OPINION: Unchecked immigration, unassimilated refugees will destroy us

I am so tired of the Bushes and Rubios, Clintons and Obamas, Pelosis and Sanders, Ryans and Boehners, McConnells and Reids telling us what American values are. What is clear to anyone with half a brain is that bringing in Muslims — whether it’s through student visas, refugee status or the government’s distorted immigration policy — does not represent American values.

Muslims are responsible for virtually all the violence and terrorism in the world today, and until the Muslim people are willing to throw off the chains of this oppressive religion, there will be no peace. We have already been the victims of terrorism on our shores and bringing in more people with this twisted, perverted ideology will increase the terrorism in our nation.

They tell us you can’t deport 11 million illegal immigrants because they don’t want to. If you want to solve the illegal immigration problem, stop the benefits. No welfare, no food stamps, no housing, no education and no jobs. If this were implemented, they would stop coming and the ones that are here would leave.

These corrupt and criminal politicians will tell you that this is un-American and that America was founded on immigration and we need immigrants to do the jobs Americans won’t do. This is another load of bull manure. America was founded on immigration, but it was a growing nation that was the land of opportunity for anyone who embraced those opportunities. There was no welfare, food stamps or subsidized housing, only opportunities, and this nation thrived and grew.

Now immigration has become a tool of the progressive Democrats and Republicans to divide this country, to take away our votes, to reduce our wages and our standard of living. Our immigration policy should be for those who contribute to the ideals of this nation, not the ones who take from its citizens. Immigration cannot be a tool for corporate America to undermine the American worker through a visa program implemented by corrupt politicians to benefit their donors. Immigration to this country should be an opportunity not a hand-out, and the people who come should be coming to contribute and become Americans first and foremost.

One last thing. American values is not allowing an American ambassador and other brave Americans to die in Benghazi without any effort to save them. American values is not bringing in Muslim refugees and illegal immigrants and allowing them to collect Social Security and welfare while you deprive our citizens cost-of-living increases.

American values is not allowing a nation, Iran, which has sworn to destroy America and Israel, to have a nuclear weapon and to release billions of dollars to further their aggression and their funding of terrorism. This is a nation responsible for the killing and maiming of American soldiers, and this money could have been used to provide quality health care, housing for homeless vets and restitution for the families of the soldiers killed by the terrorist nation of Iran. American values is not passing trade deals that benefit only our trading partners and global corporations and the politicians who they contribute to. Racism is not an American value and is even more egregious when it comes from the president and his administration in an effort to divide this nation for political gain.

American values is not dismantling the finest and most advanced health care in the world, stripping funding from Medicare to fund an onerous system called the Affordable Care Act that provides health care to the very few on the backs of working Americans. Obamacare is not health care but a mandatory insurance or tax that funds Medicaid expansion and makes health care unaffordable for most working Americans. Obamacare is pushing the very people who need it the most, our senior citizens, over the cliff.

Planned Parenthood, which is guilty of perhaps the worst crimes against humanity since Nazi Germany, continues to be funded by our government despite all the lies by this administration that funding for abortion would not be included in Obamacare.

These politicians have no concept of what American values are and have no right to lecture the American people about American values. These people and many others lie and steal from the American people through their actions and legislation. They lack American values, and some of them should be prosecuted for their criminal deeds.

We cannot continue to re-elect these people and expect a different result. If the criminal in the White House and his co-conspirators in the House and Senate continue the dismantling of our constitutional republic, we will never get it back.

Jack Deason is a resident of Bigfork.