The word illegal means criminal

Published 3:20 pm Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Left out of the current immigration debate in Congress is the fact that those who cut line and entered our country illegally are criminals. If you break the law, that’s what you are. Sorry, that’s straight from Webster’s dictionary. You are not an undocumented worker, or whatever the moniker du jour is, you are a criminal.

If the Obama administration and the Democrats in the Senate wish to reward criminal behavior, what kind of message does that send to those of us who obey the laws of this land? What kind of message does that send to those yearning to come here legally?

They tell us daily that Social Security is nearly bankrupt, and soon-to-be recipients will likely need to live on less. Yet, when the 11 million new citizens they wish to create invite their 20-plus million relatives to come join them, there is talk of putting them immediately on Social Security if of-age or disabled, having not paid a nickel into the system.

If it is their desire that I involve myself in dishonest behavior and enterprise to receive government largess, all they have to do is ask and I will cheerfully oblige them.

If their goal is to impoverish people who have paid their entire lives into Social Security, shame on them. And we should vote them out of office as soon as possible.

Michael H. Bond

Monroe