Everyone has a "next door neighbor" so I want to build on this point. That is what this blog is all about.
Now, let's get in the mood. Most of us like our next door neighbors with a few exceptions. One of the big considerations about where to live and buy a home is based on what kinds of next door neighbors one has. It also has a lot to do with the quality of schools in your neighbor hood. It is not money or how much the teachers are paid that determines how good your schools is. It is the quality of your neighbors and we all know it!
Now, think about the situation where your next door neighbor is an illegal immigrant? For the most part we all know that these illegal immigrants are not well educated nor do they come from a multi generational tradition of obeying the law or paying their taxes. That is a fact, so don't forget it. These people are from a totally different culture that wants to maintain their difference and tend not to want to accept the values and traditions of 100% of the people who you know and associate with. They are not the ones who are going to volunteer to lead a Boy Scout troupe or coach your little league baseball team. If you are honest, I don't think that you want these people for your next door neighbors.
Think about this? You live in a nice neighborhood where you like and respect your next door neighbors. Your children often sleep over at their home and you have total trust in them. You have to know that the millions of illegal immigrants who are here in the USA have to be living next door to some one. Did you every think about those people? Are you concerned about them? Are you exempt from that because you live in a "good" neighborhood? How about living in a gated community where there are guards on the gates? Does your nice neighborhood have a community swimming pool? Do you want kids from illegal immigrant families using your community pool, even though they never paid a dime to build it? How about your community school that you checked out in detail before you moved into your community because you wanted your children to have the very best education?
If you are following all this, I think that you can see that even though your might live in a gated community, there are many people who don't. Illegal immigration might not affect you today, but it will affect your children both today and in the future. What will the future of your community look like a few years from now if illegal immigration is allowed to continue? Will your kids want to move out of the community in which they were raises and try to find just the right neighborhood for their children as you did? See where this is going? What will happen when you can't just move farther away because getting farther away from one bad place on gets you closer to another. Isn't that what you have seen in your old neighborhood? The cure is not to run away, but to solve the basic problem and what is that? Start looking at how you can help your own children and protect their future so that they can enjoy the same "quality of life" that you enjoyed. Most of us want our children to have a better quality of life than we had and how can we do that?
Make sure that your children have the best "next door neighbors", and you know how to assure that that happens. If you feel sorry for illegal immigrants at the expense of your own children, what kind of parent are you really?
PS--Bad neighbor lessons. Look at the city of Detroit, 75 years ago it was a great city with may great neighborhoods, but not any more. Why was that? It was because your grandfather's next door neighbor was not a good next door neighbor. Why was that? It was because his good next door neighbor move away and a new family moved in. You neighbor moved to an even better neighborhood and the one that moved into his old house was not as good. It is like a lawn that has a few weeds. If the weeds are allowed to grow while the good grass dies off, eventually all you will have in your lawn is weeds. That is what has happened to Detroit. This happens at a pace that most people don't even see until it is too late.
This same model applies to a lot of things including immigration. Do you think that legal immigrant neighbors are better than illegal neighbors? Is there a difference? You know that there is. We are not talking about an exact or perfect process here, but if you look at the average, you know that legal immigrants make better neighbors than illegal immigrants. Neighbor hoods don't die over night, it takes a while.
In the case of Detroit, they had a "double" affect with good neighbors moving our and worse neighbors moving in. How many new subdivisions can we build to try to create good neighborhoods and good schools? How about protecting the good neighborhoods and schools that we already have by preventing illegal immigration from destroying them?
PS---What group is most likely to have an illegal immigrant as a next door neighbor? It is a legal Latin immigrant family. That just might be why the Latin American support for President Trump has increased from 19% to 50%. When you think about this, it is exactly what you would expect. What would your position be if you had a next door neighbor who was an illegal immigrant?
Now, let's get in the mood. Most of us like our next door neighbors with a few exceptions. One of the big considerations about where to live and buy a home is based on what kinds of next door neighbors one has. It also has a lot to do with the quality of schools in your neighbor hood. It is not money or how much the teachers are paid that determines how good your schools is. It is the quality of your neighbors and we all know it!
Now, think about the situation where your next door neighbor is an illegal immigrant? For the most part we all know that these illegal immigrants are not well educated nor do they come from a multi generational tradition of obeying the law or paying their taxes. That is a fact, so don't forget it. These people are from a totally different culture that wants to maintain their difference and tend not to want to accept the values and traditions of 100% of the people who you know and associate with. They are not the ones who are going to volunteer to lead a Boy Scout troupe or coach your little league baseball team. If you are honest, I don't think that you want these people for your next door neighbors.
Think about this? You live in a nice neighborhood where you like and respect your next door neighbors. Your children often sleep over at their home and you have total trust in them. You have to know that the millions of illegal immigrants who are here in the USA have to be living next door to some one. Did you every think about those people? Are you concerned about them? Are you exempt from that because you live in a "good" neighborhood? How about living in a gated community where there are guards on the gates? Does your nice neighborhood have a community swimming pool? Do you want kids from illegal immigrant families using your community pool, even though they never paid a dime to build it? How about your community school that you checked out in detail before you moved into your community because you wanted your children to have the very best education?
If you are following all this, I think that you can see that even though your might live in a gated community, there are many people who don't. Illegal immigration might not affect you today, but it will affect your children both today and in the future. What will the future of your community look like a few years from now if illegal immigration is allowed to continue? Will your kids want to move out of the community in which they were raises and try to find just the right neighborhood for their children as you did? See where this is going? What will happen when you can't just move farther away because getting farther away from one bad place on gets you closer to another. Isn't that what you have seen in your old neighborhood? The cure is not to run away, but to solve the basic problem and what is that? Start looking at how you can help your own children and protect their future so that they can enjoy the same "quality of life" that you enjoyed. Most of us want our children to have a better quality of life than we had and how can we do that?
Make sure that your children have the best "next door neighbors", and you know how to assure that that happens. If you feel sorry for illegal immigrants at the expense of your own children, what kind of parent are you really?
PS--Bad neighbor lessons. Look at the city of Detroit, 75 years ago it was a great city with may great neighborhoods, but not any more. Why was that? It was because your grandfather's next door neighbor was not a good next door neighbor. Why was that? It was because his good next door neighbor move away and a new family moved in. You neighbor moved to an even better neighborhood and the one that moved into his old house was not as good. It is like a lawn that has a few weeds. If the weeds are allowed to grow while the good grass dies off, eventually all you will have in your lawn is weeds. That is what has happened to Detroit. This happens at a pace that most people don't even see until it is too late.
This same model applies to a lot of things including immigration. Do you think that legal immigrant neighbors are better than illegal neighbors? Is there a difference? You know that there is. We are not talking about an exact or perfect process here, but if you look at the average, you know that legal immigrants make better neighbors than illegal immigrants. Neighbor hoods don't die over night, it takes a while.
In the case of Detroit, they had a "double" affect with good neighbors moving our and worse neighbors moving in. How many new subdivisions can we build to try to create good neighborhoods and good schools? How about protecting the good neighborhoods and schools that we already have by preventing illegal immigration from destroying them?
PS---What group is most likely to have an illegal immigrant as a next door neighbor? It is a legal Latin immigrant family. That just might be why the Latin American support for President Trump has increased from 19% to 50%. When you think about this, it is exactly what you would expect. What would your position be if you had a next door neighbor who was an illegal immigrant?
