Imagine this if you will: I am pulled over for driving 25miles over the speed limit, and the officer approaches my car to give me a speeding ticket. As he nears the window I begin shouting that I have just as much right to be on this road as the next guy, and that it is wrong of him to single me out just because of my speed. 

Silly isn’t it? 

However, that same ploy seems to be the main stay those who are against the addressing of this country illegal immigration problems. They insist on saying “They have as much a right to a good life and good education” as anyone else. Sure they do, but that’s not the point. There are here illegally, they broke the law to get here and, statistically speaking, are more likely to break the law now that they are here. 

The issue is not with the individual rights to education, a good job, or a higher standing of living. It is lawless to illegally enter this county, galling to insist on keeping your language, and arrogant to insist that we, those who are here legally and abide by our laws, should fund your families education, food, and housing. 

Let’s keep our eye on the ball here – Illegal immigration is, as the name implies, illegal. Shacking, that. Without reasonable, enforced, and legal limits on immigration we would soon collapse under the pressure of the billions of people who would gladly up and move to the US today if they could get away with it. 

I refuse to entertain all of the other arguments around “jobs we don’t want” and “contributing members of society” or “right to a good life” while we have the overriding issue of legality. It is simply clouding a relatively straightforward issue. If we do not like our current immigration laws, they we can change them, but in the mean time we must enforce them. 

Reagan said it best: 

“We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.”