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.
