Heck, we're probably all cousins 11 times removed. Or maybe even 10.
For what ever it is worth, and I am not bragging - I can trace my “lineage” back to John and Priscilla, who arrived on the Mayflower, many moons ago.
So what, big freaking deal!
It doesn’t make me any more worthy a human being than the latest legal immigrant, who went through far more paperwork and hassles, than my forbears ever had to endure, to obtain his/her citizenship!
Me and thousands of John and Pricilla’s other descendants, wanted a better life, and we are the beneficiaries of their bravery - to risk the high seas and the difficulties of crossing the Atlantic, to face an untamed wilderness. So those of us who can trace our ancestry back to them have nothing to brag about.
Would we now take that risk?
Striking out for the “new world” wasn’t for the faint of heart then, so why now do we coddle newcomers as if they are incompetent, unable to care for themselves, learn the language, adapt to our laws and freedoms, so needing endless generations of our tax-payer support.
Why are we now so worried, afraid, intimidated, trying to figure out how to find a way to escape the tracking of the IRS, FBI, ATF, TSA, NSA, HSA, and assorted other alphabet agencies.
It took John and Priscilla no more courage than it took the MacPhersons, O’Brians, Napolitanos,Eckstroms, Phaths, etc. & any of the other immigrants from foreign lands who came to AMERICA so they could be free. But, our government cripples the newcomers, instead of giving them the freedom we all enjoyed, to strive on our own. So the “helping hand of liberalism strikes again”, enslaving and suffocating them, then turning them to the dark side of learning how to manipulate the “system”.
All left their homeland, praying for a better, freer future. I am ashamed of how their hopes for the future are being destroyed by our non-sensical government fallacies, and our citizens failing to comprehend the difference between teaching a man to fish, versus giving him a plastic card, so he can get in line to claim his daily fish once he gets to the .gov “fish window”. (and we all know those fish stink, because of all the many hands they have to go through.)
I respect all legal, whether they be Welsh, Scots, Irish, Italians, Germans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Koreans, etc, for they all came here for a better life.
A life where they could work hard, exercise their talents, and raise their children to strive harder and higher to become everything they could attain.
Grandsons of illiterate immigrants have graduated from MIT, Harvard, Stanford with honors.
We forget that only little more than half a century ago that many bright and talented people left school in the third grade, or the eighth grade. They were needed to work, to help their families get ahead.
Many of them, despite a lack of formal schooling, used their talents, lived good lives, created solid businesses, and raised intelligent and productive families, and children who fulfilled their dreams.
They are just as much as worthy of honor and recognition as those of us who came a bit earlier, for all of our immigrant parents hoped that hard work would offer a better life for their children and grandchildren.
That said - our present immigration policy is sentencing illegals to failure, and I just can’t wrap my head around what our elected idiots are trying to accomplish.
We now live in “interesting times”, where we must be careful about what we say, right?