Illegal immigrants are stealing freedom; should be sent back

No están entendiendo el punto. Translation to all illegal immigrants and their supporters: You're missing the point.

This past Monday's rebellion - yes, rebellion - proved that not only do illegal immigrants not understand the law, they also don't understand that they have broken the law. All they seem to want to know and believe is that everyone else is misunderstanding their motives.

I've heard everything from, "All we want is to live here" to "The United States is denying our citizenship" to "We have worked hard and deserve the right to live here."

Bulls**t. Bulls**t. And more Bulls**t. The illegal immigrants who rallied in protest on Monday proved only one thing. They invented a day and a reason not to work or go to school. They also did one bonito job of confusing unlawful action with being Hispanic. And their supporters are just as stupid.

This is the racial card with an ethnic slur. If illegal immigrants want to live here, then drop your crime-smudged hands from your Mexican flag and earn the right to carry the one that stands for America. And put a blowtorch to those signs that plea for freedom and full rights to immigrants. Legal immigrants do have full rights. But to me, illegal immigrants have only one right - they can turn "right," then left, and head back over the border where they came from.

If you're here illegally, we don't want ya. If you wish to remain that way, we don't need ya. Take your flag and remember that the green part is the color of the card that you never had the lawful mind and brains to receive; the red part and the white part stand for two out of three colors that represent the United States of America. All you need is to earn the blue part. The price tag isn't much. It's called honesty. Integrity. But you decided to crawl over the line like a thief, because you are thieves. You are criminals. You've stolen freedom - the same freedom that belongs to only those who have rightfully and lawfully obtained their citizenship. You are illegal, and you have committed a crime. You live the life of crime just by breathing.

And those Americans who think it's OK to hire illegal immigrants, then you're even worse. You are criminals of the worst kind. You're nothing but neo-slavemasters who hire cheap labor to plant your petunias and justify the violated acts of these criminals with your own selfishness and short-sightedness. Your home is your plantation, and you are sharing the crime of those illegal intruders you hire. You are withholding evidence. You are covering the truth. What were once cotton fields are now landscaped lawns. What were once bullwhips are now dollar bills waving over the eyes of the criminals.

I've heard those who say, "So what do you propose? Send all 12 million of them back?" YES! Look at it this way. Say that Mexico was really Iraq, and 12 million Iraqis have found their way into this country. Now what would you do? Send them all back? Sure as I'm breathing, with an army of rifles pointing the way for them. Hasn't this country learned anything since 9/11? How long will legal citizens of all races in the United States take this? When will the nation's capital send these untried criminals back across the border? I have to take my shoes off at an airport security check, but these law-violators can walk our streets with the confidence of security and freedom? This has gone too far. Yet another no-see, no-hear, no-speak mindless monkey pile from President Bush. He'll just let it go. Like everything else he does.

Mark my words folks, it won't be long before these rallies turn into blood in the streets - the racial riots of the 60s with a hell of a lot more firearms.

• John DiMambro is publisher of the Nevada Appeal. Write to him at jdimambro@nevadaappeal.com.