MY DAY: WHAT IS WRONG WITH US?

First of all, my deep applause!!!. . and honor to Dallas County Commissioners for their efforts to shelter as many children as possible in our vacant schools in and around Dallas, Texas. The citizens of this community will support your leadership and celebrate your human rights valor.

History, rather you acknowledge it or not, plays a major role in our lives I want to talk about America’s blazing hypocrisy and the misuse of labels like “undocumented immigrants”. On the eve of July 4th, I think some Americans forget that we are first of all, absolutely a nation of immigrants. Let’s end the pretense of virtue.

On the eve of July 4th, America is faced with a test they are failing. Several thousand parents made a decision to send their children to the “finest country in the world” for a better life, a free land. And the parents in America decided to . . . decide. . what to do. To a civilized society ” these are the least of theses”. These are children. . kids. Where in one case a border patrolman had to leave his post to buy diapers with his own money.

Speaking of “undocumented immigrants”, let’s appropriately start with slavery. That’s called involuntary undocumented immigrants. Do also remember that we had a Civil War in this country. No oceans. No borders. No walls. So let’s end the pretense of virtue. The thirteen colonies were a diverse religious and ethnic group. The great California gold rush had a “rush” of Chinese immigrants. From 1845 to 1850, twenty (20) million Irish Catholics entered this country and this country at the time, had a deep resentment toward Catholics. Interesting enough, Ellis Island in New York, did not open until 1892. Poles, Jews, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians, Southern Italians, Serbs, Africans, Germans, all came to become Americans pledging to make their just contributions.

So, it is fair to surmise that people coming into this grand country do not weaken us, but rather join us, the other so called Americans. There is more for consideration. Legally and illegally, from 1980 to 2007, ten million people migrated to United States of America. Today statistics record one million immigrants to America per year. So, what is wrong with the children?

One final point on hypocrisy. We Americans buy products for our daily lives. These products and services are made in other countries, at low wages, to the parents of these children. In America, we don’t want to pay “documented” minimal wages to our own people, so we send our products for manufacturing to other countries for even lower wages. Everybody knows the rest of the story. Let’s end the pretense of virtue and concentrate on the emigration and “documented” avoidance of paying taxes by usage of offshore accounts.

Bottom line, these parents made a supreme sacrifice. They believe so much in the American way that they sent their precious cargo to another land for developing.

Thanks again to Dallas County for leading. And to our President for not waiting.

Reach Ester Davis at 214.376.9000 or esterdayone@gmail.com