Naturalized citizen says illegal immigrants shouldn't get free pass to citizenship
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Thousands of people are expected to show up at Tucson's Armory Park for Monday’s immigration rally, but not everyone is supporting their cause.
“No other population that has tried to immigrate into the United States has ever been allowed to get away with doing it this way,” Brigitta Carney, a naturalized U.S. citizen, says.
Her family came to America from Germany.
She has no problem with people coming here legally, but says illegal immigrants shouldn’t get a free pass to citizenship.
Carney says, “You come here, you learn to speak English, you become an American citizen, you take the oath of allegiance -- in English please.”
Others have a more extreme view.
“They have no right to protest. They have no right at all. They have the right to be deported,” says Laine Lawless with Tucson-based Border Guardians.
The group plans to burn Mexican flags over the weekend.
“We’ve had a lot of Mexican government meddling in to our government’s affairs, and it’s time for us to say stop. This is enough, we’re not going to take it anymore.”
Activist Russ Dove agrees, saying, “They are telling me to sit down, open your wallet, feed me, water me, let me breathe openly, and continue to take care of me. Put me in the front [of the] line.”
Dove thinks the existing immigration laws are good enough.
“Let us enforce the laws we have. The immigration system is not broken, it’s simply not enforced,” Dove says.
As Monday’s immigration march and rally draws near, the opposition gets more heated.
Brigitta Carney says, “You don’t march for a citizen’s right, wrapped in the flag of another country.”