Editor, OBSERVER:

The illegal immigration issue is not emotional. This is killing our country, finances and culture.

You want to come here legally, love the flag, speak English, pay taxes and not take benefits? Come on in and be my friend, but that is the only way we should accept you here anymore.

This country is about saving our culture.

If you want to experience Somali cuisine, go to Africa. If you want to try sharia law, go to the

Middle East. If you cared about Diwali or the Asian New Year, or communism or globalism, or whatever else, go to the countries that do that.

In this country we want to do American things. Launch fireworks on the Fourth of July. Celebrate Christopher Columbus, not tear down his statutes. Drive your diesel truck “Rolling Coal” down whatever highway you please.

We want to say Merry Christmas. We want the Ten Commandments on the wall of your kids’ school. We want to eat bacon wherever you want. We want teachers to bring everyone up to the highest standards possible. We want the first day of hunting season to be a school holiday. We don’t want our Congressman beholding to any foreign country or taking a dime from any of their interest groups.

We want the American culture to be the only thing people embrace here and the only way to do that is to get rid of people who broke our laws to get here. Get rid of the people who don’t understand or respect our culture in the first place. Many of these people are trying to make this country just like the dumps they fled from.

RICHARD LANCASTER,

Westfield