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05/01/2005: "Minuteman Project and Immigration as a whole"

You know its not often I climb up on the old bandstand and bitch about one of my stances but this is one of those times I fell like I need to vent. Now first off before I do anything let me make it clear that I am a patriot. I love my country and truly believe it to be the greates country on Earth. That said though I need to express what I believe made this country great and what now seems to be screwing it up. Many Americans now believe that immigration to the United States needs to be maintained as illegal to protect the interest of those who are here now. Its ours and by God we want to protect it. I think the reason the United States is going to hell in so many ways is this attitude in itself. Up until midway through this century there was nothing that limited immigration to the United States. You wanted to come you came. If you could make a living more power to you. Your culture was assimilated into the United States and we became a bigger mixing pot. Now we say NO you cant move here we put a big wall up and we dont want any new people moving here. Well guess what. It was the influx of new hungry people wanting to make a better life that pushed the envelope, made things harder so we had to be more industrious or get left behind. Now we say we dont want illegals taking our jobs, 50 years ago it was that very competition that made the US flourish. Now that we have closed our borders for the most part and believe me I understand the need for safety and most of the border crap is not about safety rather it is oppression of peaople trying to make a better life while us fat lazy gringos feel threatened. I think the US will continue to suck much like it does today because the people who are here now came from somewhere else and how would we have liked it if we had had the borders had been closed to us. I dont forget that my great great grandfather was allowed to come over and make a fortune in the telephone business. He probably wouldn't have had he stayed in Scotland and quite possibly the telephone would have been invented elsewhere if Graham Bell had been forced to stay in Scotland. Sure the minutemen say there protecting the interests of the United States but really they are protecting their own interest be it lazy or racist. I dont know where this attitude of keep other folks out came from but I think its a move in the wrong direction and hope the US doesn't regret it down the line.