When we lived in Florida, we lived in a gated community called “Embassy Lakes”. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of a gated community, I’ll explain it to you.
There’s a bunch of houses in a nice neighborhood. The nice neighborhood also has a bunch of nice amenities that are paid for with fees assessed on the residents who live there and are for their use only. The amenities include things like pools, gyms, playgrounds, gardens, walking paths, and maybe a common area or two.
It’s the kind of place where everyone wants to live. People who live outside the gated community see the prettier parks, nicer pools and safer streets than they have and want to live inside the community. Everyone wants to live in the neighborhood, but not everyone can.
Because everyone wants to live there, you have a lot of people trying to get in. But, you can’t have everyone just walking in and through the neighborhood because you don’t want just anyone coming in and using the pool, gyms, common areas and other things reserved for, and paid by, the residents. You need to keep the riffraff out. If you don’t, and non-residents started using resources they didn’t pay for, then it would quickly become not a such a nice neighborhood.
So, a wall is erected to keep the people out who don’t belong there.
There are typically one or more gates with guards that cars and pedestrians need to pass if they want to enter the neighborhood. If you live there, you can enter. But everyone else is stopped by the guards.
However, allowing only residents inside doesn’t work all that well. You need to let in workers too. After all, someone has to clean the houses, mow the grass, keep the gardens looking nice and fix the cable when it goes out. So, certain people are temporarily into the neighborhood to work. They stop at the gate, check in with the guards and, with the right permission, are allowed to pass. The workers do their work, and then they leave.
People who live in the neighborhood feel safe, because they pay for security. If someone jumps the fence, crosses a lake or enters the neighborhood in some other illegal way, they’re arrested, removed from the neighborhood, and sent away. Because they don’t belong there.
While our community had an actual wall and gates, variants on the gated community concept include apartment buildings and even private homes where security guards sit at the entrance and allow, or deny, access.
Regardless of the type of gate, or fence, the idea is the same. The guards are there to make sure that the people inside are safe, and that their pools, gyms and other amenities aren’t being used by people who aren’t paying for them.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, while I may be describing a gated community, I’m actually talking about immigration. The two are exactly the same.
The United States is a place everyone wants to live, but not everyone can. It’s a pretty nice place. If you allow everyone in, then it won’t be long before it becomes not such a nice place.
We need a strong border to protect American citizens. We need to keep people who don’t belong in the United States, out of the United States. Anyone caught here illegally should be immediately removed and sent away. Giving illegal aliens (oops, “non-citizens”) access to healthcare, education and other taxpayer-funded resources isn’t fair to those of us who have to pay for it. Politicians need to remember that it’s not their money they’re giving away. It’s ours.
Many, if not all, of the politicians who are working to open our borders and allow illegals to enter are living in gated communities with plenty of security. There’s even talk about erecting a permanent fence around the Capitol building to keep out the riffraff (i.e. We the People), just to make them feel safer. They have access to private security, private gyms, a special healthcare system and a host of other amenities paid for by, but inaccessible to, taxpayers.
A porous border means that a lot of not-so-nice people will be entering our country. More drugs will flow across the border, troublemakers will take up residence and crime will increase. You and your family will be less safe.
That is, unless you’re a politician living and working behind an army of security. Then none of this will impact you. Politicians who are working to open our borders don’t need to worry about the consequences of a weak immigration policy because they’ll be fine either way, tucked safely out of reach.
