The myths about the myths of immigration

The recent article in the "Idaho Catholic Register" trying to dispel the myths of immigration is severely flawed, including the simple fact it does not distinguish between legal and illegal immigration. Therefore, to counter the excuses for illegal immigration by Christine Zapata and Marcie Wilske, I will assume the article is always speaking of illegal immigrants.

In fact, once you limit the conversation to those people who do not have a legal right to be here in the first place, Christine and Marcie’s expertise is almost comical.

Myths 1, 2, 3, and 7 (don’t pay taxes, don’t take jobs, and are a drain on the economy and resources) become ridiculous when illegals aren’t supposed to have jobs in the first place, therefore shouldn’t be a part of any tax, wage, economic, welfare, education, or resource equation.

Myth 4 says immigrants are different than 100 years ago which is true because we never spoke of millions of illegal immigrants until 1983.

Myths 5 and 6 state illegals don’t sneak across the border and they don’t pose a threat to national security. Perhaps Christine and Marcie would explain the video footage of thousands of illegals sneaking across the border is just a glow-in-the-dark Easter egg hunt. They should also explain the recent string of high-profile vicious gang murder and rapes and how this is not a threat to those of us here legally.

If myth 8, they don’t want to learn English, were false, then why does the government have to provide multi-lingual ballots, welfare, and school enrollment forms? Why does the ICR have to have a whole Spanish section, and why do immigrants refuse Mass in English? If immigrants (legal or illegal) want to learn English, they could do so in a matter of weeks not 10 years.

Finally the last statements say the church is in favor of illegal immigration and thinks amnesty should replace enforcement. Can any theologian explain why we should forgive the illegals for identity fraud, but prosecute the citizen for the same crime? The ICR needs to realize most of the diocese speaks English and are legal US citizens and dedicating over half of the paper to alternate language and political begging for amnesty is the reason subscriptions are being dropped.

Myth 11. (I added this one) Illegal immigration is a complicated issue. No it’s not. Turn off the anchor baby amendment, kick them out of school, and crack down on the employers who have 9.5 million mis-matched social security numbers to the names. Then get a large ship, get all the illegals out of prison and ship them off to Africa where they can’t sneak across the border.