Don’t just blame pols on immigration

I can understand Americans having different opinions on issues such as abortion, gun control, death penalty. There are some issues, however, where I don’t understand why there isn’t unanimous agreement that something is wrong and an outcry to fix it.

For example, if I were to tell you that during the night unwanted strangers would enter your home and refuse to leave, my guess is that most, if not all, would consider this unacceptable. You would be outraged when government officials would do nothing to remove these strangers.

These same officials would later decide that you have to provide financial support for these unwanted strangers by helping to feed them, provide an education for their children and provide medical care. These strangers could also disregard laws that you yourself must obey (driver’s license, car insurance, etc.)

Sound familiar? I have no problems with legal immigration, as that’s the way my grandparents came here. I do have a problem with the government ignoring illegal immigration for the past 30 years. Sadly, it’s too easy to blame the mindless politicians who are elected to serve the people. We need to go no further than the nearest mirror for we the people elect politicians and then do not hold them accountable.

Too many voters fail to vote at all and some seem to vote for candidates only after looking for a D or R adjacent to their name, not having a clue where the candidate stands on issues. Unless we wake up and start electing officials who have American citizens best interested at heart we’ll end up like the lyrics from a song from the 60s suggests, “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.”

Bill Kostal

Naperville