Still on legal and illegal immigration

I just read an article that basically stated that assimilation into the US is complex.  No, it is not.  If you immigrate to this country legally, then it is your responsibility to learn the culture, language, and be a productive member of our society.  That is the responsibility you take on when you ask permission to move into our country and gain citizenship.  That citizenship is sacred. And it should be.  So if you really don't want to be a part of the American fabric, you have no business coming here to begin with. And that is all we ask of our legal immigrants.  That they embrace our country and fully become a part of it.  Illegal aliens are not immigrants and are another matter all together.  They show nothing but disrespect for our laws by barging into our country without permission.  And they barge in making demands.  We are a nation of laws and it is imperative to our way of life that we respect and enforce all our laws. Failure to do so negates who we are as a sovereign country.  If we fail to enforce our laws and let ourselves be taken advantage of and allow our laws to be ignored, we are no longer a country, but a collection of people with no cohesion.

What California is doing is very wrong.  They are going against their country's laws and they are doing it for all the wrong reasons.  Whether they like it or not, they are a part of the United States and they seem to like all the advantages that that relationship accords them.  Protection from invasion. Disaster relief when natural disaster strikes, federal funding.  But they want that and want to write the conditions on which they receive these benefits.  It does not work that way.  Trump is within his right to withhold federal funds if they thumb their noses at the federal laws.  Remember 1862?  That did not end well for either parties.  And it has forever split the country.  And California would be the first state to trash the South if we re-created that Civil War.  The politicians in California want it both ways.  They want to be a sovereign nation but they also want all the benefits of statehood.  There will be a reckoning and it won't be pretty.  And Eric Holder is in the middle of this mess.  That man should be in federal prison for smuggling, gun running, and murder.  And so should Obama because he micromanaged everything in his administration so of course he knew and approved of this gun running in a foreign country.  A sovereign country.  And that country, Mexico, should be demanding that Holder be extradited to Mexico for prosecution for gun running and murder.  We are going to need all the help we can get.  We are in a world of trouble.