In the contining debate about (euphemistically) “immigration,” let us not forget: this isn’t about real estate.

Those who want to sneak into the U.S.A. aren’t here for the land. There’s plenty of land in the places from which they come.

It isn’t the mountains or the trees or the lakes or the rivers.

They come here to participate in what the American culture has built.

Pause here . . . let that sink in.

There’s a whole friggin’ continent over in Eurasia. Vast lands in the Russian/Mongolian/Siberian zones.

People are leaving there and coming here.

There’s plenty of empty land in Mexico and Central/South America. Same thing: people are leaving there and coming here.

It’s not the land.

They want what we have built. They want access to the benefits of our society. Even the “only here for the jobs” claim boils down to this.

The buffalo did not build our society, nor did the original Amerind tribes. The descendants of the early European settlers, and the later immigrants who joined our culture did that.

The people who are sneaking in today don’t want to build something new where nothing currently exists, they want to take advantage of what’s already been built without the pain of building it.

Even the parasites among them only come because there is something they can obtain.

So let us abandon all these arguments that there is somehow a legitimate aspect to the invasion and encroachment by people who are unwilling to fix things where they live and unwilling to play by the rules to come here.

It is wrong to steal from those who produce and give to those who cannot or will not. It is wrong to do this even when the recipient is a “hard working” foreign national.

We have built a culture and society that’s very prosperous. We do not “owe” that to anyone else.

Afford them the opportunity to earn it.

Don’t give it away or allow them to steal it.