Why is breaking the law rewarded?

We often want to forgive and help the immigrants who come into the United States of America illegally. It seems as if we believe they will change their ways once they are in a free country with little restraints.

Today Fox News.com reported on an Arab Activist from Detroit who came into this country and was giving citizenship, even though she lied. A portion of what they reported is below.

“Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, associate director at the Arab American Action Network in Chicago. She may plead guilty to failing to tell the US about her conviction in a deadly bombing in Israel in 1969. Odeh was convicted of an attack that killed two people at a Jerusalem market in 1969. An Israeli military court sentenced her to life in prison in 1970, but she was released 10 years later in a prisoner swap with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.”

Although she was young, and probably impressionable, does not excuse her and our government on allowing her to become a naturalized citizen.

When we reward bad behavior, no matter the excuse, then we cannot blame anyone else but ourselves.

It is no wonder we have so many illegal immigrants in the USA. They probably feel that is the way of our country. After all, we seem to reward lying illgal immigrants as well as politicians with re-election.

Ida Temple

Mansfield Tea Party