Why we need a wall

LARRY ANDERSON
Larry Anderson

We citizens of America need to stop guffawing the notion of a wall on our southern border which bleeds illegal immigrants from Mexico and Latin America daily.

The wall is a sensible solution to an expanding problem.

Sadly, a wall has become necessary. However, we don’t need the wall to protect our country from those searching for a better way of life as much as to guard our national interests from our own politicians who are too weak or too indoctrinated to deal with a problem no nation should have to tolerate to this extent.

Understand, I am not opposed to immigration, but I am against illegal immigration, as should be everyone who has their country’s best interests in mind. We should allow immigrants who fit well with specific labor demands that can not, apparently, be met by our own perpetually unemployed, but we should disallow criminal behavior.

Currently, we have a dysfunctional immigration system, although you will hear blather to the contrary, largely presented by the Left which is busy structuring a new power base for themselves via people they are encouraging to break the law. People they are using, by the way.

Illegal immigration is wrong. Period.

Barack Obama said a couple of years ago the border was under control, implying illegal immigration is not a problem.

That was a lie, naked in its intent. If our immigration system was efficient, we would not have 11-13 million people living here due to the breaking of federal law via politician-driven excuses, genuflecting to political correctness, and the corruption of long-standing principles concerning political and legal behavior.

Something has to be done to provide fundamental protection for Americans of origin. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Rodham Clinton are not going to do that. Neither will Jeb Bush.

We need a president who will place a barrier between America and a massive illegal practice. Security is not a bad thing. Those who say otherwise are following an agenda alien to the law-abiding.

And, yes, I know Ronald Reagan was a trigger for this mess years ago when he agreed to blanket amnesty for approximately three million people living here illegally. I also know Bill Clinton did nothing to solve the problem, and George W. Bush looked the other way. As a willing enabler and constituency builder, Barack Obama has exacerbated the dilemma.

Blame is easy, and excuses are rife while the crisis goes unsolved.

One excuse offered is this nation was established by immigration, and that is true, but it was built on legal immigration with those from other countries greeted by documentation and an understanding of what was expected.

Illegal immigration mocks those who follow the legitimate procedure. It sends the message that it is okay to break the law in America. It makes a bad joke of our legal and social structure and encourages criminality.

There is a difference between legal and illegal, and if our leadership does not understand that distinction, then they need to go. One must ask, if non-citizens don’t have to obey the law, then why do citizens? Clearly, that direction is a breakdown of law and order.

So you know, many illegal immigrants do receive welfare protection at the expense of the American taxpayer. They do overcrowd our schools and hospitals, and they do commit crimes which lead to overcrowding of incarceration facilities.

All cost billions. None of it is fair.

I am tired of reading about Americans being victimized by illegal aliens, but I am just as tired of listening to craven politicians use a humanitarian cover for their failure to deal with this national problem. Said camouflage is way more political in purpose than sympathetic of plight.

I know that most of the people who cross the border illegally are good people looking for work and a future. But living in another country illegally will not make that so. Nor is this country responsible for the citizens of El Salvador. El Salvador is.

Nearby governments do nothing to encourage their people to stay home; indeed, the opposite is true.

Leadership here must insist on better cooperation from those countries who allow their people to leave, knowing they will enter the U.S. illegally. If assurances aren’t received and results demonstrated, the wall must go up.

Everyone has heard the cost of building a wall will be prohibitive. Of course it will be expensive, but we are spending billions annually trying to control a problem that has been festering too long. We can recoup much of the wall’s expense by willfully controlling the numbers.

It will continue to be argued we can’t deport 11-13 million people.

What we can do promptly is stop the flow, take a census, and evaluate. Then process people as fairly as possible within a newly-designed legal description.

Only a wall will stop the abuse.

Only a president with the courage to think of America first will make it happen over the clamor of political self-interest as modeled by those currently in power.