Part of the ACLU’s whitewash of our crumbling rights as citizens. It turns out that some kid star from Sesame Street was an illegal immigrant, thanks to his parents. They tried to jump in line by overstaying a visitor’s visa and petitioning for family immigration status.
“My parents, brother and I came from Ecuador when I was seven,” explains Carlo. When the family applied for permanent residency through Carlo’s aunt, who was living legally in America, they didn’t expect it would take so long. For 12 years, Carlo kept his status secret from his closest friends, fearing their reaction.
There’s a reason it took so long, and I do not doubt that young Carlo was completely unaware of it: this process is actually designed to weed out those who overstay their visas and then apply to stay anyway, as it is an affront to those who are here legally and those who are applying legally. The only disappointment here is that they were able to prevail. No doubt people who try to immigrate legally are kicking themselves.
“… there are people in all areas, in all sorts of jobs who don’t have papers. And that’s the only difference, they just don’t have a piece of paper that tells them that they are allowed to be here or not. It’s such a bizarre thing.”
It’s not bizarre. That is, it’s no more bizarre than a piece of paper that says you can drive a car, that you own a particular car, that an employer must pay your wages, that an insurance company must accept entertain your claim, or that you have completed the requirements for a degree.
Civilization is not based on agriculture, but on writing, and we write things on paper for the ultimate in compatible file formats. Our society depends upon the ability to read and write English and the willingness to abide by the laws of the United States, from federal to local. People who ask to join this society must agree to those terms, and people who are born into it must be educated to meet those terms. What is bizarre is that the ACLU opposes every effort employ those means, and to achieve the goal of preserving for another generation at least the blessings of our system.
Good luck finding your civil liberties when America has been turned into another third-world pit.
