The pathway

 You know what annoys me? When I hear our elected officials saying, we need to create a pathway to citizenship! Hey, we already have one. What we need to do is ensure that people use it! Those entering the country illegally are criminals, that is what they are. International criminals as a matter of fact. To suggest that we should now provide a path for them to become citizens, after the fact, is ridiculous. You can't undo a crime any more than you can undo a pregnancy. Once committed, a crime remains a crime, an illegal act punishable by law, not rewarded. What's the remedy for an unwanted pregnancy? For those saying we should provide a path to citizenship it is killing the bay. That's a path, right? 

 I really do get annoyed with this mindset. Just yesterday on the news a young man is riding his dirt bike, illegally, on the streets of Baltimore, runs a red light, crashed into a fire truck responding to a call, and gets killed. The response is, an investigation and calls for the city to provide a place for these thugs to ride their dirt bikes. He wouldn't have gotten killed if he had a place to ride! It isn't because he was riding that bike illegally on a city street, no, it's because the city doesn't provide free facilities for riding. The Mayor even said, "it's part of the city culture" although it is illegal. So basically what he is saying is we need to provide a path to make the illegal acceptable. Yes, that is what that mindset is all about, we all know it is illegal, but we will create a path of acceptance for the illegal action. 

 Laws are not designed to be convenient. Laws are restrictive by their very nature, they are a restraint on society. We write laws to delineate what you can and can not do within the constraints of the society. This is acceptable, this is not. It's really not a difficult thing to comprehend. In 1636, in what would become the United States of America, the first set of laws were codified at Plymouth colony. Those laws stated what was not allowed and the punishment for engaging in them. There was no path for breaking the law and then being rewarded for having done so. No, the punishment was listed next to the offense.

 The first immigration law in America was in 1790. That law did provide for citizenship if you had been living here for two years. You have to remember that the constitution wasn't ratified until 1788 and that is the true beginning of America as we know her today. The British were still abducting our sailors and pressing them into service for the King. The British were claiming the children of the founders and everyone else were still subjects of the King! By establishing citizenship in this new Nation, you had a legal claim to being an American. That's also why we have birthright citizenship, which, in my opinion should be repealed at this stage in history. It has become a sort of reverse loophole. At first it provided protection from being taken by the British but now it is being abused to gain permanent entry status for the parents. Yes, the child isn't illegal but the parents are. So the argument is, we shouldn't separate the child from their parents. I agree, send the parents and the child back to their home country, There they can enter the path to citizenship. That path begins in their home nation, not at the border to mine!