Deportation and Immigration - An Un-American Dream

Deportation and Immigration

An Un-American Dream

It was the first battle of World of Warships for the day when some blockhead had to say this:

LordSteve: “Trump in 2016!!!!!!!

Spliff_original: “Time to evict the Mexicans and towel heads”

LordSteve: “I agree, evict them all”

HMSPancake: “Those towel heads and Mexicans do the jobs you lazy ass Americans don’t wanna do so yeah please evict them”

SquirtleSoup: “Evict all the immigrants, if you aren’t native, get out.”

LordSteve: “All those immigrants want is free money and to knock up our white women.”

HMSPancake: “So all white people need to leave, that’s what you are saying.”  

While this is a conversation from a computer game, and certainly not a selection of America’s finest, it made me think of an old friend. As a young man in the workforce I met someone who I worked beside for years. He came to this nation in the back of a truck. He told me how he was crammed in there so tight he was in the fetal position for days. The person next to him was dead. This young man worked hard and got paid less than I. Illegal Immigrants, undocumented workers, or as I call them, economic slaves, don’t get paid overtime and you bet they work it. This young man works sixty, to eighty plus hours a week for regular pay. Why? So his family back in Central America can eat! To pay for his little sister to go to medical school and become a nurse. He works this hard to better himself and his family, to have the opportunity to live life to the fullest. He once told me he hadn’t seen his mother in ten years because he is scared if he went home, he wouldn’t survive the return trip into the United States of America.

This saddens me greatly. I believe in the American dream. It used to be called The Land of Opportunity, where men traveled over land and sea following a dream of bettering themselves through hard work, their merits and accomplishments. It still is that for some. For my friend it certainly is all that. You see my friend is an American at heart.  But sadly the American Dream of opportunity is being denied him. Why?

It reminds me of a bunch of boys who find a great big tree having an idea they build a tree house, where they can be free. To build it they have to recruit others to help. Now that the tree house is large, grand and built, what have they done? They close the main door, denying others equal access until thoroughly vetted and approved as desired club members. However there are things that need fixed, and dirty jobs requiring hard work. The people already “in” make more money elsewhere, even sitting at home doing nothing. So who shows up to do this dirty work? Visiting boys hearing of opportunity to work and feed themselves sneak into the great tree house all to make some money offered by the “in” boys who don’t want to do it. And since these “visitors” can be evicted at any time, because there technically is a “No entry, unless approved” sign posted, some of the boys in the tree house find they can make good money because the “visiting” boys will work for less than an “original tree house boy.” If they don’t, “Out with you!”

Is this the American Dream? Do not deny it has come to this. It’s even evident in our presidential election. Donald Trump says Senator Cruz isn’t eligible for presidential office. Why? Because of his pedigree?

Since when did this great country become one of inspecting each other’s lineage? Think back in history of a great empire to which pedigree was very important. It used to be called Great Britain from which America rose up in arms against and declared itself independent of its injustices. Furthermore do you know what Great Britain did with people who where found dishonorable, or who fell out of favor with it’s society and laws? In other words to it’s outcasts? They migrated or were deported to America.

The United States of America has replaced Great Britain as the world’s super power. It was built and filled with “second chancers” and founded upon freedom to choose to be whoever you wanted to be, to worship your god, and to live life to the fullest you possibly could.

Yet that America is no longer here. We financial enslave those who risked their life for the American Dream; we inspect our Presidential Candidate’s pedigree as finely as an English Aristocrat to see if they are “American enough”.

And to top it off I have to listen to hypocrites muck up my computer gaming time saying things like “evict the Mexicans and towel heads who have come here for free money and to knock up our white women!”

ENOUGH! Face it! We are a land of immigrants, of people with less than perfect backgrounds, and of second chancers! The America I choose to live in is one of honesty! Judging a person on their merits. Not their race, lineage or background!

Do I believe that immigrants should be in this country legally? YES! Do I think they should come here legally? YES! But face the facts that it is NOT the illegal immigrants fault he is here! There is an economy setup for them! Giving them opportunity to feed their families and better themselves! THEY didn’t set it up! If you were starving, working hard as a child of eight years old to stay alive and feed your family, and at times you had to do things like sling the dead smelly carcass of an Anaconda over your shoulders to drag it away from your jobsite because the stink was too much to bear, all for a couple dollars a day, wouldn’t YOU move to a country where you could make hundreds of dollars per day and have better working conditions? Where you could put your little sister through school and give your family a better life? Have a car and an apartment with air conditioning, hot water and good food?

And why should we evict these people? No let’s take this further. Why should we deny these people citizenship? They are in this country for the same reasons our ancestors came to America. Do you think we don’t have enough room? Do you think they will become a tax burden on us? Newsflash, our government in its supreme wisdom already gives them aid and support. We call immigrants leaches but they can’t be anything else because they aren’t able to pay taxes since they are “undocumented workers”. Why is this country being so Un-American in its way of dealing with immigrants? Perhaps because there is lots of money to be made by keeping them that way and being able to deport them at will if they cause any sort of fuss? We’ve built an economy on the backs of illegal immigrants. They pick our lettuce; they fold the linen in our hotels and our resorts, they install our landscaping. They provide services for far cheaper than a “documented” worker and provide employers the chance to skip on paying taxes and benefits. But at what cost? On top of it, because these are immigrants who WE are paying to be in this country to provide services that make our costs lower and help our businesses, it is in essence slavery. Or if you don’t want to agree with that, we have created a working class within our own nation that hasn’t the rights to vote or speak out like their fellow workers. Even though they may work just as hard, be just as responsible, and contribute to our great society just as equally, they have no voice. Therefore we have become as Great Britain in using a people for services to make money, yet denying them representation.