Should America Close Its Door To Immigrants?

     Boom! (shockwave, screeching, yells for my head), but do listen, first.

     Over the past few hundred years, America has grown by leaps and bounds via immigration!  Immigration has transformed our continent, albeit much to the dismay of many Native Americans, who in all honesty were not really native to North America anymore than the others who came later.  They simply travelled more slowly back then.  So, you might ask, "How in the world can someone write such a hate-filled, biggoted, racist article as this evidently is", not counting the fact that you haven't even read it yet?  See, America, now that's what prompted this whole thing!  Racism.  ("Screeeech",...again, -- sigh.)  Yes.  America seems to have a need to extremely curtail, or even stop, immigration to our nation.  ...Heh, heh -- seee?  I did use the term "our", didn't I? (Big smile.)  Okay then, now we can talk.

      According to the U.S. POPClock Projection of the U.S. Census Bureau ( http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html ), our national population count is nearly 307 million strong!  So, how do 307 million people of extremely diverse backgrounds, ethnicities and racial backgrounds possibly get along without destroying ourselves?  -- "Okay, you, in the back corner, your hand went up first."  "No, the answer is not to go destroy everybody else, instead (sheeesh)."   What we have to do is to get back to the wisdom of our founding fathers, for one.  We need to learn from our mistakes and perfect what guidelines they gave us, not look for a way to foil them or get "one up" on everyone not of our cultural or social "clique".  That will only set us back.

     To foster that kind of spirit -- an attitude of  "one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all", we need to dispense with all the malarky and start walking the talk, and that includes all ethnicities and all races within the U.S.  You ever been in a fight or not want to fight someone that's mad at you, so you stuck out your hand and they punched you?  Well, that won't do, not if we want our nation to last, and by the way,....our standard of living is tied in to how well we can do all of this; or, haven't you noticed what happens economically to the countries that can't get a grip on internal strife and turmoil?  The money goes elsewhere, as instability is not a good environment for investors, unless maybe you're a weapons dealer, and that only goes so far and likely doesn't actually help the economy too much, either, in those places.  Look at the maps yourself : do we want America to become a torn, fractured shell of a nation like we often see all over the world during the evening news? 

      To "mend our fences" between fellow citizens, we need to foster genuine unity, which doesn't work too well when you're full of hate, anger, bitterness and resentment.  If you have a fire and keep on pouring lighter fluid on it, how quickly do you think it will go out?  Yeah.  We have had so many immigrants and so little assimilation that our differences are dividing us.  Oh, you can treasure your heritage all you want : I won't deny you that.  But, don't let it come between you and our flag,...or maybe I should say, between you and OUR  flag, because we're all in this together.  If you don't think so and want to keep on pushing some kind of sectarian attitude, then just remember that if the day ever comes that we live under the rule of another flag.  We all know about the "divide and conquer" strategy, so how can we be so blind?  We've seen oppression in other parts of the world, so how can we be so naive?  Communist China has a population of approximately 1.3 billion people (http://www.geocities.com/radioki2000/china.htm), a whole lot more than ours, their technological abilities are increasing very rapidly, and they are yet a communist dictatorship.  -- You know, like a big brat kid that will smack down any other kid on the block if need be to take their piece of pie.  Did we grow up stupid or something?  Why can't we see this?  So, what we need right now is to be united, not divided.

      This is where the immigration problem comes in.  The U.S. has an estimated 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants within our borders.  We want to stop terrorism, but we can't even secure our borders.  Brilliant!  I know they need jobs, and I care about them; but, you know what, our citizens' needs come first.  Leaders of America, listen : "Our needs come first!"  We have many and various minorities in the United States of America who cannot find a job.  Maybe some lack training, so we need to get them some.  I have an idea : let's take some of the billions of dollars the U.S. spends annually on foreign aide give-aways to other countries, (some who seem to outright despise us), and let's help OUR people.  -- And do you know what?  All that money flowing down from here to Mexico and central America via jobs siphoned off by illegal aliens is OUR money, too, America.  It's being stolen : YOUR jobs are being stolen from you, and they aren't all low-dollar jobs that nobody else wants to do.  Really, a lot of them are decent jobs that rich businesses don't want to pay Americans a good wage to do, as they should be doing.  Then, people want to turn around and hate their fellow Americans because they are out of work or something -- just filthy hate, that's all, and it isn't right.

      When we curtail the immigration and help everyone get a job again, then we can also have a chance to truly integrate, so we can respect one another better.  You know what, if you can put away your old flag, I'll bet a whole lot of others can, too, so we can all start being simply "Americans".  If you act different for the sole reason of making a commotion or stirring up a fuss of sectarianism, you are making a problem that doesn't need to exist, and there are trouble-makers in every race who know what this is all about.  It is up to the rest of us to help them have a better point of view, just like each family rasies up their own kids, cause they won't listen to other kids' parents too well, will they?  Folks, we need to get our families' affairs in order.  We need to bury some of our differences, and you know what, we need to stop rewarding bad behavior.  We need to help Americans to have opportunity, and if you don't study or apply yourself, then please just shut up and quit blaming everybody else for your problems, okay?  We can love you and care about you, but we can't live your life for you : you have to choose to do that on your own.  You have to choose to try, and if you get knocked down, to try again.  And if somebody doesn't help you right away, well try again anyway!  We also need to choose to care, and sadly, America is too often failing in that category.  It seems like we can sometimes be more willing to help someone in a far distant country whom we don't know than to reach out and help our own neighbor down the street.  Maybe it's due to all the fakers we've seen over the years, but we mustn't quit caring for one another and giving hope to each other.

      When we've had time to heal and become a united nation, maybe then we can open our doors a bit more, but hammering a wedge of diversity, differences and foreign nationalism into our open wounds is not going to unite us.  It is dividing us : it is splitting us apart, and our pain is blinding us to it all.  If we don't stop this, we'll soon be "ripe for the picking", and it won't be any fun and games.  We don't all have any place to go back to, despite our differences, do we?  Will the 20 million illegals stand and fight with us if we ever are in a war?  Don't you think most of  them would just hurry right back to where they came from if the bullets start flying?  They waived their flags in our streets, while here illlegally.  Do you really think they will be in any hurry to die for us to help secure our freedom?  Let their governments care for them.  Some of those govern-ments have quite a bit of money they're sitting on!  If we get our people taken care of and need some extra workers, then maybe we can let some come on in with green cards, on a limited basis, but I see no reason in the world to just throw U.S. citizenship away like play money to everyone who steals their way into the country or who steals away American jobs.  If our citizenship is that cheap and valueless to you, please go somewhere else.  Oh, you can hate me all you want to, but I'm not playing politics, and reverse psychology doesn't win this argument.  Good day, America, and I hope you find your future great.  Think about it.