Emptying my Head.......

Let's see, haven't been on to post in quite a while. A week to be exact. What has been going on, what is going on, etc. Well, been busy taking down Halloween Decos, putting up Thanksgiving decos, weeding thru old photos. I posted a few on my facebook page. Would give you the address, but can't remember it at all. I have it bookmarked, so that way I don't have to tax my brain any further. The kids are off today, from school, Veterans' Day. I am kind of glad that the high schooler is off, things and events that have transpired over the past few days that I am not exactly secure in having him in school these days.

YOu see, over the weekend, a group of young men, 7 of them in fact, decided to attack two men, a random act of violence, because they are of the Hispanic persuasion. One of the men ended up dead, beaten and stabbed, the other escaped to call police. These young man now stand accused of manslaughter and gang violence. They are students in my son's school. We have a concentration of hispanic people, both legal and illegal, in our town, and obviously those young men allowed things they heard and things said in frustration, biased things, spill over into their judgement, which allegedly was also impaired by alcohol. We have some gangs in our school, too. Violence and the like haven't been a problem, but it may be a problem now. Racial tensions will run high now, and controlling those will be a big task. I have raised my children to avoid violence, to not be involved in such things that would damage themselves and others.
I shouldn't say "I" I should say we. We have raised our children to respect others, the law and morals of our society.
I don't advocate illegal immigration. I am not for allowing people to emigrate here without the proper documentation. I do advocate the fact that if you are going to come to our country, you need to do it through the proper channels, and to have the proper paperwork to be able to live and work here. I don't want to have to pay for medical insurance, food stamp programs, welfare programs, education and such for folks who are not legally working and paying taxes here in the U.S. I never, ever feel that if you haven't paid into the system, that you should reap rewards from it.

But by the same token, this problem of illegal immigration, isn't going to get solved by violence. We aren't going to get the problem solved by allowing people of any age to go out and hurt others, no matter what their national origin.

Now that the problem has become a criminal one. How much more violence will need to take place for our federal government to take action. Immigration is still restricted from Eastern Europe, Asia and the like. Why isn't it restricted from our borders below? Why are these people allowed to live and work here illegally? Is being politically correct more important than our laws? I know that every Americn CItizen has a heritage from somewhere else, but most came here legally. Most heritages can be traced legally, learning the language, to read and write it and to be able to speak it in a public setting. I know that the immigrants come here to better themselves, their families' lives, their economic station in life, I understand that we as a nation, have more opportunities than any other place in the world. I understand the need to make a better life, I want that for all people. I want our laws and our rules and regulations respected and followed, that makes a better life for all of us.

I advocate that our government now step in and start enforcing our laws. No man, woman or child deserves to die a horrible death in the street at the hands of drunken biased teenagers, or at the hands of anyone. Violence against a human being is wrong, wrong wrong, wrong. I don't care if it happens against a citizen or not, it is so wrong. I am now concerned that this type of violence will be used against other groups, or folks just walking down the street, like these men were. Why did it need to come to this?

Thoughts? Insights?