Thread: Just Get In Line

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Just get in line
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Posted: May 24, 2010
1:00 am Eastern


By Allou Wilkerson
© 2010


No amnesty.

No microwave citizenship.

Today, there are millions of Americans who would not be here if they or their ancestors had not obeyed the law, if no one stood in line and went through the process to become a citizen as millions did on Ellis Island.

But that's not exactly my family's story because I am a descendant of slaves. Still, believe it or not, my ancestors stood in line. They stood in line to get off of a ship and then stepped up on an auction block.

In the beginning, they stood in line to be counted in the Census as only three-fifths of a human being. And for the record, blacks in America were standing in line long before this nation won its independence.

So pardon me, if I have the nerve to say to anyone who crossed the border illegally into the United States … yesterday, "I don't want to hear it. Just get in line."

There is no reason 25 million illegal immigrants should be rewarded with amnesty for breaking the law – not in this country and not with our history in America where citizens have been told to obey the law or go to jail for sitting at a "whites only" lunch counter. Seriously, it's not as if blacks were eating lunch and shooting the breeze in diners throughout the nation, while our government debated whether black citizens should be allowed to sit next to white citizens.

Black protesters didn't reap the reward of a meal before being handcuffed and hauled-off to jail. Where, guess what? They stood in line to be processed.

And knowing that millions of non-citizens have reaped the rewards of public assistance programs, funded with American taxpayers' money, should make citizens cry foul whenever the word amnesty or anything like it is mentioned.

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How dare Congress and the president even consider granting amnesty to 25 million illegal immigrants when more than 15 million Americans are still unemployed, others have lost their homes and some are barely hanging on in this depressed economy?

There is only one reason Congress and the president are showboating as they prey on the emotions of Americans to give these lawbreakers a pass – so they can rush an amnesty bill through the legislative process and President Obama can sign it with everybody onboard.

Just like all of us were 100 percent onboard with national health care.

So what is the problem, really?

Well, we have a government that lacks the courage to say, "Get in line."

We have a government that doesn't want to upset an already angry bunch of people who are in this country illegally and believe they are entitled to what the Constitution grants only to born or naturalized citizens of the U.S.

And I understand. They want what we have. They covet.

But what illegal immigrants and amnesty supporters will not acknowledge is that at some point all of us and our ancestors had to stand in line to earn the right to say with pride, I am an American citizen.

And if Congress and the president opt for amnesty as a quick fix – which we all know doesn't work – it shows their lack of courage to say, "Get in line."

Amnesty is an insult to my family who stood in line as citizens to register to vote, but were turned away. They stood in line to get an education or a job, but watched others cut and go to the front of the line.

Many have tried to equate illegal immigrant issues to that of the Civil Rights Movement but have failed because they are not the same. To compare the two lessens the atrocities of blacks to become citizens and live in this country. I would never compare what my family suffered during the Civil Rights Movement to what the family of a Jewish friend of mine suffered in the Holocaust. It devalues what those two experiences meant to the people, to the families, who actually lived through it or lost someone because of what happened at that moment in history.

So when I see millions of non-citizens demanding rights as they hurl objects, shout hate speech and turn violent in Arizona because of the new immigration law, I have to wonder if they really do love America or only what Americans have to give.

And at what cost will citizens pay if illegal immigrants do not get what they want?

Who will our government defend?

Who will the federal government protect?

Maybe we all should ask ourselves that question.


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Allou Wilkerson is a freelance writer working on the completion of her first nonfiction title about politics. She is a strong advocate for limited government and adherence to the U.S. Constitution, in what she declares "a crazy time" in America.

So when I see millions of non-citizens demanding rights as they hurl objects, shout hate speech and turn violent in Arizona because of the new immigration law, I have to wonder if they really do love America or only what Americans have to give.

Pretty much spot on! Thank you!

Absolutely, the United States of America has our own people and our own problems to deal with right now without adding 23+ million felons as citizens. Our people, our poor, our workers first. I support legal immigration only but feel it should be cut WAY back with much more thorough checking and waiting -- especially in times of high unemployment. As for illegal aliens -- they are criminals plain and simple and they SUCK needed and scarce resources from American Citizens in dire need.

Our schools and streets and employment are like 3rd world war zones now and this must stop.

Deport all illegal aliens and grant them NO citizenship, no guest worker permits, no amnesty, protect our borders, fine employers of illegals $100,000 and prison time, remove illegal incentives like licenses and welfare, enforce laws, no citizenship for children of illegal aliens, remove American citizenship from those with dual citizenship, end offshoring, place high tariffs on any nation using wage-slave labor like China! Enforce Title 8 Section 1325 of the U.S. Code!