The Mexican revelation

The Mexican revelation

America was built on the backs of immigrants, immigrants who came through Ellis Island legally. They came on boats from Europe and Asia, waving American flags, with little or no money, in hopes of having a better future for themselves and their children.

Italians, Irish and Chinese came in droves and were exploited by employers and often lived in squalor. They worked hard to assimilate in America, and the cultures blended together to form what America is today, a country made up of many different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

How then can one plausibly demand U.S. citizenship while waving Mexican flags and singing a Spanish variation of the national anthem, which makes no effort to demonstrate one's willingness to actually assimilate in the American culture?

How can one expect amnesty by entering the country illegally while thousands of potential immigrants have been waiting years to legally enter the country?

How can one work for incredibly small wages that no one should have to work for and turn around and say that if they didn't do these jobs, then nobody else would? Others would do those jobs, but they would do them for fair, legal wages.

Immigrants need to enter the country legally no matter where they are from, for security and economic reasons. Employers need to hire only workers who can legally work in the U.S. And Americans need to accept those legally entering the country as a part of American society.

Showing Americans that the only thing you are bringing to the U.S. is the flag and language of your home country and making no effort to actually become a legal part of American society does nothing. If you can show so much support and pride for your home country, then what is the point of leaving it?

— Victor Masters, Bellevue