Maybe the entire country should pause for a moment and just one time say it together: We don’t care that you’re getting deported!
The New York Times last week had another sob story about a foreigner who reluctantly self-deported to Mexico because her legal avenues to remain in the U.S. had run out, despite her having resided in Texas for more than two decades on various visas. “I left because, after my family and I had followed every immigration rule for 25 years, our archaic immigration system offered me no means to stay,” wrote Mexican national Patricia Rojas in an op-ed on Friday. “How is it possible to grow up in America legally but not have a clear path to citizenship?” She added that she “never stopped believing in America, but America’s immigration system never believed there should be a place for someone like me.”
Anyone could sympathize with a woman who was brought to another country by no choice of her own, only to be told she needs to leave after years of experience having lived nowhere else. Yeah, that must suck. In fact, there was a time in the not-too-distant past when a solid majority of Americans would have favored allowing Rojas to stay in the U.S., assuming she’s a law-abiding guest.
But that was when our immigration issue was largely a matter of single men coming in from Mexico for jobs, sending money back to their families, and often returning home on their own under no duress. At minimum, they weren’t functioning as a drain on taxpayer-funded entitlements. They weren’t supposed to be here either and many of them caused problems, but those problems were relatively small. That’s not the case today. It hasn’t been for at least 20 years.
The problems are now catastrophic. There are perhaps as many as 20 million illegal aliens in the U.S., and they’re not just mostly adult men anymore. They’re women and children who come for free housing, food, health care, and education. It’s enough that these “newcomers” suck our social services dry without them raping and murdering American citizens in the process. And yes, “newcomers” do that, too. All the time.
While many treacherous Republicans contributed to this mess, Democrats bear most of the responsibility for it, particularly between the years of 2016 and 2026. In that time, they fought the construction of southern border wall; opposed funding for immigration law enforcement; resisted every single deportation; defended criminal illegal aliens; and encouraged every destitute foreigner to foist himself into the care of American taxpayers.
Let us never forget when a sitting Democrat U.S. senator left his constituents behind and flew to Central America for the sake of reimporting a professed illegal alien, who had been found by a U.S. court to be a violent gang member. When one political party in this country is willing to go that far to keep foreigners here, the goodwill Americans had for any of them starts to run out fast, including those like Patricia Rojas.
A child who wants to rescue a stray dog might have parents with enough money and patience to agree. But if that child were to come home one day with another eight dogs and then leave out food for yet more to make their way to the house, the parents would have every right and duty to say absolutely not and send each animal to the pound.
Immigration works no differently. Too many were let in and now they have to leave. There’s no time to feel sorry for the ones with sob stories. They know who to blame for that.
