Letter to the Editor: A solid foundation for our nation

To the Editor:

If you are a citizen of the United States, the United States is your home. Therefore, if a nation is home to its citizens, what goes for the nation ultimately goes for the homes where citizens live and all property they own.

The United States has been known as the melting pot, a nation where people from other nations are welcome. People from elsewhere are weleome to come and visit. They are welcome to come and live provided they abide by the guidelines that have been set and eventually learn the language of the land. In all reality, if they do not abide by these guidelines and learn the language of the land, this nation is not their nation or home. They need to return to their nation or enter by way of the guidelines that have been set in order to stay and call this nation their home.

Let’s put it this way, in order for me to call your home/property my home, I have to enter by way of a set of guidelines. Examples of these guidelines would be by way of being born within the family or adopted. If I don’t follow these guidelines, I cannot call your home/property my home.

Let’s use this scenario in what is happening within our home/nation. People are entering our home/nation as they desire. If we say this is okay, then it is okay for me to enter your home/property as I desire.  They call our home/nation their home even though it really isn’t. If this is okay, then I can call your home/property my home. They are demanding amnesty to be allowed to stay and call this nation their home even though they entered illegally. If this is okay, then I can enter your home/property illegally and demand amnesty to call your home my home. They demand equal care and benefits, such as housing, food, clothing and healthcare. If this is okay, then I can demand that you provide me with equal care and benefits such as housing, food, clothing and healthcare as you do for those that are legal family members. They demand that their language be spoken. If this is okay, then I can demand that your legal family speak my language now that I reside within the home. Prayerfully, by now you get the picture.

If a half a dozen of us came into your home/property and all spoke a different language, this would breed chaos. The same goes for a nation. If everyone that comes here demands their language to be spoken, it breeds chaos. There must be a set language, one language, which is the foundation to the home or nation.

This is not discrimination.   It is setting a foundation to build a nation/home. This does not say that we do not care about others, because we do. We care enough to hang onto the foundation in which this nation, our home, was built upon. Others are welcome in this nation, our home, but they must abide by the guidelines that have been set and learn the language of the land in order to call this nation their home and to receive the benefits from this nation. If we do not stand firm upon these guidelines, this nation, our home, becomes nothing more than a nation built upon shifting sand.

Prayerfully, the next time you go to a town hall meeting, you will have the courage to be heard loud and clear that we love and care for others but we have set guidelines and they must follow these guidelines in order to call this nation their home. Plus, we have a foundational language and they must learn that language. If we the citizens do not have the courage to stand firm upon this, we cannot ask our military to fight for this nation/home because we ourselves are not willing to do our part. This nation/home becomes nothing more than ‘a house of cards’.

Veterans Day is around the corner. Honor our vets by standing firm upon the foundation of this nation. Also, demand that those within the political arena do likewise. Or, this nation/home will fall because it has no real foundation and is nothing more than a nation of babble. There is no solid foundation. Plus, all legal documents, public buildings, everything manufactured, etc. will have to have things printed in every language spoken in order to avoid being labeled ‘discriminating’.

Becky Huck
Waukon