text: if illegal immigrants want citizenship, why do they desicrate the sanctity of our veterans memorial park ? where i live the immigrants held a rally for their rights and planted a mexican flag below our p.o.w./m.i.a.,american and california state flags, while demonstrating in our veterans memorial park. how can they expect us to not react with disdain? if you want citizenship, shouldn't you respect the country you are seeking it from? this is the problem.  when you steal something you do not respect it.  if you are always given something without having to earn it or work for it through the proper channels then you do not appreciate it.  you have no idea the value or worth of what you have.  this is why legal immigration is so important.  my mother earned her citizenship in this country.  she had to go to school and learn about our government and take a test and after she passed the test it still took eleven years for the government to send her her papers in the mail.  she was very proud to be an american.