Let me put, in very simple terms, why most of us – yes, even a Puerto Rican-born American citizen like me – oppose illegal immigration.
Say, you have a nice, well-kept house with nice front and back yards, which you have spent time and efforts to make it what it is. One day, some ruffian you have never met before decides that he wants your house. So, he moves into your back yard. Pitches a tent there. Attempts to eat your food by stealing it from your kitchen. Attempts to take a bath in your swimming pool. Urinates and takes dumps on your well-kept flowers and everywhere else in your yard and terrace, thus leaving a horrible smell for those who live in your house. Then, when you confront the man and tell him that this is not his house, but yours, the ruffian accuses you of being “unfair” and a “bigot”, that he has every right to steal from your home and make it look like a landfill because he says so and has more rights than you to your own home (the home that you built and maintained for yourself and your family), and that, if you don’t fulfill his demands, he will seize your house and force you and your family to live with his disgusting presence as an eyesore to everything you built.
You tell the police about it, and what’s the response? “Sorry, man, we can’t take the man out of your property, even if you have a case, because we’re afraid to lose our heads for doing the right thing.”
That’s when you know that no one will help you on this one. You have to handle it yourself.
So, what do you do? You take measures to defend yourself, your family, and your property. You set up an alarm system inside the house, to the protests of the invader. You prepare your family with some measure of self-defense, in case he decides to make a run for them and your house. You buy a gun. You fill it. And you tell the ruffian, while pointing your gun at him, that he’d better leave YOUR property RIGHT NOW, or you will empty those bullets into his body.
The ruffian screams “You’re threatening me! What have I done to you?”
Plenty. Plenty enough to act.
So, que te quede claro. What’s happening here is that America is saying, loud and clear, to all of those ruffians and criminals who think they have a right to everything we have built and cared for and loot it into ruin, “YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO INVADE MY HOME!”
He dicho.
