Border Crisis?

What crisis? Well, I guess the one where thousands, tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants swarm our southern border with Mexico clamoring to enter our country. And that’s a crisis how? Why? And if it is a crisis, what ought we do about it?

First off, no blame please. Immigration has been mismanaged for more decades than we can rightly count. All political parties have mismanaged the issue. All have manipulated this issue for reasons of power. Not rightness. Power. Plain and simple. A travesty. And a public shame.

We have had decades to get this right but have chosen to ignore it. And then we claim it is a crisis when newcomers to our nation are not welcomed? They are not housed, medically cared for, fed even? We throw up tents, bring in armed guards and prison personnel to ‘manage’ the crowds. Really?

What do all of the greatest religions of the world tell us to do in such circumstances? Welcome them, feed them, bandage their wounds and injuries, house them, educate them and assimilate them into our homeland? Is that what we are told to do?

Yes. Exactly correct.

So why hasn’t this been done?

Fear. More fear. Propaganda pressing fear onto our own people.

Immigration is America’s story. Our story. Immigrants refresh our population, add muscle and motivation to our labor pool, provide different cultural backgrounds for spice, and add to We The People to build a more perfect union of people doing for us all.

What part of Abe Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address did we not understand? “A government of the people, by the people, for the people.” And the people were those entering our land, raising their families, populating the nation, striving for a more perfect union. Building from diversity.

Just what are we afraid of? That the newcomers might be better than we are? Hungrier to succeed? Be wealthier than we? More educated? More willing to work? What exactly are we afraid of?

I’m listening. What is that you are saying?

May 3, 2021