There’s a lot of talk about immigration these days, and it seems as though the many appeals to emotion are intended to gloss over the fact that illegal immigration is in fact illegal, and criminally unfair to those who are pursuing legal immigration.

Take the case of an illegal immigrant father being deported, and people lamenting the cruel laws that would separate the father from his son.  In point of fact, nobody is preventing the father from bringing his son with him, so the alleged legal cruelty misrepresents the situation.

Now I don’t fault people for wanting to come to America, and to the amazing opportunity that this country offers.  My dad was an immigrant—an asylee from Communist Hungary—and so were my mom’s parents—fresh off the boat from Norway.  But I do have an enormous problem with those in our government who simply ignore the law because their views have “evolved.”  Case in point:  Our President and his Attorney General, arbitrarily deciding to no longer enforce laws like the Defense of Marriage Act.  I think evolution is too kind of a term for what’s going on.  We really ought to call it mutation, of no good portent.  Look into mutation in nature, and you will see that it is almost invariably detrimental.

If our legislators, who really ought to understand the concepts of legality versus illegality, don’t see the need to respect existing laws, what value should the rest of us place on the monstrosities they have been passing of late—bewildering laws that they frequently vote on without having had enough time to read, let alone understand?

My detractors will argue that I’m a bigoted white racist, fearful of the coloring of our nation.  Please.  I also oppose abortion, which disproportionately kills black babies.  If I wanted fewer blacks in this country, I would be pro-choice, pro-eugenics, and so on.  But instead I’m actively fighting abortion.  If my side succeeds, we will have tens of millions more black people in our country, and I’ll be delighted for each and every one.  And how is that racist?