Should People Who Refuse To Assimulate Be Allowed To Immigrate To America? I Don't Think So!

The airwaves today are wall to wall Trump after he suggested America bar Muslims from coming to America until our government can get the immigration process right.   I take exception with Donald Trump's position that all Muslims should be barred from immigrating to America...that said, there is an argument to be made that everyone from EVERYWHERE should be kept from immigrating to America (legally or illegally) until we get our own house in order when it comes to people immigrating to America.  

1.  Lets deal with our borders.

2.  Lets deal with those who overstay their Visa.

3.  Let's come up with a system of checks and balances that facilitates legal immigration into our nation, while at the same time keeps undesirables out, including criminals, malcontents and possible terrorists.

4.  Figure out a system that makes sure those who come here do assimilate into our country, learn to read, write, speak and understand our language.

Let us as a nation take a time out, absorb those who are already here, and come to an agreement on who should or should not be allowed to come to America, and once we our in agreement, lets stick to the list, apply equal standards to EVERYONE, regardless of their race, creed, religion, sexual orientation or country of origin.

First thing that should be on that list of things for our government to address when deciding who can and who cannot immigrate to America should be their willingness to assimilate, which includes learning to speak, read and comprehend our English language.  If you have been in America for 10, 20 or more years and still cannot read, speak and comprehend English, then you have no business living in America.   The days of pushing 2 for Spanish needs to end.   If you are not willing to relinquish citizenship granted to you from some other nation, and swear allegiance to America, then you should not be here.   A perfect example of this can be found in sports where we have citizens of America playing professional sports, making millions of dollars here in America who go play sports for their home country's Olympic team...that is a divided allegiance that needs to end.

As a nation,let us not ban someone based on their religion, but let us also not allow people access to American citizenship who are not willing to fully embrace what it means to be American. 

Matthew 6:24 states, "No one can serve two masters.  For you will hate one and love the other, you will be devoted to one and despise the other."   People cannot be true citizens of America if they still pledge allegiance to another country, and that country's value systems and laws.  Still hold duel citizenship here and elsewhere.  It is in this context that Trump has opened up an ugly can of worms that no one really wants to discuss, finding it easier to label "The Trump" a heretic than discuss the issues that he so un-artfully brought to light in his call for banning all Muslims.

Let's as example look at Saudi Arabia which is a Muslim country, most of those who live there practicing Islam in one form or another.   No problem so far...BUT, it is also a country that both embraces and has codified Sharia Law, a set or rules and regulations based (supposedly) on the Quran, which is supposedly the word of Allah, much like Moses and the Ten Commandments.   Let's face it, Sharia Law has NO PLACE in America, no place in our culture.   Is it fair under our constitution to ask people to swear to uphold our laws and system of government, and denounce and/or abandon their beliefs in Sharia Law? If someone of Muslim faith wants to believe that their faith requires them to embrace and support Sharia Law, we as a nation do have a problem when it comes to them becoming citizens of our nation.   Perhaps the best example of this problem is the growing problem of "Honor Killings" here in America.

I do not agree with how Donald Trump has framed this important conversation that our nation, and our leaders need to have...who gets to come to America, and what rules and regulations do we need to have in place when it comes to saying yes or no to those wishing to immigrate here.  However I do agree that A) we should declare a full and complete moratorium on immigration until we address the problems with the immigration system, and B) we should not allow 10,000 refugees from war torn areas of the Middle East unless we have the ability to fully and completely vet each and every one of them before they ever set foot on America's shores.

To Terrorists Family...We Do Not Care About Your Pain...To The Press and President Obama, Leave Our Guns Alone

We all had to  endure a very odd and long press conference held by the attorneys for the family of the two terrorists who killed 14 people, injured 21 others in a ruthless, maniacal, senseless attack in San Bernardino.  The two take a ways?  They want Americans to not rush to judgement regarding this brutality being a terrorist attack, and suggesting now is the time for us as a Christian nation to exercise forgiveness. 

First, let there be no doubt...the bloody ruthless killing of 14 people, the injuring of 21 others was/is and always will be a terrorist attack, and if the woman terrorist's Facebook post is to believed,  she is associated, be it directly or indirectly, with ISIS.   Secondly, most of us could care less about your family's pain right at this moment.  Our caring goes out to the families and friends of those 14 families who have lost a loved one just at the start of the Christmas Holidays.   Our sympathies go out to the family and friends of those injured in this senseless,demonic attack of terrorism. You appearing on the news seeking sympathy and understanding for the terrorists families is, in my opinion, in very poor taste.

Let's move on to the press, and to President Obama who is going to speak to the nation tonight about Terrorism and gun control legislation...him and the press seem to be following two separate lines of reasoning that contradict each other.

On the one hand, we have both the press, and the Obama Administration chiding us to we careful not to punish five million peaceful Muslims (is this an oxymoron?) because of the terrorists actions of a few bad apples who have, are and will continue to attack us.  On the other hand, they seem fine attacking our "Second Amendment Rights" because of the of a few.

If we are not supposed to group all Muslims together under the concept of shared or group guilt (much like Black Lives Matter does), if it is unfair to blame all Muslims for the actions of a few, then why is it affair to go after millions of law abiding American gun owners because of the actions of a few terrorists and mad men/women.   Personal accountability on one hand, but group guilt and group punishment on the other?

Equality for all means no double standards and yet the press and our President are trying to have exactly that...DOUBLE STANDARDS.   If America's gun owners under the concept of shared guilt are going to have our rights abridged, then under that same concept of shared guilt should not all Muslims have their rights abridged?   Or instead, under the concept of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, should we as Americans caution ourselves not to blame all Muslims for the actions of a few, while being secure under that same concept that our elected officials will not abridge our Second Amendment Rights because of the actions of a few bad apples?