I believe the United States needs a constant influx of new thoughts, new ideas, new blood. Any organism or group that cuts itself off from its surrounding environment will ultimately whither and die. However, I also believe the United States has the right to select those things it will take unto itself, it has the right to filter out that which would make it weaker or that which would bring about unwanted change and to only accept that which makes it stronger or more capable.
By rule of law and through popular adherence to that rule of law we have created an economic and behavioral environment that is the envy of much of the rest of world and which is the penultimate destination or goal of a majority of its residents. The model the United States has adopted requires adherence to the underlying rule of law. Without that adherence the model no longer exists, the environment disappears, it becomes something else.
I am not prepared to argue how many others we allow into our environment, our little club, our life style. I don’t know who is more deserving and I can’t tell you when to close the door, when we have admitted a sufficient number. But I am prepared to argue that each and every one of them must have a deep, abiding respect for our “rule of law”.
Applicants who often spend years waiting for the “system” to let them legally enter the United States as a resident or citizen understand and respect that “rule of law” and I welcome them to our way of life and the opportunities it offers. They bring with them a strength of character that is both valued and needed in our society.
I submit that those who buck the system and illegally enter the United States neither respect nor understand our “rule of law” and I support every effort expended to remove them from among us. By their very action they demonstrate they do not want to be a part of our environment, our grand experiment, but rather that they don’t believe in it and only want to take from it.
Before you chastise me for being callus and uncaring, I defy anyone to prove that those who break the law to take from and diminish our way of life are any more deserving or needy than those who patiently work the system to lawfully adopt our way of life and strengthen it.
The reward for illegal entry to the United States must be expedited deportation to the place of origin and the opportunity to join the end of the application line for lawful entry.
The reward for application for legal entry to the United States must be expedited approval of that application and immediate placement in those vacancies created by the deportation of those who were here illegally.
Now there is incentive! There is demonstrated desire to participate in the rule of law.