Author's Response:
Since you seem to learn about the world, I will provide you with additional insight. What exactly is "our rights," the right to own property? the right to be free from unfair treatment of the law? the right to the pursuit of happiness? What we have is basic human rights (although many basic human rights are not always provided or protected in this country) and although we had people before us fight for these rights, I don't think they would want us to deny it to these people simply because they aren't natural born. The President of the US is the only political office that requires that a person be a natural born citizen. This country was founded on the principle that "All men are created equal," and we have fought to further extend this principle that "All people are created equal." The rights we enjoy should be rights people in other countries across the globe should enjoy, but we won't reach that point if we deny these rights to supposed "outsiders."
Also, many soldiers in our past wars were immigrants not native to this country who were fighting in order to obtain citizenship, so they have ancestors as well. Additionally, we simply took more than half of Mexico's land in the Mexican-American war when they were under a brutal dictator. California is part of their ancestral homeland as well, is it not?
You aren't racist, but you have an ethnocentrism imbedded in you from your cultural surroundings. We have met few if any of these immigrants so how can we judge their character? And if they need to break laws to survive, is that not a reasonable circumstance to do such?
Thank you for your review.
