The Border Crossed Us?

Recently Linda Ronstadt stated the her family did not cross the Mexican- American border, but that the border crossed her family. One hears the same cry from illegal alien activists.

It is a cry of nonsense. The border between the United States and Mexico changed in the 1840s. No Mexicans were displaced during this border changing. Those Mexican living in the newly American territory were not driven out. Those for whom the border had changed were allowed to remain in the US.

Those Mexicans who have deigned to illegally enter the United States have crossed the border. They have come from Oaxaca, Jalisco and other Mexican states deep within the nation of Mexico. The present border between Mexico and the United States has long been recognized as a true and proper border despite the fact that Mexican textbooks do not recognize it as so. There is no living Mexican who the border crossed. Mexico is conforming, in slow motion, to, Hitler's claim of the Sudanland in Czechoslovakia.. But then, the Mexican government has never been adverse to the taking of United States territory by whatever means they have as is evinced by the beatification of Pancho Villa and the Zimmerman letter during World War One.

Would the US be cruel by deporting illegals? The answer is no. The US would be hard in deporting and punishing illegal aliens, but there is no sin in a nation being hard in protecting its borders and citizens. Life is hard and a nation's job is to make it easier for its citizens even if it is at the expense of those who have snuck in to it to take advantage of benefits and freedoms that were meant for citizens.