When one flaw in our nation continues to grow unchecked it is only a matter of time before this flaw begins corrupting other aspects of our great country. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal describes how we now have a problem with what will occur in the 2010 [U.S.] census. The congress has instructed the Census Bureau not to ask if the the person is a [U.S.] citizen. It is widely acknowledged that there are between 12 and 20 million illegals in the [U.S.] at this time. Counting these people, these citizens of other nations, will skew the representation in our congress by giving Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Texas additional representatives. Assuming this story gains notice from major news outlets there will most likely be a big argument over the wrong thing, “Should we count illegal aliens in the census.” Of course this would be a debate about a symptom rather than the cause of the problem.

The United States of America cannot be serious about maintaining itself in any fashion without first controlling the boarders. Legal immigration has been a beautiful thing for our nation since its founding and will ever continue to be so. But illegal immigration is a chaotic destructive force that overloads, distorts, corrupts, and eventually destroys all the systems and ingredients that have come together to create this nation. Think about this in terms of your own house. Your house could likely take in 1 or 2 guests and manage their room and board without significant disruption. Increase that number to 5 or 10 and you would probably start to see some disruption but you could probably manage with some changes. Now increase that number to 50 or 100 new people living at your house. Now the systems can no longer keep up, everything breaks down and no one living there can go on. Because you can’t support those 100 people doesn’t mean you hate them. It’s not a question of what feels good, it’s a matter of what does good. This is what happens with illegal immigration.

If or when this census debate is picked up by the masses remember what the real cause and solution is; the census isn’t the problem it is just one of many systems within the porous walls of our republic that are failing us. Let’s address the problem not the symptoms.