Today about a million mostly illegal, Spanish speaking immigrants marched throughout this land of ours to DEMAND their rights. Well, illegal means just that--you committed a crime by sneaking across our borders and there are many who came here via the marriage route and then vamoosed after a reasonable time. However, that is another story for another day.
Now for that pesky history lesson. Previously immigrants had to come through a port of entry-a place like Ellis Island (in the mid 19th and early 20th centuries), etc. In the early times of our country people came here to colonize and had to pay their way either through being indentured servants, their own means, religious institutions and the worst case scenario many were brought as slaves. However, in the late 19th century the WASP's became alarmed at the numbers of Irish, Italians, Slavs, Jews, etc. that were coming to this country. So they passed laws limiting the numbers from each area. These individuals also came into a port of entry such as Ellis Island. You were turned back if you had TB, were insane, found to be feeble minded (a term no longer used but in reality if we had come here 120 years ago with our dear daughter, we would have had to make the decision as to whether or not my husband and son would stay and myself and my daughter would go back or we would all go back to the home country together). You also had to stay at the port of entry for a few days and were tagged like cattle. This storming of the borders is not the way that immigration should be handled. I would also like to point out to the open border crowd that more than just these so called "hard working families" are coming through here. We will have another terrorist attack and as much as it pains me I think every American knows that you can't get everything right 100% of time, sometimes things get through. I can tell you this, if it is found that the terrorsits who committed the act came through the Mexican border than maybe the Americans will wake up. Being stuck out here in the Peoples Republic of Hawaii I doubt that there will be any anti-amnesty for people who don't want to speak our language rallies out here. It was funny that the Mexicans dropped their Mexican flags and brought American flags to their rallies today. It was also telling though that they all carried signs in spanish and chanted in spanish. Our son will never learn spanish if I have anything to say about it. He will learn French before he learns spanish.
Another bit of advice to liberal, "open minded", democrats-this is the party which put people of Japanese descent into internment camps. That would include our son. Our little boy would have been in one if he was born in 1944 instead of 2004. Just something for the "liberal minded" fools to think about.
Well, hubby says that my blog is depressing. I don't try to be depressing. I just am tired and overwhelmed and lonely. I really know no one out here and we are all alone.
I don't understand that 911 dispatcher in Detroit with that little boy whose mother died. I guess parents teaching their children to use the 911 program to call for help is not helpful if the dispatchers think the kids are making prank calls.
Oh well, till tomorrow then.
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