Isn’t Our Life Enough

I have been both amazed and distraught at the lack of leadership in addressing the immigration problem by the federal government. I read a statement in the February 24th Chattanooga Times Free Press titled “Veterans battle to become citizens.“ The efforts and pompous statements of our federal elected officials have accomplished as much as their proponents intended-not too much to rock the international boat. But while the fruitless efforts of those who really do not understand the simplicity and value of sovereignty goes on, those who have been willing to sacrifice their life for a country they wish to call their own so unseemly avoids decent and honorable recognition. It distresses me to read of the soldiers who are not US citizens but yet have given their life for my freedom. There is a criminal in the immigration malaise and I am believing more and more it is Congress whose responsibility it is to safeguard our borders. I do not justify illegal crossings. They should be stopped (literally) in their tracks. But when soldiers defend us while they do not enjoy the privileges of US citizenship, something is terribly wrong with our system. In such a scenario, America has trully forgotten what it means to be a Vet. One honorably discharged Vet said it well, “If what I’ve done for this country isn’t enough for me to be a citizen, then I don’t know what is.”