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Carole’s “This I Believe” podcast

Get Out, or Get Legal!

I believe that all illegal immigrants should be deported back to their original countries. Call me heartless, but the way I see it, if you are coming to our country illegally, you are disgracing our ancestors who came here legally. Though there are those who may have come here illegally, but they at least took the time to respect the American citizens and became one themselves. I believe that if it’s so important for these illegal immigrants to stay in our country, that they should become legal citizens. Instead, we are now supplying them with homes, contributing to their social security benefits, giving them free medical care, and other things that they benefit from. And where does that money come from for all of this? From the hard working citizens of the United States. We even have a bank, The Bank of America, setting up credit cards that you can sign up for without a social security number - which legal citizens have, directed towards those illegal immigrants. Along with the luxury of being able to have a credit card they are being employed and taking the jobs from American citizens who are trying to find a job. I believe that in order to have a paying job, no matter the income, you should be a legal citizen to the country that you are residing in.

I believe that it is not fair for those illegal immigrants who have decided to become legal to now have to pay for the others who will not follow suite. If they can do it, why can’t the others? It’s estimated that nearly 12 million illegal immigrants are residing with in the United States. Several of the illegal immigrants are coming here from a country where they are making less than two dollars a day. I believe that we, the legal American citizens should not have to hold responsibility for another countries poor form of government. Sorry that the United States has a way of feeding our poor and supplying them with as much as we can to help them get by. It’s not America’s fault that several illegal immigrants are leaving their home land and coming to the United States because their country is incapable of caring for them.

Back in 2005, there was an illegal immigrant parade in the United States showing that they, the illegal immigrants, were benefiting the United States by working in the factories, restaurants, and construction businesses. Well, they most certainly were not working at that time and benefiting the United States with the time that they wasted to try and persuade the American’s that they are beneficial. Instead they could have done something productive with that time, such as registering to become a legal citizen.

There are those who are escaping their homeland from war, but they more than likely have no intention on going back. But why do they have to escape to America? Aren’t there other countries out there that are a lot closer to them that they could flee to?

Instead of having the mentality that the United States and its legal American citizens are out to get them, how ‘bout they try really making themselves useful to all of us and becoming legal American citizens. I believe that the only people in this country that have the right to complain are those of legal American citizenship. If the illegal immigrants are not happy with the fact that we don’t want them here, taking up space, taking our jobs that we work hard to find, taking our tax dollars that we, the real American citizens work hard for - then they can get out, or get legal.

Personally I felt that listening to the “This I Believe” essays really helped me get a better idea how to write one and a few ideas. Not only that, it was nice listening to some others and hearing what they thought. There were some that I greatly agreed with and some that I found to be boring. I discovered that it helps to be a decent speaker and have real feeling towards what you are writing about, because that way people will be more interested into listening to what you are saying. There were those that I didn’t agree with, but I felt compelled to listen to them because of the reader’s vocal presentation.