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That would certainly be a question that only that individual could answer. Personally, I am retired military, and the answer is NO. One thing we all must understand is that we are a nation of immigrants. Unless you are a member of a Native American family, your family was, at one time, immigrants.These people are not doing anything illegal. they are doing exactly what YOUR family did at Ellis Island. They came here seeking asylum. They have filed their paperwork, and they are waiting. To claim they are all 'illegals' or 'drug dealers' or anything else is totally wrong. Do you really think that someone is going to walk 3,000 miles to find a better place to sell drugs? ---or destroy or government? They are here for the very same reason that YOUR family came here; the part of the world hey lived in has gone to hell. They had nothing to do with that, and they had no way to prevent it, and their only choice was get the hell out or die there.You could say that they are trying to take your job away, but get serious. All they have is the clothes on their back, and you think they have a 'head start' on you? Look, we have about a third of California consumed by fire. They will need a lot of help rebuilding everything out there. We also still have a lot of hurricane damage in Texas, Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. We need homes and roads and whole towns rebuilt, and you can't find work for these people? Grief, take a look at the phone book for your town. You will see names that came from all over this planet. Are we fighting in the street or killing each other because of that? NO! That is what makes this country great.I'm going to share with you a President's Christmas speech from 1982. When you get down to about the 4th paragraph, you will see what is a letter I wrote to my parents. President Reagan (yes, a Republican) liked it so much he shared it with the whole world. As you read it, just know this: THIS is the country I fought for, and THIS is the country I believe in:President Reagan’s 1982 Christmas SpeechMerry Christmas from the White HouseNancy and I wish we could personally thank the thousands of you who have sent us holiday cards, greetings and messages. Each one is moving and tells a story of its own—a story of love, hope, prayer, and patriotism. And each one has helped to brighten our Christmas.Some of the most moving have come from fellow citizens who, unlike most of us, are not spending Christmas Day at the family hearth, surrounded by friends and loved ones. I am thinking of the twelve U.S. Marines who sent us a card from Beirut, Lebanon, where they will spend their Christmas helping to rebuild the shattered hopes for peace in a suffering land. And I am thinking of the Petty Officer serving aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise who asked that we remember him and his shipmates this holiday season. “Christmas in the Indian Ocean is no fun,” he writes, “but it is for a very good cause.”Well, that is right, sailor. You are serving a very good cause, indeed. On this, the birthday of the Prince of Peace, you and your comrades serve to protect the peace He taught us. You may be thousands of miles away, but to us here at home, you have never been closer.One of my favorite pieces of Christmas mail came early this year—a sort of modern American Christmas story that took place not in our country’s heartland, but on the troubled waters of the South China Sea last October. To me, it sums up so much of what is best about the Christmas spirit, the American character, and what this beloved land of ours stands for—not only for ourselves, but to millions of less fortunate people around the globe.I want to thank Mr. Gary Kemp of Neenah, Wisconsin for bringing it to my attention. It is a letter from Aviation Ordnanceman First Class John Mooney, written to his parents from aboard the aircraft carrier Midway on October 15th, but it is a true Christmas story in the best sense.“Dear Mom and Dad,” he wrote, “today we spotted a boat in the water, and we rendered assistance. We picked up 65 Vietnamese refugees. It was about a two-hour job getting everyone aboard, and then they had to get screened by intelligence, checked out by medical, fed and clothed and all that. But now they are resting on the hangar deck and the kids—most of them seem to be kids—are sitting in front of probably the first television set they have ever seen, watching ‘Star Wars’. Their boat was sinking as we came alongside. They had been at sea five days and had run out of water. All in all, a couple of more days and the kids would have been in pretty bad shape.“I guess once in a while,” he writes, “we need a jolt like that for us to realize why we do what we do and how important, really, it can be. I mean, it took a lot of guts for those parents to make a choice like that—to go to sea in a leaky boat in hope of finding someone to take them from the sea—so much risk. But apparently they felt it was worth it, rather than live in a Communist country. For all of our ‘problems’ with the price of gas and not being able to afford a new car or other creature comforts this year…I really don’t see a lot of leaky boats heading out of San Diego looking for the Russian ships out there.“After the refugees were brought aboard, I took some pictures. But as usual, I did not have my camera with me for the real picture—the one blazed in my mind. As they approached the ship, they were all waving and trying as best they could to say, ‘Hello, American sailor! Hello, freedom man!’ It is hard to see a boat full of people like that and not get a lump somewhere between chin and bellybutton. And it really makes one proud and glad to be an American. People were waving and shouting and trying not to let other brave men see their wet eyes. A lieutenant next to me said, ‘Yeah, I guess it’s payday in more ways than one.’ (We got paid today.) …And I guess no one could say it better than that.“It reminds us all of what America has always been—a place a man or woman can come for freedom. I know we are crowded and we have unemployment and we have a real burden with refugees, but I honestly hope and pray we can always find room. We have a unique society, made up of cast-offs of all the world’s wars and oppressions. And yet, we are strong and free. We have one thing in common—no matter where our forefathers came from, we believe in that freedom. I hope we always have room for one more—maybe an Afghan or a Pole or someone else looking for a place where he doesn’t have to worry about his family starving or a knock on the door at night. A place where all men who truly seek freedom and honor and respect and dignity for themselves and their posterity can finally see their dreams come true, and their kids educated to become the next generation of doctors and lawyers and builders and soldiers and sailors.---Love, John.”Well, I think that letter just about says it all. In spite of everything, we Americans are still uniquely blessed, not only with the rich bounty of our land, but by a bounty of the spirit—a kind of year-round Christmas spirit that still makes our country a beacon of hope in a troubled world and that makes this Christmas and every Christmas even more special for all of us who number among our gifts the birthright of being an American.Until next week, thanks for listening. Merry Christmas and God bless you.THIS is the country I fought for, and THIS is the country I believe in. If I were ordered to go to the border now with a gun, I would refuse. Lock me up. There is NOTHING 'American' about it at all. Did we have guns at Ellis Island? These people are breaking no laws. The sad, sick thing is if they were white folks coming from Europe, our wonderful president would be greeting them at the airport.