This is about Illegal Invasions

This isn't about immigration; this is about illegal invasions of our country. We have every right to create and enforce laws that keep people out and only allow them in through legal channels. We also have every right to create and enforce laws to kick people who have illegally entered our country out---and deny them re-entry forever.

Why is this such a bad thing? Why can't we do what we want in our country? It isn't as though we are murdering them and tossing them into mass graves, like Saddam Hussein did to his own people.

Here's the news:

AP: Immigration Debate Heating Up in Senate---

WASHINGTON - Founded by immigrants and praised as a haven for the oppressed, the United States now is struggling to decide the fate of as many as 12 million people living in the country illegally.

To the contrary, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and, I daresay, most of our other Founding Fathers were all born in the colonies. Perhaps their ancestors were immigrants. Perhaps the majority of our ancestors were immigrants, but that does not make illegal invasions by illegal aliens alright.

Among the ideas that President Bush and members of Congress are considering:

_Erecting a fence on the Mexico border to deter illegal immigration.

_Treating people who sneak across the border as felons to be deported.

_Allowing foreigners to stay in the country legally as custodians, dish washers, construction workers and other low-paid employees.

_Allowing those working in the U.S. a path to citizenship.

_Requiring them to get in line behind everyone else back in their home countries who want to become Americans.

Fence---yes.
Illegal aliens as felons to be deported---yes.
Allowing foreigners to stay---hell no.
Allowing those working in US a path to legality---hell no.
Requiring them to get in line behind legal immigrants---no, they shouldn't be allowed back in ever.

Critics like Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., say that would give amnesty to people who have broken the law by entering the country without permission.

"It's a slap in the face to every single person who has done it the right way, and to everybody who's waiting out there to do it the right way," Tancredo said. "It's bad policy. And it's also, I think, for the Republican Party especially, bad policy."

I love Tom Tancredo. He's absolutely right.

And, this is not the way to encourage affection from law-abiding Americans:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - At least 200,000 mostly Hispanic demonstrators protested in California on Saturday against moves to tighten U.S. immigration laws, while President George W. Bush urged wary Republicans to take up his guest-worker proposal.

A boisterous crowd, many wearing the red and green of the Mexican flag, packed the streets in front of Los Angeles City Hall to protest Republican bills they say would hurt the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States.

Go ahead and wave the Mexican flag. That will just make me work harder to kick you out of my country.

And what about the hurt these illegal ALIENS (they are NOT immigrants) do to this country. All the crime, disease, and problems they bring in, all the money they cost?

More from Michelle Malkin, including:

Even if we were a “nation of immigrants,” it does not explain why we should be against sensible immigration control.

And if the open borders advocates would actually read American history instead of revising it, they would see that the founding fathers were emphatically insistent on protecting the country against indiscriminate mass immigration.

· George Washington, in a letter to John Adams, stated that immigrants should be absorbed into American life so that "by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, laws: in a word soon become one people."

· In a 1790 speech to Congress on the naturalization of immigrants, James Madison stated that America should welcome the immigrant who could assimilate, but exclude the immigrant who could not readily "incorporate himself into our society."

· Alexander Hamilton wrote in 1802: “The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias, and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education, and family.”

· Hamilton further warned that "The United States have already felt the evils of incorporating a large number of foreigners into their national mass; by promoting in different classes different predilections in favor of particular foreign nations, and antipathies against others, it has served very much to divide the community and to distract our councils. It has been often likely to compromise the interests of our own country in favor of another. The permanent effect of such a policy will be, that in times of great public danger there will be always a numerous body of men, of whom there may be just grounds of distrust; the suspicion alone will weaken the strength of the nation, but their force may be actually employed in assisting an invader.”

· The survival of the American republic, Hamilton maintained, depends upon "the preservation of a national spirit and a national character.” "To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens, the moment they foot in our country would be nothing less than to admit the Grecian horse into the citadel of our liberty and sovereignty.”

Michelle has more on President Bush's "open-borders platitutdes." I'm tired of them. This isn't why I voted for him.

We cannot allow these invaders to tell us what's what in our country. Time to shut them up and kick them out.

More here.