can prosper. And if anything happens to our citizen while there? We have laws and procedures in place for that.

And if they decide to leave the citizen here while they go back to their legal residence and get in line to come here legally?

Well we have lots of people in America that love to take care of children. Our citizens, even the poorest, enjoy a decent standard of living. And of course the US citizen child can travel freely between their US home and their parents legal residence until the parents get legal permission to come back, should they choose that over the option of improving their homeland.

And another note: if you worry that we are deporting people back to places that are unfit for them to live... remind them that God gave them the right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

America's founding fathers, bless their eternal souls, believed in that truth so much so that they risked their property, their fortunes, and their to lives make it possible.