Are Illegal Immigrants Criminals?

What constitutes a criminal? First we need to know the definition of the term ‘criminal.’ The Oxford American dictionary defines criminal as “noun, a person who has committed a crime, adjective, relating to crime or a crime.” That seems pretty simple to me with not a lot of room for interpretation.

So, if a criminal is someone who has committed a crime, and someone who is in this country illegally is guilty of breaking the law (that is they did not enter this country by legal means), then that illegal alien is a criminal by definition. What is so hard to understand about this? Illegal is criminal. These people have broken our laws by not following the law to cross our borders. It doesn’t matter who they are; whether Mexican, Guatemalan, Russian, Canadian, Asian, white, black or purple; these people are criminals.

A country without borders is not a country. The United States of America is supposed to be a sovereign nation. Without borders, we are not. All we are is an open range for whoever wants to come here and take advantage of the rights, freedoms and benefits of being an American. We are no longer a sovereign nation. Thank you to the liberals who don’t believe that immigration laws exist.

What happened four hundred years ago has NOTHING to do with what is happening now any more than what happened during the slave trade has anything to do with anything today. Yes, Europeans came across the big pond and immigrated into this great big land mass they called the New World and took over. Yes, those nasty bastards killed off hundreds and thousands of Native Americans that emigrated here from other parts of the world before recorded time. That does not mean that today our immigration laws should be dismantled and ignored.

In today’s world, if you cross a nation’s borders without permission and the proper credentials, depending on what country it is, you could be fined, jailed, deported or killed; anywhere in the world except here in the United States. Here, if you cross our border without permission you get a driver’s license, house, job, welfare and even get to vote. Only in America.

The liberal left seems to think that is what the correct thing to do is. They believe that the over eleven million (estimates make it closer to twenty million [cairco.org]) illegals actually deserve to be here and should not be taken to task and deported; even though those illegals are costing the American taxpayer between 52 Billion and 113 Billion dollars a year (ProCon.org). But, the biggest thing about these illegals is that they are, well, ILLEGAL. They are criminals. It doesn’t matter whether they have committed any other crimes such as theft, rape, murder, etc. They have already broken the law just by being here.

Almost 178,000 (CNN) are convicted of other crimes. I know, that doesn’t seem like a lot compared to the number that are here illegally but that is a huge number nonetheless. These are people that have broken the law just by being here and then broke other laws, some very serious such as murder and rape, on top of it. Some of these people were deported and came back across the border.

Are all these illegals Mexican? No. Are the majority Mexican? Only 59% are from Mexico (ProCon.org). No wonder the Mexican government doesn’t want us to build a wall; they don’t want to keep these people there and they sure don’t want them back.

It seems as though the liberals believe that what other nations think we should do is what should happen. After all, the United States should ALWAYS do what countries want us to; we aren’t a sovereign nation to them. To the liberals, we are a global country. We have the moral obligation to take in as many immigrants as want to come here regardless of any economic drain to the working citizens here (and those working citizens include LEGAL immigrants).

The fact of the matter is this: we have so many criminals running around that don’t belong here and the liberals want to keep them because that is what we do. The liberals believe that criminals belong here and should actually be given citizenship because they broke the law.

The question that begs to be answered is: why? Why do these people come here without permission? They come here to make money and receive benefits. The liberals will say that they help the economy. If they are helping our economy why don’t they go back to their homeland and help THAT country’s economy? To answer that question the liberals will reply that illegals will do the work that Americans won’t, such as pick crops in the blistering heat for minimum wage. Well, to that I answer this way: most of those illegals work in the state of California, which is a liberal state. So, it’s the LIBERALS that are keeping the wages for illegals low so that their produce companies can make millions off of cheap labor.

Maybe some of those Hollywood celebrities should lower themselves off their egos and go out and pick produce for a week for minimum wage or go clean up after some egomaniac with delusions of godhood for barely over minimum. Maybe Nancy Pelosi could come down out of the clouds and actually see what goes on in her state, not that she would really care since she’s worth millions.

President Donald Trump has promised to secure our borders and deport all those violent illegal aliens. He hasn’t said to deport the Dreamers or those that are hardworking, otherwise law-abiding, illegals. They are all criminals. The Dreamers didn’t come here on their own but their parents dragged them across the border thus making them criminals before they were old enough to know what it meant.

What do we do with all these criminals? Do we deport them all back to their home countries? Do we let them stay here and reward their crime with citizenship? As for those that have broken other laws, committed theft, rape, murder, etc., I believe deportation would only tell them that what they did was all right and give them a chance to once again break immigration law and return here to do more crime. Since the prisons are full of drug users, we would have to build more prisons to hold them; or we could use capital punishment and execute them on the spot.

For those that are otherwise law abiding, working, people: give them the chance to make it right and make them go through the proper immigration process to become citizens.  Even though that would be rewarding criminal behavior at least they would then be legal through working for it like the real, law-abiding immigrants are. Don’t just grant them citizenship; that would be an insult to those that have had to wait for years and work hard to become citizens.

Criminals all with some being less criminal than others; be tough of the violent ones and easier on the non-violent by making them pay for their crime by working to become true law-abiding citizens.