Imagine This…

With recent news a rallies held last weekend I thought I would throw out a hypothetical.

Let’s imagine that there was a group of individuals in America who embezzled from their places of business. They were shrewd enough to not take enough money to cause significant hardship for the company, but still found a way to take sums of money they did not earn through legal means.

It became such a wide spread practice that a name was given to identify this group. They settled on Illegal Compensationists.

The Illegal Compensationists (other than the fact they were stealing) were generally seen as law abiding citizens. They worked (for some of their income), went to Church, and used their ill-gotten cash as consumers, which helped drive the economy.

Efforts to curb the activities of the Illegal Compensationists were met with political disagreement on both sides of the aisle.

On one hand the Illegal Compensationists were breaking the law.

On the other hand, it was a victimless crime. Did most Americans care if Wal-Mart made 5 zillion or 6 zillion dollars last year? How many Penthouse Suites are enough for Donald Trump? Besides, the Illegal Compensationists weren’t taking the money to purchase frivolous things. In general, the Illegal Compensationists were hard working people who were not being paid a “living wage” and needed to make up the difference with their “technically” criminal embezzlement activities. They were only looking to make a better life for themselves and achieve the “American Dream.”

However, resentment began to grow among those who saw the Illegal Compensationists as an affront. With the ranks of the Illegal Compensationists growing (by some estimates) to 11 Million, weren’t law abiding citizens who did not steal from their employers being punished? These activities had to have an effect on not only society, but suppressing the wages of those who played by the rules (since companies had to make up for the staggering loses being siphoned off by the embezzlement of the Illegal Compensationists). If someone had a moral compass which would not allow them to join the ranks of Illegal Compensationists, they were seeing their country torn apart by tolerance for the criminal activities of the Illegal Compensationists.

In the end what was the Government to do? Enforce laws on the books that already made embezzlement illegal? Could they really put 11 million people in jail? One idea which was thrown out was to pardon all Illegal Compensationists to bring them out of hiding. The thought went, if you stop embezzling, and promise never to do it again, you will not be prosecuted and as a bonus, you will get to keep all of your ill gotten money.


Now that this horse has been beat to death, I hope my feelings are clear. Whether your are an Illegal Compensationists or an Illegal Immigrant, the first part of your descriptor if ILLEGAL. This nation should not tolerate the breaking of law, ANY law. If the people don’t like the law, they should change it. Open the border to individuals from any country, not just or latin american neighbors to the south.

However, I think my first effort must be to get the term “Illegal Interloper” into the vernacular.

il·le·gal Definition: Prohibited by law.

in·ter·lop·er Definition: One that intrudes in a place, situation, or activity:

Illegal Interloper more accurately frames the nature of the offense, someone who intrudes into the United States in a manner prohibited by law.

The world immigrant adds the connotation of a legal activity for a wholly illegal act (kind of like calling someone a legal rapist or legal murder). Other than James Bond, 007 License to kill, most would agree Legal Murder is an oxymoron in the same way Illegal Immigrant is.

Get your bumper stickers now…

Protect our Borders…. Stop Illegal Interlopers