Letters to the Jonesboro Sun: Illegal Immigration

Assimilate, already

"In 1907 Teddy Roosevelt's ideas on immigrants is that you should insist that if an immigrant comes here in good faith, becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he should be treated with exact equality as everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, birthplace or origin.

But this is predicated on the person becoming in every way an American and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American but something else also isn't an American at all. We have room but for one flag, the American flag. We have room but for one language here — that is the English language. We have room but for one sole loyalty, and that loyalty is to the American people.

Well our government appears to have forgotten this. They refuse to make English our national language.

Nancy Pelosi even stated it is un-American to stop illegals from crossing the border.

If you slip into Mexico you go to jail. In the United States you receive housing, welfare and food stamps.

I have friends in Arizona who say crime among illegals is out of control. They fly the Mexican flag in their yards. If they love that flag so much why don't they go home?

If people who knowingly help illegals were thrown into jail, that would send them all back home, if they had no jobs and were cut off all aid.

Every president since Ronald Reagan is gutless, and Obama is the worst of the lot.

The stores and government offices make it easy for those people by posting everything in Spanish. They should not do this.

I have read that the Mexicans have bragged they will take over our country. The truth is they already have.

Not one word have I heard about what people running in the elections will do about the illegals. We need to vote out the incumbents and get people who represent the American people."

Burt Turman

Jonesboro

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My analysis of recent letter to the Sun:

1. You'll wind up in prison in Mexico if you attempt to immigrate there illegally. It's a well known fact that thousands of red-blooded Americans are jumping the border into Mexico to find gainful employment in an attempt to avoid starvation and to seek a safer living environment in drug cartel controlled border towns. Also, Nancy Pelosi said it was un-Mexican to stop Americans from entering Mexico.
   
2. If you don't have an American flag in your yard or use another country's flag as a symbol of heritage you should go back from whence you came. This country is only for REAL Americans® whose ancestors didn't hail from all over the world. I'm not sure about those Native Americans who might've immigrated illegally to North America during the last ice age over the Bering Strait land bridge though. Also, make sure you tell all those good old boys to either go back from where they came from or take that Confederate navy jack down and peel that sticker off their truck.
   
3. We should only speak English in this country because a majority speaks it! Majority is ALWAYS right. The rest of the world is multilingual and Americans shouldn't have to learn any language besides English. Also, Mandarin Chinese does not have the greatest number of native speakers either-- Luxembourgish does. All signs should have Luxembourgish on them!
   
4. Mexicans have already taken over this country with their current exploitation, I mean employment, by enterprising and cost cutting businesses that hire surreptitiously and pay them an illegal, below minimum wage taking competitive jobs like digging rice levies, picking produce, or landscaping jobs from pasty and flabby suburbanite Caucasians. Don't forget about how those Chicanos are placing you and your family in danger with their hard work ethic and tasty and delicious Tex-Mex cuisine establishments.
   
5. Also, every President since Reagan is gutless and Obama is the worst because if you disagree with me politically--well you deserve to be called sophomoric epithets just like an articulate middle school student in a cafeteria.