Ticket Please
Tickets, please…………..
This was written by a Mexican who is now a naturalized US Citizen, and I think it’s a great explanation of the illegal immigration issue.
Here is the quote:
“If you had tickets to a sports event, concert, Disneyland, or for an airline flight, and when you got to your assigned seat you found someone else was in that seat, what would you do? You would call for a person in charge of ticket checking and have the person in your seat removed. You would properly be asked to show your ticket, and you would gladly and proudly do so, for you have bought and paid for that seat. The person in your seat would also be asked for a ticket, which they would not be able to produce. They would be called “gate crashers” and they would properly be removed.
Now in this huge stadium called the USA we have had millions of gate crashers. We have been asking security to check for tickets and remove the gate crashers. We have been asking security to have better controls in checking at the door. We have asked security to lock the back doors. Security has failed us. They are still looking the other way. They are afraid to ask to see the tickets. Many people say there is unlimited seating, and whether there is or not, no one should be allowed in for free while the rest of us pay full price!
In “section AZ”, of “Stadium USA”, we have had enough of the failures of Security. We have decided to do our own ticket checking, and properly remove those who do not have tickets. Now it seems very strange to me that so many people in the other 49 “sections”, and even many in our own “section” do not want tickets checked, or even to be asked to show their ticket! Even the head of Security is chastising us, while not doing his own job which he has sworn to do.
My own ticket has been bought and paid for, so I am proudly going to show it when asked to do so. I have a right to my seat, and I want the gate crashers to be asked to show their tickets too. The only reason that I can imagine anyone objecting to being asked for their ticket is that they are in favor of gate crashing, and all of the illegal activities that go with it, such as drug smuggling, gang wars, murder, human smuggling for profit, and many more illegal and inhumane acts that we are trying to prevent with our new legislation. Is that what I am hearing from all of the protestors such as Phoenix Mayor Gordon, US Rep. Grijalva, even President Obama? If you are not in favor of showing tickets, (proof of citizenship, passport, green card, or other legal document) when asked, as I would do proudly, then you must be condoning those illegal activities.”
Written by a US Citizen, Globe, Arizona.
This makes perfect sense to me. What do you think?
Since Obama has never shown his ticket I guess he feels obligated to not ask others to show theirs.
I could probably go off on a rant about this. The author has a great perspective on the problem.
I work with a younger engineer who is from the UK. Brilliant guy, great, fresh perspectives; Masters from Bath with his MS thesis in a specialty that is very hard to find. He went through hoop after hoop after hoop to get into this country, did everything legally and above board. Why is a lettuce picker allowed to just walk in and make himself at home? I think an MSEE (and actual taxpayer) is more valuable to this country than another low wage worker. Let the American high school dropouts pick lettuce. I’ve met several guys who picked oranges as kids and it helped motivate them to go to tech. school or better.
Another co-worker, retired Air Force, has a wife from Thailand. They spent five years going through hoops to get her into this country. Again, why can some people just wander across the border?
I fail to see why we don’t even want to know who’s here. Your previous post on the illegal alien criminals is a perfect example. How about the stories about smuggling in Pakistanis, Saudis and other groups whom we know have created trouble before? OK, Mexico is a “neighbor” (we don’t get to choose neighbors) so maybe we ought to have a more streamlined process for them. But shouldn’t we know who’s coming in? Just Wednesday, a van was pulled over in Crystal River, Florida, with 13 illegal aliens inside. They were released without any record of who they are. Our state doesn’t (yet) have an Arizona style law, so they called ICE. Too close to quitting time, let ’em go was the answer (in so many words).
WTF??
It has gone from stupid to suicidal.
Did you know it’s harder for someone to come from our (former?) closest allies, like the UK and most of Europe, to come into the US than someone from Latin America or Asia? Thanks to the swimmer – Ted Kennedy – in the 1960s deciding to make America less like Europe and more like South America.
One of my sayings is you could throw out 90% of the Code of Federal Regulations and not impact the country negatively at all. Throwing out that law would help.
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