ALL AMERICANS, IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, WHETHER DISTANT ANCESTORS THAT WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT OR THOSE CLOSER THAT WE DO KNOW ABOUT...'WE' ARE ALL DESCENDANTS OF THOSE WHO HAVE TRAVELED HERE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES. I DARE TO SAY...ALL OF THEM DID NOT GET HERE LEGALLY, IN FACT I CAN RELATE TO A LARGE SEGMENT THAT WERE BROUGHT HERE 'ILLEGALLY'. USA IS A FLASHING NEON THAT ATTRACTS THE LESS PRIVILEGED AND THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS. WHY? BECAUSE WITH ALL OUR FAULTS, THIS COUNTRY IS THE BEST COUNTRY ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH AND I AM PROUD TO BE A CITIZEN OF A COUNTRY THAT INITIATES THE 'YEN' OF PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD...TO BE A PART OF IT. PLEASE SEE...'DEAR AMERICA'. THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING, MY FRIEND. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS
I asked a friend from India how he expected to know the United States before he came. He told me, "The movies." He was an engineer and a realist. He is now in retirement living while he has one single son working as an engineer in Alaska and two sons close by, one married to a nurse and the other married to a Russian girl he met in college. My friend also told me after visiting India, "I can't go back there. Things are very bad and getting worse." That was the 1980s. Things are much better in India now. And worse.
Here in Texas, many come just to work, and earn money to send back home. Unfortunately, for many, border crossing is too difficult unless they have a green card or citizenship. Their kids are another problem. The schools here are better, because in Latin America you have to have money to send your kids to good schools. Many are not happy here but make a life here anyway. After a generation they are as American as you are Canadian.
I find also that many Europeans and rich folks are coming and going at will. Many seem to enjoy the benefits of both the Old and the New World. Wealthy Chinese have come into Houston and bought up much property. They will sponsor many more Chinese to help run their businesses here.
If someone knew how hard it was to make a living and go to school here, they wouldn't come. But they see television shows and movies and hear about the freedoms that we have that they may not have and want to come.
Ann and Paul Ehrlich wrote a book about the danger of the southern border called, The Golden Door, many years ago. A sequel to Ehrlich's Population Bomb.
Thanks so much for the comments! I am not an unsympathetic person. However, I am among one of the older immigrants to Canada. I believe there are so many older generations of immigrants to the U.S. too who have, like the way I did, worked hard to get to where we are today to provide for our legitimate children who are well-documented to live here in the U.S. and Canada. We have worked hard, met with life's ups and downs, and my children began working when they were early teens and get to where they are today. Why do we have to give free houses and money to someone who comes into the country illegally, and treat them with more respect and care than our own people? Some time ago a veteran was sadly frozen to death on the street of Toronto, and there didn't seem to have any cries and outrage for his life. He died like a worthless person. There were many others of our own homeless people who could not find shelter in the winter who had met with the same fate as the veteran. It seems very unfair to people who have come to the U.S. or Canada who have worked hard for all their lives, strived to pay bills, mortgages, car payments, children's schooling and everything else; and yet, the illegals are being given free housing, free money, a nice car to drive around with no car payments to pay. These people are living much better than many of our own citizens and also those who have immigrated to the country through the legal process, and worked their ways up to where they are today. Some are still struggling to pay for their mortgages and bills, and some can't find jobs. Where is the fairness to this?
Oh, I believe they are welcome, Sandie. Lady Liberty implores:
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free
the wretched refuse of your teeming shore"
Most seek asylum from tyranny at home only
to find more of it here. So sad.
The grass always seems greener on the other side. Its really upto the individual to make a life for themselves. In the U.S. as in Canada you have that opportunity. Thanks for the poem Sandie
Being a Vietnam Navy veteran, Sandie. I saw a lot of countries and most were poor and in some cases people were begging for bread. Poverty, hunger and homelessness is consuming the world! It is almost as bad as the have and the have not's! Prayer and divine intervention must happen for this worldwide plaque to change, and most of us must change our hearts. Thank you for your comments and review of my poetry. Peace!!!
Most of them (perhaps all of them) are seeking a better life. Most of these refugees are fleeing from extreme violence, constant warfare and poverty etc. None of this would be so if we were, as we should be, a worldwide community with no wars (many based on religious beliefs). I don't think this is what God intended. Thank you for asking, Sandie. Love, peace, and best wishes,
Some coountries are poor and don't offer work for everyone. Life is always greener on the other side. Now, they're finding out that the situation won't be any better for them here.
I wonder what this country will be like when my great grandson grows up. As for your question, I haven't the foggiest! You are a deep person, Sandie. xo
Many variables to consider, Sandy. I could only speculate answers to these questions. One thing I know for certain: the world system (and this country) is devolving rapidly. Peace to you. r
Imogene, a country-bred girl, longs to make a life for herself in New York City. She joins forces with her former college roommate to start a movie production company in the big city.
Major League ballplayer Justin Moore is kidnapped from his own ballpark and transported to a foreign land. It might take high-level international negotiations to free him. Or maybe he will take matters into his own hands.
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Here in Texas, many come just to work, and earn money to send back home. Unfortunately, for many, border crossing is too difficult unless they have a green card or citizenship. Their kids are another problem. The schools here are better, because in Latin America you have to have money to send your kids to good schools. Many are not happy here but make a life here anyway. After a generation they are as American as you are Canadian.
I find also that many Europeans and rich folks are coming and going at will. Many seem to enjoy the benefits of both the Old and the New World. Wealthy Chinese have come into Houston and bought up much property. They will sponsor many more Chinese to help run their businesses here.
If someone knew how hard it was to make a living and go to school here, they wouldn't come. But they see television shows and movies and hear about the freedoms that we have that they may not have and want to come.
Ann and Paul Ehrlich wrote a book about the danger of the southern border called, The Golden Door, many years ago. A sequel to Ehrlich's Population Bomb.
Ron
Thanks so much for the comments! I am not an unsympathetic person. However, I am among one of the older immigrants to Canada. I believe there are so many older generations of immigrants to the U.S. too who have, like the way I did, worked hard to get to where we are today to provide for our legitimate children who are well-documented to live here in the U.S. and Canada. We have worked hard, met with life's ups and downs, and my children began working when they were early teens and get to where they are today. Why do we have to give free houses and money to someone who comes into the country illegally, and treat them with more respect and care than our own people? Some time ago a veteran was sadly frozen to death on the street of Toronto, and there didn't seem to have any cries and outrage for his life. He died like a worthless person. There were many others of our own homeless people who could not find shelter in the winter who had met with the same fate as the veteran. It seems very unfair to people who have come to the U.S. or Canada who have worked hard for all their lives, strived to pay bills, mortgages, car payments, children's schooling and everything else; and yet, the illegals are being given free housing, free money, a nice car to drive around with no car payments to pay. These people are living much better than many of our own citizens and also those who have immigrated to the country through the legal process, and worked their ways up to where they are today. Some are still struggling to pay for their mortgages and bills, and some can't find jobs. Where is the fairness to this?
Sandie
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free
the wretched refuse of your teeming shore"
Most seek asylum from tyranny at home only
to find more of it here. So sad.
Regis
Love ya!
Jane