DADvocate

Today I was looking through my new issue of Reader's Digest. A letter to the editor, from someone with a Hispanic name, talked about how we all are immigrants, etc. Yes, in some sense, we are all immigrants.

The most recent immigrants in my family arrived in the U.S. pre-1900. The earliest arrived pre-Revolutionary War and fought for our independence from Britain. Are the pre-Revolutionary War settlers considered immigrants? How can you immigrate to a country that doesn't exist?

The real problem with this logic is that, under it, you have to allow anyone into the country any time they wish to enter. Immigration anarchy. Tracking the Senate debates and actions, this seems to be just what they want. (George Voinovich, Republican from my state of Ohio, is performing poorly. He thinks he's a Democrat. Unless there is significant improvement, next election I will not only vote against him but work for his defeat.)

Using the logic of "we are all immigrants." We can also say we are all conquerors. And, thus, perhaps we should conquer Mexico. Looking at Mexico, its people are obviously suffering to the extent that they gladly risk life and limb to sneak into the U.S. with the hope of becoming one of the richest poor people on the planet, which is much better than being one of the poorest of the poor. Look at the conditions in the countries most recently conquered by the U.S., Germany and Japan.

These countries had been obliterated. Their infrastructure almost completely destroyed. But, under the kind hand of a benevolent conqueror, they recovered to be two of the most technologically advanced, economically strong countries in the world.

Mexico would crumble like the Three Little Pigs' straw hut. A great portion of its population probably would welcome U.S. takeover. Ridding Mexico of its corrupt government and putting it on the path for a strong economy and the ensuing higher standard of living would inspire the Mexican population. And, as they recovered and grew, Mexicans might like to visit the U.S. to sightsee, surf in Hawaii and take pictures of where uncle Jose lived before he returned to the prosperity of Mexico.

Certainly, Mexico has the natural resource and the hard working manpower to be a great and wealthy nation. Mexicans simply need to be freed of their corrupt government.