Let us just move on
By Robert T. Smith
web posted December 8, 2025
The emotional plea is for our current immigration situation to be based on some past, quaint notion of independent adjudicators of right and wrong, legal and illegal, just and unfair. Recounting the trauma and terror of our current illegal immigrant situation, sprinkled with emotionally charged anecdotal information conveniently forgets how we got here in the first place. The humanity crushing aspects that in the recent past occurred to put us in this situation. Let us just move on from the causative recent past and forget is the plea.
Let us forget the many thousands who have died from fentanyl overdoses caused by the lax enforcement at the borders that poured these deadly chemicals into our society at a record pace. Not just those who choose to partake of illegal drugs and die, but those who accidentally come into contact with the deadly fentanyl, police, paramedics, other health care workers, children, adolescents purchasing what they believe to be normal drugs off the internet or streets.
Let us just forget about the human smuggling of children and women that skyrocketed with the open borders. The over 65,000 hotline calls left unanswered from unaccompanied minors who were provided a phone "life-line" should they be put in peril or danger. The hundreds of thousands of children who were lost track of or were placed with dangerous sponsors. Women trafficked for sex slavery at an alarmingly higher rate.
Let's just forget the impact on Mexico, the illegal activities carried out by the cartels who are now the fifth largest employer in Mexico caused by the open borders that poured all manner of illegal activity into that region. Not to mention the death and destruction, social chaos and violence fight for turf, money, and power waged between the competing cartels.
Let's just forget about the increased financial burden caused by the influx of poor, illegal immigrants. The strain on our social services, educational system, and communities. Imagine you live in a small Texas town and one day hundreds or even thousands of illegal immigrants walk into your small or even large town. Every one of these people needs to eat and drink, go to the bathroom, and some will need medical care paramedics, facilities, doctors and nurses.
Let us just forget the third-world diseases allowed to flood through the open border that now are transmitted throughout American society. Major diseases like polio and tuberculosis, as well as other less life-threatening illnesses that now must be addressed. Housing and sanitation problems, and related lawlessness caused by those who do not understand or comply with our laws or regulations.
Let us just forget about the financial benefit for housing illegals instead of citizens, tax credits and landlords removing citizens because the federal rental payments were significantly more for the illegal immigrants. The billions of dollars in annual cost to state and local governments, paid by the taxpayers to address the influx of illegal immigrants.
Let us just forget and move on seems too convenient for the current situation. After all, if your loved one did not die from a fentanyl overdose, if you daughter or wife was not trafficked for work or sex, if Mexico's social situation does not affect you, you have not developed tuberculosis, lost your rental apartment to an illegal immigrant, or strained you finances for tax payments, there is no harm, so let us just move on. What is the appropriate balance to fixing the extreme harm done versus the current approach that is attempting to fix the recent past wrong? 
Robert T. Smith is an environmental scientist who spends his days enjoying life and the pursuit of happiness with his family. He confesses to cling to his liberty, guns and religion, with antipathy toward the arrogant ruling elites throughout the country.
