Don't Be Stupid

This is going to be a wee bit political. Nevuh-the-less, as the granddaughter of immigrants, I do have my proverbial two cents. Is there a reason to be dogmatic? Must people say shit about sending them all back? Isn't that kinda retarded, in the true sense of the word (slow)? Illegal immigration is a complex issue, obviously, but nothing rankles me more than hearing or reading simplistic crap related to a topic that other people are debating, researching, and writing books about. Ya don't hafta write a book to have an opinion, but I don't think everyone coming north is an opportunistic sociopath looking to steal our jobs. They probably are not all Mother Theresa wannabes, either. I do have a suspicion, however, that some of them are children. Some of them are families that I actually used to work with, and they would eventually tell me about their situation.

The situation in one family was that Mom had seen murder and rape of family members in El Salvador and so left, and Auntie and kids followed. They all lived in 3 rooms (six of them), and visitors were welcome to stay. Mom cleaned houses and Auntie watched the kids. So that's probably a story you've heard before, but those were people I got to know very well. Auntie laughed at my bad Spanish. Years before, she had gone off by herself to have all of her own babies alone in the woods. They were all grown now. Two of the kids in this apartment had apparently eaten lead from the windows. The landlord was like shut up or leave. I took Mom to see a lawyer and she was so nervous, as if she hoped that if she stayed in her back apartment people wouldn't quite figure she was there. When I left the job, she couldn't understand why we wouldn't still be friends. It felt random - I wasn't her therapist - but it was also a relief. She was really stuck, and it scared me.

I liked it way back when George's daddy talked about a "kinder, gentler" nation, or some shit like that. It sounded so good, like we could just all have milk and cookies. So, along those lines, when I read this crap about they can all go home, I think read a goddamn book, asshole and/or if you had any cookies, I would take them from you. If you're informed, then speak up, right? Say Something. Agree or disagree. You can choose ignorance, but don't advertise, for crissake.