The Immigration Problem


Don't deny it.  Don't keep your head in the sand.  We have a problem.  These "people" are coming HERE.  Here to OUR land.  Do they come legally?  Do they come illegally?  Does that really matter?  They are coming!  They are landing on OUR shores and ruining our way of life.  

These people are "different."  They look different.  They SMELL different. They speak differently (if they speak OUR language at all).  They don't respect our land. Think of how beautiful everything was BEFORE they came.  They don't respect our rules. They don't respect our way of life. 

 They bring disease. Do they even bathe?  Who knows how many have gotten sick or died as a result?  

 They are criminals.  They want; they take.   They are violent.  They kill.

 We've got to keep them out!  This is OUR land!

 Ok, so there's just one thing...

 Am I really talking about 2019?  I could be very easily be speaking about centuries ago.  We are ALL the product of immigration.  (Unless you are 100% Native American; and if that is the case, my apologies..."immigrants" really did ruin your homeland.)  Very few of us are TRULY natives of this land.  (There had been a rumor that there was some Native American blood running in my family's veins...23andme.com does not support that story and it makes me a little sad.)  ALL of our ancestors came to the United States from somewhere else.  This land was NOT originally populated with Anglo Saxons.  Immigrants came from all over the world. They did so centuries ago, just as they do today.   They did bring disease.  They were unclean.  They didn't respect those who were already here.  They did kill.

 Does that make our ancestors bad people?  Some of them may have been.  Just like immigrants today: there ARE some "bad" people, but that doesn't mean the majority are "evil." Some were just looking for a new land to make a better life.  Not unlike those who come to our shores today.  Some were escaping unjust persecution; just as some are today.  

Are those who are coming to our shores today that different than those who came in the 1700s. 1800s or 1900s?

 While I admit that I have no answers to the current challenges that face our nation today when it comes to immigration; I DO think that anyone who comes to our shores deserves to be treated with dignity, respect and compassion.  We need to remember that it is NOT us and them.  We are ALL people; human beings with beating hearts, full of life.  What if that person was YOUR relative?  How would you treat that woman if she were your grandmother arriving here for the first time?  Were your ancestors treated unfairly or poorly when they arrived in America?  Will you treat those who arrive now with as much malice as your relatives might have faces?  Or will you welcome them with a smile and not a snarl?

 Immigration IS a problem.  There are not easy solutions.  But answers need to be found with humanity.  We need to work together.  We need to BE the people that our immigrant ancestors would want us to be.  

 We are ALL children of many lands.  We ALL have history that reaches across borders.  We are ALL of this world.







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