By Kathy Pledger

So Janet Napolitano says today that our borders are safe from illegal aliens. How alienated is she from the reality of her own words????

What has happened to this great country that we no longer have the number one language? There are so many illegal Mexicans that we have dumped down our standards to accommodate their overwhelming majority, status, and unwillingness to learn English both in the spoken and written form. Sometimes I wonder what country I’m in when I go shopping, or make a phone call.

My mother came from South Korea, and taught herself to speak English mainly by watching Captain Kangaroo and I Love Lucy Show, while being entertained and by listening to others speak. She also learned how to read by reading and memorizing the Bible at age 29. I’m thinking the Korean language is more difficult to read and speak than Spanish. Plop you down in the center of South Korea, virtually all alone at age 29… see how well you fare.

The difference may be the attitude of the people. My mother came over to the United States of America to fulfill the dream of the freedoms and liberty this country has to offer, and to integrate herself into it by learning the culture and language.

The true immigrant wants to integrate. The illegal alien wants the benefits of our freedom and liberty for their personal gain without being a part of the country. They don’t want to integrate into this country and one proof is they don’t want or care to learn our language.

To top that off, they demand our schools print materials in Spanish so they can understand without having to learn our language.

Stop wasting our tax money, taking our jobs, draining our social programs… food stamps, welfare, health care, etc. Let’s not continue to bend to these illegal aliens.

If you don’t want to be a TRUE AMERICAN…. GET OUT!!!!!!

Editor’s Note: We would like to know what you think. dan@goldcoastchronicle.com and Kathy at  kpledger@goldcoastchronicle.com