When in Rome. . .

Read the following letter and see what you think...

David M. Bresnahan

April 1, 2006

NewsWithViews.com

Dear Mr. Bush:

I'm about to plan a little trip with my family and extended family, and I would like to ask you to assist me. I'm going to walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico, and I need to make a few arrangements. I know you can help with this. I plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I'm sure they handle those things the same way you do here. So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Vicente Fox, that I'm on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:

1. Free medical care for my entire family.
2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.
3. All government forms need to be printed in English.
4. I want my kids to be taught by English-speaking teachers.
5. Schools need to include classes on American culture and history.
6. I want my kids to see the American flag flying on the top of the flag pole at their school with the Mexican flag flying lower down.
7. Please plan to feed my kids at school for both breakfast and lunch.
8. I will need a local Mexican driver's license so I can get easy access to government services.
9. I do not plan to have any car insurance, and I won't make any effort to learn local traffic laws.
10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from Pres. Fox to leave me alone, please be sure that all police officers speak English.
11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.
12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, and don't enforce any labor laws or tax laws.
13. Please tell all the people in the country to be extremely nice and never say a critical word about me, or about the strain I might place on the economy.

I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for all the people who come to the U.S. from Mexico. I am sure that Pres. Fox won't mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely. However, if he gives you any trouble, just invite him to go quail hunting with your V.P.

Thank you so much for your kind help.

Sincerely,

David M. Bresnahan
2006 David M. Bresnahan - All Rights Reserved

My take is that there are some serious problems with immigration. People are going about looking for reform the wrong way. These types of protests to me look like they love their homeland more than the US. If that is so, they need to live in their homeland and make it better.

I am going to relate a little story. A few years back I met a guy who complained about the state he was living in and always compared it to another state. Day after day he told us that our state was inferior to his. Now my question to him is, if our state is so bad and yours is so good, why are you here? He had the freedom to move to his beloved state, yet he remained and complained more and more about how bad everything was. The same thing is happening here with this style of protest. Are they protesting being Americans, or are they wanting to take over. Raising your flag as seen in the picture to the left & below illustrates a take over. I don't think that is what they want.

On another note, I have absolutely no problem with diversity and I welcome it at every opportunity. My problem is people coming to a country illegally and expecting to be taken care of by that country and doing nothing to earn it. I know that not every immigrant that comes to the country illegally is straining government programs, some are here working very hard. I have problems with coming here illegally and avoiding paying taxes like the rest of us and expecting to be taken care of here. Life in this country is a privlidge and needs to be earned. How you might ask? Well by coming here legally. I have traveled to both Peru and Mexico. Every time I went legally. I lived in Mexico for 2 years and I had a valid visa the entire time. I use my passport to travel as a tourist and even pay silly taxes that I didn't agree with. (I had to pay $30 to bring my own little portable DVD player into Peru, while laptop computers were not taxed) As I travel I am of the mind, "When in Rome, do as the Romans." I am fluent in Spanish and the second I cross the boarder into Mexico, or landed in Peru, I spoke to all natives in Spanish, even if they spoke to me in English. I did not expect them to conform to me, I tried to conform to them, after all, I am the stranger.

What do I mean with all of this? I want everyone to obey, honor, and sustain the laws of the land. I would be naive to think this possible since I sped today and broke laws myself, but the point still remains, people need to come here legally and, "do as the Romans."