The current immigration news is nothing new to America's history. What's new is the media coverage of it is more widespread, including outside our country. Also, fairly new is the countries that are lying to their people that our doors are always opened.
Illegally?
This current anger and hate isn't new either. Doing genealogy helped me understand ancestral history. A lot of nations fled persecution and starvation ... coming to America to seek help but were still persecuted once they arrived ... and most came legally. In the past, we have had English, Irish, Chinese and Puerto Ricans, Japanese as well as Cubans, Haitians, Mexico and Central/South American ... just to name a few of the very many. Along with the indigenous and their persecution due to immigration.
Cultures as well as religions sought freedom here but all had their fair share of problems once they arrived. We are a multicultural and multi-religious nation living under one nation's laws. This can create a multitude of emotional turmoil.
However, what once was doesn't mean it has to be the same, especially when times have changed along with different circumstances since the poem was placed on the Statue of Liberty in 1903. The poem was certainly not meant as an open invitation to go against our nation's immigration laws or as a club to beat us into submission.
Wisdom and reason are important to sustain and not destroy. That's why all countries promote legal immigration ... ALL ... to hopefully maintain financial stability within its framework.
Anyone's who's ever had to make or live under a budget will understand this.
That would be no different then having one person move in your home, but one isn't enough, let's make it two, three or twenty. Eventually we may become unable to sustain ourselves, much less others that are within our home that we are required to now provide for, including medically ... especially if they are not employable and cannot help out financially ... especially if we get sick and lose our ability to provide as well.
Even if it's not completely failsafe, we put borders up the same way we put houses up ... for protection against invasion. So we can hopefully feel somewhat secure with our possessions and the protection of our family.
It's easy for some people to judge because they're not living it or never lived it. Hypocrites who are living in their fanatical fantasies ... seeing only one side to a situation. Possibly reacting to the emotional fear of others who are desperate ... reacting to those emotions as if they are their own. Owning them because they are unaware that their emotions don't always have borders to protect them against unreasonable and subjective thinking.
Furthermore, it's easy for any person, city or country to suggest that someone else take care of people, especially when their resources aren't involved. Placing guilt trips on others with internet memes to provoke compassion while removing themselves of any personal involvement.
Want me to open my heart? Then open your purse.
If we kept allowing people to use our compassion against us, we would be the fools for allowing our destruction.
Destruction of a country.
Destruction of a city.
Destruction of ourselves.
Trickle trickle trickle ....
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