Lately we keep hearing in the news about the Mexican immigration problem, and I am a little bit mixed on the subject. Quite honestly, I totally feel that it is anyone’s right to live here in the US. I think it is a great honor and a privilege to live in this incredible country and I think that anyone who wants to come here should be allowed to. After all, I am half Italian and half German and my ancestors came to this country and were accepted and I would hope that anyone of any race, religion, or nationality would be accepted into this country as my relatives were.

On the other hand, why is it that we will not allow these people to legally immigrate into this country? Instead of providing them with social security numbers and allowing them to obtain legal work on the books, we are allowing them to work for unaccountable income, giving them all the benefits of social services, health care, food stamps, etc, without any of the responsibilities of true citizenship like paying taxes. The whole system seems a little bit wacky to me. I am not really sure why we are afraid of allowing them to immigrate legally into this country. Are we really afraid that they are going to take over our country?

Well, guess what people…that is what we are doing right now. For instance, we are allowing all of our labeling and our phone machines to need to be switched over to being a completely bilingual country. My real question is why? When America became a melting pot, it welcomed people from all areas of the world, and they all entered the country legally and they all came here and learned our primary language, English. Now all of a sudden we feel the need to switch everything over to meet the needs of the Spanish speaking people. Why? Isn’t it true that whenever people in the past settled in new lands, they accepted the language of that land and learned to speak it. I personally would not expect that me wanting to live in a country would cause them to change all their labeling and phone systems and everything. Does it really make sense that you should not be asked to learn the language and culture of your new homeland? It makes sense to me. I just think that having them come live in this country should not cause us to revamp our whole system.

Now some people will use the argument that in countries like Canada they have 2 predominate languages, French and English, however, this has to do with the way Canada was settled. It was settled by the French on one end and the English on the other. By changing the US system to make Spanish a primary language in this country, it seems to me that we are slapping in the face of all the people who came here prior to this and saying that these people are more important than anyone else who needed to come to this country and actually learn our language. In my mind, this is absurd.

Please let’s stand up and have our country fight to make these people legal immigrants and let’s allow them to join the melting pot in this country and use our primary language of English.