Our birthright as Americans is our liberty. My father fought and shed blood on the fields of WWII.
Most Americans value and honor our amazing fortune in being born in this great country, and we are made fools by the people who never earned the right to live here, yet they come, they stay, they benefit from our generosity.
Having said that, the young men who murdered the immigrant and the law enforcement officers who protected them, should be punished with the full weight of the law. Our American ideals for which men and women have fought and died deserve no less. There is no argument one could make to excuse or pardon the behavior of these criminals.
But there is still a much larger issue. Illegal immigration runs rampant in this country, and its acceptance empowers those who are inclined already to behave criminally, as these men did. That issue is not resolved, even though a decisive majority of Americans are profoundly troubled by the lack of enforcement of immigration laws.
The people who support, enable or condone illegal immigration, and the politicians who have looked the other way for decades, have undermined the rule of law – which, most fundamentally, is the glue that binds the citizens of our nation together. Without that glue, in time the nation we know and the ideals of liberty and self-government, will perish.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” Ronald Reagan
I doubt that this had much of anything to do with the fact that the victim was an “undocumented immigrant,” and more to do with thuggish wolf-pack behavior of some arrogant kids finding somebody weak to pick on. They may have thought he was homeless or a bum, and therefore easy pickings.
I think it is the press that is trying to make it sound like an ethnic incident.
We had a bunch of high school athletes from “good” homes here in Florida who were going around beating and even setting fire to homeless guys in the park. I’m not fond of bums myself, but they don’t deserve to be beaten to death.
There were people (liberals) who actually rushed forward and defended the kids because they were “good kids” (meaning, from well-off homes) who “just made the mistake” of getting their kicks by tormenting and killing marginal people.