In yesterday's blog I talked about my maternal grandfather who was a veterinarian in Italy. Upon arriving in this great nation he so longed for, he discovered his degree was useless here. He could no longer practice veterinarian medicine because his degree wasn't earned here. They had no real way of knowing if it was real or not, is what he was told. So off to his new country he went with a few dollars, a worthless degree, and a prayer to God that he will be able to make it on his own.

In all my years of hearing stories from my grandparents, on both sides of the family, not once did I hear this country didn't give them a chance. This country took from them like I hear from the cry babies in the streets today. No, my grandparents were proud to be here. My grandfather didn't bow his head, give up and try to live off of the government. Especially since, in those days, immigrants were treated as if they didn't belong, imagine that! They were given nicknames according to their heritage, names I will not mention because they are now and were then, disrespectful.  I can only imagine how the Political Correct Police of today would be have reacted.

My grandfather pulled himself up by the bootstraps, as he would say, and got himself a job as a tailor. He was an amazing man, never let things get him down, strong and willing to work hard for himself and his family. Of course he was still single when he got here since he didn't meet my grandmother yet. When he went to work as a tailor my grandmother was working in the same place as a seamstress. This is where they met and fell in love, and the rest is our family history, at least on my mothers side.

Today degrees are carried across the boarders. Those who come here legally are coming for a better life for themselves and their families no different than immigrants of yesteryear. There was always the illegal immigrants getting into our country but the laws were made and kept, so if found they were sent back. Our government didn't make these immigration laws to do harm to anyone they made them to keep the American people safe but some where along the line, once again, politicians started looking the other way. They stopped allowing these laws to be enforced and started talking as if these illegal immigrants were the victims of our laws and not the criminals breaking our laws.

Where does it end? Well for me one step in the right direction is to protect our boarders be it with a travel ban or a wall. I cannot understand why so many people are upset because President Trump wants to build a wall to keep illegals from entering this country and to block the never ending smooth flow of drugs coming in from Mexico. To me it's the obvious solution because if you make people actually check in at the boarder, guess what folks, we as a country have more control over who comes in and out. Amazing, actually giving the United States of America a say on who enters their country without other governments passing judgement on us. Other governments, I might add, that have their boarders controlled be it with a wall or a visa vetting program in place.

Is the wall going to cost us money? Of course it is. Could President Trump force Mexico to pay for this wall? I am not working on this task but from what we have been told, by the White House not the press, there are ways to collect funds from Mexico for this venture. Will it pay for the entire wall? I don't know but nothing worthwhile is ever free. What the American people need to understand is in the long run it is going to cost us a lot less then housing, feeding, and giving illegal aliens health care for the rest of their lives. These people cannot even get a social security card and if they can't then their children who are born here can't because they live in fear of being caught. This is no way to live and no way to raise a family. I don't want to see families pulled apart either, or for children who were born here to have to go back to their parents homeland so as not to separate the family but this wouldn't have been an issue if they just did it the right way in the first place like so many who have in the past and will in the future.

You can't stand around and blame the government because you broke the law. Protest and riot in the streets because you want to make noise and be heard now that you are living here twenty years, have a family, and somehow managed to buy a house. That bugs me and you want to know why? I cannot understand how an illegal alien can buy a house in this country when so many Americans want a home of their own and have to jump through hoops to get one. Now I know there are those of you who are going to tell me illegals can't buy homes. My answer to that is BULL! I know a few who have bought homes in this country and when caught and sent back the homes were left to their families to care for or yes, in some cases, they were abandoned. For you non believers out there that say I am just talking ya ya, here's a link that gives you information on how this is done.
 https://www.selflender.com/blog/Is-it-impossible-to-get-a-mortgage-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.html

We are a nation of laws that need to be carried out no matter who they offend. Being afraid to hurt someone's feelings or allowing another nation to bully us is not the way of the American People. At least not the way of our forefathers who fought for this land and signed our Declaration of Independence, saw it. This is not the way they saw this country becoming when they drew up the Constitution of the United States of America. This document was not put together to be ignored and interpreted according to anyone's political belief depending on which side of the fence they sat left or right.

So many are quick to place blame on President Trump for enforcing our laws but no one wants to place blame on all the past Presidents who ignored these laws and allowed this country to become the mixed up mess it is today. You can stand there till the cows come home telling me that illegals take jobs American citizens don't want but that is BULL. The full time jobs they are taking away from us are jobs Americans would do, just not under the table and out of the eye of the IRS. Part time jobs they are doing are jobs our teenagers once had.  Ask a high school student if they are able to find work and you will find nine out of ten are finding it impossible to get a job even delivering pizza. Of course I also hear the argument our teenagers are lazy. Yes there are some who are lazy but there are many who want to work and help finance their way through college, have fun money to go out with their friends, or save for their first car if not to buy it then to help pay the insurance on it. Not everyone in this country is so called privileged but that's a topic for another day.

It's time for Americans to take back our country, start showing the pride our ancestors once had, start holding your head high and being proud to be an American and stop letting people brainwash you into feeling as if you are doing something wrong just because you are proud of who and what you are, an American proud and true.

We now have a President who has more pride in this country than anyone since President Ronald Reagan. President Trump is a man who knows how to get things done. He is a man who has a great love for this country and the laws it was built on. He may not have the political experience the left would like but in not having that he also doesn't have on the dark glasses other politicians have on to block out the deceitfulness of backroom agreements and pockets being lined in order to get this done or that on Capital Hill. Like my father always said, "Money talks and Bullshit walks!" That's Washington of the past, there's a new man in town and he is working hard to bring this all together. To turn Washington around and make it see the people who elected them into office as those who matter. President Trump's job is not going to be easy because he has a lot of hurtles to over come, but he is a strong willed man who has filled his cabinet with men and women like himself. Men and women who want a better future for this country and it's people. We the People of this great nation deserve such representation. For taking on this task President Trump, I thank you. May God Bless President Trump and his Administration for the hard work they have already done and help them along the long road ahead.