Soap Box

When I was in the seventh grade in Wilmington, North Carolina, our class took field trips to local businesses and government entities, so the students could see our society in action.

We went to a laundry, a bakery, a session of court, and to the US Customs building to a naturalization ceremony, where the immigrants had waited and studied for eight long years to become citizens of our nation.

These people had applied for citizenship and spent the last eight years learning about the country they so desperately wanted to become a part of. They learned the native language, studied the history and became immersed in our culture, laws and society.

By the time their eight-year waiting period had passed they had, not just a cursory knowledge of what America was all about, but a firm understanding of what the privilege and blessing of becoming a legal citizen of the greatest nation the world has ever known is all about.

They assimilated into our culture, fought our wars, manned our labor forces and raised patriotic children who repeated the process the next generation and America became stronger and more prosperous because of their presence.

A few years ago, when my wife had to have back surgery, we met a brilliant surgeon who had migrated to America and his citizenship application had reached fruition when 9/11 came along and he had to start all over again, another eight years of waiting for this brilliant young man who would add a great deal to this nation’s medical capabilities to become a citizen.

And his is not an isolated case, there were many others who went through the same thing and had to start their application process from the ground up again, even knowing that they had already been qualified for citizenship, such was their desire to become an American they were willing, without media complaints or street protest, to go back to the tail of the line that would double their gestation period to sixteen years.

If we would listen to vote-greedy politicians, Hispanic pressure groups and mainstream media, they would have you believe that all the people, who cross our southern border with Mexico, have to do is step across the international border and declare their fear of the country they are leaving, be granted asylum, agree to show up at an immigration hearing at a date in the future, which 90% of them never do, and at sometime in the future be granted citizenship.

This process defeats the reason for even having a border and immigration requirements and is completely and totally unfair to all the applicants from hundreds of other countries, who make their request, wait their turn and go through the legal process of naturalization.

There is a grand scheme going on here, a dirty one that, unimpeded, will completely destroy the checks and balances of the election process and put the progressive wing of the Democrat party in the elective offices, the court appointments and public policy decision making ad infinitum.

Eventually - if Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, et al, have their way - the Hispanics will be the largest voting bloc in America, and simply by the act of dancing with those who brung them will elect the candidates promising the most lavish social programs, and by virtue of doing so, be creating the same monolithic power block and impossible fiscal dilemma of the nations they are running from.

The double standard of justice you see playing out on the national scene now would become the norm, as the fix would be permanently in for those in power.

Example: Do you think that these crooked and illegal actions taken by those in the FBI and the Justice Department would have been exposed if Hillary Clinton had been elected?

I submit to you that they would not have, and so sure were the parties involved that she would win, that they became cocky and arrogant, not covering their steps and leaving loose ends to be pulled on and exposed.

I believe that if Hillary had been elected she would have found a way to give amnesty and eventually citizenship to all the millions of Hispanics who are now here illegally and would have, in theory, have opened the border so that more and more could cross and be eligible to vote, until an undefeatable voting block would have been created, putting a more and more progressive electorate into power.

There would have been no tax reform, more regulations would have forced more and more manufacturers out of the country, until America and the quality of life were reduced to an over taxed, over regulated, under-defended, unarmed nation where a broke and totally inefficient central government tells everybody when to jump and how high.

We’ve seen the lengths the power hungry in Washington will go to destroy the innocent and protect the guilty and in doing so, have forever stained some of our most venerable and respected government entities.

We definitely need a wall, but that’s just a beginning, we need to know how many people are in this country illegally, what they’re up to and declare a grace period for all the undocumented to come forth and be counted and deal with them accordingly.

Anything less is insanity to anybody but an unethical politician.

What do you think?

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God Bless America

— Charlie Daniels

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