They come to America

Regarding illegal immigrants, their protests, and the expectation of United States of America citizens:

Immigration is not a right of entitlement...it is a plea for inclusion. To be included there is a price. Fortunately for those who are born citizens, someone in their ancestry paid that price and to them they should be thankful but the remainder of the price is working within the system to the pursuit of happiness.

People who enter the USA contrary to its laws of citizenship have no ancestry that paid for the right to live here and enjoy the advantages; and those that further seek to enjoy the advantages without paying the price are thieves.
Part of my motivation to work within the system, to serve in our military, to pay taxes, to vote for leaders and improvements in the law, to contribute to our society is to secure a future of these advantages for my children and my children's children.

It may be unfortunate for some to be born of a family in a impoverished country. However, the great majority of mankind is so born. However, there is still an opportunity to join another country and live according to that society's laws and expectations...and many do so to enter the United States of America. It may be that this is an extension of the "survival of the most fit" among societies. The genetic offspring of those willing to work to succeed, would seem best to begin their lives as members of their society.

It is within this framework that I ask those who steal from my ancestors, why they cannot work to succeed within their own country and pass down to their children the resulting advantages. It is within this framework that I ask those who take from this society, why they do not contribute to the welfare of all within it.

Remember the USA was also a colony. It was not a land of great wealth, advanced medical care, or advantages equal to the society from which colonists left. The majority of citizens of this colony did not return to their native country to spend their earnings and support their families there. They did invest themselves and their earnings in improving this society; they did fight tyrants to secure and maintain this country; and they did welcome others who wished to do the same for their lives and a future for their children. Other countries in the Americas began much the same. Why are they not equal to the US in advantage to their citizens?

At this point in history, there are other countries in the Americas with great resources, who could develop within their societies much improved lives for themselves and their offspring.

Herein I have asked many questions. All men are not born equal, nor do they have equal opportunity and it is merely a romantic notion to think otherwise. I do not advocate that all mankind should propagate. I do advocate that the survival of mankind depends upon the advance of the brightest, the best and the most capable willing to work for the survival of those societies that have evolved successfully. Let those who can do this in the United States of America live here and come here. Let others fend for themselves in their society.

My concern is that the USA is not fending for itself when it advances the less than bright, welcomes the less than best, supports too many less capable and sustains those unwilling to work in contribution.