Thursday, March 30, 2006

TO DEMONSTRATE GENERATES HATE

We are a nation of immigrants, no matter where or when we were born, We all, in one way are another, were once considered a mass of class known as "the others," the "greenhorns." The foreign born are told, "Go back where you came from." What they forget or ignore, a generation or two before we knew the wonder of this freedom's land their ancestors came to the U.S.A. for the same reason, to be free, to make true their dream of liberty.

Legal or illegal, rich or poor. it doesn't matter any more. They're here, they working, some have achieved more than they believed they could, paid their taxes, paid their way. They're now a part of the U. S. A. They should be treated that way,

My grandparents came from foreign lands, didn't understand the way we spoke. They often were the butt of jokes. They couldn't read. They couldn't write, had no place to sleep at night. But they knew wrong from right. They saw the light of liberty and said, "This is the land for me. I don't want to be a refugee. I want to be a Yankee. An American. To be free. To know no fear. That's for me. It's why I'm here."

At last, they shed their rags, a badge of their past. Chose simple clothes. Saved their pennies, nickels, dimes, in the best and worst of times, learned, earned and paid their way. They were here to stay. The U. S. A. wasn't going away. Neither were they.

Many entered illegally, gave a name (not their own), gave their place of birth but had no ID, record of age or ethnicity, only their word they loved and fervently craved freedom and democracy.

(My mother-in-law came more than eighty years ago as a child, no knowledge of the country where she was born, no birth certificate, absolutely no ID, never became a citizen, married here, had four kids, worked hard and retired on SSI with all the benefits we who are here legally enjoy unquestionably. Yet, she was a refugee until her dying day. She paid her way as millions of illegals do today.


So why the hue and cry and all the hullabaloo about the millions of this generation where there's no doubt about their veneration for this land, threatened with excommunication on a mere technicality? The bill before Congress is just a ploy to win the votes of those who, luckily, came here legally and enjoy all the benefits of citizenry.

It's the shame of our nation that millions must stage a demonstration to protect their rights to be part of the history of our ever-evolving, loving land of the free. Our democracy!

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