Walk, walk, walk. Get through the gap. Walk, walk, walk. Thieves, gangs, cartels. Turn around, go back, pray there’s a way that doesn’t involve loss of life. Walk, walk, walk. Hopes and dreams die. The money is all gone. How will they get back? They can’t come in so how will they get back when the money is all gone. Walk. Walk. Walk.
Guatemala. Colombia. Mexico. Africa. They’ve made their way to the US. They’ve come to get a new life. But now the border is closed and migrants are being returned to their home countries. Some of them CAN’T go home. So, all they can do is wait and hope. Many, many of them say they’ll only go into the US legally. But that doesn’t seem to be an option anymore. The border is closed and has shattered many, many peoples’ hopes and dreams. They fled their country because it was too much to stay. The migrants think it’ll be better to go to the US and hope you can get in rather than stay in their country and likely get killed. But now we have an idiot at the helm of our country and he has closed the border and killed the app that lets them submit requests for interview to ask to come in.
I can’t imagine what it felt like to be next in line and then have the app crash and “the border is now closed”. People *want* to work. They *want* a better life for their families. They *want* to dream and have those dreams come true. They’ll take the jobs no one else wants, because it can mean a new future for them and/or their families. They WILL work, and work hard. They want the American Dream. /Give me your tired, your poor/your huddled masses yearning to breathe free/ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore/Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me/ I lift my lamp beside the golden door!/
What happened to the American Dream? When did we decide that migrants are bad, when 98% of them aren’t? Our ancestors were migrants in some form or fashion. Has someone decided that *you* can’t be here? We have such an amazing number of peoples here, a true polyglot combination of countries. But the border is closed. And they say it’s because these people are bringing fentanyl into the US. Well, there are other method of getting it in that have nothing to do with the border. How about all the seaports we have? Seems no one ever thought of that. But the 98% of migrants who want to come in have less than nothing to do with that.
They have come to us with hopes and dreams. Why can’t we give them that? They’ll *be* productive members of society. But we have to ruin those hopes and dreams when they have no other options left. They can’t come in, but they can’t go back. What *can* they do?? What. Can. They. Do??
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Susan, I apologized, late, for undeserved comments I threw out at you earlier. Please forgive. On this subject, the answer is both simple and complex. Those who came here didn’t do anything my Irish great-grandfolk didn’t. Fled a land where landowners were oppressive and food ran out…then worked very hard in the new land that mistreated them. My sister-in-law came from Mexico and worked in onion fields as a child. She also worked her ass off in schools where there was no ESL and was teased for her accent. She is a naturalized citizen who now is spending her seventies in fear. My nieces were born here to my US citizen brother and my SIL who still had a green card. Are my nieces safe?…who can say with this tyrant? I only know I will not let them be taken!!
President Petro of Colombia was righteously angry at Sphincter Face for the shackled mistreatment of immigrants. He has now asked Colombias in the US to come back and be welcomed. I can’t say whether that is a choice an immigrant should make.
The cruelty of the perceived other is the point and on some level I weep for the oppressors and the huge percentage of their cheerleading mobs! I weep for their unhappy childhoods in severely dysfunctional families. People who grow up in loving homes are far less likely to act in hateful ways.