Immigration Problem: Who’s really to blame?

We call the United States the shining city on the hill; and we all know light attracts. We also know that desperate people do desperate things. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that people try to get here one way or another. I'm pretty sure if I were born in Mexico, I’d try and find a way to get in the U.S. – legally or illegally.

Now I’m not condoning the actions of people who come in the U.S. illegally. But I understand it. Let's face it, if I owned a convenience store and left the front and back doors wide open while I slept, I shouldn’t be surprised if the shelves are empty in the morning; especially if my store is located in a poor neighborhood with lots of hungry people; and especially if I restock the shelves every morning only to do the same thing at night. After awhile the word gets out, “There’s this crazy owner who stocks his shelves in the morning and doesn’t lockup at night”.

When it comes to the immigration debate, our leaders and politicians are trying to divert attention from themselves. They have cleverly couched the debate to be about illegal aliens. They have us screaming at each other while they hide in their ivory towers. The left is screaming racism and the right is screaming invaders. They want us to focus our anger on each other rather than thier failure to properly address the immigration problem.

I want you to picture something: Right now there is an illegal immigrant crossing the Arizona dessert with no shoes on his feet and maybe not enough water to make it -because he’s desperate. At the same time, there’s a fat politician, in his fancy suit, sitting on his ass not willing to resolve the immigration problem. While he sits in his well air-conditioned office, he wants us to direct our anger toward the alien. He wants us to believe it’s this alien who’s wasting all our tax dollars. He wants us to believe it’s the alien who's seeking all those government entitlements.

I got news for you - immigrants don’t want healthcare; immigrants don’t care about social security; immigrants don’t want Medicaid and Medicare; immigrants don’t want unemployment benefits; immigrants JUST WANT TO WORK. Sounds like old America. I got bad news for you. It is the U.S. citizen that seems to want these entitlements. It is the massive spending on these entitlements that are running our country into the ground, not the illegal alien. Many Americans have become fat and overweight expecting their government to do everything for them.

Come on America, right & left - let’s get back in the gym; let’s focus our anger on who’s really to blame. Our government is to blame for failing to secure the borders; our government is to blame for wasting our money.

The word it out, “There’s this crazy owner who’s left the doors wide open”. His name is “America”.