Obama and McCain agree on something! Gasp!

In regards to immigration policy, both Senators Obama and McCain agree that securing the border should be their top priority. Opposing illegal immigration does not make you a racist. People of all races, religions, and political backgrounds have been coming to this country for over 200 years, and another 200 years or so before we became a country! Even so called "Native Americans" originally made the journey across the land bridge 10,000 years ago from what is now Siberia through Alaska. Immigration created this country. Illegal immigration weakens it.


We need to know who and what is in our country, and who and what's coming into it. Every year, we get billions of dollars worth of drugs smuggled in from Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela, and as far away as the Middle East. This causes higher crime rates, deaths from overdose, and creates difficulties for law enforcement resources which are often already spread too thin.

Diseases in other countries are not as well controlled as they are in the United States. Recently the number of cases of tuberculosis in children has increased by 400%. We shouldn't exclude sick immigrants, but if they come here legally, they are more eligible for health benefits that can help them, and prevent the spread of disease. It's not the immigrants' fault, it's their mother countries and their governments that are screwing everyone!

Everyone says, "They're just coming here to get work and have a better life." The truth is, illegal immigrants are often extorted, working slave wages and receiving little or no benefits. Some of them do receive benefits, but don't pay the taxes that fund them, throwing our economy out of whack.

According to the State Association of Hospitals, California's public health system is "on the brink of collapse." In Los Angeles County, patients can wait four days for a hospital bed and up to two years for gallbladder surgery. "The hospitals are closing because of the totality of the uninsured," said Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, director of the Los Angeles County Health Department. "If you're legally a resident in California and you're poor, you have a right to basic services." Overburdened by the uninsured and overwhelmed by illegal immigration, public health care in Los Angeles is on life support. Sixty percent of the county's uninsured patients are not U.S. citizens. More than half are here illegally. About 2 million undocumented aliens in Los Angeles County alone are crowding emergency rooms because they can't afford to see a doctor, or fear of being deported.

If immigrants want to go through the process of becoming a citizen, by all means allow each and every one of them that opportunity. But an open border and millions of undocumented aliens is bad for citizens, bad for immigrants, and bad for our country.